Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (81 page)
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Authors: Susan Hertog
28
Jim Fisher, op. cit. pp. 27–28.
29
See Note number 4.
30
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 28.
31
Ibid., p. 53.
32
The Christian Century
, 3/16/32, “Behind the Empty Crib;”
Commonweal
, 3/16/32, “The Lindbergh Case,” and 4/13/32, “The Lindbergh Case;”
Literary Digest
, 3/26/32, “The Kidnapers’ Threat to American Homes.”
33
See note number 4.
34
NYT
, 3/3/32, “Mother Meets Ordeal with Calm Fortitude.”
35
Ibid., “Diet Needed by Lindbergh Baby Listed by Mother for Captors.”
36
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 129.
37
Betty Gow, Statement, 3/3/32, to Lieut. John J. Sweeney, Capt. Patrick J. Brady, and Trooper L. J. Bornman, NJSPM.
38
Sidney B. Whipple,
The Lindbergh Crime
, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1935, p. 34.
39
Report by Edward J. Reilly concerning Marguerite and Johannes Junge, 12/18/34, File #590, “re: Hauptmann,” NJSPM.
40
Ibid.
41
NYT, 3/13/32, “Brex Exonerates Johnson.”
42
NYT, 3/11/32, “Lindbergh Search and Ransom Moves Fail on Ninth Day;” and Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 52–53.
43
NYT
, 3/5/32, “Still No Trace of Baby.”
44
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 32.
45
NYT
, 3/4/32, “World Waits Hopefully for News that the Lindbergh Baby Is Safe.”
46
Dudley Shoenfeld,
The Crime and the Criminal: A Psychiatric Study of the Lindbergh Case
, New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.
47
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 3/5/32, p. 230.
48
NYT
, 3/6/32, “Lindberghs … Name Two Men to Represent Them.”
49
NYT
, 3/3/32, “Capone Offers Reward.”
50
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 37.
51
Leonard Frank,
Uncle Frank: The Biography of Frank Costello
, New York: Drake, 1973, p. 250; Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 37.
52
Dr. John F. Condon,
Jafsie Tells All!
, New York: Jonathan Lee Publishing Corp., 1936; National Archives Sound and Video collection 106.10; and Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 40–41.
53
Dr. John F. Condon, op. cit., and Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 40–41.
54
Outlook
, 4/32, “Lindbergh and the Press,” by Silas Bent.
55
Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 45–46.
56
Ibid., p. 46.
57
Violet Sharpe, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Sgt. McGrath, Detectives Shaible and Strong; and Violet Sharpe, Statement, April 18, 1932, to Insp. Harry Walsh, NJSPM.
58
John Lardner, “The Lindbergh Legends,” in
The Aspirin Age, 1919–1941
, Isabel Leighton, ed., New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949, p. 205.
59
Dudley Shoenfeld, op. cit.
60
Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 50–51.
61
NYT, 3/13/32, “11 Days of Failure in Lindbergh Case.”
62
Ibid, 1/10/35, “Testimony of Dr. Condon Identifying Hauptmann as Receiver of Ransom.”
63
Ibid.
64
HGHL
, AML letter to ERM, 3/18/32, p. 237.
65
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 64.
66
Details of ransom negotiations and payment are from
NYT
, 1/10/35, “Testimony of Dr. Condon Identifying Hauptmann as Receiver of Ransom,” and Jim Fisher, op. cit.
67
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 36.
68
Jim Fisher, op. cit. p. 77.
69
NYT
, 1/8/35, “Miss Gow, on Stand, Details Her Movements after Tucking Baby in Its Crib.”
70
The statement had a double meaning. John appeared to be talking about a biological relative, but implicit in his words was that the baby was with God.
71
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 88.
72
The story first appeared on 4/5/32 in the
Bronx Home News;
then, on 4/6/32, in the
Daily News
, and in
NYT
, 4/10/32, “Lindbergh Paid Ransom of $50,000, But Kidnappers Did Not Return Child.”
