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Last week Son Lindbergh and Doorkeeper Foley met again under very different circumstances. Col. Lindbergh arrived at a side entrance to the new Bronx County Court House, was whisked upstairs by private elevator to the large office of District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand...
Thus did Charles Augustus Lindbergh come face to face with the man who, according to police of two states and the Federal Government, abducted and probably murdered his first-born son on the windy night of March 1, 1932. Had he identified Hauptmann, asked excited newshawks, as the lookout in the Bronx cemetery the night the ransom money was passed? "I would be a fool to tell you," snapped District Attorney Foley...
...notepaper identical with that used in the ransom notes. A loose board taken from a closet in Hauptmann's apartment was found to have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives uncovered another $840 of the Lindbergh money. District Attorney Foley was now able to account for all except $329 of the $50,000 Col. Lindbergh had spent in a vain effort to get his baby back...
...York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman...
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...