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...June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines a Federal felony. This act pitted the U. S. Government directly against the virulent "snatch" racket for the first time. Free from the corruption of local politics, superbly trained and equipped with tip-top morale, the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation buckled to its new and difficult work with a will. Up to last week it had acted in 31 kidnapping cases, returned alive all but one kidnappee. Of the 74 "snatchers" whom Federal agents had helped to catch and convict, two had been...
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 10--Governor Herbert H. Lehman late today approved extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann from New York to New Jersey to face murder charges in connection with the death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
LIKE MOST GERMANS, Bruno Hauptmann enjoyed trinken und grosse Cigarren with compatriots on special occasions. This 1932 New Year's Eve party occurred ten months after the Lindbergh kidnapping. Host Hauptmann had neither sought nor found work in that time...
...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...
GOING, GOING, GONE is the garage where Bruno Hauptmann stored his car and where police first found $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money. By demolishing the building stick-by-stick and then burrowing into the ground below, police last week found another $840 in "hot" cash. Pauline Rauch, the Hauptmanns' landlady, rented them the top floor of her house, but Hauptmann paid for most of the material and built the nearby garage himself...