Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1935, Page 4

A4 = THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 3, 1935—PART ONE. Both Sides of the Hauptmann Case KIDNAP VIGTING TRY T0 FORGET Seek Solace in Leading Active Lives, but Keep on Guard. (Copyright, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) Terror, like an ugly wound that never heals, still clutches ac the memories of America’s kiunap vic- tims. ¢ Little June Rables suffers the most, for her 19 days in the hands of kid- nap barbarians was cruelist of all. She is only 7 years old, and her young mind retains vividly the recollection of being buried alive in the hot desert near Tucson and of being chained like an animal in a coffinlike box sunk in the burning sands. Her experlence with kidnapers is now nearly a year behind, yet— “Even when she is inside the house now she frequently rushes to the win- dows and pulls down the shades, in the fear that some one is peering through at her,” a member of the family sald recently. Physically Recovered. Another time, as the hunt for her kidnapers—unsuccessful thus far— was being pressed, she sald: “I hope they catch those men lm'i_ put them in & hole, like they did me. Physically the child has fully re- covered, but it has not been easy to forget. High walls protect her today as she lives, in many respects a pris- oner, at a parochial boarding school. Guards are on duty constantly. She 1s never permitted to leave the grounds except when her parents call for her. It is the unforgettable terror and the fear that again she might be marked for abduction that grips not only the child, but her parents as well. John J. O'Connell, jr., of Albany, N. Y., never speaks of his month’s imprisonment, with kidnapers as his jailers. The young man, nephew of Dan and Ed O’Connell, powers in New York State Democratic affairs, was freed upon payment of a $40,000 ran- som. With one man serving a 50-year prison term for the kidnaping and three other men still being sought, young O'Connell has turned to busi- ness, working at the brewery of his uncle, Ed O'Connell. He lives with his mother. Visits Night Spots. O'Connell is seen, as before the kidnaping, at night spots and boxing and wrestling matches; but the mem- ory of his experience with kidnaps persists—for in these public appear- ances he always is accompanied by & bodyguard. John (Jake the Barber) Factor, who had a double dose of kidnap experi- ences—his son as well as himself was abducted—has disappeared from his Chicago haunts. After giving testi- mony that went far to break up the Roger Touhy gang, Factor was given a breathing spell in his court action to resist extradition to England, where he faces trial involving a $7,000,000 stock swindle. Factor is believed to be somewhere in California. Not only his own move- ments but those of his son and his wife are carefully guarded. During his residence in Chicago following his release by kidnapers in July, 1933, he was constantly protected by body- guards, He was in the hands of kidnapers 12 days and suffered some mistreatment at their hands. Max Price, one of the early vic- tims of Eastern kidnapers, still “shud- ders,” he admits, at the memory of his nine days as a hostage of kid- napers. Price, a wealthy real estate dealer of New Haven, Conn. Was seized by three men near his home and driven blindfolded to a shack which he belicves was near Spring- field, Mass. Shudders at Memory. Rewards totaling $10,000 were of- fered for his return alive, but he was released when police activities be- came too uncomfortable for his kid- napers. Price, who was 61 years old at the time, spent some time in a sanitarium after his release. Today he is “in fine condition,” but still “shudders” at the kidnap memories. Two of St. Paul, Minn,, three kid- nap victims—they paid a total of $312,000 for their freedom—have re- turned to their business activities— Edward G. Bremer to his desk as a bank president and William Hamm, jr., to his brewery interest. Ransoms of $200,000 and $100,000, respectively, were paid for their releases. The third victim, young Haskell Bohn, is “looking for a job.” After his release on payment of a $12,000 ransom, he spent considerable time on a Medora, N. Dak, ranch trying to forget. One of Bohn's alleged kid- napers, Verne Sankey, committed suicide in jail. Mrs. Reed Lives Quietly. Kansas City’s two women victims of abductors have taken different methods to crowd out the recollection of their terror. Mrs. Nell Donnelly, who was held two days for $75,000 ransom then freed without payment when the threat of the law's vengeance alarmed her kidnapers, is now the wife of former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. She lives quietly at the Reed home, but retains her interest in the Donnelly garment works and attends actively to the business. It was Reed, then her counsel, who sounded an ultimatum at the time of her kidnaping that if & hair of her head was harmed he would spend the rest of his life and his fortune to track her kidnapers down and punish them. Two men are serving life sentences for this crime, and another 25 years. Mary McElroy, daughter of City Manager H. F. McElroy, of Kan- sas City—he paid $30,000 for her re- lease—has spent much of her time in travel. She returned recently from Europe. Walter McGee, who confessed to participation in the McElroy kidnap- ing, is under death sentence—the first to be marked for the extreme penalty under new laws growing out of the Lindbergh kidnaping. Miss McElroy, as her father’s offi« cial hostess, is active in soclety, and moves about with as much freedom as before the kidnaping, without bodyguards. Hart. Travel. The families of two kidnap victims that never returned alive have sought to forget their