Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (80 page)
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Authors: Susan Hertog
15
NYT
, 11/9/31, “Pershing Appeals with Col. Lindbergh for Idle in ‘Crisis.’”
16
HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 12/31, p. 207.
17
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 1/32, p. 223.
18
NYT
.
19
HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 2/7/32, pp. 224–226.
11. WITHIN THE WAVE20
NYT
, 2/22/32, “Mrs. Lindbergh Aids China Flood Appeal.”
1
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 78.
2
Details about the house, grounds, and surrounding area from a pamphlet published by Highfields/Albert Elias RGC, HighFields, East Amwell Township, New Jersey.
3
Elsie Mary Whateley, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, Newark Police Department; Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 11, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, Newark Police Department, NJSPM.
4
Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, and on March 13, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh Strong, NJSPM.
5
Ibid.
6
Jim Fisher,
The Lindbergh Case
, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987, p. 47.
7
Septimus Banks, Statement, April 13, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, Jersey City Police Department.
8
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 47.
9
In his article “Hunt for the Lindbergh Kidnappers,” in the
Evening Journal
,
11/17/32, Insp. Harry Walsh, stated that it was Violet Sharpe who answered Whateley’s call on the morning of Tuesday, Mar. 1, 1932. In Septimus Bank’s statement to Inspector Walsh on 4/13/32, however, Banks claims that it was he who received the call and connected it to Betty Gow.
10
Betty Gow, Statement, March 3, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, Newark Police, Capt. Patrick J. Brady, Jersey City Police, and Trooper L. J. Bornman, New Jersey State Police, NJSPM.
11
Charles Henry Ellerson, Statement, April 12, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, Jersey City Police Department, NJSPM.
12
Christen Christensen, Statement, April 15, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, and Kristi Christensen, Statement, April 15, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, NJSPM.
13
Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
14
Marguerite Junge, Statement, March 7, 1932, made to Sgt. Edward McGrath and Det. John F. Shaible, Newark Police Dept.; and Johann Junge, Statement, April 14, 1932, made to Insp. Walsh, NJSPM.
15
FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057, Lindbergh Household and Employees, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Aloysius Whateley, NJSPM.
16
Finn Hendrik Johnson, Statement, March 8, 1932, to Deputy Chief Frank E. Brex, Det. Hugh Strong, and Hobart A. Templeton of the Newark Police Department and to Sergeant Andrew Zaplosky of the New Jersey State Police Headquarters: “According to newspaper reports published shortly after the kidnapping, evidences were found by the New Jersey State Police of the apparent tapping of telephone wires at a point near Hopewell, presumably by agents of the kidnappers seeking to keep informed of the progress of the hunt for the kidnappers.” The police found that the wires had been tapped after the kidnapping by someone trying to trace the call. FBI Summary Report, NJSPM, p. 127.
17
Charles Henry Ellerson, op. cit.
18
Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
19
NYT
, 1/4/35, “Text of Trial Testimony by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh.”
20
Elsie Mary Whateley, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
21
FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057, Lindbergh Household and Employees, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Aloysius Whateley, FBI summary, NJSPM.
22
Betty Gow, Statements, March 3, 1932, and March 10, 1932, and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
23
The Tinkertoy is noted in the FBI report but not in the New Jersey State Police Archives.
The FBI records that the toy remained intact after the kidnapping, implying, perhaps, that the baby had been handed out through the nursery window. The FBI, however, was not first at the scene of the crime, nor did its men take photographs the first night. The inconsistencies between the reports makes this theory difficult to assess.
24
Betty Gow, Statements, March 3, 1932, and March 10, 1932, and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
25
Ibid.
26
Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
27
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 130.
28
Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, op. cit., Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Statement, March 11, 1932, to Lieut. John J. Sweeney, Oliver Whateley, Statement, March 3, 1932, to Capt. Patrick J. Brady, Jersey City Police, Trp. L. J. Bornman, NJ State Police, and Lieut. John J. Sweeney, NJSPM.
29
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Statement, op. cit.
30
Ibid., and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, op. cit.
31
Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932; Elsie Whateley, Statement, op. cit.; Oliver Whateley, Statement, op. cit.
32
Betty Gow, Statements, op. cit.
33
Ibid., March 10, 1932.
34
Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 13, 1932. Many accounts of the kidnapping adhere to Betty Gow’s recollection of the dialogue in her statement made on 3/10/32, in which she quotes Charles as saying, “Anne, they have stolen our baby.” In her own statement, however, Anne says twice that Charles was silent.
35
HGHL
, introduction to 1932 section, p. 211.
36
Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 13, 1932; Elsie Whateley, Statement, op. cit.
12.37
Literary Digest
, 3/12/32, “The Challenge of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.”
THE WAR
1
There were two sets of footprints, one larger than the other. The New Jersey State Police theorized that the smaller ones were made by Anne that afternoon. The FBI noted that the smaller person was wearing moccasins, stockings, or cloth coverings over his or her shoes.
2
Text of ransom notes from NJSPM; and J. Vreeland Haring,
The Hand of Hauptmann
, New Jersey: Hamer, 1937, p. 16.
3
Fon W. Boardman, Jr.,
The Thirties: America and the Great Depression
, New York, H. Z. Walck, 1967.
4
NYT
, 1/27/32, “279 Kidnapped in 29 States, Survey for 1931 Discloses;” 3/3/32, “A New Crime;” 3/6/32, “Kidnapping: A Rising Menace to the Nation;” Hugh A. Fisher and Matthew F. McGuire, “Kidnapping and the So-Called Lindbergh
Law,”
New York University Law Quarterly Review
, vol. 12, pp. 646–662, June 1935; and Horace L. Bomar, Jr., “The Lindbergh Law,”
Law and Contemporary Problems
, vol. 1, pp. 435–444, Oct. 1934.
5
It was public knowledge that Lindbergh had received $250,000 worth of stock when he had joined TAT.
6
Jim Fisher, op. cit.
7
Father of General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander-in-chief of the United States Desert Storm military operation.
8
Roger Cohen, and Claudio Gatti,
In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991; interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf, 2/21/97.
9
Jim Fisher, op. cit. p. 20.
10
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 3/5/32, p. 231.
11
Jim Fisher, op. cit.
12
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 3/2/32, p. 226.
13
Ibid., p. 227.
14
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 25.
15
NYT
, 3/2/32, “Japanese Routing Chinese in Fierce Shanghai Battle; Death Toll Exceeds 2000.”
16
Interview with Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 2/21/97.
17
Interview with Jim Fisher, 2/24/97.
18
NYT
, 3/3/32, “100,000 in Manhunt.”
19
Commonweal
, 3/16/32,
“The Lindbergh Case.”
20
Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 22.
21
Ibid., p. 23.
22
Jim Fisher, op. cit.
23
Ibid.
24
Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 24–25, 30.
25
Ibid., p. 24.
26
Wahgoosh was named after Charles’s childhood dog, also a fox terrier. It had been beaten to death with a crowbar by an envious and deranged neighbor. See A. Scott Berg,
Lindbergh
, New York: Putnam, 1998, p. 53.
27
FBI Summary Report, New York #62-3057, NJSPM. There are differing reports regarding Wahgoosh’s sleeping habits. Some say he slept in the servants’ quarters; others say he slept regularly outside the baby’s room.