Word: hauptmanns
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...Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat by a yellow press. At best they could...
...front pages. Since the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., Federal, State and local police had guarded the Lindberghs unremittingly, traced some of the threats, made a few arrests. Still the famed family lived in fear. Gratified were they when threats died down as excitement over Bruno Richard Hauptmann's arrest and conviction diminished. Then came two deciding events. Last month New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman caused a fresh Press furor over Murderer Hauptmann by paying a midnight visit to his death cell, publicly reviving old doubts that the German carpenter was solely responsible...
International News Service was led to believe that the Lindberghs had fled simply to escape the approaching tumult over Murderer Hauptmann's execution scheduled for this month. The New York Sun reported that Mrs. Hauptmann had planned to take her child to the Lindberghs' doorstep on Christmas Day, plead for her husband's life. Canvassing of every available Lindbergh relative and associate brought confidential information that the Lindberghs had gone away ''for a three-week Christmas vacation." "until spring," "for a year," "forever...
...Having caught their breath and tired of beating the dead horse of U. S. lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts...
...Hearst's New York Mirror is currently drumming up circulation and sympathy for Hauptmann by printing exclusively his "sloppily sentimental" autobiography. "And Hearst talks of vermin...