O n January 2, 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann stepped into a courtroom in Flemington, New Jersey, accused of the so-called crime of the century. Prosecutors were tasked with convincing a jury that ...

FLEMINGTON, N.J., Feb. 13, 1935 (UP) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted tonight of America's most colossal crime, and he must forfeit his life in the electric chair for his murder of baby ...

S. Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week ...

21, 1934 (UP)Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German convict, today was charged with the murder of the kidnaped son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in an extradition warrant demanding his return to ...

Slowly the authorities moved forward. Finally, on September 19, 1934 police arrested Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German-born carpenter. A search of Hauptmann's home yielded fourteen thousand ...

Also on this date: In 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of ...