Word: snatcher
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...exhibiting the baby at the window, Nurse Gow and Mrs. Lindbergh paraded the fact to any kidnapper lurking in the neighborhood that the child was in the house, at the same time giving the snatcher a good notion of the nursery's location. The prosecution plans to bring witnesses to the stand who will swear they saw Hauptmann lurking in the neighborhood...
...Lindbergh's footprints in the mud explain the mysterious "woman's" tracks which led investigators at first to believe the snatcher had a female accomplice. The State now contends that Hauptmann did the job alone...
...fact that the baby's thumb guard was tied outside the night dress indicates that the snatcher would have to remove the thumb guard to remove the sleeping garment. The thumb guard was 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...
...Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until she and Mrs. Stoll...
...ransom was paid. In a Sioux Falls penitentiary one year later, Verne Sankey, 'legger, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive end when a Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather...