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Morrow, Alice (aunt of AML), 402
Morrow, Constance (sister of AML), 68, 96, 366, 399, 400, 402, 403, 419, 424, 430, 437
Morrow, Dwight, Jr. (brother of AML), 68, 366, 367, 403, 419
Morrow, Dwight W. (father of AML), 49–54, 77, 97, 355, 376, 396–404, 406
death of, 55, 406
as Mexican ambassador, 396, 399–402, 403–05
Morrow, Elisabeth (sister of AML), 56–57, 58, 68, 329, 341, 366, 367, 396, 399, 400–06, 430
courtship with CAL, rumors of, 402–04
death of, 256, 424–25
and death of Lindbergh baby, 396, 404–05, 409, 410–13, 415, 419–23, 425
disappearance of, 419–22
marriage of, 407–08, 424
sickness of, 402–05
sisterly relationship, 399, 402–08
Morrow, Elizabeth Cutter (mother of AML), 68, 164, 190, 199, 212, 214, 396, 398–99, 400–02, 405–06, 419, 437, 441
Morrow, Jay J. (uncle of AML), 424
Morton, Edward F., 252, 255, 275
Mosely, Leonard, 441
Mulrooney, Edward P., 105, 143, 158
Muni, Paul, 94
Nathan, Robert, 379
Nature Conservancy, 442
Nebel, Long John, 66–67
Nelly (boat), 163–66
New Brunswick Daily Home News, 293
New Deal, 215
New Jersey State Police, 15, 31, 66, 128, 129, 131–32, 153, 204, 205, 269, 270, 297, 321, 366, 373–74, 377, 393, 394, 428, 430, 431. See also Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
Cemetery John, search for, 217–27
creation of, 80
documentation of case, 428–29
initial site investigation, 33–38
interrogations by, 206–08, 212–214
and the press, 68–69, 71–72, 262
report of crime to, 32–33
and Sharpe’s suicide, 212–214
Newman, Edwin, 209
New Republic, 51
New York American, 18, 107, 122, 133, 134, 135, 143, 146, 147–48, 149, 151, 154, 156, 160, 166, 336–38, 340, 343, 350–52, 357, 359, 361, 388, 392
New York Daily News, 133, 144, 157, 184, 234, 242, 252, 254, 336, 352, 359
New York Herald Tribune, 184–86, 283, 357, 366
New York Journal, 261
New York Mirror, 133, 143, 146, 150, 421
New York Police Department (NYPD), 130, 156, 200, 202, 203, 205–06, 217, 243, 357, 377, 380, 392, 393–95
final leads to and arrest of Hauptmann, 218–42
New York Post, 89, 251
New York Sun, 132, 300
New York Telegraph, 421
New York Times, 52, 66, 170, 172, 293
New York Univesity All Alumni Centennial, 57, 66, 75, 85, 415–18
New York World, 51
New York World-Telegram, 421
Norris, George W., 377
Norris, Kathleen, 261
North to the Orient (AML), 56
Nosovitsky, Jacob J. (“Doc”), 18–21, 337–38, 350–52, 357–58, 359, 360, 368, 374–75, 378–81, 382–86, 388–89, 391–93, 395, 414, 425
aliases of, 386–87, 395
criminal reputation of, 391–92
and Hearst, 376–77, 388–90
jailed for bigamy, 391–92
and J. Edgar Hoover, 379–80, 382–86, 389, 392, 395
marriages of, 386, 389–90,
Mexican involvements of, 376–77, 382–83, 387–88, 389, 390
and NYPD, 377, 380, 393, 394–95
origins of, 378–79
summary of case against, 393–95
as undercover agent, 379–81
and Wall Street bombing, 380
Obregon, Alvaro, 376–77, 381, 382, 400
Oceanic Foundation, 442
Ogle, Vincent, 186
Oliver, Caspar, 299–300
O’Rourke, Pat, 156
Orteig, Raymond, 39–42, 46
O’Ryan, John F., 220, 237
Osborn, Albert D., 218, 230, 232, 242, 247, 273, 285, 433
Osborn, Albert S., 208–09, 242, 247, 251, 252
Pan American Airways, 200, 439
Paris Soir, 343
Parker, Ellis, Jr., 364–65, 368, 427
Parker, Ellis, Sr., 82, 129, 194, 209–11, 242, 256, 291, 296–98, 335, 345, 364–65, 368–69, 411, 413
imprisonment and death of, 428
