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RETROSPECT OF
THE FIGHT:
IN the death house of the New 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 he 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 the minis of the prosecution, the jury that convicted him and the the Rustained higher court which verdiet?
was
Telegrams of congratulation from abroad arrived by the score at dressing room in New York of Mise "Mai-Mal" Sze. She had not only made her professional stage debut on Broadway in "Lady Precious 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 ent, and then up through Then there are three direct identifi- estah the mill again over miles of railroad cations which nuptmann, if he in In the first place, it lished that $14,000 in Lindbergh to a lumber yard in the Bronx, alto save his life, must persuade the ranson money was found hidden in most to the door of the carpenter, Court of Pardons are either mistakes One such was made by Dr. Hauptmann's garage. This money, who, the State charged, built it into or lies.
Bronx Lindbergh Condon, the retired the
school the prisoner told the jury, was left a indder to kulusp in his hands by Isadora Fisch-n man baby. He did all this, his testimony teacher whose advertisement In The could not speak in his own de- indicated, months before any one con- frour Home News, appealing for con- who
Hauptmann fence Icause he died before nected with the investigation knew tact with the kidnapper,
was alleged to have answered. Dr. Hauptmann's
arrest. Furthermore, of Hauptmann's existence.
Kachler told the jury that after Condon was an object of suspicion Hauptmann declared he received the money in a pasteboard box without Hauptmann's arrest he traced a rail after the baby's body was found, even Leing told that the contents were of this ladder straight from the attic amung people whom he had called hin
that for of Hauptmann's home. Ile
He said that hout him as the day of Hauptmann's that friends, and much has been written months he was not aware of the for-i plang ninrks on it had been made by death has approached. money of any sort
However, plane which
Hauptmann acknow tune he had in his grasp. Hauptmann himself does not deny he had the ledged was hia, and he showed the Colonel Henry Breckinridge, an
jury chisel marks which he said were perienced lawyer and Colonel Lind- made by a chisel of the same dimen-bergh's friend, who lived in the Con- sions as the one found beneath the don home for weeks and guided the nursery window on the morning after ransom negotiations step by step, testifled to his faith in Dr. Condon, the kidanpping.
money.
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He said he had enused to be re- corded every word of every interview Dr. Contion reported with "John," as the man who sent the ransom notes called himself, as soon as the elderly school teacher would return from his various trips; and he testified that Dr. Condon fufused, until Colonel Lindbergh ordered otherwise, to pay nat ransom money before baby, was returned.
the
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Then there is the question of what happened to the rest of the 60,000 dollars ransom, That matter. the State believes, was disposed of hy the testimony of Agents Frank
and
FINGERPRINT QUESTION · Wilson of the Department of Inter--
Some of those who doubt Haupt- nal Revenue, who spent months gmann's guill cite the testimony of ing over Hauptmann's accounts.
Dr. Erastus M. Hudson, who appear SUDDEN GAIN IN WEALTH ed for the defence. This New York
They testified that his
accounts physician, for years a student of fin- showed he had possessed only 203.00 gerprints, had been called into the dollars on April 2, 1982, the day the case by the State after its experts had Lindbergh ransom was paid, but that failed to develop fingerprints on the between that date and the time of inader. Dr. Hudson testified that, by
he employing his own method, the use Colonal Lindbergh, like Colonel his arrest in September, 1034, had handled large sums and had not of a ultrate of silver solution, he had Breckinridge, corroborated the Can worked at his carpenter trade.
found nearly 500 prints on the ladder, don testimony, and he finally aidesi During that period, they asserted, he whereas the
police
nd discovered his identification to that of Dr. Con- deposited about 17,000 dollars in bro only a few. indecipherable smudges.dou. kerage accounts (losing 5,728.83 Under. cross-examination, however, it LINDBERCH AND THE VOICE dollars on the aerkot) and 9.000 developed that Dr. Hudson found hin Colonel Lindbergh had sat there in dullars in savings accounts
and prints after scores of people includ- the dark, silent night, outside the hough a mortgage
ding the police, had handled the lad- Bronx cemetery and heard the volce 3,750 dollars.