experiences by travel. Mr. and Mrs. Alex J. Hart have made many jaunts into far corners of the world since the kidnap-slaying of their son, Brooke. They recently returned from a Mexican trip. The two Brooke Hart kidnapers were lynched 15 days after he disappeared. The parents of the world’s best known kidnap victim, Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, have spent part of their time since their baby was stolen and killed in exploring new ocean crossings in the uncharted air- ways. The State Charges (Sketohes by Sudduth) Hauptmann, the State contends, wrote the ransom notes. Eight handwriting experts backed up the charge. was found to have in his possession Hauptmann $14,600 of Lindbergh ransom momey. Hauptmann, it s testified, spent at a movie theater on November 26, the time he said Fisch gave him the Hauptmann’s construction of kidnap ladder, REPORTER GIVES ALIBI FOR MORROW’S MAID MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 3 (P). —A woman describing herself as Elsle Hart, & former NeWSPRPO? Woman Hackenssck, N. J., nllhflgth‘ she talked personally with late Y & ransom note 1933, prier to money. , the State charges, was used in The Defense Replies a bakery-restaurant in the Bronx, 60 the Lindbergh home, on the night WILENTZ MAY CALL MORROW WIDOW Would Be Used as Alibi Witness for Violet Sharpe. (Continued Prom First Page.) discrediting much of the defense evidence by cross-examination. State and defense counsel agreed that barring unforeseen developments the fate of Hauptmann mey go to & Jury by the end of the week, with the possibility of a verdict by Saturday. An acquittal verdict wculdymun lhlzt Hauptmann would be turned back | to Bronx County, N. Y. authorities | to face charges growing out of his having been found to possess Lind- bergh ransom money. A conviction of murder would call for e sentence of death in the electric chair at Trenton. The defense has more handwriting testimony to bolster that of its No. 1 expert, John M. Trendley of East St. Louis, Ill, who testified that Haupt- mann did not write the ransom notes. State experts said he did. More alibi witnesses also are to be called to add the weight of their words to those who elready have said | that Hauptmann was in the Bronx on the night the baby was stolen from his nursery in the Sourland Hills home of the Lindberghs. | Edward J. Reilly, chief of the de- | fense counsel, spent today in New York conferring with witnesses he ex- | pects to call. He believes that the | 30 persons he has under subpoenf can all give their testimony before the | end of Wednesday's court session, | unless cross-examination takes up more time than is anticipated. | The announcement that the State | will not attempt to elaborate rebuttal | led tonight to the prediction that the | presentation of arguments by counsel might begin Friday. | Other Alibi Witnesses. Among defense witnesses yet to be | heard are other persons who claim | to have been in the Frederickson bakery in the Bronx the night of the kidnaping, and to have seen Haupt- mann there. The defendant testified about six persons were in the shop. The defense also will seek to estab- lish the whereabouts of Hauptmann on the night of the ransom payment, April 2, 1932, through testimony of Hans berg, a friend, who allegedly spent the evening at the de- | fendant’s home, playing the mandolin with him. | Alibi witnesses for the night of November 26, 1934, when Hauptmann | allegedly tossed a ransom bill to a theater ticket seller in Greenwich Village, New York, include Mr. and | Mrs. Victor Schussler, residents in the | same Bronx house, and Henry Jung, a friend. They are to testify to at-| tending & party at the Hauptmann | apartment and seeing the defendant | there. Another defense witness probably | will be Henry Uhlig, another Bronx | friend, who was in business with | Fisch, the furrier, now dead, from whom Hauptmann said he received the ransom money for safekeeping. The defense indicated that two more alibi witnesses for the kidnap night would probably be called, one of them Ben Lupica, the Princeton student, who told of seeing a car with & ladder in it near the Lindbergh estate the afternoon of the kidnaping. Jury Statement Prepared. Anthony M. Hauck, jr., of the pros- ecution staff, began today the prep- aration of his statement to the jury, which will follow the close of the defense case and precede the defense summations. Hauck said that in about an hour's time he would out- | line to the jury the principal points the State believed it had proved. In New York tonight Reilly sought | to bolster the defense contention that | the condition of the skeleton found | near the Lindbergh home made it im- | possible to determine the cause of | death. He telegraphed Mayor La Guardia. | seeking permission for Dr. M. Edward | Marten, medical examiner for the| city in Brooklyn borough, to appear a8 a defense witness. Rellly said he sought him as an| “expert” witness. “I feel,” he sald in the telegram, ! “that he will be a very valuable wit- ness. He is ready and willing to testify, but he feels that he should | have your permission.” Rellly said he would call the mayor at his home tomorrow. He said also that he still is being “harassed by witness troubles.” TUBERCULOSIS SEAL INFORMATION SOUGHT Director of D. C. Association Asks Ministers and Ambassadors for Data on Work. A request for information on the character and extent their respective | governments have used Christmas | seals to finance tuberculosis work was | made yesterday to resident Ministers and Ambassadors by Ernest R. Grant, managing director, District of Co- Jumbia Tuberculosis Association. At the same time each of the diplo- mats was asked for any specimens of seals sold for this purpose in his