Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What do you know about the Lindbergh kidnapping...
...know nothing at all about the Lindbergh kidnapping, gentlemen. I am a decent man. I live near here with my wife and child. I am a carpenter, gentlemen...
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...
Before he turned silent, Hauptmann told police an incredible tale about how the Lindbergh ransom came into his possession. He thought the money was "old letters left by a friend." After the friend, one Isadore Fisch, died in Leipzig last March Hauptmann discovered the money, and appropriated...
...question which was still puzzling police last week was whether or not the most widely sought criminal in U. S. history had had an accomplice. The Department of Justice was inclined to think the Lindbergh kidnapping was a one-man job. But a "mystery woman" was said to be sought as well as a "mystery man" whom Col. Lindbergh had seen with a handkerchief over his face near The Bronx cemetery the night the ransom was passed. Also implicated was the brokerage house with which Hauptmann was said to have a $25,000 account...