Zurich Herald, 1957-08-15, Page 7` ,'id's IVY , H ,..ted Man Was Trapped
Kidnapping perhaps the
most terri.i'"ng of crimes, shock-
ing the wd'Pold and gripping with
fear the hearts of parents every-
where. And the „,dndbergh kid-
napping — most sensational of
them all — not only made mil-
lions of • mothers afraid but still
:haunts some to this day.
It is twenty-five years since.
the Scottish nurse cried half -
hysterically: "Colonel Lindbergh,
haveyou got the baby? Please
do not fool me --he is gone!"
A crumpled cot, an empty
nursery, smudges of yellowed
mud that led towards the win-
dow.
In 1932, Charles Lindbergh was
at the crest of the five years of
popularity that had swelled
around him as the first man to
fly the Atlantic solo in a single -
engined 'plane. His marriage to
Anne Morrow had been celebrat-
ed with the fervour of a royal
wedding. The birth of his son
had been like the advent of a
baby prince.
But the hideous penalties of
fame were never .more explicit
than in his anguished cry that
March evening: "They have
stolen our baby!"
The world could only watch
in stunned sympathy. The police
were powerless to trace the kid-
napper of the twenty -month-old
toddler despite the clues he left.
First there was the ransom
note left on the nursery win-
dow -sill indicating that the kid-
napper would soon demand 50,-
000 dollars. Next was a home-
made — but expertly built —
ladder on the ground outside.
Smeared with no fewer than
500 fingerprints, it seemed sure
to lead to an arrest. But ?lone
of the prints could be matched
in police files.
Four days later, a well-mean-
ing character named Jafsie Con-
don wrote to a Bronx news-
paper offering to act as inter-
mediary between Lindbergh and
the snatcher. Every crank and
well-wisher in America was
trying to get into the act.
The grounds of Lindbergh's
home s.warmed with amateur
detectives. Scores of self-delud-
ed people claimed to be able to
contact the kidnapper. But it
was to naive and innocent Jafsie
that the message came — a
crudely written note which was
pushed througli elii's; letter -box.
�;. There were AePhdy plenty of
fake ransom notes•to muddle the
rail. But this message carried
three interlocking circles spaced
around three punctured holes in
the paper, the same identfying
snarls of the ransom note left
in the nursery.
The Lindberghs were instruct-
ed to advertise in a personal
column, saying that the money
was ready. Through the pest the
kidnapper sent a second un-
deniable proof, the little boy's
sleeping suit.
In their terrible anguish, the
Lindberghs decided to keep a
rendezvous with, the kidnapper
without police action. It was
Only with reluctance that Lind-
bergh consented to serial num-
ber's . of the dollar bills being
taken.
And so, in the darkness of
night, beside a cemetery hedge,
Lindbergh and Jafsie kept their
appointment. They did not know
that the child was already.dead,
his skull fractured; and that he
was buried in a shallow grave
five miles away.
Out of the blackness came a
man, calling in a guttural accent,
"Over here!"_ Swiftly in ex-
change
ii
for the 50,000 dollars
ransom money he gave .a note,
saying that the boy would be
found on board a boat named
Nelly in near -by Buzzard's Bay.
It was two days, while the
whole coastline was searched,
before Lindbergh discovered
there *as no boat named Nelly.
Grim, tense weeks passed before
the child's body was found,
The whole force of the Ameri-
can law went into action in a
fruitless manhunt. The police
pinned their hopes on the serial
numbers of the ransom money.
But the whole course of com-
merce could not be impeded
while shopkeepers and bank
clerks painstakingly checked
every dollar handed to them.
Time passed and the ransom
dollars began to appear. Banks
couldn't recall who had deposit-
ed them; shopkeepers didn't
,iknow who had spent the money.
The dollar -bills never appeared
in the same place twice. Two
years after the crime, the Lind-
bergh kidnapper was still un-
known.
By then 5,000 dollars—a tenth
of the total—had crept into cir-
culation. On the ransom mes-
sages, toxicologists had discover-
ed traces of glycerine and emery
dust. From this clue, and from
the hand -writing, the police sus-
pected they were looking for a
German carpenter. Nails in the
home-made ladder were traced
to a builders' merchant in the
Bronx district of New York.
The police were, in fact look-
ing for Bruno Hauptmann.
Hauptmann made his mistake
when he had to stop at a garage
for a gallon of gasoline and offer-
ed a ten -dollar bill in payment.
As a purely routine precaution
against counterfeiters, the gar-
age hand took the number of his
car.
Even then it was three days
before detectives rushed to the
gasoline station. The trail led to
a cheap residential section of
the Bronx — and to Hauptrnann,
carpenter, twice arrested in Ger-
many for theft.
