by Susan Hertog
20 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
21 Anne used Reeve Hemperly, a contraction of old Cutter family names, as her nom de plume.
22 NYT, 11/21/29, “Morrow and Adams Join Naval Parley” and NYT, 11/29/29, “Larson Will Name Morrow to Senate.”
23 NYT, 12/3/29, “House Delegation Favoring Morrow.”
24 NYT, 12/17/29, “Start Morrow 1936 Boom.”
25 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
26 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 11/6/29, p. 110.
27 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 1/13–14/30, p. 121.
28 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 1/30–31, p. 126.
29 Ibid., pp. 127–128.
30 Literary Digest, 4/12/30, “Motoring and Aviation: Husband and Wife Teams in the Flying Game,” p. 39.
31 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 4/10/30, p. 132.
32 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 3/4/30, p. 129.
33 Ibid., p. 130.
34 NYT, 4/21/30, “Lindbergh Sets a Record from Coast of 14¾ Hours with Wife as Navigator.”
9. INTO THE CAULDRON
1 AML, The Unicorn and Other Poems, p. 11.
2 NYT, 5/31/30, “Lindbergh Takes Morrow on Airplane Flight from Atlantic City to Newark in 45 Minutes.”
3 New Republic, 11/5/30, “Dwight Morrow in New Jersey.”
4 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 6/10/30, p. 137.
5 The sad fact is that the answers already existed but were inaccessible to the American medical community. Not until 1928 did Alexander Fleming notice the antibacterial qualities of mold. This observation led to the discovery of penicillin, which was used to treat many disorders, including rheumatic fever. The association between this fever and heart disease was already known, and in 1945, penicillin became a life-saving treatment. Unfortunately, the cure was not on hand for Elisabeth. See Blake Cabot, The Motion of the Heart: The Story of Cardiovascular Research, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954, pp. 106–119.
6 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letter to Charles Burnett, 9/17/30, Bowdoin College Archives.
7 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 6/10/30, p. 137.
8 New York Daily News, 6/23/30, “‘We’ Now are Three,” by Robert Conway.
9 NYT, 6/24/30, “Baby ‘Adopted’ by France.”
10 Ibid., 6/25/30, “Messages and Gifts Flood the Lindberghs.”
11 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 6/23 and 24/30, p. 138.
12 NYT, 6/26/30, “Birth Papers Filed for Lindbergh Baby.”
13 Outlook, 12/3/30, “What’s Wrong With Lindbergh?”
14 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 7/30/30, p. 140.
15 John B. Watson, with the assistance of Rosalie Rayner Watson, Psychological Care of the Infant and Child, New York: W. W. Norton, 1928.
16 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 7/30/30, p. 141.
17 Interview with Betty Gow.
18 Anne and Charles were unaware that officials in Mercer and Hunterdon counties competed over the location of the estate. After the Lindberghs bought their property, each county vied for the right to call the Lindberghs their own. Hunterdon County won, even though most of the land was in Mercer.
19 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 9/29/30, p. 144.
20 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 11/10/30, p. 147.
21 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 8/20/30, p. 142.
22 Ibid., “Tuesday Morning, March,” p. 155.
23 As a result, Charles and his half-sister Eva Christy donated the home and the land to the state of Minnesota, which designated it a park. The state’s intent was to reconstruct the house as a museum and to use its ninety-three acres of woodlands for public recreation.
24 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 3/5/31, p. 153.
25 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 4/19/31, p. 161.
26 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
27 NYT, 5/14/31, “Denies Engagement of Elizabeth Morrow.”
28 Partner in Morgan and Grenfell, London affiliate of J. P. Morgan and Company.
29 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letter to Mary Chilton.
30 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 5/10/31, p. 162.
31 NYT, 5/30/31.
32 NYT, 6/20/31, “Into the Setting Sun with the Lindberghs.”
33 AML, North to the Orient, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.
34 Eager to elevate the status of the Lindberghs, the press failed to note that the aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty flew a record-breaking flight over the Bering Strait in a direction opposite to that of June 1931.
35 AML, North to the Orient.
36 Interview with Janet Johnson; interview with Betty Gow.
37 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 7/17/31, p. 163.
38 Interview with Betty Gow.
39 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
10. BLACK OCTOBER
1 Details pertaining to Morrow’s death are drawn from the Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst Archives.
2. Harold Nicolson, op. cit., p. 399.
3. NYT, 10/6/31, “His Last Address a Plea for Charity.”
4 AML, North to the Orient.
5 NYT, 10/6/31, “Dwight W. Morrow Dies.”
6 NYT, 10/7/31, “Funeral of Morrow to be Held Today.”
7 NYT, 10/8/31, “Morrow Is Buried; Notables at Beir;” Plato, Selected Dialogues, Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA., 1983, pp. 43–103.