These sums, added to the 14.600 It was also testified that Dr. Hud-of "John," a high-pitched, nervous 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 for highly polished surfaces, such as the man he believed was to return in his home, total 44,500 dollars with the finished woods and metals on the his child to him; and when he heard out including his living expenses for inside of the Lindbergh nursery and the veice of Hauptmann in the Bronx California and Canada, the expense found there, but none of them was back to that night when the voice
amounting
to
der.
ON
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ACROSS
1 Once speeded the parting guest,
two years, the cost of trips to Florida, the crib itself. Fingerprints were County Court House his memory went and even now is a definite end-
off.
of sending his wife-to-Europe twice, Hauptmann's Testimony-was placed had impressed itself on him. "That-6-After-John.-.-.- the cost of operating an automobile, on the record to show, however, that is the voice of the man I heard," he 9 is father hal hanged in the a 300 dollars cash outlay for a radio, it was probable that the kidnapper said, and be repeated it in the court land of Omar? or a loan of several thousand dollars wore gloves, that whoever had com- room at Flemington as he turned and 11 In the orchestra fifty aru gentle which he swore he made to Isadore mitted the crime had, as the ransom Bouked at nupimann's guilt havel 13 He can't stand 30 Down.
in manner. Finch.
letters stated, been making his plans for a long time--for "more than gear."
one mun
THE LADDER TESTIMONY Doubt has been cast on the ladder testimony, evidence that came as a surprise to the defendant as well as
vetern
Just
escapes
being
Hauptmann. Doubters In addition to the evidence offered
raised the objections that no one saw 13 County to make one glad. to prove that one mun collected and
the carpenter commit the murder. and 14 What we may call time, spent the ransom money, the prosecu In this connection Hauptmani ad- 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 been wilful, have ob- 20 "The spurns That patient-of
carried out
the criminal, a both
("Ham- burglar and jected to the first-degree penalty. the unworthy takes" kidnapping and the murder. It was second-story man, that he had com- Justles Trenchard, in his charge to argued that if Hauptmann had had mitted burglaries alone as this crime the jury, anifcipated that such ques-22 A colloquial adept. confederates in the abduction one of appeared to have been committedtions might arise in the minds of the 23 Worn key (ang.). then would have carried away the and that he was in the country by Jurymen, In charging them he said: 24 Did Jack and Jill ever attain, it ladder used in the kidnapping, which stealth, an escaped convict with a The crime of murder is not опе (hyphen 4 and 3). was to contribute so much to the sent
sentence still to serve in Germany, which is always committed in the 20 Stews 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. bo pounced upon by the police at the Trenchard reminded its members that you that if murder was committed 27 By Milton. very scene of the crime.
In judging the integrity of the defen- in perpetrating a burglary, it is mur 28 Bird thab dant they were permitted to consider der in the Erst degree."
sorry for something. 31 An important meeting ends with his history.
THEFT ESTABLISHED
a mark of recognition. HANDWRITING IDENTIFIED And the jury seemed to be satis-34 A great Englishman.
There has been little doubt cast on fled that Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. 36 Such a crowd is not necessarily to many of the police who worked the testimony of the handwriting ex- had met bis death because of the alow in the uptake. on the case itzelf. In May, 1032, long perts. Six specialists in the science act and during the act of some one's 30 Comes To Stay," before Hauptmann's arrest, Arthur service and the investigating bureaux broalding into and entering the Lind. 137 Halo. Kochler, wood technologist of the gathered from the South, and the bergh home and stealing. Among the 38 Stay like the remainder. 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 to Hopewell. He studied the ladder from New York, from government suit; this was returned under
and be a microscops and made many service and the investigating bureaus token that the
kidnapper pages of notes. Then he started out of a
a groat railroad, swort on the wit- trusted in the negotiations, 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 ran
ransom notes also Colonel Lindbergh Hauptmann. wood used in the ladder through the wrote out Hauptmann'e automobile This is some of the evidence that greatest lumber-producing country in licence application, his checks and his the Jory in Flemington accepted in the world from the Lindbergh home notes, as well as the specimen writ. convicting Hauptmann. The record at Hopewell to the mill where the Ings the prisgner jotted down for the fills 2,500 pages. The exhibits fill a wood was drèszed, back to the forestpolice,
Inrge room.
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