HOAXER ON TRIAL
LINDBERGH GIVES EVIDENCE. FIVE WOMEN ON JURY. (New York Times Broadcast.) FLEMINGTON, N.J., June 27. Details of the cruel hoax perpe trated on him after the kidnapping of his son were told on the witness stand to-day by Colonel Charles A- Lindbergh at the trial of John Hughes Curtis, the Norfolk shipbuilder. Colonel Lindbergh told without emotion how the baby had been kidnapped; how Curtis, whom he had not known before, was introduced to him through sources he trusted; and how Curtis had asked what ransom he would pay. stating that he had been in contact “with a man claiming to be able to bring about the return of my son.” Colonel Lindbergh was still on the stand when the trial adjourned until Tuesday. The jury is composed of seven men and five women.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 152, 30 June 1932, Page 7
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