8 Dwight Morrow letter to Reuben Clark, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1/30/31, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
9 Letters of condolence to Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
10 Information about Betty Gow’s summer in Maine and her relations with Red Johnson are from the following sources: Interview with Betty Gow; Betty Gow, Statements, 3/3/32 and 3/10/32, NJSPM; Finn Henrick Johnson, Statement, 3/8/32, NJSPM; and Johannes Junge, Statements, 3/9/32 and 4/14/32, NJSPM.
11 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 11/12/31, p. 204.
12 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 11/16/31, p. 205.
13 Ibid., pp. 205–206; and interview with Joan Johnson.
14 William Raymond Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972, Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
15 NYT, 11/9/31, “Pershing Appeals with Col. Lindbergh for Idle in ‘Crisis.’”
16 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 12/31, p. 207.
17 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 1/32, p. 223.
18 NYT.
19 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 2/7/32, pp. 224–226.
20 NYT, 2/22/32, “Mrs. Lindbergh Aids China Flood Appeal.”
11. WITHIN THE WAVE
1 AML, The Unicorn and Other Poems, p. 78.
2 Details about the house, grounds, and surrounding area from a pamphlet published by Highfields/Albert Elias RGC, HighFields, East Amwell Township, New Jersey.
3 Elsie Mary Whateley, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, Newark Police Department; Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 11, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, Newark Police Department, NJSPM.
4 Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, and on March 13, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh Strong, NJSPM.
5 Ibid.
6 Jim Fisher, The Lindbergh Case, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1987, p. 47.
7 Septimus Banks, Statement, April 13, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, Jersey City Police Department.
8 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 47.
9 In his article “Hunt for the Lindbergh Kidnappers,” in the Evening Journal, 11/17/32, Insp. Harry Walsh, stated that it was Violet Sharpe who answered Whateley’s call on the morning of Tuesday, Mar. 1, 1932. In Septimus Bank’s statement to Inspector Walsh on 4/13/32, however, Banks claims that it was he who received the call and connected it to Betty Gow.
10 Betty Gow, Statement, March 3, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney, Newark Police, Capt. Patrick J. Brady, Jersey City Police, and Trooper L. J. Bornman, New Jersey State Police, NJSPM
.
11 Charles Henry Ellerson, Statement, April 12, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, Jersey City Police Department, NJSPM.
12 Christen Christensen, Statement, April 15, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, and Kristi Christensen, Statement, April 15, 1932, to Insp. Harry W. Walsh, NJSPM.
13 Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
14 Marguerite Junge, Statement, March 7, 1932, made to Sgt. Edward McGrath and Det. John F. Shaible, Newark Police Dept.; and Johann Junge, Statement, April 14, 1932, made to Insp. Walsh, NJSPM.
15 FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057, Lindbergh Household and Employees, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Aloysius Whateley, NJSPM.
16 Finn Hendrik Johnson, Statement, March 8, 1932, to Deputy Chief Frank E. Brex, Det. Hugh Strong, and Hobart A. Templeton of the Newark Police Department and to Sergeant Andrew Zaplosky of the New Jersey State Police Headquarters: “According to newspaper reports published shortly after the kidnapping, evidences were found by the New Jersey State Police of the apparent tapping of telephone wires at a point near Hopewell, presumably by agents of the kidnappers seeking to keep informed of the progress of the hunt for the kidnappers.” The police found that the wires had been tapped after the kidnapping by someone trying to trace the call. FBI Summary Report, NJSPM, p. 127.
17 Charles Henry Ellerson, op. cit.
18 Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
19 NYT, 1/4/35, “Text of Trial Testimony by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh.”
20 Elsie Mary Whateley, Statement, March 10, 1932, to Lt. John J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh J. Strong, NJSPM.
21 FBI Summary Report, New York #62–3057, Lindbergh Household and Employees, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Aloysius Whateley, FBI summary, NJSPM.
22 Betty Gow, Statements, March 3, 1932, and March 10, 1932, and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
23 The Tinkertoy is noted in the FBI report but not in the New Jersey State Police Archives. The FBI records that the toy remained intact after the kidnapping, implying, perhaps, that the baby had been handed out through the nursery window. The FBI, however, was not first at the scene of the crime, nor did its men take photographs the first night. The inconsistencies between the reports makes this theory difficult to assess.
24 Betty Gow, Statements, March 3, 1932, and March 10, 1932, and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
25 Ibid.
26 Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, March 11, 1932, and March 13, 1932.
27 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 130.
28 Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, op. cit., Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Statement, March 11, 1932, to Lieut. John J. Sweeney, Oliver Whateley, Statement, March 3, 1932, to Capt. Patrick J. Brady, Jersey City Police, Trp. L. J. Bornman, NJ State Police, and Lieut. John J. Sweeney, NJSPM.
29 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Statement, op. cit.
