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A—4 == STATE TELLS G & JURY COMPLETED INRECORD TIME Anne Lindbergh Arrives in Court to Testify at Today’s Session. By the Associated Press. bl livered a note to a taxi driver and said: “Take this down to Condon’s home, down where Decatur .ave- nue is.” That note was not mailed; that note was delivered and delivered for a purpose, because in that not he.gave Condon, I think it was threesquarters of an hour to get to the place to meet him. The aged gentleman went -__(Continued From First Pa FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 3— | The jury to try Bruno Richard Haupt- | mann for the brutal slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was completed at | 10:59 o'clock today. Howara V. Biggs, an unemployed | bookkeeper of Clinton Township, was | the twelfth and final person to be placed in the box. Liscon C. Case, l[ Franklin carpenter, was the eleventh. | The other 10 were chosen yesterday. | The final makeup shows four women and eight men on the jury. | The rapidity with which opposing | counsel disposed of the jury selec- | tion—it is generally believed that thi task would occupy et least three day: while it was disposed of less than one and one-half days—cnabled the | world's most famous trial to swing | into the testimony taking stage on its second day. Chief interest in the day's vourl[ room drama centered on Mrs. Lind- | bergh, who was in the court room | in anticipation of her trip to the| witness stagd to testify against the| man charged with murdering her first | born son in March, 1932, Reports that a slight bulge under Col. Lindbergh's left arm was caused | by a pistol he was carrying for pro- tection brought the remark today.| “look him over” from Col. H Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of State police. Denied by Prosecution. When the reports first circulated | last night Assistant Attorney General | Robert Peacock denied such was the| case, but a close ohservation of the; fiyer in the court room at opening session this morning showed that there was something there. | Miss Betty Gow, comely Scotch nurse of the child, also came to court to tell the tale of that tragic night on Sourland Mountain, March 1, 1932. For Anne Lindbergh, taking the witness stand, with Hauptmann sit-| ting guarded before her, was reserved | the first glimpse of the accused man. Colonel on Stand Soon. Lindbergh himself is not expected to testify until tomorrow—an appear- ance to be long and hard The State, which accepted Mrs. | Lindbergh's offer to testify, and the defense, which called her appearance “unnecessary,” united to spare her, | and little if any cross-examination was in prospect. | Miss Gow, on the other hand. may be a surprise. In the early days of | the State’s preparation of its case, she was referred to as a “routine” witness | who could tell only what might be| obtained from other sources. There | were even hints that the State might not bother to bring her from Scotland Her status changed sharply after she landed in New York Christmas day. On the eve of the trial the State announced she-was to be an “important” witness. | Aside from her story of thedis- covery of the kidnaping, the nurse is & key witness in placing the murder | of the baby in Hunterdon County, and not in adjoining Mercer County, where | the tiny body was found. This testi- mony was designed to checkmate any | defense attacks on the jurisdiction of | a Hunterdon County court to try the case. Dr. John F. Condon, the “Jafsie” who paid the ransom in a Bronx | cemetery, intended to come to court today but State sources said he would not be called for several days to tell of the negotiations. | The testimony of the two women— | Mrs, Lindbergh and Miss Gow—paves the way for one of the State's star | witnesses. ine colonel himself. Sharp Examination. There have been strong hints in de- fense gquarters that Lindbergh's ap- pearance on the stand will be extended by a sharp cross-examination. Before the testimony, the Haupt- mann jury remained the major sub- ject for speculation. Both State and | Jefense attorneys indicated they are | highly pleased with the jurors em-{ paneled, but “off the record” the| pleasure was tinged with uncertainty. | The presence of women in the jury box was the worrisome point. How | they will react to the evidence, to the | witnesses, to the defendant, no one knew. Hunterdon gave Hauptmann a jury ©of his peers, however, prosaic, middle class folks, just as he was by reputa- tion in the Bronx. They are family people and they have worked for their living. They are as serious faced as Hauptmann as he sits a few yards from them. Trial Starts Promptly. The trial began at 10 am. Only two more jurors remained to be se- lected before the State opened its pre- sentation of the evidence. Justice Trenchard was the soul of punctuality, appearing promptly on the bench at the hour he set for the resumption of the trial. The jury had just filed in when he | mounted the bench. Hauptmann was not yet in court. The prisoner was led in a few min- utes later. He smiled briefly as he passed the defense table. Then in- stead of sitting down he bent over the chair of Defense Counsel C. Lloyd Fisher for a long and earnest whis- pered conference. Lindbergh fellowed Hauptmann into court by a few seconds, accompanied by Schwarzkopf. Lindbergh wore