The Nation - News from Oct. 24, 1985
A tearful Anna Hauptmann said in Trenton, N.J., that recently discovered documents prove New Jersey killed an innocent man when it executed her husband in 1936 for the 1932 kidnaping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the famous aviator’s infant son. “He was framed,” Hauptmann, 86, said of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. “The case was built on lies only. All I want now is that his name should be cleared.” State investigators say the documents, which were found in the garage of former Gov. Harold Hoffman, show the case was solved correctly. Hoffman, who died in 1954, had borrowed the documents and failed to return them.
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