The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1936, Page 1

(Léte.] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS . Hauptmann Dies in Chair With . Mask of Mystery on His Face COUNTRY LAWYER I ONLY ONE OF BRUNO'S AIDES 70 KEEP VIGIL Fisher Laughs Hysterically as Last Hope for Saving Client Is Dashed CRUSHES CUP IN DESPAIR Little Lawyer from Flemington Leaves Prison Still Think- ing Bruno Innocent Trenton, N. J., April 4—()—The minute hand of the clock had edged Past 8—the hour set for Bruno Haupt- mann’s death. Two men still stood tensely beside @ telephone in the main prison cor- ridor Friday night. The broad man of military physique was Col. Mark O. Kimberling, prin- cipal warden at State prison. The slight nervous figured with stooped shoulders was C. Lloyd Fisher, the man who fought for Hauptmann to the bitter end. Those ‘phone calls were the last desperate gamble to save Haupt- mann’s life. Fisher turned to get a drink at a water cooler. As he filled his cup, Kimberling took the telephone, listened carefully then said something to the chief de- fense counsel. His words strangled the last feeble hope. Convulsively Crushes Cup The paper cup of ice water crushed in Fisher's grip and he flung it de- spairingly against the wall with a hysterical laugh and disappeared into an adjoining room. ‘The little lawyed from Flemington was admitting defeat for the first time. That was 8:13. Hauptmann was dead 25 minutes later, Tt was some time after the electro- cution before Fisher- was composed Hot Quarrel Has J Still Hotter End 8t. Louis, April 4—()—August Bova, 30, a chauffeur, and his had s wordy to feed their words grew and body. HOUSE TAX EXPERTS HOPE TO PASS PLAN NN NEXT FORTNIGHT $799,000,000 Program Prob- ably Will Be Turned Over to Solons on Tuesday Washington, April 4.—() — House tax experts set out Friday to drive their new revenue program the chamber within a fortnight. Assembling for what was scheduled over to the legislative drafters day. “We ought to have the bill before from im enough to leave the prison. As he|‘Doe stepped out of the heavy barred door, his face was tired and his eyes shin- ing wet. Someone flung a consoling arm over his shoulders. “Too bad, Lloyd.” Fisher shook his head wearily. Fisher’s voice was husky. “I can't talk.” Hear Him Mumble He went down a few steps. Those closest to him hardly heard him when he said bitterly: “All I can say is that this thing ts the greatest tragedy in the history of the state. Time will never wipe it out.” “ Of all the lawyers to be associated with Hauptmann’s defense since the September day in 1934 when the Bronx carpenter was arrested, Fisher, the country lawyer, was the only one to keep the last vigil. Lloyd Fisher never believed Haupt- mann was guilty. “He’s an innocent man,” he said so often. “I know it. He's innocent.” VERA STRETZ FREED OF SLAYING DOCTOR f= New York Jury Acquits Ameri- ican Girl of Murder of Ger- man Trade Promoter program. RAHAM INSTALLED AS RULER OF ELKS} sz Memorial Service Conducted for Late Publisher of The Bis- marck Tribune John A. Graham, newly elected ex- alted ruler of the Bismarck Elks lodge, and other chair officers were ‘in- stalled Friday night at an impressive ceremony with L, K. Thompson, for- mer district deputy, officiating. Gra- ham succeeds James W. Guthrie. Other officers installed included H. M. Leonhard, leading knight; E. O: New York, April 4—()—Lske alin thelr trom person just awakened the hor- rors of a nightmare, Vera Strets— jury returned the verdict Friday night | !2th. which set the 32-year-old defendant At the words, “not guilty,” Miss Strets collapsed. She had been on trial for two weeks concern, and was the father two chile The young woman pleaded that she shot him to protect herself from a threatened unnatural assault after he, pretending sickness, had lured her to his expensive tower apartment and attacked her last Nov. 12, president. H. T. vice president and was named C. N. Muir, secre- tary. Thirty-seven were listed. AMY ABANDONS SHIP Colomb-Bechar, Morocco, April 4. —(?)—Mrs. Amy Mollison Johnson Saturday abandoned her attempt to set @ new flight from England to capetown, following the crackup of her monoplane in an attempted take- off from the local landing field. LATE PLANTING FOR NORTHWEST CERTAIN AS COLD CONTINUES Subnormal Temperatures Fore- cast for Coming Week by Weather Bureau DUST HITS COLORADO A Roberts. Anticipates from One to Two Weeks Delay in State Seeding A 10-day to two-week late planting season was in prospect for North Da- kota and the Northwest Saturday, as the cold weather lingered and snow fell at several points, ‘Weather and crop experts generally concurred in the opinion that the season. rer eet for some time after , average starting date, and the weather bureau weekly forecast for the Northwest was “pre- cipitation frequent, particularly the first part of the week; temperatures gies seed normal.” oO. W. ae Because He Killed a Child His Own Child Is Fatherless As inscrutable as he walked to death as when he walked to trial was Bruno Richard Hauptmann, kidnap-killer of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. In the top panel (left) Hauptmann is shown as he appeared at his trial. To the right is Mannfried Hauptmann, orphaned because his father abducted and accident- ally or premeditately slew the curly-haired child at the bottom—the scion of the Lindberghs. SS JORNGON POSSIBLE SOLOIST ON SUNDAY MAJOR BOWES HOUR Pro Status Bars Jeanette Wein- stein’s Appearance on Bis- marck Night finite word from Maj. Ed that Jeanette Weinstein, con- . not appear during Sunday night's amateur radio pro- which Bismarck will be the honored city, left Chester John- son, sousaphone possible Capital soloist, as the only City musician to In a letter to H. P. Goddard, sec- of the local Association of +] Commerce, the Major pointed out Miss agreed j gob i din ean Mill City Attorneys Accused by Official! decorsea Weinstein’s professional standing would not permit her ap- during the one-hour broad- Whether Johnson would be chosen remained a question. At the local Nearly Strangles With False Teeth Boston, April 4.