Word: lindberghism
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...confession. Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced a party for newspapermen "win, lose or draw." And 20,000 citizens of towns in the neighborhood of Flemington were preparing a carnival invasion of Flemington as the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. approached its final phase last week...
...painter by trade, but a bootlegger on the side, recalled getting lost in The Bronx on March 1, 1932, wandering into the Fredericksen restaurant, seeing Hauptmann with a dog. A big, ragged man named Luther Harding swore he saw two men in a car with a ladder near the Lindbergh home on the afternoon of March 1, that neither was Hauptmann. He had turned his information over to the police next day, he said. When asked to pick out the officer he had talked to, Harding picked the wrong one. It was then revealed that he was a thrice-convicted...
Hunterdon Country Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8--The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most--his sister,--came into this courtroom today to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of suspicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime...
...watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...
...took 15 days for the State of New Jersey to get the ladder found not far from the Lindbergh home on the windy night of March 1, 1932 admitted as evidence. Defense fought tooth-&-nail for its exclusion on the grounds that it had been tampered with, that it had never been connected with the defendant. Once the ladder was admitted, the prosecution's most impressive expert to date resoundingly attributed its manufacture to Defendant Hauptmann in no less than five different ways...