Lindbergh Kidnap Magazines
Assembled by Sam Bornstein
April, 2004
American Astrology
August, 1977
American Detective Cases
November, 1934
American Forests
May, 1935
October, 1967
American Heritage
February 1976
July/August 2000
American History
July, 1995
“Was Hauptmann Guilty?”
“The Innocent Suffer”
“Solving the Crime of the Century”
“Wood’s Case Against Hauptmann”
(Koehler)
“Wood Wizard: Tracking Down Lindbergh
Kidnapper by Wood Analysis” Pages 28-30.
Davidson, David: The Story of the Century
“On the scene at the Crime of the Century”
(boy delivered cots to Highfields)
The Other Trial of the Century
Anna Hauptmann profile/update
American History Illustrated
May, 1975
“The Baby is Found – Dead!”
American Mercury
April, 1935
“Justice Goes Tabloid”
Bluebook
August, 1952
“New facts on Lindbergh kidnapping?”
July 16, 1932
Sept. 24, 1938
October 8, 1938
May 10, 1947
The Real Lindbergh (practical jokes)
Executioner Robert Elliott
Collier’s
Confidential
January, 1954
Frank Wilson’s story
Coronet
October, 1947
July, 1957
“How We Trapped the Lindbergh Kidnaper”
by Elmer L. Irey (not identical to Irey book;
many errors)
Flight from Fame
September, 1933
May,1935
Kidnapping Craze: The Lindbergh Baby
A Symposium "The Trial Of The Century"
Cosmopolitan
Daring Detective
June 1936
Did Hauptmann die? (Detailed account of
execution – Dr. Charles Mitchell)
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
June, 1932
“A Little Child Shall Lead Them”
(Editorial and cartoons on case)
Delineator
November, 1933
Kidnapping: Can we stop it?
Detective Fiction Weekly
May 6, 1933
Was Arthur Barry the kidnapper?
The Eagle Magazine
January 1935 (Vol. XXIII, No. 1)
Bruno Hauptmann's handwriting
Esquire
January, 1936
Famous Detective Cases
March 1935
June, 1935
Forum and Century
March, 1935
January, 1936
February, 1936
Headquarters Detective
November, 1954
Master Finger-Printer (Erastus Hudson)
The Danger to the 2nd Lindbergh baby
“Hold, Enough!” editorial on excessive
coverage
“Trial by Fury”
“Take the Profit out of Kidnaping”
Strange death of Gov. Harold Hoffman
L’Illustration
19 Mars 1932
L’enlevement du fils de Lindbergh
(great picture of estate)
Inside Detective
April 1935
May, 1935
March, 1936
“Meet The Man Who Defended
Hauptmann” (Reilly)
"Who Helped Hauptmann?"
Dorothy Kilgallen – “Guilty as Hell”
Ken
April, 1938
“Off the Hauptmann Record” (Jafsie’s
phone number in the closet)
Oct. 5, 1935
Oct. 12, 1935 to Nov. 23, 1935
October 12, 1935
October 19, 1935
October 26, 1935
November 2, 1935
November 9, 1935
November 16, 1935
November 23, 1935
Hauptmann cover / Reilly
Finn: Capture of Hauptmann (7)
The J.J. Faulkner investigation
Liberty (76)
1935
Tracing the ransom bills
Cecile Barr, Levantino
The capture
BRH passing the gold bills
Transcript of lineup for Condon; researching
defense witnesses; BRH “beatings”
1936
Jan. 4, 1936
Jan. 18, 1936 to Mar. 21, 1936
January 18, 1936
January 25, 1936
February 1, 1936
February 8, 1936
February 15, 1936
February 22, 1936
February 29, 1936
March 7, 1936
March 14, 1936
March 21, 1936
March 28, 1936
April 4, 1936
April 11, 1936
April 18, 1936
April 25, 1936
May 2, 1936
May 9, 1936
50 unanswered questions
Condon (10)
Jafsie cover
Did Hauptmann have accomplices?
