O n January 2, 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann stepped into a courtroom in Flemington, New Jersey, accused of the so-called crime of the century. Prosecutors were tasked with convincing a jury that ...

J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer’s first-born son and ...

21, 1934 (UP)Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German convict, today was charged with the murder of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to ...

For the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann was to be tried for his life at Flemington, N. J. next week. Nurse Gow is of no real importance to defense or prosecution.

Slowly the authorities moved forward. Finally, on September 19, 1934 police arrested Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German-born carpenter. A search of Hauptmann's home yielded fourteen thousand ...

21, 1934 (UP)Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German convict, today was charged with the murder of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to ...