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ОглавлениеCast of Characters
LINDBERGH FAMILY
Paternal grandparents August and Louisa Lindbergh (names taken by Ola Mansson and his mistress Lovisa Jansdotter Carlen after leaving Sweden for America in 1859. They later married.)
Charles August (“C.A.”) Lindbergh, father of the aviator, born in Sweden. His birth name in Sweden was Karl August Mansson, the first of seven children of Ola Mansson and Lovisa Jansdotter
Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, second wife of C.A., mother of the aviator and daughter of Detroit, Michigan, dentist/inventor Dr. Charles Land and Evangeline Land
Eva Lindbergh Spaeth, daughter of C.A. Lindbergh and his first wife. Her older sister, Lillian, died in 1916
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, pioneering aviator and victim’s father
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife, navigator and co-pilot of the aviator, and victim’s mother
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., firstborn of Anne and Charles. Delivered at Englewood estate of Morrow family on June 22, 1930. The couple had five more children from 1932 to 1945:Jon, Land, Anne, Scott, and Reeve.
Lindbergh household staff in New Jersey:
Betty Gow, nanny, who lived mostly at the estate of Anne’s parents in Englewood, where the Lindberghs spent weekdays
Olly Whateley, chauffeur, butler and caretaker of the new Lindbergh farmhouse outside Hopewell, New Jersey
Elsie Whateley, Olly’s wife and the Lindbergh’s cook and housekeeper at the farmhouse
Family dogs: Wahgoosh, a white and black wire-haired terrier that lived with the Whateleys at the New Jersey farmhouse; Skean, a Scottish terrier that lived at the Morrow estate in Englewood and generally accompanied the family on weekends at their farmhouse
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FAMILY
Ambassador and Senator Dwight Morrow, Anne’s father
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Anne’s mother
Elisabeth Reeve (Morrow) Morgan, Anne’s older sister
Dwight Morrow, Jr., Anne’s brother
Constance (Morrow) Morgan, Anne’s younger sister
Morrow household staff of 29 included:
Septimus Banks, butler
Violet Sharp, parlor maid
BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY
Henry Breckinridge, close friend and legal/business advisor to Charles Lindbergh
Aida De Acosta Breckinridge, Henry’s second wife
Oren Root, Aida’s son by her first marriage
Alva Root, Aida’s daughter by her first marriage
NEW JERSEY STATE OFFICIALS
Gov. Harry Moore (1926–1929, 1932–1935 and 1938–1941)
Gov. Harold Hoffman (1935–1938)
Leon Hoage, investigator employed by Gov. Hoffman
NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE
Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Superintendent of the Agency
Lieutenant Lewis J. Bornmann
Captain John Lamb
Lieutenant Arthur Keaten
Trooper Frank Kelly, fingerprint expert
Trooper Joe Wolf
Sergeant Andrew Zapolsky
Jersey City detectives Harry Walsh and James Fitzgerald, assigned to assist the New Jersey State Police
KEY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FIGURES
Hopewell Police Chief Harry Wolfe and Constable Charles Williamson
Detective Ellis Parker
Oscar Bush, tracker
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI)
Elmer Irey, Internal Revenue Service executive who assisted in the Lindbergh ransom payment
Assistant Secretary of Labor Murray Garsson, who conducted his own investigation into the Lindbergh baby kidnapping
POLITICAL BOSSES AND MOB FIGURES
Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague
Owney Madden, a leading figure in New York’s underworld
GO-BETWEENS TO THE KIDNAP GANG
Mickey Rosner, Salvatore Spitale and racketeer Irving Bitz
John Hughes Curtis, Virginia shipping company owner
William “Wild Bill” Donovan, World War I hero and lawyer friend of Henry Breckinridge
John F. “Jafsie” Condon, retired Bronx school principal
OTHER POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
Isidor Fisch, fraudster and business partner of Hauptmann
Jacob Nosovitsky, spy and former federal agent
Arthur Hitner, con man with multiple aliases
Gaston Means, former federal agent
HAUPTMANN FAMILY
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prosecuted as the lone kidnap/murderer
Anna Hauptmann and their son
Manfred “Bubi” Hauptmann
KEY MURDER TRIAL PARTICIPANTS
Justice Thomas Trenchard on assignment from the New Jersey Supreme Court
Attorney General David Wilentz in his first criminal trial
County Prosecutor Tony Hauck, who prosecuted John Curtis in June 1932 and Hauptmann in 1935 for crimes related to the kidnapping
Federal Wood Expert Arthur Koehler
Hauptmann Lead Counsel Edward “Death House” Reilly
Co-Defense Counsel for Hauptmann C. Lloyd Fisher, who also defended John Curtis in 1932
Fingerprint Expert Dr. Erastus Mead Hudson
ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
Dr. Simon Flexner, First Director (1901–1935)
Dr. Alexis Carrel, Head of Experimental Surgical Research
Dr. Lillian Baker, serum production specialist
Dr. Albert Ebeling, tissue culture specialist
Dr. Raymond Parker, tissue culture specialist
Dr. Ralph Wyckoff, biophysics specialist and centrifuge expert
