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1 Leigh Matteson, Science Says the Lindbergh Baby Was Killed in Cold Blood 14 (1936)

handle is hein.death/scslbic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~SCJENCE SAYS The Lindbergh Baby The Amazing' Story of How a y' h ndaNewYorkNewspape~Mafl S ved' lAos of the Mysteries in the C~e T~ro Years Before Hauptmann Was Qaught t'n ul had psychiatrist is withheld. It is, hovevey, knpw to Liberty and to the authorities as that of a map, who reputation as a leader of his profession is unixapeachahic. TN New York City there lives a short, slightly pudgy I man with large eye.s, gentle mannex~ ml a tend nay to cackle delightedly wh ne 'er I m k an a sit Qb~ servation-and he makes man of t m T in in n knew more about the character, personabty, and ha it a the murderer of Charles A. Li~dbexgih, Jy., back in the pring of 19~l2, than most of the rest of the wo I no ~ 'o ag. Tb rty-one days before the baby's body x as found he told me that the perpetrator of the c me et kid- naped the child but a mu derxgi ~ him. And he had Ten days of e th ody was found, be told m that th murderer lived in a rta' tion of the Borough of th Bro a. And he did. The s mom no and (riti'h) Repeatedly, h a fter he old iheladde e nu so ywndo me that the murd. em ~nt ty * I j could be estabu ed. almost t ~ once-instead of way as was actually d( ne-by exam ining the oper tors ii ens appi PyADiNG 'nsm~ 'a MINuTEs a SECONDS cations on file 'a th h t ean o Motor Vehicle And it con have been. Fn on Noun' From March 1, More than one. h t hectic ThiS wh 'n th L' idberg'h baby spring be told m tit t the mur~ disat p. a .d Mr Matteson, as derer was insane. And it qugh science ediLor of an important news agency, followed every he was not called to testify at the trtal 'a Fl m'i gton phase of the case up to and through the trial at Flemington. it is becoming increasingly obvious that he was right Very early in the investigation, in association with one of about this. America's lending' psychiatrists, he reached the conclusion Once he told me that he believed the murderer to bc a that the crime had bean coannitted by an automobile owner, homosexual pervert. And- living in a certain section of the Bronx, whose identity could But I am getting ahead of my story. I first consulted readily be established by an examination of applications this man, whom we will call Dr. X, forty-one days after from motorists for operating licenses, the baby disappeared and thirty-one days before the body Although professing every respect for Lieutenant James was found. Dr. X is a vary famous psychiatrist, lilly ptir.- J. Finn, Mr. Matteson insists that the authorities in general pose in going to him was to obtain, i p . e e~pert should have given more weight to his theory than they did, corroboration of a theory which I had form 'I t e morn- and that if they had, the culprit would have been appre- ing after the ermie. bonded two full years before he actually was. That theory was that the baby had been strangled hi In psesenting his reasons for this belief, Mr. Matteson his crib by a lone man who h d ne 'er meant to kidlnvp discloses hitherto unpublished evidence which was not used the child but merely to pretend that he bad dope pa. at the trial of Bruno Richard l2iauptmann, also a startling The psychiatrist agreed with ma absolutely in thip, new version of the relations between Hauptmann and Isidor conclusion; and from that time u nt I t in' op. and finally an explanation of the crime, which, if it trial we stayed in close association in on 'no o t d been proved in court, would automatically have saved Lindbergh case-so close, indeed, that it 'a inapt ha- ilauptmann from sentence to the chair, possible even for me to he sure just where his bypotbeti- Tn order to preclude ~offending against the. strlet code of cal concepts ended and my practical applications b~an~ critics governing the medical profession, the name of the dis- The important point is that between us, a littig more 14 IL

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