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Dramatic issue on the execution of Bruno Hauptmann...
Dramatic issue on the execution of Bruno Hauptmann...
Item # 716998
April 03, 1936
THE DAILY MAIL - Extra, Hagerstown, Maryland, April 3, 1936
* Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping
* Bruno Hauptmann execution
* Nice headline for display - "same day" report
A quite dramatic front page with the bold banner headline: "BRUNO DIES", and also: "Convicted Murderer Of Lindbergh Baby Goes To The Electric Chair", with a large photo.
Extensive additional coverage is found on inside pages, include a diagram of where the execution took place and a copy of Hauptmann's letter declaring his innocence. See photos for details.
The issue is complete in 16 pages, has a large piece missing from the lower portion of the front page, small holes in the photo, as well as additional disfigurements on inside pages, but the text of the coverage is not impacted. Still rather displayable - and available at a bargain due the the condition problems.
AI notes: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German immigrant, was convicted in the notorious Lindbergh kidnapping case, in which the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted from their New Jersey home in March 1932. After a nationwide search and media frenzy, Hauptmann was arrested in 1934 when $14,000 of the ransom money was traced to him. His 1935 trial, widely publicized as the “Trial of the Century,” presented evidence linking him to the kidnapping and murder, though questions about the investigation and legal procedures persisted. Convicted of first-degree murder, Hauptmann was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton on April 3, 1936. His case left a lasting imprint on American criminal history, both as a symbol of the era’s sensationalized media coverage and as a pivotal moment in the development of modern forensic investigation.
Category: The 20th Century
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