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Criminal

Mar. 7, 2007

Mob Justice

Forum Column - By Dwight S. Wilson - Seventy-five years later, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted of kidnapping Charles Lindbergh's baby, still doesn't look right.

FORUM COLUMN

By Dwight S. Wilson
     
      On the evening of March 1, 1932, an 18-month-old baby was taken from his crib in a house located near Hopewell, N.J. But, unlike other infants that night, this little boy was not touched by loving hands. The child was taken from those who loved him because he was the child of world-famous aviator Charles A. Lindbergh - and was worth money.
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