a darker gray suit than yesterday and a light blue shirt. He took a chair behind the prosecu- tion table. State attorneys did not take their places until several minutes after the court convened. Flyer to Make Notes. The roll of the remaining members of the jury janel was being droned off meanwhile as the last preliminary to proceedings in this life-or-death struggle got under way. Lindbergh helped himself to a thick- bound loose leaf volume from the prosecution table and placed it in his lap, apparently for later use in taking notes. _ ‘When the roll of the 10 jurors was called the colonel looked directly at the jury box with a steady glance from face to face as the names were called. The jury calling resumed Wwith Sheriff Curtiss summoning Mrs. Helen Young, Lambertville housewife. She told Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, she had formed an opinion which ould be hard” to eliminate from her mind. Might Change Opinion. She said she might change it with the development of the evidence, under questioning by C. Lloyd Fisher, defense attorney. ' Mrs. Young, 8 blond woman in her early thirties, A | the gotes. and Condon there on the | “Doesn’t Lindbergh know we are the | listened intently as counset inter- down there to Woodlawn Cemetery, and on the inside of the cemetery was Mr. Hauptmann, on the inside of outside until Hauptmann, becoming alarmed because somebody- was com- ing <omewhere in the distance; he | scaled and climbed a 9 or 10 foot cemetery gate and then jumped down, ran across the street to & park there and finally, when he realized he wasn't being followed by | police, but enly had this aged man to contend with, he stopped, and there they talked. They talked _or an hour and 10 or an hour and 20 minutes, and 1n that talk the defendant said: “Will I burn if the child dies?” Oh, he tried to sell Condon the idea | to give up Lindbergh’s money w!th-; out seeing the child and Condon had | no authority. Asked to See Child. The doctor said: “Please let me see the child; take me as a hostage; don't worry, I can't do anything to you. Just let me see the child’ so I can tell Mrs. Lindbergh I saw it. You| can keep me there until the money: is paid, if you want to.” “Oh,” he said, “No 1 would smack | me out; No. 1 would smack me out.” And so finally Hauptmann says: people that kidnaped his child? | Doesn't he know we are the right people? Doesn't he see the symbol on the note, the two circles with the big red circle in the center and the holes? If he doesn't and that isn't enough we will send him the baby’s, sleeping garment.” “We will send him | the baby’s sleeping garment.” And it took them two or three| days to send it. I suppose he had to | have it washed. | And then within a few days, while | Col. Breckenridge was at the Condon | home, he had been there every day | since the day Condon received the | first message, while Col. Lindbergh was there, that sleeping garment | came in the mail from Mr. Haupt- | mann, with his circles and with his | holes, as positive proof that it was him. And then Hauptmann says, “now, no more terms. The Lind- berghs don't see this child until they | put up/ the money: and if you don’t | take those terms we can wait. Lindy | has got to come to us. “We can wait; but if he waits until after April 8 the price is $100,000— it is $70,000 now.” Acceptance Given. And so, finally, here at this Condon home in the Bronx—all of this thing taking place in the Bronx—right alongside of Hauptmann's back yard, rupted to discuss the questions asked. Lindbergh paid little attention to anything except the prospective juror under examination. The prospective juror who said she | had no children, hesitated when Fisher asked if she expected Haupt- mann to prove his innocence rather than the State his guilt. Justice Trenchard intervened to ex- | plain the theory that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Mrs. Young expressed belie{ could follow that rule. Reads Advertisement. Hauptmann. more animated than on the opening day of the trial, read something very carefully as the ques- tioning continued. The reading mat- ter was a printed advertisement on sales psychology. After a long conference, the defense used one of its five remaining per- emptory challenges to dismiss Mrs. Young. During an interruption Mrs., Anne Lindbergh entered the court room ac- companied by Mrs. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. A rustle of excitement passed over the room. Justice Trenchard rapped for order as the quiet, pale woman was seated in the second row of spectal seats near the judge's bench. Lindbergh glanced toward her as she appeared then turned and stared straigth ahead, a set expression onhis face. Daisy Emmons of Califon, a ma- tronly married woman, said she had no objections to capital punishment or prejudice against the defendant. The defense made a peremptory challenge and she was dismissed. Mrs. Lindbergh from her seat among the other spectators, soon be- gan to look about the room. Her glance rested for a long minute on Hauptmann, who in a momentary interruption shortly afterward, stole a slow glance toward the woman whose child he is charged with mur- dering. she Carpenter Accepted. A lean-faced carpenter, Liscon C. Case of Franklin, was next called. The routine examination followed and neither side challenged the gray- haired, gray-mustached man