—(?)—The quick action of Lawrence police officers probably saved James Garrow, 40, of Island Pond, Vt., from strangu- lation Saturday after he swal- lowed his false teeth. He staggered into Lawrence police headquarters and shakily wrote on a piece of paper: “Swallowed my false teeth. Am dying from lack of air.” The police brought him to Massachusetts General hospital here, where physicians gave him temporary relief and prepared to operate later. Hospital attend- ants said he probably would re- cover and that danger of immed- jate strangulation was passed. HUNT FOR DAINARD CENTERS IN BUTTE Weyerhaeuser Kidnaper Re- ported Seen in Tavern There Thursday Night Butte, Mont., April 4.— (4) — Fresh clues sent federal agents and local authorities on a new hunt Saturday for William Dainard, also known as ‘William Mahan, elusive suspect in the ,|kidnaping of George Weyerhauser, vote please?” Major Bowes was the recipient this Jands. The genial major also has been adopted into the Sioux tribe and has Sha, meaning White Bear, by Chief of the Standing Rock reservation. : RADIO PERMIT DENIED Washington, April 4—(#)—The communications commission dented an application to establish s new radio station at Williston, N. D., Fri- day. Jr., at Tacoma, Wash., a year ago. Mahan, who has evaded officers several times in this section, was re- ported seen at a tavern here Thurs- day night, but word of his purported ‘appearance was not made public until Friday night. At the same time it was disclosed that one of the $5 bills of the $200,000 ransom paid for release of the 9-year- old timber fortune heir, was dis- covered in a bank deposit made by ‘a Butte creamery. James N. Murphy, proprietor of the tavern, said he was positive it was Mahan who entered the place, accom- panied by s blonde woman. Mrs. Fred H. Scott, Grand Forks, Is Dead Grand Forks, N. D., April 4.—(7)— Funeral services will be held Sunday for Mrs. Fred H. Scott, 63, resident of Grand Forks 40 years, who died Thursday night. She was born in Fergus Falls, Minn. Survivors are her husband, a son, A. C. Scott, Rug- by, a daughter and three sisters, in- cluding Mrs. Herman Wellbrock, Fergus Falls, Minn., and Mrs. Otto Zuelsdorf. Moorhead. Minn. SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES 70 OVERRIDE FDR SEED LOAN VETO Despair of Getting Agreement Between FCA and RRA to Assure Advances Washington, April 4.—(?)}—The sen- ate agriculture committee voted Sat- urday to ask the senate to override President Roosevelt's veto of the $50,000,000 seed loan authorization bill, Action was taken after western sen- ators had despaired of getting an agreement between the farm credit ad- ministration and the resettlement administration which would assure that loans would be made to farmers on relief. Each agency contended it did not have funds for this purpose. Twelve of the 19 members of the ‘committee were present when the vote was taken. Senator Wheeler was expected to bring the issue up on the senate floor Monday. When the president vetoed the bill he said $30,000,000 would be made available for 1936 seed and feed loans from relief funds. Governor Welford said Saturday he had been assured by federal officials that seed loan aid would be extended “at once” to an estimated needy 10,000 farmers of North Dakota through the national Farm Credit administration. Welford said the making of actual loans awaited only formation of ma- chinery in the state, which, he said, would be completed soon. Bobby Jones’ Putting Touch Is Still Lost Augusta, Ga., April 4.—(?)—Dis- playing no substantial improvement and still putting badly, Bob Jones reached the turn in 38, two over par, on his second round in the $5,000 Augusta national invitation golf tournament Saturday. This followed his opening 78 and he lost further ground to “Lighthorse Harry” Cooper, the pace setter and par-cracking star of the tournament so far. MINTO PRIEST DIES Minto, N. D., April 4.—(#)—Rev. John Maxwell, Catholic parish priest at Minto for 20 years, died Friday night. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, with Bishop Muench of Fargo as vontificate. x Walks With Spring In Step and Secret In Heart to Death ‘This Man Is Dead, Doctor Decides Two Minutes After Electricity Expiates Kidnaping and Killing of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Warden Kimberling Delays Execution as Long as He Can, Then Marches Into Death House to Bow Head as Famous Prisoner Passes (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Trenton, N. J., April 4.