Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh premises the night of the crime. For months newspapers had trumpeted the fact that lumber in the ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann had once worked...
...found some 3,000 ft. from the Lindbergh house. Therefore, contends the State, the child was probably killed when the ladder broke, its corpse stripped shortly after the kidnapper left the house. The sleeping suit was used as an earnest of good faith by the writer of the ransom notes, which the State's handwriting experts will attribute to Hauptmann...
...Hauptmann did not write the ransom notes, the evidence of the child's sleeping suit falls of its own weight...
...Taximan Perrone could not have positively identified the ransom negotiator because he saw him at night. Col. Lindbergh's identification of the voice is not positive since many voices sound alike. Dr. Condon's eccentricity bars him as a credible witness...
...Pending the Government's courtroom audit of the ransom bills, the defense line is unpredictable...