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Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...
...more than a day Hauptmann was sequestered in a downtown police station while an airtight case was built against him. When newshawks smelled a story, police officials let the most sensational development in the nation's greatest criminal case burst over every front page...
Because of the publicity police were loath to "rubber-hose" Prisoner Hauptmann's story out of him. But the gentler method of keeping him awake, nagging him with questions for 48 hours brought small results. The stolid, 35-year-old Teuton soon closed his mouth tight. His shocked wife Anna, who apparently knew nothing of her husband's finances, got him a lawyer, but Hauptmann refused to see him. Then she got him another...
Seagirt, N. J., Sept. 21--New Jersey will ask for extradition of Bruno A. Hauptmann, suspected Lindbergh kidnaper, only after state officials have made a thorough study of the case, Gov. A. Harry Moore announced tonight after a conference with state and county officials...
...hope to bring Hauptmann to New Jersey for trial," Moore said. "When we shall bring him here, if we do, will depend upon developments...