Where is the electric chair "Old Smokey" which was used to execute the notorious murderer Richard Hauptmann now on display?
Old Smokey Old Smokey is a euphemistic name given to the state prison electric chair in New Jersey, which is on display at the New Jersey State Police Museum. The chair's most notorious victim was Richard Hauptmann, the man executed in the chair after being 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)".
Joseph Ernst Joseph R. Ernst (d. July 31, 1962) was a convicted murderer who was executed at the New Jersey State Prison electric chair on July 31, 1962. He was the 159th convict to be executed in the New Jersey electric chair since 1907.