With Dr. Carrel, he began work on a blood pump for an artificial heart, called a perfusion pump. But they didnt get the wanted results so the project was kind of dropped. Then on March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus, Jr., their twenty-month-old son, was kidnapped. Charles went in to check on the baby but found him not there, when Anne entered the room he told her Anne theyve stolen our baby. He then found a ransom note on the windowsill. Written in pencil, the note read: Dear Sir! Have 50,000 $ redy 25,000 $ in 20 $ bills 1,5000 $ in 10 $ bills and 10000 $ in 5 $ bills. After 2-4 days we will inform you were to deliver the Mony. We warn you for making Anyding public or for notify the Police The child is in gute care. Indication of all letters are Singnature And 3 holds. (The holds were two circles linked together, with an oval within them.)But ten weeks later, on May 12, 1932, a truck driver found the childs body. They concluded that the baby had died from an accidental blow to the head as the kidnapper was exiting the window of the house. They wouldnt find the killer/kidnapper for another two years. Finally, in September of 1934, a carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the murder and kidnapping of the baby. The trial began on January 2, 1935, in the Hunterdon County courthouse. It was label The Crime of the Century. Hauptmann of course was found guilty of the crime and was sent to the electric chair at Trenton State Prison on April 2, 1936.On August 16, 1932 the Lindberghs finally had some joy in their lives. Anne gave birth to their second son and they named him Jon. After the kidnapping in 1932 the pestering media and publicity was...
