Old Smokey
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For other uses, see Old Smoky.
Old Smokey is a name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, which is currently on exhibit at the New Jersey State Police Museum. In the electric chair sits an effigy of Bruno Hauptmann, the man found guilty of abducting and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. in 1932, the 20-month-old son of famous aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (see Lindbergh kidnapping).
[edit] Executions
The chair was used in the execution of 159 men from 1907 to 1963.
