Bruno Richard Hauptmann (left), alleged kidnapper and murderer of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., and chief defense counsel, Edward J. Reilly, in conference during Hauptmann's trial at the ...

On 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 ...

New York Nazis who have used fund-raising rallies for Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s defense to disseminate anti-Jewish propaganda received a severe setback yesterday when the city administration ...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, manacled between two guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell ...

KAMENZ, Saxony, Sept. 22, 1934 (UP) -- A gray-haired, wrinkle-faced little woman of around 70 years sat in the kitchen-living room of her home today and insisted that her son, Bruno Richard ...

One hour after the U. 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 ...

On April 3, 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric chair proclaiming his innocence in the most famous kidnapping case in the history of the United States.

The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann—Accused Murderer of the Lindbergh Baby—Began in New Jersey on This Day in 1935 The German-born man was convicted of kidnapping and killing the son of pilot ...