LINDBERGH BABY
SEQUEL TO MURDER CHARGE. INFORMER LIVING IN ENGLAND. KILLING OF CHILD SAID TO BE ACCIDENTAL (U.P.A. by Floe. Tcb LONDON, December 30. The People states that tlio. man who supplied information leading to the arrest of Bernard Hauptman for the murder of the Lindbergh baby is living in England in a seaside, town, fearing the vengeance of! gangsters. , He is known an “Tommy-Gun. Tex Burns. He is a British born, . but \spent nearly all his life in. America. He says that finding himself penniless and stranded. Shore after deportation. tfrpm. America, he went to the American Consul and “squealed” to save his [wife and family from /starvation.
Burns told the People’s representatives that ho was himself implicated in the crime. , He, described how Hauptman, in carrying the baby down tho.. top o} the baby. Confederates hauled both to the car and, drove off. Presently they slowed down in order to look,at the baby,' and.discoyor.ed that it was dead, and they buried it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12442, 2 January 1935, Page 2
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