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TN the death house of the Now Jersey State Prison at Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is facing the last days in his fight to escape the electric chair.
Within the next few days ho will be electrocuted.
The German carpenter, con- victed and sentenced last Febru- ary for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., has only until March 31 in which to live.
What is some of the evidence which weighed so heavily against Haupt- mann in the minds of the prosecution, the jury that convicted him and the sustained the higher court which verdict?
Telegrams of congratulation from abroad arrived by the score at dressing room in New York of Miss "Mai-Mal" Sze. She had not only made her professional stage debut on Broadway in "Lady Procious Stream:" she had broken the tradition of her country by acting with permission of her father. Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador to the United States..
where it was cut and then up through
Then there are three direct identif
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In the first place, it was eatab the mill again over miles of railroad cations which Hauptmann, if he lished that $14,000 in Lindbergh to a lumber yard in the Bronx, alto save his life, must persuade the, ransom money was found hidden in most to the door of the carpenter, Court of Pardona are either mistakes One such was made by Dr. Hauptmann's garage. This money, who, the State charged, built it into or lles.
Bronx school the prisoner told the jury, was left a ladder to kidnap the Lindbergh Condon, the retired
his tealimony! teacher whose advertisement in The who could not speak in his own de-indicated, months before any, one con" toot with the kidnapper, Hauptmann in his hands by Indore Fischa man baby. He did all this,
Drone Home News, appealing for con fence Беспило he died before nected with the investigation know tact
arrest. Furthermore, of
was alleged Hauptmann's
to have answered. Dr. Katman's existence.
told the Hauptmann declared he received the
that after Condon was an object of suspicion jury money in a pasteboard box without Hauptmann's arrest he traced a rail after the baby's body was found, even being told that the contents were of this ladder straight from the nttle among people whom he had called his
and that for of Hauptmann's home. Ile said that friends, and much has been mancy of any sort months be was not aware of the for-plane marks on it had been made by about him as the day of tune he had in his grasp. Hauptmann plano which Hauptmann acknow death has approached. himself does not deny he had the ledged was his, and he showed the Colonel Henry Breckinridge, an ex-
jury chisel marks which he said were periopeed (awyer and Colonel Lind
friend, who lived in the Con- Then there is the question of what made by a chisel of the same dimen-ergh happened to the rest of the 50,000 sions as the one found beneath the don home for weeks and guided the dollars ransom. That matter, the nursery window on the morning after ransom negotiations step by step, State believes, was disposed of by the the kidnapping. testimony of Agents Frank and FINGERPRINT QUESTION Wilson of the Department of Inter-
money.
Some of those who doubt Haupt- nal Revenue, who spent months go-mann's guilt cite the testimony of ing over Hauptmann's accounts.
SUDDEN GAIN IN WEALTH
Dr. Erastus M. Hudson, who appear
testified to his faith in Dr. Condon. He said he had caused to be re- corded every word of every interview Dr. Condon reported with "John," as the man who sent the ransom notes called himself, as soon as the elderly
ed for the defence. This New York school teacher would return from his
They testified that his accounts physician, for years a student of fin- various trips; and he testify that showed he had posatased only 203.80 gerprints, had been called into the Dr. Conden refused, until Colonel dollars on April 2, 1932, the day the case by the Stato after its experts had Lindbergh urdered otherwise, to pay the Lindbergh ranson was paid, but that falled to develop Angerprints on the cut the ransom money before between that date and the timo of ladder. Dr. Hudson testified that by baby, was returned.
bought a mortgage
3,750 dollars.
Amounting
or a lean of several thousand dollars wore gloves, that whoever had com-room at p it in the court
veteran burglar
been
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1.Once speeded the parting guest, and even now is a definite send- -off.
6 After John.
("Ham-
in September, 1934, he employing
Colonel Lindbergh, like Colonel hnd handled large sums and had not of a nitrato of silver solution, he had Breckinridge, corroborated the Co- worked at his carpenter
trade. found nearly 600 prints on the ladder, don testimony, and he finally added During that period, they asserted, he whereas the pollee
lice had discovered his identification to that of Dr. Con- deposited about 17,000 dollars in bro- only a fow indecipherable smudges. dan. kerage accounts (losing 6.728.83 Under cross-examination, however, it
LINDBERGH AND THE VOICE dollars on the market) and 0.000 developed that Dr, Hudson found his Colonel Lindbergh had sat there in dollars in savings necounts and prints after scores of people Includ- the dark, allent night, outside the toding the police, had handled the lad-Bronx cemetery and heard the voice
der.
