Word: hauptmanns
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...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...
...Hudson D. Walker Gallery were about 50 prints, beginning with a set of illustrations for Hauptmann's Weavers which first brought Kathe Kollwitz fame, in 1897, as a proletarian artist. At the Arista Gallery were etchings and lithographs from this and later periods. At the Buchholz Gallery were recent drawings by the artist, including Mother & Two Children (see cut), and four pieces of sculpture done since 1932, when Artist Kollwitz produced her first strong work in stone for a Belgian cemetery, where her youngest son was buried after his death in the German offensive...
Almost as difficult as the task of finding out who kidnapped Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. has been the subsequent task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...
Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...
...backers of the 1927 flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred to his paper's Washington branch, Reporter Lyman had heard nothing about the impending visit and the rumor presently died. Last week, when...