Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1935, Page 5

* WILENTZ CLOSES, | DEMANDING DEATH | Fiery Summation Interrupt- ed by Shout of Minister Another Confessed. (Copyright, 1035, hy the Associated Press) | FLEMINGTON, N. J.. February 13.— An angry demand for Bruno Richard' Hauptmann's death sealed New Jersey's | se against him yesterday for the murder of Baby Lindbergh. * His voice raised in scorn and fu H Attorney General David T. Wilentz cried out in his all-day summation for | a jury mandate which will put Haupt- | mann in the electric chair, but as he | finished he was interrupted and the court room thrown into confusion by & spectator-clergyman’s shout. | From his perch on a windew sill of the jammed court room, Rev. Vincent G. Burns, a North Jersey pastor, in- terrupted the summation to cry: | “A man confessed that crime to me in my church.” He later said the man was not Hauptmann i Struggling, he was hauled down and taken aw: Later Justice Thomas W. Trenchard ordered him released, after instructing the jury to disregard the incident. The preacher had told | his story before to both prosecution and defense, but neither called him as a witness Hauptmann sat tight-lipped through- out Wilentz's fiery all-day summation as the prosecutor swung his fist and called him “the lowest form of ani- mal,” a pariah who “contaminates the air.* Anna Hauptmann was statuelike in her chair, but the jurors, by slight gestures and fleeting expressions, fre- quently betrayed their feelings. Hits Mercy Recommendation. Savagely Wilentz demanded that Hauptmann be put to death like a dangerous beast, and told the jury that a verdict of conviction with a recom- mendation of mercy would be “wishy- washy. Only would ness—He is cold, yes, but he will be thawed out when he hears the switch.” At times the prosecutor's passionate bursts of oratory all but left him ex- hausted. He shouted that the murder of the Lindbergh baby would be “insignifi cant” as compared to the “crime” of freeing Hauptmann, that “every wom- an in her home would shudder again.” Bitterly, Wilentz exclaimed of “per- jury” in the phoney defense” “Perjury is a joke in this case cried. T would swear to a thing, anything to save Hauptmann. the electric chair, he cried, Defends Others. His phrases dripped with scorn as he arraigned the “assassination” of Dr. James F. “Jafsie” Condon. the man who paid the Nurse Betty Gow. Ollie Whateley, the dead Lindbergh butler; Violet Sharpe. the suicide maid, and others. “Nothing too mean, nothing too dis- graceful. to plant some little germ of doubt in the mind of one juror, | their only hope.” he exclaimed He rebuked the defense contention that Col. Lindbergh could not have remembered the voice of the ransom man—the voice he swore was Haupt- mann’s. Could vou ever forget it2” Wilentz cried. “Would anybody ever forge! His hope!” Dr. Condon’s identification of Haupt- mann as the ransom “John” was enough in itself to convict the car- penter of first-degree murder, Wilentz contended Sees Gain in Loss. The attorney general concluded his plea with: “If this jury will do its duty. we can translate Col. Lind- bergh's loss and sorrow into some gain | for civilization. to show that whether we catch a man walking into the room or not. we can crush them, we can crush these snakes. we can crush these criminals: that society isn't so weak that we can't deal with them That’s the job that you can do. * * *” The court room was thrown into con- fusion by the cry of the minister from his window-sill perch. The court stenographer, the lawyers | and Justice Trenchard heard no more, apparently, than his words “If your | honor please—" { Those near him said he hollered: “A man confessed that crime to me in my church.” | An officer pulled Burns down from | the sill, clapped a hand over his | mouth and hustled him out. H ‘The justice rapped for order as the | excited crowd milled in the court room | after the jury had retired, ordered the deputies to clear the room and sum- moned counsel for a conference in his chambers. It was decided to let the clergy- man go. Burns first told his story at Fort Lee, N. J,, November 23, 1934, it was recalled yesterday. He announced then that a man had come to kis church on Palm Sunday of 1932 and “confided to me his part in a kidnaping crime.” Asked why he had not turned the man over to police, Burns said: “That was out of the question: he came to | my church for protection.” Wilentz charged that Hauptmann's defense against the charge he Kkid- | naped and murdered Baby Lindbergh was financed by “idiots, cranks and fool pleaded that no mercy be | shown. and dubbed him “public | enemy No. 1 of this world.” | He defended with vigor the circum- stantial evidence on which the State depends for conviction, and enumerated that part of the case which he said was not circumstance. About circumstantial evidence he said: “When it starts to scream all | the lip evidence in the world can't| overcome it.” As not circumstantial. he listed: The identification of Hauptmann by | Condon and Joseph A. Perrone, taxi | driver, who said Hauptmann paid him a dollar to deliver a ransom mote to Condon. Closet Board Cited. The board in the closet of Haupt- | manns’ home with writing on it by | Hauptmann—Dr. Condon’s _telephone | number and address—as admitted by Hauptmann in the Bronx. The idertification of Hauptmann by | Amandus Hochmuth, Millard Whited | and Ben Lupica as a man seen lurking | near the Lindbergh home before the ! crime. Col. Lindbergh's identification of | Hauptmann's voice as that of the man | he heard say “Hey, doctor,” in the Bronx cemetery ransom rendezvous. “The brokerage accounts, the sleep- ing garments and the $15,000 in gold in the garage is not circumstantial,” he said. “And any one of these things is sufficient.” Picking up one of the ransom notes and pointing to the mystic symbol for signature, he said: “And he (Hauptmann) put his sig- nature on there. There it is: The blue circle, the red center and the hole; B in blue for Bruno, R in red for Richard, hole’s H for Hauptmann. “Our signature.” Nobody could repro- duce that except Bruno Richard Hauptmann.” He pointed to Hauptmann's habit of placing the dollar sign ($) after . 4 ‘thaw out” Hauptmann's cold- | " het $50.000 ransom; | At left court house Hauptmann. at Flemington after At right the Lindbergh kidnaping to him. Attorney General David summing Dramatic photo shows officers evicting Rev from the court room after he had shouted that another man had confessed THE EVENING T. Wilentz in his car as he left the up the case against Bruno A. P. Photo. Vincent Burns —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. an amount, instead of before, and held up one of Hauptmann's own docu- ments to show that in this wise it com- pared with the ransom notes. He defended the elderly Dr. Condon | from the defense insinuations. “If the Lord ever spares me and I am one-half the man at Dr. John F. Condon, the doctor from the Brony, is, I want to tell you, if it is possible T will be more grateful I to the Lord than I can imagine any person is | For confrast to Dr. Condon Wilentz | referred to a defense witness, who, he aid, “was a perjurer who stunk to the heavens!” | As he reviewed the events that fol- lowed the kidnaping, the negotiations for the ransom and the sending of the | baby’s sleeping suit to Col. Lindbergh the prosecutor draped the _tiny pajamas across the jury rail. Some of the woman jurors gazed at it and swallowed. “Would Cut Out Heart.” The attorney general the cruelty of the futile searches Col. | Lindbergh was forced to make for his emphasized | baby, which then lay dead and un- | noticed in a shallow grave. He said ! of Hauptmann: “Why, he would cut out your heart, honestly, with a razor and think noth ing of it, and go upstairs and eat. That’s how cold-blooded derer is.” As to Isador Fisch, Hauptmann's alibi for the money found in his ga- rage and the target of the defense, this mur- | Group Retires After Judge’s Charge—Court Review Is Praised by Both Sides. _ (Continued From First Page) counsel—"I think it uation fairly well.” Doors Ordered Closed. The instructions began shortly after court opened at 10:02 am. The judge poiled the jury, asked if the defendant was in place and remarked “The cfficers will now close the doors and not let any people in or out until the jury his been instructed and retired.” All of the principals sat quiet and most of them showed the strain of the long trial. Hauptmann was gray- faced as usual. His wife, a few seats away. appeared haggard. Col. Lind- bergh watched the judge intently, his face serious. The judge told the jury it must be covered the sit- who charged he, not Hauptmann, Was | gyjded by the principles of law which the receiver of the ransom, Wilentz said the defense “didn't prove any- thing except that Fisch was a poor man, that he never owned an auto- mobile, had the cheapest room, that Fisch gave Hauptmann everything he had before he left, and that Haupt- mann supplied him with money for the trip (to Germany, where Fisch died of tuberculosis).” “We have treated this fellow (Hauptmann) entrely too well,” Wil- entz told the jury. “If I had my | he would set forth. He added that they were the sole judges of evidence, however. “You must not consider what I shall say concerning the evidence as being accurate, but you must depend upon your own recollection. You must not only consider the evidence to which I shall refer, but you must consider all of the evidence in the case.” Explains Legal Points. He explained the point of law which choice I wouldn:t get in the Same | requires the defendant to be proven room, I wouldn’'t become contami- guilty beyond a reasonable doubt be- nated. the same air. I feel itchy, I feel oozy, I just couldn't stand being anywhere near him. I never would walk into that jail even to get a confession from him “This murder of child,” he cried, “would shrink into absolute insignificance in comparison to the crime that