Jafsie in the cemetery
Jafsie & the sleeping suit
Condon in Panama
Cerrita/Birrittella psychics knew
Jafsie on Hauptmann's accusation;
Hauptmann’s
pastor; BRH on the handwriting
Jafsie’s strange stories
Science predicted who did it
BRH: “Why did you kill me?”
Jafsie: A Poem of the G-Men
The missing money
May 16, 1936
July 25, 1936
Hauptmann clues sifted by amateur
detectives
What Jafsie told his high school girls
“Gov. Hoffman Re-opens the Lindbergh
Case”
Lloyd Fisher on John Hughes Curtis (7)
Curtis cover
Aug. 1, 1936 – Sept. 12, 1936
August 1, 1936
August 8, 1936
August 15, 1936
August 22, 1936
August 29, 1936
September 5, 1936
September 12, 1936
Nov. 7, 1936
What will happen next in the Lindbergh
case?
Nov. 21, 1936
Jafsie answers the American Bar Ass’n
Nov. 28, 1936 – January 9, 1937
Wendel (7)
November 28, 1936
December 5, 1936
December 12, 1936
December 19, 1936 Wendel tells all – Part IV
December 26, 1936 Wendel tells all – Part V
Lindbergh’s First Year of Self-Exile
1937
January 2, 1937
January 9, 1937
April 3, 1937
April 17, 1937
June 5, 1937
Wendel tells all - Conclusion
Science – Dr. Erastus Mead Hudson
Gaston Means – Master Bad Man
Means’ kidnap hoax
1938
Jan. 29, 1938 – April 30, 1938
January 29, 1938
February, 5, 1938
February 12, 1938
February 19, 1938
February 26, 1938
March 5, 1938
March 12, 1938
March 19, 1938
March 26, 1938
April 2, 1928
April 9, 1938
April 16, 1938
April 23, 1938
Hoffman (14)
Hauptmann’s final hours
Weaknesses in Jafsie’s story
Jury; Whited; Perrone
Rail 16; Hochmuth, Rossiter
April 30, 1938
May 7, 1938 – June 25, 1938
May 7, 1938
May 28, 1938
June 18, 1938
Ellis Parker (4)
Ellis Parker (1)
What happened to Ellis Parker? (2)
Practical jokes Lindbergh played
What happened to Ellis Parker?(3)
June 25, 1938
Amateur Nightmare (Ellis Parker) (4)
July 2, 1938
Hoffman
July 9, 1938
Hoffman – More things I forgot to tell
July 23, 1938 - September 17, 1938 Evalyn McLean (9)
July 23, 1938
July 30, 1938
August 6, 1938
August 13, 1938
August 20, 1938
August 27, 1938
September 3, 1938
September 10, 1938
September 17, 1938
Liberty: The Nostalgia Magazine
Summer, 1971
Hauptmann
Life
May 15, 1939
June 28, 1954
March, 1982
Literary Digest
1932
March 12, 1932
March 26, 1932
April 2, 1932
April 16, 1932
April 23, 1932
April 30, 1932
May 21, 1932
May 28, 1932
June 25, 1932
Cover photo of Ann Lindbergh
Hoffman: A Death Divulges a Life of
Deception
Did the evidence fit the crime?
“The Challenge of the Lindbergh
Kidnaping”
“The Kidnapers’ Threat to American
Homes”
Current poetry
“The Lindbergh Ransom Swindle”
“Nation Outraged by Lindbergh Fraud”
“Has Press Hampered Search for Baby?”
