The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax
Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann
Directory
Books
Search
Home
Forum
Transcript
Sources
Lindbergh
Kidnapping Hoax Forum
Ronelle Delmont's
Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax
You Tube Channel
The
State of NJ v. Bruno Richard Hauptmann: FAIRNESS ON TRIAL
Anna Schoeffler married Richard Hauptmann in 1925, two years before The Lone Eagle's historic flight and seven years before the disappearance of the aviator's son. She was introduced to him by a friend, Lena Aldinger.
Police quickly agreed that Anna had nothing to do with the crime. But, the police believed she was naive in accepting her husband's story.
Anna's testimony completely backed up her husband's story .
When told that March 1 was a Tuesday, she said Richard had been with her at
Fredericksen's Bakery, (owned by Katie and Christian Fredericksen) where she worked every Tuesday evening.
She always worked late on Tuesdays and Richard (no one ever called him Bruno) usually met her there to take her home.
On April 2, the evening of the
ransom drop-off in the
Bronx cemetery, she had been with Richard and Hans Kloeppenburg for their
"musical evening."
On November 26, 1933, the day a ticket taker, Cecile Barr, claimed that Hauptmann had purchased a ticket from her
in a Greenwhich Village, Loewe's movie house
with a ransom bill , Anna said it was her husband's birthday and that she always threw a little birthday party for him.
How could he have been in a Greenwhich Village movie house if he was attending his own birthday party?
Anna strongly believed in her husband's innocence until her death in October of 1994.
She and her attorney, Robert Bryan of San Francisco, made numerous
appeals to
reopen her husband's case.
Finally in defeat, she was advised by New Jersey Gov. James Florio that history would have to judge whether Richard had been framed by the NJ Police in 1935.
Although she had been unable to help her husband escape the death penalty, she devoted the rest of her life claiming his innocence. In an interview in 1981, she said,
"...Some of them - they know they were lying. They knew they were lying."
She died on October 10, 1994......waiting for "history"!
PHILADELPHIA
- Anna Hauptmann, the widow of the man executed for the kidnaping and
murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's infant son, has died.
Her
death Oct. 10 in New Holland, Pa., was reported this week by the
Lancaster
New Era newspaper, a nearby neighborhood publication.
She
insisted for more than 60 years that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was
innocent.
She had spent much of her life trying in vain to clear her husband of
what was called the Crime of the Century: the 1932 killing of the
Hauptmann,
a German immigrant carpenter, was accused of kidnapping the
Lindbergh boy from his nursery in Hopewell, N.J. He denied it, and his
"God knows that my husband was innocent,"
she
said in 1986 in one of
1994/ The Times Mirror Company
Anna Hauptmann Quote
submitted by Michael Melsky on the LKH Forum
From "Proclaimed His
Innocence" by Robert Bryan:
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the 94 year-old widow of Richard Hauptmann, said to me this
afternoon:
"My Richard was not involved in what happened to that poor little Lindbergh
child in New Jersey. Richard and I were together that night in New York. We did
not know about the kidnapping until the next day. People must not forget that my
Richard was innocent. They know in New Jersey that he was innocent.
I just re-read again Richard's last letter to me written just before he died. He
begged for the truth. And they did such terrible things to him in that prison. I
know he is with God. All these 57 years has not been living. I pray to God. The
most important thing is that God knows the truth. I beg Gov. Jim Florio to do
the right thing, and clear Richard's name. I want to die knowing that the truth
was finally recognized."
![[ACLU Execution Watch
Counter]](http://www.aclu.org/graphics/dpcounter.gif)
Obituary
of Anna Hauptmann