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REMBRANDT would have liked to paint poor but honest Frau Pauline Hauptmann who on Nov. 20, 1899 at Kamenz, Germany gave birth to Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann, accused of extorting ransom for the return of the Lindbergh baby, suspected of the kidnapping and murder. Apple-cheeked Bruno saw battlefront service, was 19 when the War ended. He came through unscathed, undistinguished, but two brothers were killed. After the War he broke his mother's heart by turning out to be the bad boy of Kamenz. He served one term for theft, escaped a second by breaking jail. Twice he entered...
LIKE MOST GERMANS, Bruno Hauptmann enjoyed trinken und grosse Cigarren with compatriots on special occasions. This 1932 New Year's Eve party occurred ten months after the Lindbergh kidnapping. Host Hauptmann had neither sought nor found work in that time...
...HAPPY, CAREFREE MAN was Bruno Hauptmann in the summer of 1932 after his wife Anna went to Germany to visit her family and his. With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
HERE LIES tuberculous Isador Fisch in a New Jersey thicket in 1929. One of Hauptmann's oldest friends, he died in destitution last March in Leipzig. He and Hauptmann dealt in furs from time to time. Fisch's friends in The Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as to how he came by the Lindbergh ransom money was that Fisch left it with him, told him it was "old letters." When Fisch died, Hauptmann said he discovered the cash, appropriated it to satisfy an unpaid $7,500 loan...