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The kidnapping |
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March 1, 1932 |
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Tuesday evening: - Betty Gow, and Anne Lindbergh, put twenty-month-old Charles Jr., to bed at eight PM.
He was looked in on at nine, and found to be sleeping peacefully.
Fifty minutes later, when the nurse made her final check, the baby was gone. The Lindberghs were sitting in the living room
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Lindbergh told to use the underworld
On day 2 , Congresswoman Ruth Pratt calls Lindbergh and recommends Morris Rosner, a gangster. Rosner appoints two Jewish gangsters, Irving Bitz and S. Spitale, to act as liaisons to the underworld.
Lindbergh felt it was organized crime, who kidnapped the baby. |
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The Mysterious Negotiator
A good Samaritan named Dr. John Condon places ads in a Bronx newspaper seeking contact with the kidnappers. Not long afterwards, Condon was sent the pajamas the Lindbergh baby was wearing when he was kidnapped, along with ransom notes.
Condon meets with the kidnapper twice during the ransom negotiations: first to ascertain the welfare of the child; and later to deliver the ransom money. Both meetings took place in cemeteries |
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Ransom paid
$ 50,000 was paid to a mysterious man at this cemetery |
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Baby found dead |
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On May 12, 1932, the body of the kidnapped baby was accidentally found, partly buried, and badly decomposed, about four and a half miles southeast of the Lindbergh home, 45 feet from the highway, near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in Mercer County.
There was a bullet hole in the skull |
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Col. Schwarzkopf of NJ police took a backseat in the investigation till the body was found, and then he pursued Hauptmann. He was cashiered out of the NJ police - rejoined the army, and was rewarded with the post of a two star general.
This flunky did nothing. |
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Hauptman's lawyer hired by NY Jewish newspapers
Ed Reilly, Hauptmann's defense attorney, had his fee paid for New York Evening Journal .He was literally bought, and paid for, by a Hearst newspaper.
Reilly spent no more than 40 minutes with his client over the course of the entire trial. He was an over the hill glad handing drunk.
Another flunky. |
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Prosecuting Attorney David Wilentz , and Harold Fischer, called Bruno Hauptmann "Public Enemy Number 1 of the World", and a baby killer. Wilentz, a Jewish attorney, was well rewarded with a successful law practice in Perth Amboy and became a power in state Democratic politics.
This flunky railroaded Hauptmann. |
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Bruna Hauptman ... A gullible German immigrant carpenter
He was found with ransom money given to him by Fisch. The negotiator said it was Hauptmann he met in the cemetery. |
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Isadore Fisch ... A slick German Jewish swindler who befriends Hauptman
In early 1932, Fisch met Hauptmann and the two became both friends and business partners, agreeing to split the profits and losses of Fisch’s fur business and Hauptmann’s stock investments equally.
In December 6, 1933 Fisch leaves for Germany paying with the ransom money. One witness testified he had seen Sharpe and Fisch together. Hauptmann testified that Fisch gave him a package to hold, the Lindbergh ransom money.
On March 29, 1934, Fisch supposedly died in Liepzig, Germany. |
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State brings Fisch family from Germany as character witnesses
The prosecutors brought Fisch family where they stayed in expensive hotels, entertained in expensive restaurants, theater tickets, etc - all provided by the State. |
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