30 Ibid., and Anne M. Lindbergh, Statements, op. cit.
31 Betty Gow, Statement, March 10, 1932; Elsie Whateley, Statement, op. cit.; Oliver Whateley, Statement, op. cit.
32 Betty Gow, Statements, op. cit.
33 Ibid., March 10, 1932.
34 Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 13, 1932. Many accounts of the kidnapping adhere to Betty Gow’s recollection of the dialogue in her statement made on 3/10/32, in which she quotes Charles as saying, “Anne, they have stolen our baby.” In her own statement, however, Anne says twice that Charles was silent.
35 HGHL, introduction to 1932 section, p. 211.
36 Anne M. Lindbergh, Statement, March 13, 1932; Elsie Whateley, Statement, op. cit.
37 Literary Digest, 3/12/32, “The Challenge of the Lindbergh Kidnapping.”
12. THE WAR
1 There were two sets of footprints, one larger than the other. The New Jersey State Police theorized that the smaller ones were made by Anne that afternoon. The FBI noted that the smaller person was wearing moccasins, stockings, or cloth coverings over his or her shoes.
2 Text of ransom notes from NJSPM; and J. Vreeland Haring, The Hand of Hauptmann, New Jersey: Hamer, 1937, p. 16.
3 Fon W. Boardman, Jr., The Thirties: America and the Great Depression, New York, H. Z. Walck, 1967.
4 NYT, 1/27/32, “279 Kidnapped in 29 States, Survey for 1931 Discloses;” 3/3/32, “A New Crime;” 3/6/32, “Kidnapping: A Rising Menace to the Nation;” Hugh A. Fisher and Matthew F. McGuire, “Kidnapping and the So-Called Lindbergh Law,” New York University Law Quarterly Review, vol. 12, pp. 646–662, June 1935; and Horace L. Bomar, Jr., “The Lindbergh Law,” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 1, pp. 435–444, Oct. 1934.
5 It was public knowledge that Lindbergh had received $250,000 worth of stock when he had joined TAT.
6 Jim Fisher, op. cit.
7 Father of General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander-in-chief of the United States Desert Storm military operation.
8 Roger Cohen, and Claudio Gatti, In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991; interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf, 2/21/97.
9 Jim Fisher, op. cit. p. 20.
10 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 3/5/32, p. 231.
11 Jim Fisher, op. cit.
12 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 3/2/32, p. 226.
13 Ibid., p. 227.
14 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 25.
15 NYT, 3/2/32, “Japanese Routing Chinese in Fierce Shanghai Battle; Death Toll Exceeds 2000.”
16 Interview with Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 2/21/97.
17 Interview with Jim Fisher, 2/24/97.
18 NYT, 3/3/32, “100,000 in Manhunt.”
19 Commonweal, 3/16/32, “The Lindbergh Case.”
20 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 22.
21 Ibid., p. 23.
22 Jim Fisher, op. cit.
23 Ibid.
24 Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 24–25, 30.
25 Ibid., p. 24.
26 Wahgoosh was named after Charles’s childhood dog, also a fox terrier. It had been beaten to death with a crowbar by an envious and deranged neighbor. See A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh, New York: Putnam, 1998, p. 53.
27 FBI Summary Report, New York #62-3057, NJSPM. There are differing reports regarding Wahgoosh’s sleeping habits. Some say he slept in the servants’ quarters; others say he slept regularly outside the baby’s room.
28 Jim Fisher, op. cit. pp. 27–28.
29 See Note number 4.
30 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 28.
31 Ibid., p. 53.
32 The Christian Century, 3/16/32, “Behind the Empty Crib;” Commonweal, 3/16/32, “The Lindbergh Case,” and 4/13/32, “The Lindbergh Case;” Literary Digest, 3/26/32, “The Kidnapers’ Threat to American Homes.”
33 See note number 4.
34 NYT, 3/3/32, “Mother Meets Ordeal with Calm Fortitude.”
35 Ibid., “Diet Needed by Lindbergh Baby Listed by Mother for Captors.”
36 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 129.
37 Betty Gow, Statement, 3/3/32, to Lieut. John J. Sweeney, Capt. Patrick J. Brady, and Trooper L. J. Bornman, NJSPM.
38 Sidney B. Whipple, The Lindbergh Crime, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1935, p. 34.
39 Report by Edward J. Reilly concerning Marguerite and Johannes Junge, 12/18/34, File #590, “re: Hauptmann,” NJSPM.
40 Ibid.
41 NYT, 3/13/32, “Brex Exonerates Johnson.”
42 NYT, 3/11/32, “Lindbergh Search and Ransom Moves Fail on Ninth Day;” and Jim Fisher, op. cit., pp. 52–53.
43 NYT, 3/5/32, “Still No Trace of Baby.”
44 Jim Fisher, op. cit., p. 32.
45 NYT, 3/4/32, “World Waits Hopefully for News that the Lindbergh Baby Is Safe.”
46 Dudley Shoenfeld, The Crime and the Criminal: A Psychiatric Study of the Lindbergh Case, New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.
47 HGHL, AML letter to ELLL, 3/5/32, p. 230.