Word: ransoming
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...Albert S. Osborn, 74, handwriting expert, told the jury that the only man in the world who could have written the note left in the baby's room and the succeeding ransom notes was Defendant Hauptmann...
Sisk was telling how he questioned Hauptmann after the man was arrested with a $20 ransom bill in his wallet and $14,600 of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's currency hidden in his garage and house...
...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...
Resuming the stand next day, Col. Lindbergh continued the tale of his ordeal up to the time of the ransom payment. And here Attorney General Wilentz considered that he had scored the biggest point of the trial's first week...