..." Charles Lindbergh was on the R.O.T.C. pistol team at the University of Wisconsin during his short academic career, and at some point, prior to the Kidnapping Trial in 1935, acquired a .38 “Fitz” Detective Special from chief Colt designer J. Henry FitzGerald.
It was one of fifty custom models given by the Hartford manufacturer to famous people and had a two-inch barrel, cut-away trigger guard, and a bobbed hammer.
When Lindbergh fled to England in late December 1935, he gave it up to a friend in the U.S. (because of strict British anti-gun laws) and it was eventually sold - in 1982 - by Christie's auction house for $17,000.
According to Lindbergh's Autobiography of Values, he carried the gun everywhere during the Trial - in a shoulder holster and fully licensed - because of threats against his family, except perhaps on the day he was questioned about being armed by Hauptmann attorney Edward Reilly. "...
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