"LINDY" BABY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 3

"LINDY" BABY.

ARREST SENSATION.

Police May Have Solution of Kidnap Murder. ALLEGED RECEIVER OF RANSOM (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Keceived - p.m.) NEW YORK, September 20. Bernard Richard Hauptmann, of New York City, v.;is arrested to-day us the receiver of 50,000 dollars ransom money paid by Colonel C. A. Lindbergh in u fruitless effort to recover his baby son, kidnapped on March lj 1932. The authorities have recovered 10,730 dollars of the ransom money. The Police Commissioner, Mr, John F. Oivau, stnted that Hauptmann was arrested on Wednesday and the recovered ransom money was found in his garage, [t is believed the arrest will solve the kidnapping problem. America and the whole world were shocked to learn that Colonel and Mir:;. 0. A. Lindbergh's 19-inonth-old sou, their only child at that time, had been kidnapped from his nursery in the spacious Lindbergh • home at Hopcwell, New Jersey, on March 1, 1932. The mystery of his disappearance intrigued the Press mid public until a greater chill of horror ■was experienced by the news that the body of thn child had been discovered oil' a roadside by some motorists. It appeared us if the child had been murdered by sonic adult person holding him tightly and striking him heavily on the head. The skull was broken by a hole the size of a shilling. The discovery of the body took place over ten weeks alter the kidnapping. A ransom note was left with the parents ict the time of the original crime, but most, entreating of oilers by the parents failed entirely to make connections with tho kidnappers. Subsequently, John Hughes Curtis, ex-millionaire shipbuilder) was fined 1000 dollars and given a year's imprisonment for attempts to hinder the capture of the criminals to his own financial benefit. Still later, Gaston B. Means, the notorious American adventurer, was sentenced to two terms of 15 years and two years respectively for securing a sum of 50,000 dollars and attempting to secure 35,000 dollars from a wealthy sympathiser, Mrs. E. IT. McLean, owner of the famous Hope diamond, and multi-millionaires.