and he was accepted by both sides and sworn uojulror No. 11. nly one empty chair oniy pty remained in | $50,0002 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935 walting there, finally Jafsie answered for Col. Lindbergh, “The money is ready. We accept”—“We accept, the money is ready.” And so on Saturday, April 2, $50,000 prepared for Col. Lindbergh was bun- dled into a box. Oh, I have got to tell you about that box. Why, the carpenter put a picture of the box in his notes. He not only put a picture in it, he gave you the dimensions—6 by 7 by 14—in his own handwriting. He told them how to bundle it up, he measured it, mind you, in his own imagination, and there he put this picture, in this note, of this box, with the dimensions. Why, he might just as well have put his picture in there. And so they prepared a box, put the money in the bunale, and then along came | another messenger on a Saturday night and said: “Within three-quar- ters of an hour you come here or you come there,” and, of course, they did. Well, you can imagine, you can imagine the condition of Col. Lind- bergh then. There he was about to get his child. He only needed the money, and he had that money to give up, it was all prepared. And o, he said, will go with you, Dr. Condon.” and Col. Lindbergh drove that little automobile on that night with Condon to follow the directions to a greenhouse, and there they would turn over a stone and under that stone they would get further direc- tions. And they did. Directions Under Stone. And Condon lifted up that stone or table or whatever it was and there it | was, “cross the street ana go to Whit- temore avenue,” or something like that. He showed it to Col. Lindbergh, and they did that. Right across the street he had picked out another cemetery for his next meeting place. And there was Condon in the middle of the road Now don’t imagine that that par- ticular section of the Bronx is any more pcpulated than it is right here in Flemington, and particularly in the vicinity of the cemetery. And there stood Condon waiting to see where Hauptmann was. Finally Hauptmann hollered, “Hey, doctor, hey doctor."—twice. In the still of the night you could have heard it for two blocks and par- ticularly in the vicinity of the Bronx. So finally Dr. Condon went down, fol- lowed him along, he on the inside of | this St. Raymond’'s Cemetery, Condon on the outside, until they got to a | And as they got down to that | hedee. hedge Condon said, “Won't you please let me see the baby first?” “Now, no use about that.” Well you know in 1932 times were awfully bad, even for Col. Lindbergh. $70,000 a lot of money. He anted $70,000 then. “Won't you please cut it down to That is all we ask.” Cut Price to 50, The boss said, “Yes, I will cut it down to 50.” So Dr. Condon said to him, “Now here, after all it is just you and I Now give me a receipt, give me the directions where we are going to find the child He sald, “All right, all right. You go back. Who is over there in the car with you?” “Col. Lindbergh.” “Is he there?” “Yes. Col. Lindbergh is there. has got the money."” “You go back to Col. Lindbergh and you get the money and we will meet here in five minutes and I will give you the directions.” He wasn't worried about being ap- prehended. He was relying upon the word of honor of Col. Charles A Lindbergh, that all he wanted was He | RUESOME STORY Wilentz Traces History of Kidnaping 'Case, Calling for First Degree Murder Penalty under the blond hair, there was that typical nose and there were the toes overlapping, the overlapping toes of the Lindbergh child. member of the family, would know right away that was the “Little Eagle,” and so, of course, they took the child and cremated the body and the ashes were delivered to Col. Lindbergh. ‘The Lord moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, as you well know, and the first thing you know a little gas station attendant in the Bronx found the man that mur- dered the Lindbergh child. He came there with a $10 bill. He had to get | rid of the money. He came there yith a $10 bill, it was a gold note, and the station at- tendant who was taking money all day long hadn't seen much of that lately, | because the President of the United | States had called that gold in and it was against the law to have it and to hoard it. He said to Haupt- mann: “What about this, where did you get this?” Oh, then, Hauptmann knew he was in for a little trouble. | What do you think he said? He said: { “Oh, I have got & hundred of those,” | just nonchalantly, “Oh, I have a hundred of those.” And off he drove. And so they finally arrested him. They arrested him, and what do you think he said when they found on his | person another Lindbergh bill? “Where did you get this?” they said. Now, if he had gotten it honestly he would have told them right then. But what did he do? He said, “this is one of $300 that I have saved up, because I thought gold would be more valuable, and I got it from my friends and from the banks, and I had $300, but this is the last”; so they took him to his home and they started a search. Carpenter Found Money. He knew they would not find it in his home. He had prepared for that ‘They took him to the police station and they pleaded with him and they | talked to him. And then what? Carpenters dug up 13 thousand some hundred dollars of United States money—Lindbergh