“Tragic End of the Lindbergh Search”
“Lindbergh Crime as a Challenge to
America”
“British Rage over Violet Sharpe Suicide”
1934
September 29, 1934
October 6, 1934
October 13, 1934
October 20, 1934
October 27, 1934
December 29, 1934
“The ‘Break’ in the Lindbergh Case”
“Hauptmann Facing Trial in Lindbergh
Case”
“First Trial in the Lindbergh Abduction
Case”
“A Murder Indictment in the Lindbergh
Case”
“New Jersey Ready to Try Hauptmann”
“Hauptmann trial Makes ‘Boom Town’”
1935
January 5, 1935
January 19, 1935
January 26, 1935
February 2, 1935
February 9, 1935
February 16, 1935
February 23, 1935
March 2, 1935
March 9, 1935
May 4, 1935
June 29, 1935
“Hauptmann Trial Takes Centre Stage”
(Excellent diagram of courtroom)
“How the Press ‘Covers’ Hauptmann Trial”
Small Reilly, Wilentz profiles
Counsel and the Press impact on the trial
“Handwriting and ‘Jersey Justice’”
Experts Tesify for State
Press exploitation of the trial
Dr. Erastus Mead Hudson (page 10)
“Cost of the Hauptmann case”
Collecting Hauptmann defense funds (Pg 5)
Hauptmann defense committee (page 7)
Fawcett sues BRH for legal fees (pg 6)
Detecting fingerprints (Hudson on case)
January 4, 1936
January 11, 1936
January 18, 1936
January 25, 1936
February 29, 1936
March 21, 1936
April 11, 1936
May 30, 1936
June 13, 1936
June 20, 1936
“A Family Seeks Safety”
“America’s First Major Kidnapping”
“Case Marches to Climax”; Hoffman
“A Controversial Reprieve”
“Hauptmann: Enigma in the Face of Death”
Letter from Governor Hoffman
“Nightmarish End of Hauptmann”
Fighter Hoffman
Gov. Hoffman and “Jersey Justice”
“Lindbergh deposits ransom”
February, 1937
February 27, 1940
July 2, 1940
Parolees who commit crimes
Eight years later
Hauptmann Case by Alexander Woolcott
(Lynd Ward illustrations)
January 12, 1935
1936
Look
McCall’s
October, 1956
Mid Week Pictorial (New York Times)
March 12, 1932
AML – Her Life Story in Pictures
(Excellent photo spread)
Modern Man
March, 1963
The Lindbergh Case
Modern Maturity
April-May 1982
I Covered the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Modern Mechanix and Inventions
December, 1934
How Experts Trapped Kidnap Suspect
The Modern Psychologist
April, 1935
Modern Screen
May, 1935
Murder Can Be Fun
#16 – 1995
Hypnotism Will Solve the Hauptmann
Mystery
Was it right to film the Hauptmann trial?
Lindbergh Lunacy (debunks skeptics’
books)
Murder Casebook
1990 – Volume 2, Part 29
The Lindbergh Kidnap
Murder in Mind
1998
(Largely the same as Murder Casebook)
The Nation
March 16, 1932
March 23, 1932
June 29, 1932
January, 1935
National Geographic
September, 1934
“The World Against the Lindberghs”
“The American ‘Mind’”
Gaston Means
Marshall, M: “Biggest Show on Earth.”
Flying Around the North Atlantic
Nautilus Magazine: Self-help Through Self-Knowledge
May 1932
Pg. 12 editorial: Baby Lindy & Capone
New Jersey Monthly
August, 1981
Legacy of a Kidnapping: Olson and Kerwin
New Republic
March 16, 1932
March 23, 1932
January 23, 1935
February 6, 1935
February 27, 1935
April 17, 1935
The Week
The Week
The Week
“Both Guilty”
Review of Whipple Book
September 29, 1934
October 6, 1934
October 13, 1934
October 27, 1934
November 10, 1934
December 29, 1934
Lt. Finn gets his man
Hauptmann indicted
Extradition proceedings
Extradition
Reilly engaged
Flemington readies
January 5, 1935
January 12, 1935
January 19, 1935
Was Hauptmann Here?
Trial Coverage
Nellie of Flemington
Sports at the Trial
Trial coverage
Trial coverage
Trial coverage
Trial ends
The media’s output
Verdict, etc.
