LINDBERGH BABY
KILLED BY ACCIDENT. ALLEGED ADMISSION. SEEKS SANCTUARY IN ENGLAND. > United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 31, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30. The People states that the man who supplied the information leading to the arrest of Hauptman for the murder of the Lindbergh baby is living in an English seaside town, fearing the vengeance of gangsters. He is known as Tommy Guntex Burns. He was British born and has spent nearly all his life in America.
He says that finding himself penniless and stranded here after deportation from America,' he went to the American Consul and squealed to save his wife and family from starvation. Burns told the People’s representative that he himself was implicated in the crime, and described how Hauptman, when carrying the baby down a ladder, slipped and crashed on top of the baby. Confederates hauled both to the car arid drove off. They presently slowed down in order to look at the baby and discovered that it was dead. They buried it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 7
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