Bruno's Motive One Of Revenge. The
New York Daily News, in a dispatch
from Flemington, N. J., says tonight
that Bruno Hauptmann's motive for
allegedly selecting the Lindbergh baby
as a kidnaping victim was resentment
at the bringing down of Baron Manfred van Richthofen, German war ace,
by the allies.
The Daily News gives as authority
for this theory an unnamed psychiatrist who, it Is stated, accurately
analyzed the psychological characteristics of the kidnaper more than two
years ago.
Hauptmann's "fixation" is further
attested, the account said, by his selection of the name "Mannfred," similar to Richthofen's first name, for his
own child.
Von Richthofen's death in the
World war inflicted a "mental wound,"
says the story, which could only be
compensated for by injuring Lindbergh, the American air hero.
Of the earlier psychiatric analysis
of the kidnaper, from many fragments
of evidence obtained following the
crime, the Daily News said it was
thus determined that the individual
sought possessed a highly developed
inferiority complex which expressed
itself in revolt against constituted authority.
In addition, it was said, service in
the German army indicated that the
man would be proof against "bullying
tactics," so that months before any
arrest the psychiatrists prescribed
"babying" as the best way of obtaining the truth from him.
This method was used in Hauptmann's case, the article says, so that
authorities regard lightly charges that
he was beaten in a New York police
station.