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...year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
Last week Son Lindbergh and Doorkeeper Foley met again under very different circumstances. Col. Lindbergh arrived at a side entrance to the new Bronx County Court House, was whisked upstairs by private elevator to the large office of District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand...
...That same year he arrived in the U. S. as a stowaway on a German liner. Deported, he stowed away again on another ship later in the year. He managed to get ashore, find work as a carpenter in New Jersey and New York. He married in 1925. His Bronx neighbors knew him only for thrift and taciturnity. After 1932, when his wife went abroad for the summer, he was never regularly employed, yet always seemed to have ample funds. He told neighbors he was trading in furs, making money on Wall Street...
...history had had an accomplice. The 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...
...immoral and degrading." The Society for the Prevention of Crime threatened to take legal action and Lawyer Samuel Untermyer said that two reform organizations had asked him to represent them against it in court. To Mayor LaGuardia went protests from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, The Bronx Clergy Association and Liberal Episcopalian Dr. Walter Russell Bowie who wired: "It would be depth of unwisdom to give civic encouragement to that passion for gambling which can be so sinister in its personal and social consequences." The New York Presbytery called it "subversive to the morals of our people...