AP’s error on the verdict
Reporters’ books on the case
The cost of prosecution
Reilly dismissed
Jafsie honoured
Hauptmann’s appeal
Newsweek
1935
January 26, 1935
February 2, 1935
February 9, 1935
February 16, 1935
February 23, 1935
March 16, 1935
March 23, 1935
April 13, 1935
May 25, 1935
June 29, 1935
August 25, 1975
December 6, 1976
A Crime That Doesn’t Pay (Bronfman
kidnapping)
“Did Hauptmann Do It?” (Scaduto review
with Wilentz quotes)
June 24, 1985
“Cobbling Up Conviction” (Kennedy
review)
December 29, 1934
January 12, 1935
Profile of Jafsie
Reilly profile + minor gossipy bits
New Yorker
March 9, 1935
November 6, 1937
March 19, 1938
North American Review
January, 1934
Official Detective Stories
February, 1935
May, 1940
January, 1974
BRH and circumstantial evidence
“Twenty-five thousand dollars” – dispersal
of the reward
The truth about the Lindbergh case
The Lindbergh Case
Crime of the Century (CAL Jr Cover)
The Shooting of Lindbergh Suspect No.1
(Ernest Brinkert)
How Gaston Means made a fortune on the
murdered Lindbergh baby
Outlook
April, 1932
Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader
Summer, 1994
Lindbergh and the press
Lindbergh Baby Hoax (Ahlgren/Monier
review)
Pathfinder
August 2, 1930
Photography Workshop
Fall, 1950
Early picture of CAL Jr.
Hauptmann’s body removed from the
deathhouse
Playbill
May, 1992
Popular Mechanics
December, 1934
Hauptmann
“Sherlock Holmes Returns”
Radio Guide
March 21, 1936
April 4, 1936
Reader’s Digest
May, 1932
December, 1934
Real Detective
May, 1932
"What Walter Winchell Knows about
Hauptmann"
Winchell; inside story on Hauptmann
Lindbergh and the press (Outlook)
I could have broken the Lindbergh case
(Today)
“The Strangle-hold of the Kidnappers”
O’Sullivan: “The Most Horrible Crime in
the World”
January, 1935
March 1938
Real-Life Crimes
1993
Behind the scenes at the Hauptmann trial
(Trial preparations; details on lawyers,
judge)
Lindbergh kidnap hoax story
Who Murdered Lindbergh’s Baby?
Remember
December 1994 /January, 1995
Who killed the Lindbergh baby?
Ahlgren and Monier
March/April 2000
Couple with baby recall being stopped
Reminisce
Saturday Evening Post
October 21, 1933
April 20, 1935
March 8, 1952
October 23, 1954
April, 1976
CAL – The Great Unknown
Arthur Koehler: “Who made that ladder?”
Did they really solve the case?
The Mystery of Harold Hoffman
Kidnapping Victims:Tragic Aftermaths
Scientific American
July, 1937
Sherlock Holmes of the Forests
Scribner’s
January, 1936
Why Blame It On The Papers?
November 25, 1953
The truth about the Lindbergh case
Sir!
Startling Detective
June, 1932
Aug. 1932
February 1933
February 1934
December 1934
April, 1935
October 1937
The inside story
Find the Lindy Killers!
Bungling the Lindbergh case
Mystery girl in the Lindbergh case
(Violet Sharpe)
Secrets of the Lindbergh manhunt
High spots in the Lindbergh case
Torture kidnap (Ellis Parker / Wendel)
April 1, 1932 (#68)
Barnes,H. E. 68. “Deeper Lesson of the
Survey
Lindbergh Kidnapping.” (pages 17-19).
