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...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Shirley Lippmann gave orders for her newborn son to be inducted into the Hebrew faith according to prescribed ritual. Thirty minutes later hospital attendants laid on her pillow a baby boy neatly circumcised. Moaned Mrs. Lippmann: "That's not my Michael." Shrieked Mrs. Alfred Lyman from the next bed: "That's my Robert." Because the operation "irreparably altered their son's physical condition, repugnantly and contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith," Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Lyman brought suit for $75,000 against the Jewish hospital director, the Jewish mohel...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh come face to 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...
...HAPPY, CAREFREE MAN was Bruno Hauptmann in the summer of 1932 after his wife Anna went to Germany to visit her family and his. With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick...
...Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master who as an intermediary handed $50,000 in ransom cash to someone whom he cannot yet positively identify. Bruno Hauptmann did not confine his outdoor life to city parks. His neighbors remember that he used to go hunting in the autumn, bring home a full bag of game...
HERE LIES tuberculous Isador Fisch in a New Jersey thicket in 1929. One of Hauptmann's oldest friends, he died in destitution last March in Leipzig. He and Hauptmann dealt in furs from time to time. Fisch's friends in The Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as to how he came by the Lindbergh ransom money was that Fisch left it with him, told him it was "old letters." When Fisch died, Hauptmann said he discovered the cash, appropriated it to satisfy an unpaid $7,500 loan...