Above: interesting perspective and wonderful execution from artist Fred Irvin for Avon Publications’ 1957 paperback edition of Peter Cheyney’s 1944 novel Dark Street Murders, aka The Dark Street. Other sites have this cover as unattributed, but we’re sure it’s Irvin. His signature is dim, but visible. We grabbed one from another piece of his for confirmation.
1935—Jury Finds Hauptmann Guilty
A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. Hauptmann is sentenced to death and executed in 1936. For decades, his widow Anna, fights to have his named cleared, claiming that Hauptmann did not commit the crime, and was instead a victim of prosecutorial misconduct, but her claims are ultimately dismissed in 1984 after the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to address the case.