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Lindbergh / Hauptmann Trial Tokens

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Lindbergh / Hauptmann Trial Tokens
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This item SOLD at 2017 Oct 21 @ 10:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Two 1927 Lucky Lindbergh Coins "First Non-Stop Flight New York- Paris". White metal and copper. Two pennies an 1887 Indian Head penny, and a 1934 Lincoln Cent with the reverses stamped with "Hauptmann Trial / Flemington, NJ" and pictorial of the court house.
On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his home in Highfields, New Jersey. On May 12, his body was discovered nearby. In September 1934, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and, after a trial lasting from January 2 to February 13, 1935, found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. He professed his innocence to the end. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection." Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trials of the century".The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law," which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. City: Flemington State: New Jersey Date: HWAC# 50455