9" x 15", "The Dartmouth Extra" Thursday, May 12, 1932. Extremely rare broadside extra, possibly from New Hampshire, announcing the Lindbergh Baby had been found dead. The baby was kidnapped from the home of Charles and Ann Lindbergh on March 1 by Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He was convicted and subsequently executed by the electric chair on April 3, 1936. The broadside goes into detail regarding William Allen finding the body, in part: "According to the latest bulletin announced over the radio, William Allen, driving a truck along the highway this afternoon near the Lindbergh estate, stopped to talk to a colored man walking along the road. While talking they noticed a small skeleton half-covered with leaves lying just off the highway. On investigation they found a shirt and band around the body. The skull had a hole about the size of a quarter high on the forehead." The country sat on the edge of their seat over a nearly 2 week search and investigation, hoping for good news. As a note, Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, Sr. of the New Jersey State Police lead the investigation. His son, Norman Schwartzkopf, Jr. went on to lead the military forces during Desert Storm in 1991.

This is the first example we believe to appear at auction.

Edge roughness at right edge, otherwise excellent.