Bruno Hauptmann: Aviator Charles Lindbergh

Lindbergh Baby Dept: "The Jury's Sentence: Hauptmann to die in March," stated a giant headline in The . "The Jury's Verdict: Guilty of Murder in First Degree.", according to Vancouver Sun. A $50,000 ransom was paid on April 2, 1932, but on May 12, the baby was found dead, only five miles eight kilometres away from the Lindbergh home. The press dubbed it "The Crime of the Century," but police had no success solving it until Sept. 17, 1934, when a $10 gold certificate from the ransom money was used at a New York gas station and seventy-eight years ago, Bruno Hauptmann was sentenced to die for the kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby. The guilty verdict was the culmination of a case that had riveted the world since March 1, 1932, when the Lindbergh baby was stolen at night from his bedroom in Hopewell, N.J. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.