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March 31, 1936


Last Letter from Bruno Hauptmann to Gov. Harold G. Hoffman

Your Excellence:

My writing is not for fear of losing my life, this is in the hands of God, it is His will.  I will go gladly, it means the end of my tremendous suffering.  Only in thinking of my wife and my little boy, that is breaking my heart.  I know until this terrible crime is solvet, they will have to suffer unter the weight of my unfair conviction.

I beg you, Attorney General, believe at least a dying man.  Please investigate, because the case is not solvet, it only adds another death to the Lindbergh case.

I thank your Excellence, from the bottom of my heart, and may God bless you,

Respectfully,

Bruno Richard Hauptmann