Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby

In accordance with the instructions contained in the notes, Lindbergh would eventually pay $50,000 to the kidnapper or kidnappers. But on May 12, the body of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was discovered in a shallow grave near Mount Rose, New Jersey, only about a mile from the Lindbergh house (but several miles by the winding local roads). Examination of the child's skeletal remains indicated that he had died over two months earlier  probably on the day he was kidnapped.

Some two years later, a Germanimmigrant carpenter named Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in possession of some of the ransom money, and charged with the crime. In a complex  and, in the view of some, questionable  legal meneuver, Hauptmann was spirited from New York City, where under New York state law he could only be tried on secondary charges, to New Jersey, where he could be at least potentially subjected to the death penalty. Even in N

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here was no direct physical evidence tying Hauptmann to the kidnapmurder. Under New York law, all he could be tried for was accessory to extortion, for being in possession of part of the ransom money. Naturally there was no question of the death penalty for this offense. New Jersey, in contrast, could put Hauptmann to death, at least in theory. That theory depended, however, on complex and somewhat strained legal reasoning. In the absense of a direct tie to the crime scene, Hauptmann could not be tried directly for murder with any confidence of winning a conviction. Under the law in force at the time the crime was committed, he could not be tried directly, either, for murder in the course of a kidnapping. The prosecution intended to get around these difficulties by an ingenious  if slightly forced  piece of legal reasoning. Under New Jersey law, a death resulting in consequence of commission of a felony was premeditated murder. Burglary was a felony. In the course of kidnapping Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the kidnapper or kidnappers had also, and quite incidentally, stolen the clothes the toddler was wearing, and in which his body would later be found. Putting these elements together, the prose
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