Portal:Baldwin Robbery
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The Baldwin Robbery occurred in Newark, New Jersey in 1865. The company was owned by Wickliffe Erastus Baldwin (1817-1871). Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921) and Louis Julius Lindauer (1842-1915) were charged with stealing $9,000 in jewelry from the company. At trial Louis Julius Lindauer was identified by employees as casing the jewelry factory two days earlier. Both were acquitted at trial by having multiple people claim that the two were in Manhattan at the time of the robbery, a tactic used on multiple occasions. $9,000 in 1865 is worth about $160,000 in 2019.
News articles
[edit]- The Baldwin Jewelry Robbery (1866 January 24) Newark Daily Advertiser
- "The examination into the case of Charles and Lewis Lindauer, on a charge of implication in the above robbery, which has been in progress before Justice Sandford for the past two days, terminated last evening. The Justice considered the evidence sufficiently conclusive to hold the parties for the action of the Grand Jury, and therefore committed them in full, in default of bail. Much Interest has been manifested in this case, both by our own citizens and a large number of the friends of the accused from New York. The New Yorkers appeared quite chap-fallen at the decision of the Justice to hold them, and we understand that efforts are to be made by the friends to procure the necessary bail."
- The $9,000 Jewelry Robbery (1866 January 23) The New York Times
- "Yesterday afternoon Charles and Lewis Lindauer, recently arrested in New-York on a charge of being implicated in the robbery of $9,000 worth of jewelry from the safe of Baldwin Co., at Newark, on the night of the 9th of December, were taken before Justice Sandford for examination"
- The Baldwin Robbery (1866 January 23) Newark Daily Advertiser
- "Lewis Lindauer, the brother of Charles, being examined; said that the first time he was in this city before his arrest was on the 5th of December, and that he was not in the jewelry establishment of Messrs. Baldwin & Co., a few mornings previous to the robbery."
- The Nine Thousand Dollar Jewelry Robbery At Newark, N.J. (1866 January 23) New York Herald
- "Yesterday afternoon Charles and Lewis Lindauer, recently arrested in New York on a charge of being implicated in the robbery of $9,000 worth of jewelry from the safe of Baldwin & Co., at Newark, on the night of the 9th of December, were taken before Justice Sandford for examination. Charles Lindauer being sworn made general denial of any connection with the robbery. He stated that he was not at the establishment of Messrs. Baldwin & Co. on the morning eight days previous to the robbery, when it is alleged that he visited the place with his cousin Louis and inquired in relation to a diamond; and further, that on the night of the robbery be was in various places in Broadway, above Grand street, New York. The examination was not concluded at six P.M. There were quite a number of witnesses present from New York, by whom the defendants proposed to prove an alibi."
- The $9,000 Jewelry Robbery (1866 January 1) New York Tribune
- "The examination in the case of Charles and Lewis Lindauer, of New-York, on the charge of being implicated in the robbery of $9,000 worth of jewelry from the manufactory of Baldwin & Co., of Newark, was concluded before Justice Sanford yesterday. The Justice considered the evidence sufficiently conclusive to warrant the holding of the parties for the action of the Grand Jury, and therefore committed them in default of bail."