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...Having turned against the bosses in order to ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going all right if Wagner...
...colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt...
...missing 2O-month-old child-there were countless cruel hoaxes and honest if hysterical mistakes by people who claimed to have made contact with the kidnaper. One report came from John F. Condon, a retired New York schoolteacher who, aroused by the crime, had written to the Bronx Home News offering his life's savings in exchange for the child. Condon got an answer in fractured English and bearing the same curious signature-two overlapping blue circles with three crude square holes cutting across the design-that had appeared on the ransom note...
...wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...gold standard-which meant that the kidnaper would sooner or later have to turn in the gold certificates. On Sept. 15, 1934-a Manhattan gas station attendant noted a customer who sheepishly handed over a $10 gold certificate to pay for five gallons of gas. A German-born Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was quickly arrested. He denied his guilt, but in his garage police found $14,600 of the ransom money, and a slat in his attic flooring matched one section of the ladder wood that Arthur Koehler had analyzed...