investigations by, 298–300, 317–318, 319–22, 324–26, 327, 358, 364–65
Patterson, Lester J., 243
Pelletreau, Doris A., 13
Pelletreau, Jesse William, 13–20, 319–20, 321, 331–34, 357, 359–60, 368, 393
black box information of, 13–20
Perrone, Joseph, 137, 207, 221–22, 234, 240, 242, 271, 426–27
Pershing, John J., 79
Perth Amboy Evening News, 293, 295, 327
Pescia, E. V. C., 253–55
Petrosino, James J., 234, 252, 275
Pope, Frederick A., 270, 276
Pratt, Ruth, 98
Press, 165, 167, 185–187, 190–191, 193, 200
in aftermath of crime, 65–72
and Condon, 149–50, 170–171, 173
Curtis’s secret deal with, 184
on disappearance of Elisabeth Morrow, 419–422
and FBI, 219
and Hauptmann, 237, 242, 245, 253–55, 257, 260–65, 284–88
and Hoffman, 325–27, 330, 336–37, 340–41, 344, 350–52, 357, 359, 361, 366, 368
and Lindbergh, 28, 40–42, 50–51, 53, 54, 65–68, 73, 132, 260, 343–44, 403, 419
and New Jersey State Police, 68–69, 70–72, 262
at trial of Hauptmann, 257, 259–65, 284–86
Vitray’s conclusions, 167–68
Prohibition, 47, 77, 82, 94, 96, 109, 215
Purple gang, 99
Reed, A. C., 40
Reich, Al, 121, 134, 135, 136–38, 150, 157, 158, 161, 164–65, 175, 207
Reilly, Edward J., 261, 264–65, 268–70, 272, 273–74, 278, 279, 281, 285, 286, 288, 373, 429
Reliable Employment Agency, 253
Reliant Property Management, 252–53, 255
Richard, George L., 184
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 294
Ripley, Robert, 294
Roberts, Marian (“Kiki”), 95
Robinson, Edward G., 94
Rogers, Ginger, 258
Rogers, Will, 129
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 16, 48, 75, 215–16, 218, 295, 433–34, 437, 438, 439–40
Root, Elihu, 74
Root, Miss, 57, 415
Root, Oren, 73
Rosencrans, Egbert, 270, 277
Rosenberg, Benjamin, 237
Rosenhain, Max, 114, 116, 120, 121, 136, 137, 207
Rosner, Morris (“Mickey”), 97–102, 104–07, 111, 119, 125, 131, 133–34, 143–46, 157, 177, 206, 208, 270, 392, 414
Rossiter, Charles, 275, 426
Runyon, Damon, 261, 339
Ruth, Babe, 47
Ryan Airlines Corporation, 41
St. John, Adela Rogers, 261
St. Michael’s Orphanage, 274, 321
St. Raymond’s Cemetery, 163
Saturday Evening Post, 53
Saunders, William, 370
Scaduto, Anthony, 20, 253
Scapegoat (Scaduto), 20
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (film), 94
Schlossman, Martin, 318, 345, 364, 369, 428
Schneiderman, Mollie, 358, 389–90, 392
Schoeffel, Charles A., 35, 67, 69
Schultz, Dutch, 95
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, 33, 67, 69, 102, 119, 128–29, 144–45, 159, 167, 177, 178, 180, 189, 190, 193, 195, 196, 200, 203–06, 296, 321, 327, 356, 357, 360, 366, 369, 413, 427
background of, 78–80, 81
career after State Police, 430–31
and creation of NJ State Police, 80–83
and FBI (BI or DI), 219
and Hauptmann, 229, 231–33, 235–37, 240–42, 246�
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and Hoffman, 299, 334, 340, 354–55, 356, 366–67, 430, 442–44
Lindbergh’s control of, 72, 78, 85–88, 91, 105, 125, 130, 131, 153, 155, 158
and Parker, 210–11, 298
popularity comes to, 262
and Sharpe’s suicide, 212–14
son of, 431
Scottsboro Boys, 362
Seery, William F., 202, 222, 224, 227–28, 275
Selby, George, 304
Sharkey, Jack, 44
Sharpe, Violet, 175–76, 212–14, 269, 270, 279, 408
Sheet, Elizabeth, 416
Shepard, Mrs. Finley, 186
Sherwood, Max, 321, 338, 387
Silverman, Max, 144
Sisk, Thomas H., 166, 204, 219, 220, 223, 224, 226, 227, 235, 275
Sloane, Anne B., 392–93
Small, Samuel, 320
Smith, Adam, 47
Smith, Alfred E., 47
