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(Tuesday, March 1, 1932, between 8:00-10:00 p.m. EST; during the Lindbergh kidnapping) — Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh, pilot of the world’s first non-stop transatlantic flight, was abducted tonight from the crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs’ home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, about 13 miles northwest of Princeton.

At approximately 10:00 p.m., the Lindberghs’ nurse, Betty Gow, found that the baby was not with his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who had just come out of the bathtub. Gow then alerted Charles Lindbergh, who immediately went to the child’s room, where he found a ransom note, containing bad handwriting and grammar, in an envelope on the windowsill.

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Taking a gun, Lindbergh went around the house and grounds with family butler, Olly Whateley; they found impressions in the ground under the window of the baby’s room, pieces of a cleverly designed wooden ladder, and a baby’s blanket.

Whateley telephoned the Hopewell police department while Lindbergh contacted his attorney and friend, Henry Breckinridge, and the New Jersey state police.