of "John," high-pitched, nervous These suma, added to the 14,600) It was also testified that Dr. Hud- dollars of Lindbergh bills in his garson's method did not work on paint voice calling "Doc-tor" with a Ger
man accent. That was the voice of age and 120 dollars in gold coin found or highly polished surfaces, such as the man he believed was to return in his home, total 44,600 dollars with the finished woods and metals on the his child to him; and when he heard out including hla living expenses for inside of the Lindbergh nursery and the voice of Hauptmann in the Bronx two years, the cast of trips to Florida, the crib itself. Fingerpriata were County Court House his California and Canada, the expere found there, but none of them was back to that sight When the volce of sending his wife to Europe twice, linuptmann's. Testimony was placed had impressed
itself on him. "That the cost of operating an automobile, on the record to show, however, that is the voice of the man I leard," he Is father half hanged in the a 300 dollars cash outlay for a radio, it was probable that the kidnapper said, and be
land of Omar?. as he turned and 11 In the orchestra fifty are gentle which he swore he made to Isadore mitted the crime had, na the ransom looked at Ilauptmann.
in manner. Fisch.
letters stated, been making his plans Daubters of Hauptmann's guilt have 12 He can't stand 30 Down. In addition to the evidence offered for a long time-for "more than
a raised the objections that no one saw 13 County to make one glad. to prove that one man collected and year." apent the ransom money, the prosecu In this connection Hauptmann ad the carpenter commit the murder, and 14 What we may call time.
others, who think that the murder 17 Nearly not quite betimes. tion offered testimony to show that mitted that he was an experienced may not have one man carried
both the criminal, & out
and jeeted to
unworthy takes" penalty. in his charge to let"). argucil that if Hauptmann had had mitted burglaries alone as this crime the jury, anticipated that such ques-22 A colloquial adept. confederates in the abduction one of appeared to have been committed-tions might arise in the minds of the 28 Worn key (anag). them would have carried away the and that he was in the country by
are cria charging them he said: 24 Did Jack and Jill ever attain it
Jurymen, in Indder used in the kidnapping, which stealth, an escaped convict with
(hyphen 4 and 3), was to contributo se much to the sentence still to serve in Germany, which is always committed in the 26 Stows an Abyssinian concealing Stato's case, instead of leaving it to In his charge to the jury, Justice presence of witnesses" and "I charge a rich man's complaint. be pounced upon by the police at the Trenchard reminded its members that you that if murder Was committed 27 By Milton. very sceno of the crime.
in judging the integrity of the defen-in perpetrating a burglary it la mur 28 Bird that just escapes being THE LADDER TESTIMONY dant they were permitted to consider der in the first degree." Doubt has been cast on the ladder his history.
THEFT ESTABLISHED testimony, evidence that came as a HANDWRITING IDENTIFIED
And the jury netined to be satis surprise to the defendant as well as There has been little doubt cast on fled that Charles A. Lindbergh Jr35 Such
A great Englishman. to many of the police who worked the testimony of the handwriting ex- bad met his death because of the slow in the uptake, on the case itself. In May, 1982, long ports. Six specialists in the selenes act and during the act of some one's 36 "Comes To Stay" before Hauptmann's arrest, Arthur service and the investigating bureaux breaking into and entering the Lind- Koehler, wood technologist United States Forestry Service, went North, from the Pacific Coast and items stolen was the baby's sleeping 30 It's not nice to be taken for one
of the gathered from the South, and the bergh home and stealing. Among 37 Hale,
88. Stay ke the remainder. to Hopewell. He studied the ladder from New York, from
suit; this was returned latonbe com government token that the kidnapper a microscope and made many service and the investigating bureau trusted in the negotiations, by the under pages of notes. Then he started out of a great railroad, awore on the wit- to hunt down its history.
ness stand that in their opinion the man identified by Dr. Condon and Koehler traced sections of the man who, wrote the ransom notes also Colonel Lindbergh as Hauptmann. wood used in the ladder through the wrote out Hauptmann's automobile This is some of the evidence that greatest lumber pro Lindbergh Home notos, as well as the specimen writ convicting Hauptmann. The record country in licence application, his checks and his the jury in Flemington accepted in at Hopewell to the mill where the Ings the prisoner Jotted down for the alle 2,500 pages. The exhibits fill a wood was dressed, back to the forest. police.
large room.
kidnapping and the murder. It was second-story man, that he and com- Justico Trenchar, havo ob- 20 "The spurns That patient-of
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