The Kidnap Years: by David Stout (if you give a mouse a cookie read aloud TXT) 📕

State Bureau Were on Auto Used in Murder of Star Witness,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 14, 1934.

133“Woman Is Acquitted in Kelley Kidnapping,” New York Times, October 6, 1935.

134“Anna Ware Wins Baby Suit; Commissioner Finds Muenches Had Her Child,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 5, 1935.

135Schechter, Harold, Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer! (New York: Pocket Books, 1990), 89.

136Ibid., 93.

137Ibid., 95.

138Ibid., 92.

139Ibid., 106.

140Ibid., 115.

141“Budd Girl’s Body Found; Killed by Painter in 1928,” New York Times, December 14, 1934.

142Schechter, Harold, Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer! (New York: Pocket Books, 1990), 163.

143Nash, Jay Robert, Bloodletters and Badmen, Book 3 (New York: Warner Books, 1975), 121.

144Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 172.

145“New Dillinger Killings Stir the President and He Asks Quick Action on Crime Bills,” New York Times, April 24, 1934.

146“Cummings Says Slaying of Dillinger Is ‘Gratifying as Well as Reassuring’,” New York Times, July 23, 1934.

147“Key Clue Provided by Chance Remark,” New York Times, September 21, 1934.

148“Arrest Pleases Mayor,” New York Times, September 21, 1934.

149“Floyd Called Last of Massacre Gang,” New York Times, October 23, 1934.

150“2 Bremer Kidnappers Slain,” New York Times, January 17, 1935.

151“Outlaw Escapes on a Plane Trip,” New York Times, February 8, 1935.

152Burrough, Bray, Public Enemies, America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 331.

153Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 185.

154Ibid., 186.

155Ibid., 187.

156“Karpis Captured in New Orleans by Hoover Himself,” New York Times, May 2, 1936.

157“Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh on Stand; Mother Identified Baby’s Garments; Father Says He Heard Ladder Crash,” New York Times, January 4, 1935.

158“Text of Trial Testimony by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh,” New York Times, January 4, 1935.

159“Col. Lindbergh Names Hauptmann as Kidnapper and Taker of Ransom; Cool in 3-Hour Cross-Examination,” New York Times, January 5, 1935.

160“Hauptmann Is Calm after Ordeal; Showed Wide Range of Emotions,” New York Times, January 30, 1935.

161“Hauptmann Near the Scene with Ladder, Says Witness; Linked to a Ransom Note,” New York Times, January 9, 1935.

162“Condon Names Hauptmann as ‘John’ Who Got Box; Parries Defense’s Attack,” New York Times, January 10, 1935.

163“‘You Stop Lying,’ Hauptmann Rages at Federal Agent,” New York Times, January 18, 1935.

164“Woman Says Hauptmann Limped after Kidnapping; ‘You’re Lying,’ Wife Cries,” New York Times, January 19, 1935.

165“Hauptmann Says He Expects Acquittal, Has ‘No Fear of Cross-Examination,’” New York Times, January 23, 1935.

166“Koehler Tells of 18-Month Jury That Traced Ladder to Bronx,” New York Times, January 24, 1935.

167“Koehler Gives Demonstration of Plan to Show It Was Used on Kidnap Ladder,” New York Times, January 24, 1935.

168Cahill, Robert T. Jr., Hauptmann’s Ladder, a Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014), 278.

169“‘No Mercy,’ Wilentz Plea; Intruder Shouts at Court; Case Goes to Jury Today,” New York Times, February 13, 1935.

170“Hauptmann Guilty, Sentenced to Death for the Murder of the Lindbergh Baby,” New York Times, February 14, 1935.

171Aymar, Brandt, and Sagarin, Edward, A Pictorial History of the World’s Greatest Trials, From Socrates to Jean Harris (New York: Bonanza Books, 1985), 194.

172“Heir to Millions Seized in Ransom; Held in Tacoma,” New York Times, May 26, 1935.

173“Weyerhaeusers in Secret Parley on Kidnap Clues,” New York Times, May 28, 1935.

174“Tacoma Boy Free, $200,000 Is Paid; He Names Karpis,” New York Times, June 2, 1935.

175Gentry, Curt., J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 176.

176“Demented Man Is Hunted as Mattson Kidnapper,” New York Times, December 29, 1936.

177“Ransom Payment for Mattson Boy Is Declared Near,” New York Times, December 30, 1936.

178McClary, Daryl. “Ten-Year-Old Charles F. Mattson Is Kidnapped in Tacoma and Held for Ransom on December 27, 1936.” HistoryLink.org, December 13, 2006. https://historylink.org/File/8028.

179“Every Federal Resource to Be Used in Kidnap Hunt,” New York Times, January 12, 1937.

180McClary, Daryl. “Ten-Year-Old Charles F. Mattson Is Kidnapped in Tacoma and Held for Ransom on December 27, 1936.” HistoryLink.org, December 13, 2006. https://historylink.org/File/8028.

181FBI History, Charles Ross Kidnapping, www.fbi.gov.

182“Kidnap Chicagoan from Car on Road,” New York Times, September 27, 1937.

183FBI History, Charles Ross Kidnapping, www.fbi.gov.

184“Kidnap Chicagoan from Car on Road,” New York Times, September 27, 1937.

185FBI History, Charles Ross Kidnapping, www.fbi.gov.

186“Will Justice Triumph?” New York Daily News, February 6, 1938.

187“When Justice Triumphed,” New York Daily News, June 12, 1938.

188Jones, Leslie Tara. “Arthur Gooch: The Political, Social, and Economic Influences That Led Him to the Gallows.” MA thesis, University of Central Oklahoma, 2010. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.428.3355&rep=rep1&type=pdf.)

189“Arthur Gooch, the Only Execution under the Lindbergh Law,” Executed Today, June 19, 2014, originally published in 1936.

190“First Kidnapper Hanged under Lindbergh Law,” New York Times, June 20, 1936.

191Touhy, Roger, The Stolen Years (Cleveland, OH: Pennington Press, 1959), 226.

192Ibid., 19.

193Ibid., 46.

194Ibid., 227.

195“Who Was Chicago’s Dan Gilbert? ‘The World’s Richest Cop,’” Chicago Tribune, February 25, 2016.

196Tuohy, John William. “The World’s Richest Cop/Tubbo Gilbert, the Mob and the Power of the Press,” American Mafia, June 2002. www.americanmafia.com.

197“Judge Calls Factor Kidnapping Hoax, Finds Conviction Was Based on Perjury; Holds Law Illegal,” Chicago Tribune, August 10, 1954.

198“Who Was Chicago’s Dan Gilbert? ‘The World’s Richest Cop,’” Chicago Tribune, February 25, 2016.

199FBI History/Directors, Then and Now, www.fbi.gov.

200“Obituary: Daring Lindbergh Attained the Unattainable with Historic Flight Across the Atlantic,” New York Times, August 27, 1974.

201Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 163.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

© Rita Stout

David Stout spent nearly twenty-eight years as a reporter and editor for the New York Times. His first novel, Carolina Skeletons, 1988, won an Edgar Award and was adapted for a television movie. There has been renewed interest in the case that inspired the novel: the 1944 execution of a fourteen-year-old boy in South Carolina for the murder of two little girls. A South Carolina judge threw out the conviction in December 2014, declaring that the quick trial and execution constituted “a great and fundamental injustice.” Stout’s other novels are Night of the Ice Storm, 1991, and The Dog Hermit, 1993 (renamed A Child Is Missing for a 1995 TV