CRIME: Thirteen

Last week newshawks and amateur numerologists had fun with these numbers:

1) At 9:13 p.m. on March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh, unaware that his small son was being kidnapped, heard what might have been a ladder falling outside his Hopewell, N. J. home.

2) On March 13, 1932 Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon made his first contact with the kidnapper.

3) Directly in front of seat No. 13 (occupied by a newshawk) Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for his life at Flemington before Justice Trenchard.

4) At 11:13 a.m., the jury left...

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