Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
District Attorney Foley believed that he had ample evidence to convict Bruno Hauptmann on the New York indictment of extortion. Handwriting experts positively identified the ransom notes to "Jafsie" Condon as Hauptmann's work. In Hauptmann's garage $13,750 of the ransom money had been found. In Hauptmann's home was discovered 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...
...Ransom banknotes found...
...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...
Last week it was revealed that one angle of the story had been forbidden fruit in news rooms. By an agreement almost unique in U. S. journalism, editors had promised the Department of Justice not to print reports of ransom money turning up. For more than two years city editors dutifully filed away such tips as their legmen brought them...