LINDBERGH BABY-MURDER
ALLEGED CONFESSION. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. December 31, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 30. “The People” states: The man who supplied the information leal 2 n^.. r the arrest of Hauptman for the mur der of the Lindbergh baby, is living in England, at a. seaside town, fearing the vengeance of gangsters. He l known as Tommy-Gun Tex was British-born, and spent nearly all his life in America. He says that finding himself penniless and stranded here, after his deportation from America, he went to the American Consul, and squeale , to save his wife and family from starvation. , „ Burns told “The Peoples representative that he himself was implicated in the crime. He described how Hauptman, carrying, the baby down the ladder, slipped, and crashed on top of the baby. Confederates hauled both to the car, and drove off. Presently they slowed in order to look at the baby, and discovered it was dead. They buried it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1934, Page 5
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