own land. These seals are to be exhibited at the convention of the National Tuberculosis Association of New York and other State and city groups sffili- ated with the national body, to be held here this Fall. A Bank for the | Bruno Hauptmann, than he who sat May MR3. Give Alibi for Maid DWIGHT MORROW. BRUNDINPROVES N APPEARAKCE Step Quicker and Clothes | Neater After Months Spent in Jail. By the Assoclated Press. He is a different man tonight, this | in the New York City police station last September 20 and denied he was & murderer. | Then he was glum, heavy-lidded. a man hoisted from obscurity to world | notice on the spearpoint of accusa- tion. Today, after more than four months in full focus of public attention, after weeks of trial for the decade’s most | sensational crime, Hauptmann laughs. There is spring to his step. His eyes sparkle. Look at Hauptmann as he was last September, when he was arrested: His gray, double-breasted suit was out of press—not slovenly, but not neat, Clothes Untidy. His tie, a figured one through which ran in haphazard pattern a cobweb | design, was knotted loosely in his soft | collar. It flapped carelessly, wrong | side front, across his unbuttoned coat. The face of that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was solemn, sullen. The eyes showed only partly, for he kept his lids low, drooping. He was untidy i for need of a shave. He seemed tired. His hair gave just the suggestion | |of a part quite low on the left side |of his head. It was brushed back in | a hasty, uneven roll on the right side, | but carelessly, for a stray lock stood up, neglected by the brush. at about the spot on the head where men first get bald. His shoulders were broad, accen- tuated by the padding of the coat he wore. He talked sparingly. | Smiles, Makes Jokes. | That was the September Haupt- mann. Today, less than five months later: H He smiles. He chats. On the wit- ness stand, on trial for his life, he makes jokes He has develiped a spirit of cama- raderie. Gray continues to be Hauptmann's preferred suit color. But the gar- ments are neatly pressed. He keeps his coat buttoned. His cravat—no | longer permitted to flap at will—falls neatly from a knot that keeps his collar snappily shaped. The hair part is still on the left, but higher on the head. Now it is carefully combed and painstakingly brushed. There are no runaway locks or wandering hairs to mar its | precision. | A white handkerchief peeps from his breast pocket. | His composure is marked. ! Even rows of teeth show when he | smiles. | He walks with a spring to his step, easily; like a man going some place. | He is thinner by many pounds. His cheeks have the pallor jails make. Despite the accusation of the brutal crime—the | murder of & baby—he | looks very much better than he did in | September. Discard Taxed Radios. 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C. “Character and Earning Power Are the Basis of Credit” Pension Doubled, Ex-Queen Clings to Police Husband France Adds $333 a Year to Allowance for Salima Machimba. By the Associated Press. CLERY, France, February 2—A one time tropical queen, who found an energetic young French gendarme more fascinating than her crown, continues to raise chickens here de- spite her newly doubled government pension. “We go on tending the farm just | the same,” Camille Paule, policeman husband of Ex-Queen Salima Ma- | chimba of Mohilla Island, told his | village cronies when news.of the “raise” arrived France dug into its Colonial purse to add $333 to the annual stipend of the former Indian Ocean sovereign, giving her the grand total of $666 yearly. The erstwhile queen sticks close to her Burgundian “domain,” but Paule likes to swap yarns with his old comrades at police headquarters. When the Council of Ministers at Fomboni, Mohilla’s royal palace, de- cided 37 years ago that their young queen should go to Reunion Island to | complete her education by contact with French culture they failed to reckon with the French policeman. Salima's first sight of Reunion was Camille, in his gallant brass buttons and flowing cape, standing on the dock and looking out to sea. 100,000 Growing Food. More than 100,000 men, all drawing unemployment pay for public assist- ance, are growing food under the Cen- tral Allotment Committee’s project in England. DYNAMIT SEED WTH T IV DS Three Women Among Al- leged Bandits Jailed by Richmond Police. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 2.— Four men and three wumen, members of an alleged bandit gang, headed by the notorious Georgia outlaws, James Aubrey Smith and John Leland Hare vey, were arrested tonight by Riche mond police in swift raids on a West End residence and the John Marshall Hotel. Police said they had enough dyna- mite and nitroglycerine to “blow up the city of Richmond” and a kit of burglar tools termed the most com- plete ever seen here. Harvey and Smith, with a career of crime in Georgia, were pardoned last April by Gov. Eugene Talmadge while serving life sentences in the Georgia Penitentiary at Milledgeville, Ga. Surprised in Hotel. Smith and Harvey were taken una- wares in the hotel without an oppore tunity to offer resistance through a police ruse. Knowing that they had ordered food sent to their rooms, of- ficers trailed the waiter and rushed in with pistols when the door was opened. With Harvey was a man giving his name as Morris Twyman, 30; another booked as John Randall of Ashland, ‘ Ala.,, and two women who were reg- istered by police as Elsie McCall, 28, and Louise Reid, Macon, Ga. Baby Taken With Couple. A short time before the hotel raid | the officers swooped down on & West End residence and arrested Smith and Mrs. Morris Twyman. 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