Goodspeed Histories: The Story of Little Jim
With all the controversy over the possible demolition of the Union Hotel in Flemington, there has been a revival of interest in “The Trial of the Century,” when Bruno Hauptman was tried for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby in 1932. But there was another “Trial of the Century” in Hunterdon County more than 100 years earlier, held in May 1828, when a 12-year-old boy was convicted of the murder of a 60-year-old woman.
This is the story of that murder and of the trial and appeal that followed. Most depictions of this event tell us very little about the people involved. I needed to know more about them. In the process I found the story even more interesting and disturbing than I first thought. Read PART I HERE…