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Deposited to the account of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh in Manhattan were $14,665 in gold notes-residue of the $50,000 ransom he paid to Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
...third exciting press announcement within three days. Briefly it announced the arrest at separate points of three men, virtually unknown in police circles, for the kidnapping in June 1933 of St. Paul's Brewer William A. Hamm Jr., released four days later after payment of $100,000 ransom. Also named as co-kidnappers were three men now in jail. Still at large for this and a score of other crimes is Alvin Karpis...
...Lindbergh Case ended on Sept. 19, 1934 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in The Bronx, N. Y. for possession of Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
Judge Hand is speaking under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Law School Comittee, and he will be introduced by Professor Felix Frankfurter. The last speaker sponsored by this committee was William L. Ransom, president of the American Bar Association...