Post by Sue on Jun 16, 2020 21:37:55 GMT -5
Baron Wolff von Todenwarth, better known as Dr. Dathe, was a suspect in the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1933.
Dathe's fingerprints and writing samples were sent to New Jersey.
Dathe denied any involvement in the Lindbergh case, but then admitted he lived in East Orange, New Jersey for a time. An uncle, Henry Mayer also lived in East Orange.
I dont know whether to start with Irving Dathe's 1924 story or his 1933 story when he is known as Dr. William Dathe.
In 1924, Dathe put an advertisement in a Manhattan newspaper for any woman to give up full surrender of her baby. Agnes Mack answered the call. Dathe was deported back to Germany in 1924.
Here is the August 25, 1924 newspaper account from the Brooklyn Eagle:
www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=41156785&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU3NTYyMDAzLCJpYXQiOjE1OTIzNTc0NDAsImV4cCI6MTU5MjQ0Mzg0MH0.Or_rQ9iCkUB9nAsXtF7lljQQsmU9KULlOOJn53bL-jc
The 1933 story is a confusing mess. Dathe is back in the United States with a 6-year-old girl named Hedwig Dathe. I don't know if little Hedwig is his real daughter or a baby he says he found at a New York depot or a child that was given to him in a divorce settlement or his biological daughter from a married woman in Germany.
Bottom line, is Dr. Dathe the author of the confession written on the table brace?
Dathe was the son of Baroness Reichsperin Victorine Wolff Von Zee Und Tedenmarch of Hamburg.
Though the German Sailor's Song was written many years before, could Dathe have identified closely with the tune and were the words to that song the inspiration for the confession?
"In Hamburg I used to be dressed in velvet and silk..."
Dathe's fingerprints and writing samples were sent to New Jersey.
Dathe denied any involvement in the Lindbergh case, but then admitted he lived in East Orange, New Jersey for a time. An uncle, Henry Mayer also lived in East Orange.
I dont know whether to start with Irving Dathe's 1924 story or his 1933 story when he is known as Dr. William Dathe.
In 1924, Dathe put an advertisement in a Manhattan newspaper for any woman to give up full surrender of her baby. Agnes Mack answered the call. Dathe was deported back to Germany in 1924.
Here is the August 25, 1924 newspaper account from the Brooklyn Eagle:
www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=41156785&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU3NTYyMDAzLCJpYXQiOjE1OTIzNTc0NDAsImV4cCI6MTU5MjQ0Mzg0MH0.Or_rQ9iCkUB9nAsXtF7lljQQsmU9KULlOOJn53bL-jc
The 1933 story is a confusing mess. Dathe is back in the United States with a 6-year-old girl named Hedwig Dathe. I don't know if little Hedwig is his real daughter or a baby he says he found at a New York depot or a child that was given to him in a divorce settlement or his biological daughter from a married woman in Germany.
Bottom line, is Dr. Dathe the author of the confession written on the table brace?
Dathe was the son of Baroness Reichsperin Victorine Wolff Von Zee Und Tedenmarch of Hamburg.
Though the German Sailor's Song was written many years before, could Dathe have identified closely with the tune and were the words to that song the inspiration for the confession?
"In Hamburg I used to be dressed in velvet and silk..."