Aviator's Kidnapper Tried And Convicted  

On April 2, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed in the electric chair for the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife's 20 month old son. It has been a long trial with long appeals.

Hauptmann's wife, Anna Hauptmann continued to state throughout the trials that her husband was with her the night of the kidnapping. However, the jury in his first trial and in the trial of appeals did not believe her story nor that the $15,000. that was found in Hauptmann's presents at the time of his arrest belonged to a business associate.