money, ransom And he was confronted with that and he said, “Yes, I buried that | away.” : “Where did you get it?” “Why, a partner of mine, an associate of mine a friend of mine, now dead. gave it to me.” Is that all that ycu have got?” “Yes, that is all.” { And at that very minute, when he was again saying that that was all e had and that the story which he first told about the $20 bill, when he admitted that that was untrue, and then he gave his story, at that very | minute the police had more money, when he finished that statement, Dis- and some dollars?" And he said. “yes. T didn’t tell you the truth. That is Lindbergh money, | too.” That is Lindbergh money. too. | And there, right in the house, hidden (on an inside closet wall in his own admitted handwritting, there was the address and telephone number of Dr. John F, Condon, in his baby's closet, on the inside. A little closet. You would have to get in on the inside apd be—well, you would have to be the type of man of Hauptmann to get in there. - Asked About Condon’s Name. In his own handwriting, and he is asked: “Why did you write Condon's name on there?” lon there | “Why, you know. I had a funny | habit, I liked to write telephone num- ;bers or addresses.” He didn't have anything else in the And in that search, in Anybody that knew the child, any | “Why did you write Condon's name | his child. Not only that but he whole house. actually had followed and traced | that search we found the answer to LINDBERGHS HEAR STATE OPEN CASE {Parents in Court as Wilentz Paints Vivid Picture of Murder. (Continued From First Page.) mediately arose and asked a mistrial because the “impassioned plea” of Wilentz “intended to inflame the jury.” Justice Trenchard denied the mo- tion. - . Justice Trenchard permitted Reilly purposes of possible appeal. The justice expressed the opinion, when denying the motion, that the jury understood it must weigh the evidence dispassionately. ‘There was a brief delay as maps of the wall behind the witness chair. Charts Are Shown. Roberts was sworn as the first wit- | ness as soon as his charts were fixed to the wall. Gray, bespectacled, he sat easily in | the witness chair and told of the preparation of the five exhibits. ‘The first exhibit was a map show. ing the Hopewell area within a 2-mile area of the Lindbergh estate, and Roberts with a pointer began to ex- plain it to the jurors, Frederick A. Pope of defense counsel, inquired about the county lines and Hunterdon. Mercer and Somerset and {]xmlly objected to admission of the aps as merely “approximate.” Juas- tice Trenchard admitted the maps as | evidence finally after Pope withdrew | his objecticn when he was assured by | the court it would be used for illus- | trative purposes. Window Is Shown. Hauck next offered a chart of the | east elevation of the Lindbergh home and of the nursery. The chart showed the window thrcugh which the child | was allegedly taken. | Hauck then offered another chart | in evidence. ‘ Defense Counsel Reilly and Pope | studied the drawing together for a lmmute before Pope cross-examined | the engineer, | Pope’s examination was technical and when it was over the | map was admitted as evidence, | Roberts, after Pope raised no objec- tion to the second chart, told the | jury the height to the nursery window { ‘The engineer next described the | crime. The room was 13 feet 10 inches across. Roberts then described the third | chart, which showed the ground floor | outline of the Lindbergh estate and | developments in the vicinity. When he finished his description, the noon recess was taken. 'SAYS HE NEVER HEARD CASE OF LINDBERGH By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 3.— There is one man who “never heard of | the windbergh case.” ! He is Frank Borowiec, who s2ys this | was so before he was called from his Sourland Mountain home as a pro- | | spective juror at the Hauptmann trial. | After a quarter hour’s questioning | and debate betweén opposing counsel, | | he was dismissed for cause. OF DEA™ to take an exception to his ruling for | the Sourland Mcuntain area were be- | ing tacked on the rack erected on| Drama of Haup Described by BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, January 3 {N.AN.A)—Somehow this typical, revolutionary American country town of Flemington, with Christmas snows still lingering on the roofs of the ihlgh-hpped old brick houses and | Winter sunshine streaming in at the long, old-fashioned court house win- dows, seems a fitting place for the trial that will go down in our na- | tional history forever as “the Lind- | bergh case.” For if ever we needed the finest, the most balanced and honest traditions of our courts, we need them now. If ever our boast of sane and unbiased tmann’s Trial Kathleen Norris Setting and Characterization of Story Depicted by Noted Writer—Court Scene [Seated Near Mrs. Haupt- Rentiniscent of Country’s Beginning. expression, but pictorially at least true to the finest of our judicial ideals. He presides patiently as the endless stu- | pidities of impaneling the jury begin; | the long list if read; the selection of | names commences. | } “You don’t believe in capital pun- | | Ishment?” the judge asks Lula B.