—“This man is dead.” With those words, spoken by a physician in the crowded prison death house at 8:47:30 Friday night, was told the end of New Jersey’s case against the Lindbergh baby killer—the end of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He died as most people thought he would—unspeaking, un- shaken, cold, unsmiling. A mile and a half away, in a hotel, his weary wife—his widow now—cried piteously, unconsolably; “Oh, God, why did you have to do this?” There was no hysteria, no breakdown, no tears inside the dirty-white four walls where Anna Hauptmann’s “poor Rich- ard” sat down to death. “I am not afraid to die,” he had written Gov. Harold G. Hoffman only last Tuesday. Fifty-five witnesses saw him go; fifty-five, and one other, Robert Elliott, whose steady hand spun the wheel of the rheostat. There was another man there; the tall, military warden, Col. Mark O. Kimberling. It was he among them all whom the law charged with executing the death warrant; but he did not see Hauptmann die. He stood facing the chair and the hooded figure in it. He gave the nod that signaled the current be turned on. But his head was bowed when the volts struck. He looked up only when the prison physician intoned: “This mans fas CROWDS IN STREET FORM HUGE ‘DEATH WATCH’ AT PRISON Actions of Officials Are Closely Watched as Curious Scent Happenings Trenton, N. J., April 4.—(}—Out- side the state prison, while Bruno Richard Hauptmann inside walked steadily and calmly to his death in the electric chair last night, the spot- light was on the steel doors of the gateway by the death house. All eyes were on these doors. They supplied the first information of the execution to the world outside. ‘When those doors opened, at 8:49 Pp. m., (EST), the small crowd just outside knew that the stoic German carpenter from the Bronx had paid with his life for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. In the early evening, the state cap- itol was the center of attention. In his office, Gov. Harold Hoffman was faced with one of the gravest prob- lems of his life; he faced it at his desk, dictating to a@ stenographer, dictating the statement that took away all hope for Hauptmann. It was made public at 7:33 p. m.; he would not grant another reprieve, Prison Environs Crowded Outside the prison, a mile and & half away, the crowd increased. There were several thousand persons along the streets near the stone-walled Hundreds were there before dinner time. The April evening was chilly. They shivered but stayed on, hoping to “see something,” but ing. Every official automobile, passing through the lines, brought shouts from the throng. “There's Fisher” — “there's Hoff- man” — “there's Bruno's wife.” But always, they were wrong. Gix doctors, one at 2 time, forward, listened for the tremor of the heart of a man who could kidnap an kill a little baby, then stepped Twice they did this, “It is 8:47 and one-half,” he said. COLUMNS ON BRUNO; NOTHING ON LINDBERGHS London, April 4.—(?)—Columns of news, under streamer headlines, told Great Britain Saturday of the death of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann—but not a line appeared peers. Ein. eceiyities of the Uindberghs, wi son Hat was convicted of slaying. esc ‘That will go down as the official time that the 36-year-old German- born carpenter died. But he must Se at Flemington, Feb, 13, 1935, when @ jury of country folk—eight men and four women—* found him guilty of having murdered Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. If not then, he must surely have died when the court of errors and appeals turned a deaf ear to his plea for a new trial, when the United States supreme court wrote a terse “denied” across his appeal, or when the court of pardons twice refused to grant him mercy, Never, though, was his armor of iron nerves pierced. There were times that he wept. But he never broke, Mysterious in Death seeing noth- His when the current—21% horsepower of electricity—struck. But not afterward did the. body slump. It appeared to the witnesses to hold Inside a small church, across from|the iron the prison, there were bright lights and many persons, preparing for an Easter bazaar. The street along the east wall of the prison, was the lane of activity. At the north end was the warden’s of- fice, with the huge throng a block away, Close to Death House But the crowd at the south end was closest to the unseen object of their attention—the death house. Even those bearing passes were questioned closely and checked off @ list. ‘The “death watch” along this street began in earnest after word reached those near the prison walls that Gov- ernor Hoffman had refused another reprieve. Behind those doors, next to the prison hospital, was the death house. Behind them was the electric chair, and death for Bruno Hauptmann. From the workshop - garage, wires spread to all parts of the world. Operators were ready to flash. ¢ See Warden Leave At 8:14, the watchers outside saw Colonel Kimberling leave his office, out through the door to the prison (Continued on Page Four) teries of the case si Lays Reprieve Aside It wasn't until half an hour before the time fixed for Hauptmann’s exe- cution that the Governor finally laid long Attorney General David T. Wilentz, It was Wilents who offered # road lof escape late Friday. “If the governor should issue an order of reprieve,” the Attorney Gen- eral told Warden Kimberling five (Continued on Page Four) wo a