A cordon of seventy-five de-
tectives leapt on the black car
as it backed out of the garage.
The garage itself was pulled
down, board by board, and stuff-
ed under the floor and walls
were 13,750 dollars of the ran-
som money.
There were ransom dollars in
Hauptmann's pocket. Part of the
kidnap ladder, micro -photos
clearly proved," had been made
of wood from Hauptmann's attic.
Part had come from the timber
yard in which he worked.
Photographs from the Lind-
bergh home, enormously enlarg-
ed, identified his fingerprints.
His hand -writing, experts agreed
matched that on the ransom
notes. Most careless clue of all,
Condon's telephone number was
found in his home.
Jafsie identified Hauptmann as
the man he had glimpsed at the
cemetery wall. In a pocket -book
in which Hauptmann had econo-
mically recorded the smallest
expenditure were bridge and
tunnel toll items on a certain
evening in February — proving
that Hauptmann had entered the
area of the Lindbergh home a
few days before the baby van-
ished.
Despite his thrift, it was after
the kidnapping that Hauptmann
began to be showy with his
money. To neighbours he boasted
of profits made in the fur trade.
The police were able to prove
that he had never made money
LATTER DAY ADVENTURERS—One of three teen-age youths
Lumps into the Hudson River to join his companions (circled),
after the trio paid a surprise visit to the Mayflower II, anchored
In New York. The boys swam the two-mile distance to the
Ship from lite Jersey side of the river, and then, after taking
in, the sights aboard the ship, they jumped back into the water
for the return trip.
PUTTING ON THE DOG —
Definitely the "most" when it
comes to happy-go-lucky hab-
erdashery, Pixie the pooch.
looks proud after being voted
"best dressed" at a special dog
. show for kids and mutts only.
in furs. Equally Hauptmann's
story that he had been given
the ransom money by a Jew who
had since died in Germany also
proved false.
With his hair cropped, his
trouser leg slit, Hauptmann went
to the electric chair. The throw
of the switch was the end of the
world's most hated man.
Business Bomk g
ibie Sal ies
"We take the water of life
to people's doors and practically
force them to drink it!"
This is the resounding voice
of president J. B. Henderson of
the Southwestern Co. Nashville,
Tenn., and he is referring to the
greatest phenomenon in the.
American book business. The
Holy Bible has always been the
largest -selling item in the trade,
but no one has ever witnessed
anything like its current perfor-
ma:lce. In a competitive business
which treats its statistics as
guardedly as the Atomic Energy
Commission, an educated guess •
"might be that in 1940 there
were 5 million Bibles sold in the
U.S., whereas last year that
number had leapt to a torrential
15 million." But more signifi-
cant for the trade is the fact that
while conservative bookstore
Bible sellers last year grossed
something like $20 million, the
relatively new, rampageously;;
Aggressivedoor-to-door hral4V,
of the trade piled up a high tai
in the neighborhood of $100 mil-
lion. For the most part they did
it by selling $25-$84 Bibles on
the installment plan to the poor
and the comfortably off alike.
Traditionally the South was
known as the Bible Belt of the
U.S., and the sales of Holy Scrip-
ture bore out that description.
It applies no longer. Bible sellers
generally agree that their bur-
geoning business is now a coast-
to-coast affair. How account for
the boom? President William R.
McCulley of Thomas Nelson &
Sons of New York emphasizes
population growth and a new
interest in religion. President
Ben D. Zevin of World Publish-
ing Co. in Cleveland stresses an
increase in leisure time, rising
economic standards, and an in-
crease in literacy.
F. Ronald Mansbridge of the
Cambridge University Press is
struck by both the new indus-
trial growth and the cultism of
California, which seems to have
contributed to Bible buying. He
also ruefully observes: "Bible
reading is strongest among fun-
damentalists, evangelicals, and
Baptists, weakest in the more
liberal denominations, particu-
larly in the Episcopal churches"
Walter T. Oakley, New York
sales vice president of the Ox-
ford University Press, echoes
other Bible salesmen in the
opinion that New York City is
one of the worst territories. Miss
Louise H. Wynhausen, general
manager of Sheed & Ward of
New York, one of the leading
Catholic houses, also has her
disappointments: "The Midwest
is the gravy train. Boston is
rather disappointing. New York
is so-so."
But such melancholia is rare
among today's Bible sellers. The
staple product of prewar years
—the sober black Bible—is still
a staple, but other Bibles have
put on a Joseph's coat of many
colors. Prices range from less
than a dollar to around $300.
Formats and type faces are
legion, from good simple reading
Bibles to such exquisite products
of the designers art as the $300
limited edition of the late typo-
grapher Bruce Rogers (sold by
the Oxford Press and now on
a reserved list). Most of the
larger bookstore selling houses
offer at least 75 types of Bible.
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