| Johnsen. “If you were making the | law you wouldn't make it that way?” | He leans forward in his black robes, and again we see behind him the gray strip of area and the stones marked | in angles like a Hollywood prison set | |and the barred windows. Trial Like Movie. Hollywood. We have been regaled y So many prison pictures, S0 many | crime and detective and district attor- | ney pictures, that as the day dawdles | t H OF LINDBERGH BABY ANNE LINDBERGH 1S SAD AT TRIAL mann, She Listens to De- tails of Child’s Death. By the Assoriated Press, FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 3.— Her head drooping, Anne Morrow Lindberg today relived the moment when her child’s dead body was found. How much it was discolored and how parts of it were missing, she heard, as Attorney General David T. Wilentz opened the prosecutions’ case against Bruno-Hauptmann. Mrs. Lindbergh listened bravely, her face white and sad. She might. from her expression, have becn praying. In a simple black dress with pink touch#s—a black beret on her soft hair—she sat just two chairs away from Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of the defendant. dealing with our fellow man is to-be |on and one would-be s 3 C - juror after put to the test. it will be put to the | another is questioned, challerged, re- [ test in the next few weeks. when the | fected, it begins to seem like a picture |case of the State—and the Nation,|That is not really Bruno Richard | Roberts indicat>d the boundaries of | largely | and the world—against the man who | is suspected of the most hideous of ‘all _ | the crimes in the calendar is to be | really Lindbergh a few fect away from | brought out into the open, 2nd heard, | and weighed, and judged. | From the walls of the court room in which I write looks down the portrait of a typical Colonial American, a | ruddy-faced, dignified old subject of Copley or Gilbert Stuart, in his ruf- ech | It 1s he and his kind who have built American justice into the thing it is, |and their “spirits will surely preside aere while we search for the answer to the terrible question: “Who are they who sought the life of the child?” Court Room Crowded. It is 9°4d o'clock on a fine, sharp January morning. Already the-court is buzzing with newspaper folk, who find their places at the long plank tables by the help of the jealously | sought red tickets. 1 A disappointed throng fills the steps | outside and stands packed patiently | in the snow-streaked street. Flem- ington's one small hotel, directly op- posite, boils with unwonted excite- | ment. The town is rather like a gentle old New England spinster, who awakens suddenly to find herself in a mad house. Into the court straggles the press. There is incessant chatter. Every one who has been admitted at all feels excited, superior, triumphant. but he insisted that was all, and |from the ground was 14 feet 3 inches. | we are an oddly assorted lot. | Just behind the judge's big seat | ) : | trict Attorney Samuel Foley said to nhursery. A box seat was before the | is i § S - is eil on the dais is a triple casement giv. him, “How about this eight hundred nursery window, identified with the ing on a narrow area. Ten feet away | across the shaft, is a wall of dra- | matically-perfect” fitted gray stones | plerced with barred windows. And | behind those windows, again await- | ing his summons, is Bruno Richard | Hauptmann, the German-born, quiet- | appearing young carpenter about whom all this dreadful ceremony and ritual move. Not all, no. There is another young man_in the case, not by nis own will, but-because fate has drawn him into this coil of agony and will not let him go. At about 10 minutes past 10 o'clock Charles A, Lindbergh comes in quietly through the court | Hauptmann sitting there immobile | and trapped and helpless: that is not | him, with his elbow on the table and his chin in his hand. I myself did not really leave the young fresh grass and the blue skies | of California last Saturday night and descend in the dark at Trenton Sta- | tion this morning just as a streaked, icy dawn was breaking the blackness | of the east. Presently the reel will end, and Minnie Mouse and her white shoes take the screen. | | .~ No. This is real. This is the court | house of Flemington; the Hauptmann trial is in progress; we are presently free to come cut into bright, noonday, | sunshine, and, dazed and serious. | mingle with the crowds in the street and the telegraph boys and the teem- | ing scores of réepo again. And now the typewriters and the telegraph machines are clicking every- | where: the place rocks with them; the 1 big story is on its way to every corner | of the world. In Africa, in China, in | Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy they | will be reading what American justice | has done here today { Laughter in Court, ‘There have been laughs in the court | | room today. Where civilized persons | gadher there must always be laughter, | | even in the presence of the grief that | will live forever in the heart of a| child’s father. We laughed when one of the defense lawyers asked a juror if his wife agreed with him. “Well, we always have—" | ‘he said faintly, doubtfully. We| | Jaughed again when a pretty girl ex- | Plained that she had adroitly moved | over the county line, and so must be excused from jury duty. | One studies the face of Attorne, { General Wileniz—he looks self-pos- | | sessed, poised, brilliant; we shall |come to know this name. Edward J. Reilly, head of the defense group, is | impressive: he looks as if a