Lindbergh baby found.
Everyone was up in arms, and President Hoover was at the front of the mob, ordering several federal agencies -- including the Secret Service -- to find the killers. The president demanded a "live and never-to-be-forgotten" case. Even in the 1930s the nation would be transfixed by a kidnapping/murder story. And we thought it was just the television generation.
In many ways this tragic tale set the standard for famous crimes, who would be more popular on May 13, 1932 than Charles Lindbergh, five years removed from his biggest day?
"Even as he 'goo-ed' and dimpled they struck him down."
Pretty powerful stuff, that literary license. Makes you wonder what reporter David Sentner knew that the rest of the world didn't.
The pictures are of the baby's crib and investigators inspecting the scene, with a pullout picture of the toddler. More than four columns are dedicated to coverage both from Washington and the Lindbergh's home in New Jersey. The body was found just a few miles away.
Elsewhere, a plot to kidnap the child of a prominent local church leader was foiled, it seems the schemers got cold feet when they found out about Baby Lindy. Cold feet. One supposes they warmed their feet at the police station, hence the arrest.
A county inmate hanged himself; he was in for vagrancy. Elsewhere a local man was fined and given 20 days in jail for stealing milk and newspapers. Will Rogers has a little comment box that is referring to someone and something we can't understand today. Proper names are important to history, but not to Will Rogers' column.
Oh, and Hoover has a plan to put $1,500,000,000 into a bill to help the unemployed. Too little, too late. Franklin Roosevelt would be in the White House within a year.