Link Hauptmann to Kidnap Ladder: Traced to Lindy Home

The country followed the Lindbergh case as it was happening, as this issue of the New York Journal, published two days before Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for extoring $50,000 from Charles Lindbergh, reveals. A jotted-down license plate on a gold certificate led police to Hauptmann's Bronx residence, where police found $14,000 in ransom money in a shoe box hidden in the garage. They also found wood in his attic that matched the wood of the ladder used to take the Lindbergh baby.