magnifi- cent priest might have been lost to| the church when he turned to the| daw. - -The afternoon 'wanes. We have| seven jurors—now we have nine, ten; | things are moving at last. ' Howard V. Biggs of Clinton Town- ship, a small man with big ears and pronounced jaw line, took the stand next. He said he was an unemployed bookkeeper, who formerly worked. in Bound Brook. He has two sons, one 9 and one 19. He declared he would decide Haupt- mann’s guilt or innocence solely on the evidence and assured Fisher he hlrpored no prejudice whatever against the Bronx alien. “No challenge for cause,” said Fisher and the State attorneys repeated they were satisfied. A long huddle followed at the de- fense table. “Satisfactory, your honor,” said Fisher, and at 10:59 the jobless Biggs was sworn as jurior No. 12. Completion of the ‘jury was fol- hmle'i‘;)y :': lnt:;uptmn. The crowd quie after admonition Justi Trenchard. 2, o Jury Guard Sworn. Justice Trenchard ordered the jury guard sworn. , This done, the court called a five-minute recess. As the jurors retired from the room Hauptmann glanced at each. He placed his hand to his mouth and exhibited a nervous interest in trivial things going on about him—the talk of the crowd, the movements of offi- cials in the forward part of the room. Fisher leaned toward him and asked a question. Hauptmann's reply was so low he had to repeat it. As he spoke he clasped an elbow with nervous fingers, i Condon—we will prove it to you— to see that he wasn't being accom- panied by detectives. He knew he was taking no chances, that he wanted the child. that was all. So he went back somewhere and he wrote a little note and he came back. received that box with $50.000. What do you think he said? “Wait a minute, doctor, until I see if it is all right. Wait a minute.” Then he dipped his hand into this box and up he looked 2t Condon and he said, “Your work is Shakes hands with him. “Your work is perfect.” Directed to Massachusetts. So within two hours in accordance with instructions given by Haupt- mann they looked at this note and the note directed them to go up to some place in Massachusetts, Bay Head, I think it was. Col. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon, Col. Breckenridge and a representative of the United States Government got into a plane. And Lindy, who could find a speck at the end of the earth, couldn’t find his child because Haupt- mann had murdered it. Up and around the waters he searched and returned. Up again in another plane he searched and he returned, and, of course, finally back home. Breckenridge still stayed at Con- don’s home, still stayed there with | Condon. Condon began in the papers to advertise for better instructions. But Mr. Hauptmann was no longer interested in Dr. Condon and no bet- ter instructions came. Not only did Col. Lindbergh with the men who accompanied him as I indicated a minute ago search for this mysterious and mythical boat but the Coast Guard of the United States | went out, too, to try to find it. Of course it wasn't there. When he took that $50,000 across the hedge of that cemetery he took it knowing that the baby was lying face down in that 1‘\;3:% in New Jersey. We wiil prove that. Body Found in Woods. So back again to New Jersey for Col. Lindbergh and to the home of sorrow. Then on May 12—on May 12, 1932— some colored gentleman, driving along the highway, got off the beaten path of the road and into a woods, to an- swer the call of nature—or what- ever it was—and there he was horri- fied by the sight of what appeared to him to be the body of an infant, and of ceurse he rushed away, but not until he had told somebody about it, and pretty soon, pretty soon, Col. Lindbergh and Betty Gow and others had turned the body of that child up, face up. ‘The moisture in the ground had still preserved the face a little bit, so that it was white when it was turned up. and 20 minutes after the air struck it. it had turned black. The body was horribly decomposed, one leg had been eaten away and carried away, one hand had been taken away, a great part of its body had been eaten away, the rest of it decomposed, the skin and the flesh rotted away in that hole, the grave that Hauptmann had placed for it. But there was that little sleeping shirt that Betty Gow had prepared and that Mrs. Lindbergh had helped her prepare that day, there was the forehead and the brown curls and the curly-headed prominent forehead A And there over that hedge he | perfect.” | | the ladder. Now, one year about, before Haupt- | mann was arrested. one vear before | ! any of us knew that there was such a person in existence, the United States Government had traced to the Bronx Lumber Yard Co., or the Bronx Lumber Corp., they had traced some of the lumber, they knew that ladder had been made of lumber, some parts of which came from the Bronx umber yards. When Hauptmann was arrested, | what do you suppose we find? We find he worked at the Bronx Lumber right around his neck; he took part of that attic of his and built the lad- der with it—and we will prove that to you beyond any doubt. Ladder from Attic. One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder, comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools. We will prove it to you, no matter how difficult it may sound—we will prove it to you so that there will be no doubt about it. Now, of course, this is