Trace $50,000 To Hauptmann. The government today fulfilled its promise to trace nearly
$50,000 into the hands of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann- money which
it declares to be the proceeds from
the Lindbergh kidnaping.
While Hauptmann sat, uneasily,
trying to check some of these figures with Associate Defense Attorney Egbert Rosecrans, William
E. Frank, government auditor,
analyzed for the jury the banking
and brokerage accounts of the
prisoner, which showed that from
April 2, 1932, when the ransom
was paid, until the day of his arrest, last September, the Hauptmann family wealth increased by
$44,486.
This figure included money in
banks, securities held by brokers,
the nearly $15,000 in ransom currency found in Hauptmann's
garage, and the face value of a
mortgage.
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