Theater Week
August 3, 1992
Hauptmann, the play
Time Magazine
September 29, 1930
Dwight Morrow cover
1932
March 14, 1932
March 21, 1932
May 16, 1932
May 23, 1932
June 13, 1932
June 20, 1932
June 27, 1932
Snatchers on Sourland Mountain
Lindberghs treasonous for promising
leniency
CAL assumes control, hires gangsters
Capone offers help in Brisbane interview
No developments
Curtis
Ransom paid and no results
Confirmation the ransom note symbol was
widely known
CAL Jr. cover
Lengthy summary of crime and payment
Gaston Means arrest – Evalyn McLean
Finding the baby; Hoover statement
William Allen’s sideshow ends
Gaston Means convicted
Gaston Means sentenced
October 1, 1934
October 8, 1934
December 31, 1934
“4U-13-41”
“Evidence” (numerous photos)
“At Flemington”
January 7, 1935
“Flemington Fantasy” (About Limberg
booklet)
“New Jersey v. Hauptmann”
“New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont’d)”
Letter to editor re Sherriff Curtiss
Kathleen Norris profile
“New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont’d)”
“New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont’d)”
GRAFLEX camera ad
“Hauptmann to Chair”
“Unhappy Ending” – media errs on verdict
March 28, 1932
April 4, 1932
April 18, 1932
April 25, 1932
May 2, 1932
1934
1935
January 14, 1935
January 21, 1935
January 28, 1935
February 4, 1935
February 11, 1935
February 25, 1935
1936
January 6, 1936
January 13, 1936
January 27, 1936
“Hero & Herod”: CAL’s flight (lengthy)
“Hero & Herod” (cont’d)
“Hoffman to Hauptmann” – 30 day reprieve
September 8, 1961
Review of Waller book
October 27, 1934
I could have broken the Lindbergh case
April, 1935
Boake Carter:“I Cover the Lindbergh Case”
(Trial drawing by George Clark)
September 1941
March 1949
December, 1963
Does a curse shadow Lindbergh?
Hynd: “Everybody Wanted in the Act”
“Startling New Evidence In Lindbergh
Kidnaping” (George Waller)
Today
Tower Radio
True
True Detective
June 1970
February 1975
True Detective Mysteries
February, 1931
June, 1932
Nov, 1932 – May, 1933
November, 1932
December. 1932
January, 1933
February, 1933
March, 1933
April, 1933
May, 1933
January, March, May, 1935
January, 1935
March, 1935
May, 1935
June, 1935
November, 1935
May, 1936
July, 1936
August, 1936
New Jersey’s Crooked Governor (Hoffman)
The Lindbergh Kidnap-Murder
Constance Morrow’s kidnapping
Hatton W. Sumners on the Kidnapping
Untold facts in the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Untold Facts in the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Spitale and Bitz
Ransom negotiations and payment
Violet Sharpe/Gaston Means/Curtis
Brinckert/
The Lindbergh Kidnap capture (Hynd)
The Lindbergh Kidnap capture (Hynd)
The capture
Real Story behind the Capture (Hynd) –
error filled – “found $30 K at BRH’s”
Ellis Parker Death Mystery
How much did Hauptmann tell his wife?
Secrets From Governor Hoffman's Private
Files: Not a one man job
"I Saw Bruno Hauptmann Die"
Mysterious Mr. X of the ransom notes
September, 1936
October, 1936
May, 1937
April, 1938
July, 1939
June, 1940
“The Untold Truth about Hauptmann’s
Wife”
What Hauptmann revealed: Rev. Werner
Unrevealed secrets that torture Gaston
Means
The Great Parker-Wendel Mystery
(book-length)
"Unsolved Phases of the Hauptmann Case –
New and Startling Revelations" by Avery
Hale.
Ellis Parker’s brain tumour & his behaviour
towards Wendel
Vanity Fair
December, 1934
October, 1935
October, 1998
Voice Of Experience
April, 1936
Jafsie
Lindberghs: First Romancers of the Air
Kidnap excerpt from Berg
Will society crucify Hauptmann’s son?
(Mannfried Hauptmann cover)
Woman Today
May, 1935
Verna Snyder: “I Sat in Judgement”
Woman’s World
March 6, 1990
The Crime of the Century (Fisher quotes)
Yankee Magazine
March, 1982
February, 1994
The Night the Lindbergh Baby Disappeared
Who Killed the Lindberg Baby? (Ahlgren
and Monier)