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Hauptmann

[ houpt-mahn ]

noun

  1. Ger·hart [ger, -hah, r, t], 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.


Hauptmann

/ ˈhaʊptman /

noun

  1. HauptmannGerhart18621946MGermanSCIENCE: naturalistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelistWRITING: poet Gerhart (ˈɡeːrhart). 1862–1946, German naturalist, dramatist, novelist, and poet. His works include the historical drama The Weavers (1892): Nobel prize for literature 1912
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This grim assortment of relics is housed in a small museum in New Jersey, about 20 miles away from where the decaying body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the toddler Hauptmann was convicted of kidnapping and killing, was discovered face down in the dirt.

In the decades since, as the keepers of the Lindbergh kidnapping archives can attest, public interest in the case has never subsided — nor has skepticism about Hauptmann’s guilt.

Hauptmann, a German immigrant who had worked as a carpenter and lived in the Bronx borough of New York City, was executed for the crime in April 1936.

“I personally don’t think he did it,” Love said, noting that Hauptmann and his widow maintained his innocence, and his alibi, until the end.

Investigators traced the car at the gas station to Hauptmann and later discovered $13,760 in ransom bills in his garage — money he said he’d been asked to hold for a man who died in Germany before the trial.

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