Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (83 page)
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Authors: Susan Hertog
34
Elisabeth Morrow Morgan letter to Del, wife of the caretaker at the Elisabeth Morrow School, 1/30/34, Elisabeth Morrow School Papers.
35
LROD
, AML letter to ELLL, 1/24/34, p. 187.
36
NYT
, 2/1/34, “The Co-Pilot.”
37
Ibid., 3/1/34, “Elder Lindbergh Forecast the NRA.”
38
Norman E. Borden,
Air Mail Emergency, 1934: An Account of Seventy-Eight Tense Days in the Winter of 1934 When the Army Flew the United States Mail
, Freeport, Maine: Bond Wheelwright Co., 1968.
39
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow to Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Elisabeth Morrow School papers.
40
LROD
, AML letter to ERMM, 7/11/34, p. 193.
41
NYT, 8/2/34, “Giant Seaplane Tops All Records; Lindbergh Hails Test of Clipper.”
42
LROD
, p. 187n.
43
NYT
, 8/2/34, “Anne Lindbergh, in a Gay Humor, Writes Secrets of World Flight.”
44
Ibid., 9/14/34, “Lindberghs Down Again;” and 9/15/34, “Lindberghs Hold ‘Court’ for Throng.”
45
LROD
, AML diary, 9/11/34, p. 200.
16.46
NYT
, 9/21/34, “Lindbergh Ransom Receiver Seized; $13,750 Found at His East Bronx Home; the Mystery Solved, Police Declare.”
THE ARREST
1
Examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann at the district attorney’s office, Bronx, 10/3/34, between 3:30 and 5:15 P.M., reported by James H. Huddleson, M.D., to James M. Fawcett (Hauptmann’s first defense attorney). Other alienists present were S. Philip Goodhart and Richard H. Hoffmann, representing Bronx County, and Doctors Connolly and Spradley, representing the state of New Jersey. Courtesy of Jim Fisher.
2
Details and dialogue of Hauptmann’s arrest are drawn from Jim Fisher, op. cit., and Ludovic Kennedy,
The Airman and the Carpenter
, New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1985.
3
Examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, reported by James H. Huddleson, M.D., to James M. Fawcett.
4
NYT
, 9/21/34, “Lindbergh Ransom Receiver Seized; $13,750 Found at His East Bronx Home; the Mystery Solved, Police Declare.”
5
Ludovic Kennedy, op. cit., p. 131, and Sydney B. Whipple,
The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann
, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937, p. 32.
6
Sydney B. Whipple, op. cit., p. 30.
7
Examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, reported by James H. Huddleson, M.D., to James M. Fawcett, pp. 2, 8.
8
Sydney B. Whipple, op. cit., p. 29.
9
NYT
, 9/22/34, “New Jersey Prepares Murder Charge Against Hauptmann in Kidnapping; Linked to Lindbergh Ransom Notes.”
10
NYT
, 9/21/34, p. 1, “Lindbergh Ransom Receiver Seized.”
11
FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057 re: Hauptmann’s arrest, NJSPM.
12
Dudley D. Shoenfeld, op. cit.
13
NYT
, 9/21/34, “Lindberghs’ Tour Halted in West.”
14
Ibid., 9/22/34, “Lindbergh Boy Returning;” and 9/24/34, “Lindberghs Spend Night in Arizona.”
15
LROD
, AML letter to ELLL, 9/28/34, pp. 202–203.
16
FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057, Sept. 23, 1934, by Special Agent John L. Geraghty, pp. 4–6, courtesy of Jim Fisher. The bottle of ether was traced to the Raabe Pharmacy on White Plains Road in the Bronx.
17
NYT
, 9/26/34, “New Clues Found in Hauptmann’s Home;”
NYT
9/27/34, “Hauptmann Is Indicted as Lindbergh Testifies; More Ransom Cash Found;” and Stanley R. Keith, metallurgical engineer and expert witness in the Hauptmann trial, “Bruno’s Nails Built the Kidnap Ladder,” 1935, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
18
NYT
, 9/23/34, “Lindbergh Returning Home to Aid Hauptmann Inquiry;” J. Vreeland Haring,
The Hand of Hauptmann;
and Examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann reported by James H. Huddleson, M.D., to James M. Fawcett, pp. 1–2.
19
NYT
, 9/28/34, “Hauptmann Bail $100,000; Col. Lindbergh, Disguised, Sees Suspect Questioned;” and 10/9/34, “Col. Lindbergh Identifies Hauptmann by his Voice; Murder Indictment Voted.”