Sololiski, Mike, 356
Sommer, Peter H., 279
South Amboy Citizen, 293
Special Agent (Wilson), 433
Speer, Albert, 436
Spirit of St. Louis, The (airplane), 40–46, 49, 376, 400, 439
Spirit of St. Louis, The (book), 441
Spitale, Salvatore, 95, 98, 104–05, 120, 125, 133, 143, 144, 145–46, 185
Springer, Arthur, 87, 101, 104, 125, 420, 421
Stalin, Joseph, 52
Stanton, Sanford E., 337, 338, 350
Starr, Joel, 416
Stewart, James, 441
Stimson, Henry L., 439
Stoddard, Russell M., 243
Strange Death of President Harding, The (Means and Thacker), 110
Stroh, Wally, 18–19, 337–38, 350, 357, 359–60, 368, 392
Swayze, Walter H., 190–92, 273
Taylor, Vernon, 345
Teapot Dome scandal, 109–10
Teresa Salvatore (boat), 182–84
Thacker, Mary, 110
Thayer, Robert A., 77, 87, 97–100, 102, 104, 105, 107, 111, 112–13, 133–34, 144, 145, 414
Thomas, Lowell, 258
Thompson, Bill, 301
Thompson, Dorothy, 438
Thompson, Douglas G., 87, 101, 104, 125
Thurber, James, 438
Time, 47
Tobin, Maurice W., 275
Tracy, Spencer, 94
Transcontinental Air Transport, 49, 199
Trenchard, Thomas W., 264, 277, 281, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 328, 357, 364, 369, 430
Trenton Evening Times, 300, 324, 327, 330, 353, 362
Trenton Labor News, 368
True Detective, 20
Tunney, Gene, 294
U.S. Secret Service, 99
Udet, Ernst, 435
Uhlig, Henry, 323
Unione, Sicilione, 99
Valentine, James, 357
Vallee, Rudy, 294
Van Cortlandt Park, 138–43
Van Henke, August, 278
Van Ingen, Philip, 191–95, 274, 335
Vengali, Michael, 95
Villa, Pancho, 76, 79
Vitray, Laura, 68, 69, 70, 88, 90–91, 132, 167–68, 408
von Kaltenborn, Hans, 261
Wagner, Abie, 99
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 63, 84, 417
Walker, James J., 45
Wallace, John B., 227, 234, 275, 429
Wallace, William, 227, 228
Waller, George, 20
Walsh, Harry W., 175–76, 189–90, 193, 206, 207, 212–13, 334, 432
Washington, George, 31
Washington Post, 108, 110
Watts, Victor, 388
Webb, Irene, 22
Weiss, Harry, 318, 365, 369, 428
Wendel, Paul, 20, 211, 256, 291, 317, 322, 324, 358, 432–33
kidnapping and confession of, 364–66, 368–709, 371, 427–28
Whateley, Aloysius (“Ollie”), 30–32, 36, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60–61, 62, 66, 86, 131, 196, 269–70, 411, 412, 419, 423
Whateley, Elsie Mary, 32, 36, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 86, 131, 157, 196, 269–70, 411, 419, 423
Whitaker, Norman, 182
Whited, Millard, 246, 248, 252, 276, 278, 325, 366, 426
Wilentz, David T., 246–47, 249–52, 253–54, 255, 256, 261, 265, 339, 340, 356, 367, 369, 373, 429, 431
at Hauptmann trial, 266–67, 270–75, 279–80, 282–84, 286, 288
and Hoffman, 291, 295–96, 337, 341–42, 345–49, 354–55, 432
Wilentz, Norma, 432
Wilentz, Robert, 432
Williamson, Charles W., 30–31, 35, 36, 38, 62, 188–89, 408, 413, 423
Wilson, Frank J., 156, 159, 164, 202, 206, 272, 433
Wilson, L. Lanier, 379
Wilson, Orville, 188, 189, 191, 274
Wilson, Woodrow, 73
Winchell, Walter, 221, 224, 260, 263
Wolf, Joseph A., 33, 34–37, 85, 246, 429
Wolfe, Harry H., 30–32, 62, 189, 423
Woodlawn Cemetery, 137, 226
Woods, Arthur, 380–82, 386, 388, 392
Woollcott, Alexander, 261
World Wildlife Fund, 442
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 45
Young, Freddy, 93
Acknowledgments