73
Dr. John F. Condon, op. cit.
74
NYT
, 4/7/32, “Curtis Says He Met Kidnappers’ Agent.”
75
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 4/8/32, p. 239.
76
Ibid., 4/10/32, p. 240.
77
The newspapers quotations in this paragraph are excerpted in
Literary Digest
, 4/23/32, “The Nation Outraged by the Lindbergh Fraud.”
78
Dr. John F. Condon, op. cit.
79
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 4/13/32, p. 241.
80
NYT
, 4/12/32, “Lindbergh Mediator Seeks New Contact; Ransom Bill Is Seen.”
81
Ibid., 4/13/32, “Condon Deals Anew with Kidnappers and Reassures Them.”
82
Ibid., 4/15/32, “Flier Asks Secrecy to Deal With Gang.”
83
Ibid., 4/14/32, “Ransom Bill Found; Trail Lost in Bank.”
84
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 4/18/32, p. 242.
85
NYT
, 4/18/32, “Condon Reaffirms Contact With Gang.”
86
HGHL
, AML letter to Sue Beck, 4/25/32, p. 244.
87
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
88
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 4/29/32, p. 244.
89
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/11/32, p. 247.
13. ASCENT90
Ibid., 5/12/32, p. 248.
1
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p.
66
.
2
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 5/12/32, p. 249.
3
NYT
, 5/15/32, “The Worst and the Best.”
4
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/16/32, p. 253.
5
Ibid., 5/15/32, p. 252.
6
AML, “Dogwood,” in
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 38.
7
Ibid., p. 23.
8
NYT
, 5/16/32, “Five Men and Woman Believed Identified as Slayers of Baby.”
9
Ibid., “Would Call Army to Rout Lawless” by the Rev. Dr. Henry Howard.
10
Ibid., “Five Men and Woman Believed Identified as Slayers of Baby.”
11
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/16/32, p. 253.
12
Ibid., pp. 252–253.
13
NYT
, 5/17/32, “Bronx Jury to Act on Ransom Today.”
14
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/20/32, p. 256.
15
Ibid.
16
Ibid., 5/17/32, pp. 253–254.
17
Ibid., p. 254.
18
Ibid.
19
NYT
, 5/18/32, “Curtis Admits He Hoaxed Lindbergh in Kidnap Hunt.”
20
NYT
, 5/20/32, “Lindbergh Reenacts Baby’s Kidnapping;” and
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/19/32, p. 255.
21
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/18/32, p. 255.
22
NYT
, 5/14/32.
23
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/21/32, p. 257.
24
Ibid., 5/22/32, p. 257.
25
Amelia Earhart had fought for her life on the open sea in a plane twice as powerful and twice as fast as Lindbergh’s
Spirit of St. Louis
, but she was unable to complete the flight.
26
NYT
, 5/31/32, “Lull in Lindbergh Hunt.”
27
HGHL
, p. 262n.
28
HGHL
, AML diary, 5/25/32, pp. 260–261.
29
Ibid., 5/28/32, p. 262.
30
Ibid., 5/30/32, p. 263.
31
Ibid., 6/1/32, p. 264.
32
Violet Sharpe, Interrogation, 5/24/32, #30, NJSPM; and Jim Fisher, op. cit.
33
Jim Fisher, op. cit., and NJSPM, Violet Sharpe letter to Miss (Fan) Simons of North Wales, 6/7/32: “I only weigh 7 stones.” This letter also revealed the extent of her malaise. She concluded: “Life is getting so sad I really don’t think there is much to live for any more.”
34
Jim Fisher, op. cit.
35
Laura Hughes, Statement, 6/10/32, to Insp. Harry Walsh, NJSPM.
36
NYT
, 6/11/32, “Morrow Maid Ends Her Life; Suspected in Kidnapping.”