20
Ibid., 9/21/34, “Lindbergh Ransom Receiver Seized; $13,750 Found at his East Bronx Home; the Mystery Solved, Police Declare.”
21
Ibid., 10/6/34, “Hauptmann’s Mind Is Called Normal by State Alienists.”
22
Examination of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, reported by James H. Huddleson, M.D., to James M. Fawcett, pp. 1–2.
23
Later, Hauptmann would say that at the time of the kidnapping he was in the Bronx with his wife. He picked her up sometime between six-thirty and seven P.M. at the bakery where she worked, and they drove home; Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 260.
17. TESTAMENT24
NYT
, 10/21/34, “Extradition Issue Is Often Debated.”
1
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 26.
2
Interview with Margot Loines Morrow Wilkie, 10/31/94.
3
Letter from a Morrow family friend to Connie Chilton, 11/20/34.
4
LROD
, AML diary, 12/3/34, pp. 223–224.
5
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 83.
6
NYT, 1/3/35.
7
Ibid., 1/28/35, “Miss Ferber Views ‘Vultures’ at Trial.”
8
Literary Digest
, 1/12/35, 119:10, “They Stand Out from the Crowd;” Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 255–256.
9
NYT
, 1/4/35, “Bookkeeper, 55, Carpenter, 60, Fill Jury, With Average Age Increased to 44½ Years.”
10
Ibid., 1/13/35, “Prosecution’s Task in Hauptmann Case,” by Archibald R. Watson.
11
Anna Hauptmann had first hired James Fawcett, a friend of her cousin Harry Whitney. Fawcett was a Brooklyn-based defense attorney.
12
Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann, Statement, April 20, 1935, taken at the Hotel New Yorker by Ellis H. Parker, Jr., NJSPM.
13
Sidney B. Whipple, op. cit., p. 48.
14
Ibid.
15
NYT
, 1/4/35, “Writer Marvels at Mother’s Spirit.”
16
Ibid., “Text of Trial Testimony by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh.”
17
Ibid.
18
“Lindy’s Little Life-Saver” in
Guns and Ammo
magazine, Sept. 1982, pp. 80–81, 110.
19
LROD
, AML diary, 1/12/35, pp. 237–238.
20
Ibid., 10/13/34, p. 210.
21
NYT
, 1/10/35, “Condon Names Hauptmann as ‘John’ Who Got Ransom; Parries Defense’s Attack.”
22
LROD
, AML diary, 1/10/35, p. 237.
23
Ibid., 1/15/35, p. 238.
24
Interview with AML, 6/7/88; and Interviews with Margot Loines Morrow Wilkie, 8/24/94 and 10/31/94.
25
LROD
, AML diary, 1/20/35, p. 240.
26
Ibid., p. 241.
27
NYT
, 1/24/35, “Expert Traces Tool Marks on Ladder to Hauptmann.”
28
Ibid., 1/26/35, “Text of Hauptmann’s Testimony Denying the Murder of the Lindbergh Baby.”
29
U.S. Bureau of Investigation, 10/18/34, “Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Accounting Report;” Jim Fisher, op. cit.; and Sidney Whipple, op. cit. p. 32.
30
NYT
, 1/25/35, “Hauptmann Takes Stand, Swears He Was at Home Night Ransom Was Paid.”
31
Ibid., “Testimony of Hauptmann on Stand in Own Defense;” and 1/30/35, “Hauptmann Calm on Leaving Stand.”
32
Ibid., 1/29/35, “Hauptmann’s Testimony on the Second Day of His Cross-Examination by Wilentz.”
33
Ibid., 1/25/35, “A Thrilling Trial.”
34
Ibid., 1/26/35, “Tribute to Judge Paid by Novelist,” Ford Maddox Ford.
35
NYT
, 1/31/35, “Testimony of Mrs. Hauptmann Backing Triple Alibi Offered by Her Husband.”
36
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Duino Elegies,”
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
, New York: Vintage International, 1984, p. 151.
37
LROD
, AML diary, 2/9/35, p. 247.
38
NYT
, 2/12/35, “Reilly Accuses Servants, Charges Police Frame-Up in His Final Plea to Jury.”
39
Ibid., 2/13/35, “Young Prosecutor Emotional in Appeal; Talks to Jury as to Group of Friends,” Craig Thompson.