like most crimes. There has to be a motive for it, and you probably know it by this time. You can be sure Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. did not attack Hauptmann; it was not in self-defense; it was not because of eny provocation or any- thing that he had against Col. Lindbergh. He committed this crime, he had planned it for months, because he wanted money—money—money—Ilots of money’ he wanted, and he got it. What do you suppose he wanted it for, and what do you suppose he did | with it? He wanted that money so | he could do as he did: Live a life | of luxury and ease so he would not have to work. Quit Job Day He Got Money. He quit his job the day he collected the $50,000, the very day; they had to replace him; so that he could do as he did: Live a life of luxury and ease. So he could go to Florida, so he could have a boat on Hunters Island and other places, so he could have a radio, in the midst of the worst depression of this land, in May, 1932. He spends $400 for a radio. Not only that: So that he could as he did gamble and speculate with thousands and thousands and thou- sands of dollars. Why, he poured money in‘o these accounts. In July, 1933, alone what do you suppose this gentleman did? Forty-five hundred dollars in the account of Mrs. Schoen- feld or whatever her. name is, the wife, the maiden name, the delightful wife of Mr. Hauptmann; $4,500 in the same month, $2,000 more in cash in a savings account. That is besides this money found in the garage. He poured those moneys in there to satisfy . his desire to gamble and speculate. Why, he used Lindy's money to buy sweepstake tickets with! What do you think of that? Now, men and women of the jury, if we do not prove these facts to you, why, you acquit him, you acquit him; if we do not prove dhem to you, you acquit him. But if we do, as we are confident’ we will be able to, and as we expect to, let me just tell you, representing the State of New Jersey, that this -State will not compromise with murder or murderers. We de- mand the penalty of murder in the | first degres. . [ Yards, he bought lumber there, but | not only that, he has got this ladder | | (Hauptmann Jury | | Ten of 12 Chosen to Render Verdict Have Children in | By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, January 3— Here are the jurors weighing zhe; | State's attempt to take Bruno Rich- | ard Hauptmann's life in retaliation | for the ceath of the Lindbergh baby: Charles Walton, sr., 55, of High Bridge, foreman; gray haired, neat| machinist; three grown children. ! Mrs. Rosie Pill, about 50, of Califon; widow with two sons; does bead work | and cares for two grandchildren. Mrs. Verna Snyder, in her 30s, wife of Centerville Villege black- smith; an adopted child of 6. Charles F. Snyder, age not given, of Clinton; a quiet farmer with two | sons, 16 and 8; served three murder juries. Mrs. Ethel Stockton, 32, of Union; housewife and secretary to former county prosecutor; one child, 7. Elmer Smith, in his 40s, of Lam- bertville; serious, carefully dressed insurance agent: a child, 4. Robert Cravatt, 28, educational su- servation Corps camp; unmarried. Philip Hockenbury, 58, of Annan- dale; railroad section worker: iron grown family. George Voorhees, middle age, of ing fermer; three young children. Mrs. Mary F. Brelsford, age not given. of Flemington; reserved and quietly dressed; cares for two chil- dren by husband’s first marriage. Liscon C. Case, carpenter, Franklin. Howard V. Biggs, unemployed bookkeeper oi Cimnton Township, two sons, 9 and 19. of Genuine Oak Leather HALF SOLES AND RUBBER ‘HEELS Both for Thix Price Materials Used Are And then quite suddenly the first| door and takes his seat only a few | day of the Hauptmann trial is over; feet away from the accused man. | we go out to fresh, cold air again. A Neither Glances at Other. | colorless Winter sun is setting over There they are together—the most | the town and the hills. We scatter; beloved of all our loved Americans, | every one is tired. Newsboys are and the man who may presently be- shouting early afternoon editions in come the most despised of all our the streets. The die is cast now; the alien-born. Not our steadiest watch- | great wheels of the law are moving: ing from the press gallery can detec them in so much as a glance at each | few weeks, never to be obliterated other., Hauptmann sits staring from our records. steadily ahead of him: Lindbergh | = : rests an elbow on the table at which Fight for All Children. It is one of the most extraordinary he sits with the State attorneys and | leans his cheek on his hand. {in all the history of crime detection, He is a heavier and huskier looking | this story of the patient, the inex- man, this father of the lost child, | haustibly detailed search of the law than when I saw him last, a year or | for the faintest clue that should be- two ago. His fine, grave young face | tray the guilty man in this sad story is browned from exercise and sun-|of a child stolen, the story of the shine. He is dressed in light gray; | hundreds of banknetes that were ex- his manner is just what I remember | amined, the neighborhoods that were it, gentle, polite, detached. Exactly | searched, the slowly-developed picture what these days mean to him it takes ' of the cri 1 that was built—his small imagination to - picture. This | step, his weight, his probable