The author cannot thank enough or praise too highly the intrepid group of inordinately talented people who helped in collecting data during the nearly eight years required to write this book, starting with, chronologically: Terry George, Patrick Farrelly, Joey Hamill, Dorothy Keller, Gianna Ranaudo, Alison Price Becker, Holly Forsman, and Ian Shearn. In the long, grueling middle stretch, ardent and stunningly keen Diane Reiners took over, with a sterling assist from Christine Tangare.
Siv Svendsen, there alone for the closing eighteen months, glowed bright and brilliant while working on the repeated edits and made sure that the manuscript, at long last, was delivered.
The stalwart reader through it all was Kevin Richardson. Many more people, whose names are not listed, contributed to all aspects of the book, and to them a heartfelt “thank you.” I particularly want to extend my appreciation to Governor Hoffman’s daughter, Hope Hoffman Nelson, and the late Harry Green. I am also grateful for the cooperation extended me by Lieutenant Thomas De Feo of the New Jersey State Police Museum in West Trenton, New Jersey, and Mark Nonestied of the Harold Hoffman Collection at the East Brunswick Museum, East Brunswick, New Jersey.
The institutions and archives cooperating in this undertaking include the New York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the New York Police Department archives and library, the office of the Bronx District Attorney, the New York University archives and library, the John Jay library, the Columbia University library, the Rutgers University library, the Library of Congress, the FBI public archives, and the National Archives. The Freedom of Information Act provided information from the FBI, State Department, Justice Department, and Secret Service.
Other authors and their works were of tremendous value. Who they are and what they wrote will be evident as the reader progresses. I thank them all.
This book ultimately reflects the wisdom of its editor, Anton Mueller. He convinced the author to make for whiter and more perilous waters whenever possible; navigate at the chanciest.
The memory of Mary Lea Johnson looms large. Some eight years back, it was she and her husband, Marty Richards, along with Sam Crothers who brought Bill Pelletreau’s black box to Owen Laster, my agent.
About the Author
Noel Behn (1928–1998) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. Born in Chicago and educated in California and Paris, he served in the US Army’s Counterintelligence Corps before settling in New York City. As the producing director of the Cherry Lane Theatre, he played a lead role in the off-Broadway movement of the 1950s and presented the world premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. Behn’s debut novel, The Kremlin Letter (1966), was a New York Times bestseller and the inspiration for a John Huston film starring Orson Welles and Max von Sydow. Big Stick-Up at Brink’s! (
1977), the true story of the 1950 Brink’s robbery in Boston, was based on nearly one thousand hours of conversations with the criminals and became an Academy Award–nominated film directed by William Friedkin. Behn also wrote for television and served as a creative consultant on the acclaimed series Homicide: Life on the Street. His other books include the thrillers The Shadowboxer (1969) and Seven Silent Men (1984), and Lindbergh: The Crime (1995), a nonfiction account of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
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