nation- is the man who, when the tragedy | ality, his accent, his habits. first broke on the world, nearly three | It is not only for the exquisite long years ago, stated that he and his | Lindbergh child that we have made wife would be glad to avoid notoriety. | this fight, and that we will fight on. As to the other man. Bruno Rich- | It is for every child in America who ard Hauptmann in the flesh was a |lies tucked up warm and safe in his surprise to me; his entrance into the | little bed tonight, it is for every young court was a surprise. Somehow one | father and mother, as well as this expects the suspected man still to be | bereaved young father and mother. istory is to be written in these next pervisor at High Bridge Civilian Con- | gray hair and mustache; father of | Clinton; serious-faced and painstak- | | dragged into court, in the medieval | manner; haggard, protesting, even in chains. It was surprising to see Hauptmann walk in quietly and sit down in the very row of chairs—only | three chairs away, in fact, from Lind- | bergh himself. Sees Expression as “Stupid.” Hauptmann's companion is a deputy sheriff; on either side of them sit State troopers in Army biue. Of Hauptmann we in court see only a slencer back with fine, wide shoulders; a sleek head, a gray-brown suit. Dur- ing the session he never stirs, never | moves in his chair. But when he comes into the court or leaves it We have a chance to study the impassive face—not heavy or bestial, as so many of the pictures have made it; rather | thin, with deep-set eyes, wide forehead and to my thinking at least, a stupid expression. A German carpenter, his finer sensibilities perhaps hardened and coarsened when he was plunged too young into the horrors of the great war; an outsider, not possessing in his make-up any of the yeast that is America; not understanding. Our judge here looks a fine old man—gray, grandfatherly, wise, per- haps a little sad and disillusioned in Are Y our Shoes Ready for Winter? HOE REPAIRING SPECIAL Thursday, Friday and Saturday 79 Quality Throughout % Our Regular Price, $1.35 WHEN YOU SAYSHOE REPAIRING SAY~ SELIS. si0-1#stNw X 14th St.—Just Above H—Na. 6780 And the wretchedness of it—the suf- fering of it—the shame of it—will not be lost if they help to show the world the value that America sets upon the life of one beloved baby. (Copyright. 1045 by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) i et | PLANE SETS RECORD CLEVELAND, January 3 () .—A transport plane, flown into Cleveland at 6:55 pm. (Eastern standard time) | last night by Pilot Larry Holsinger, | made a new speed record from San Francisco to Cleveland, airport offi- cials said. The plane, carrying 139 pounds of mail and nine passengers, had an elapsed time of 11 hours and 38 min- utes, averaging 201 miles an hour. | Tke speed into Chicago from San Francisco was 9 hours and 55 minutes, | cutting 20 minutes off the previous record. : A Bank for The Morris Plan Bank offers the INDIVIDUAL the facilities of a SAVINGS BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make loans on a practical basis, which enables the borrower to liquidate his obli- gation by means Amt. of Note $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1.200 monthly deposits. Looks at Hauptmann. Mrs. Lindbergh today saw for the first time the man accused of kiliing her baby. Her eyes went repeatedly to Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s face. No expression crossed her small oval face, but her eyes were tremendously alive. Betty Gow, the comely Scottish nurse who put Charles A. Lindbergh, ir., to bed the night he was kidnaped, also looked occasionally toward the man on trial for the death of her golden-haired charge. Mrs. Lindbergh entered court quiete ly, almost on tiptoe. Behind her ene tered Miss Gow and Mrs. Ollie Wheats ley, widow of the Lindbergh butler. A lean-faced carpenter, who later wes accepted as a juror, was being questioned when Mrs. Lindbergh ap- peared, aceompanied by Mrs, Norman Schwarzkopf. Court Room Electrified. Then an electric current swept the courtroom.. The ranks of spectators murmured and half rose. Col. Lind- bergh looked at Anne anxiousl, crossed calmly in front of Mrs. mann. Her face was tranquil. and she seemed a bit remote. She wore a simple coat with a gray-brown fur collar, which Mrs. Schwarzkopf helped her lay aside. The defendant’s wife shunned the ordeal of a glance. She kept her head averted, looking over the judge's ench When Mrs. Lindbergh was seated, her tall blond husband gave her & reassuring smile, and they exchanged a long, straight look. Then she looked straight ahead. It was 10 minutes before Mrs. Schwarz- kop!f whispered, and Anne Lindbergh glanced in Hauptmann's direction, ap~ parently locating him for the fist ime. Hauptmann's face was steadfastly set in the direction of the witness stand. If he was conscious of Mrs. Lindbergh's presence he gave no ine dication; but his wife, who had se- lected a chair where she could face him, became more nervous. Her head twitched and she shifted in her chair, £ % Mrs. Whatley and Miss Gow, both in brown, sat a row behind Mrs. Lindbergh. 'EXPERT TO CLAIM | FISCH WROTE NOTES | St. Louis Man Goes to Aid De- fense in Handwriting Testimony. By the Associated Press. | ST. LOUIS, January 3—The Globe- | Democrat says John M. 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