would be committed if this man were freed. That would be the crime of the century. “To let him roam the streets of this country and make every woman in her home shudder again, real tragedy. an American tragedy.” Claims Baby Was Crushed. Wilentz contended, too, that Haupt- mann_‘“crushed” the baby into in- sensibility before- he took the child | | whether the defendant be guilt {is to be declared not guilty. J I wouldn't want to breathe | fore a conviction can be found. “If there be doubt he reasonable The evidence must establish the truth of the fact to a moral certainty, a cer- the Lindbergh | tainty that convinces and directs the understanding and satisfies the reason ! and judgment of those who are bound that would be a | from the nursery, that he used the | chisel found near the house for this | purpose. Thus, he explained, the baby made no outcry—a point the defense had | emphasized The excitement in the court plain- ly irritated Justice Trenchard, and after instructing the jury to disre- gard anything irrelevant they may have heard, he announced he would charge them today. The charge will probably be between 45 minutes and an hour in length. Burns was at the trial soon after it opened six weeks ago and studied Hauptmann'’s face to determine in his own mind if he was the same man as the one who ‘“confessed.” Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the State police, said Rev. Mr. Burns came to the authorities some weeks ago and told them that Haupt- mann was the man who had “con- fessed” to him. Earlier today the clergyman said that although the | man who came to his church ‘re- sembled Hauptmann” he was not as dark complexioned as the defendant. Was in Court All Day. A resident of Tenafly, Burns had been in court all day. The jury, once it receives the case tomorrow, will not be permitted to leave its guarded deliberation chamber in the rear of the court house. Nothing but food may be taken into the room. As for sleeping, the law allows the jurors to do as they will as long as they remain in the room. A guard of six uniformed troopers was assigned to the jury today on order of Justice Trenchard, to prevent “any annoyance” from the crowds in the court room and street. Attorney General Wilentz said “hys- terical” women in the crowd might seek to reach the jurors’ quarters and | attempt to influence them. The summation, at times, was little more than an angry tirade. Rambles Back and Forth. Wilentz rambled back and forth over the great field of circumstantial evidence, trying to link the carpenter with the kidnap ladder, the ransom notes, the baby’s sleeping garment, the $50,000 ransom collection, but ever and again he returned to Hauptmann himself to denounce him, to call him names, to call him public enemy of the world No. 1. He watched Wilentz as he had | Whateley | April to act conscienciously upon it." Reviewing the State's evidence, the court remarked: “The fact of death seems proved and admitted. “There is evidence from which you may conclude, if you see fit, that the person who carried away the child, entered the nursery or child’s bedroom through the southeast window of the nursery room by means of a ladder placed against the side of the house, under or near the window, and this occurred shortly after 9 o'clock at night.” Judge Trenchard reminded the jury of the scene about the Lindbergh house when the baby was stolen on the night of March 1, 1932. He re- called that Col. Lindbergh testified he heard a crash that sounded like wood on wood and that thereafter a broken ladder was found. to be Recalls Servants’ Stories. “Miss (Betty) Gow and Mrs. (Ollie) testified that later, about 1. 1932 the court went on. “they found the thumbguard, which Miss Gow had securely tied to the wrist of the child’s sleeping suit when she put him to bed: that they found this thumbguard in the road leading from the Lindbergh home and on the Lindbergh property, with the knot still untied, from which you may pos- sibly conclude that the sleeping suit was stripped off of the child at that place.” The jury was instructed that it may conclude from the evidence that the baby was stolen by some one who entered the nursery of the Lindbergh home through the window by means of a ladder. The defense had contended the baby was carried down the stairs of the home by some one on the “inside” and that the ladder was a plant. Sleeping Suit Cited. The court also charged the jury that it may conclude the baby's sleeping watched Reilly, With interest, but he seemed no more touched by the attor- ney general's invective than he had when Reilly defended him. One by one, Wilentz took the six persons whose character Reilly had attacked and whom, by insinuation, he had tried to connect with the crime—Betty Gow, Violet Sharpe, Ollie Whateley, Henry “Red” Johnson, Isadore Fisch and Dr. Condon. “So far as Hauptmann is concerned, he could have had 50 help him; if he participated in this murder that’s all you have got to deal with,* Wilentz said. “He (Reilly) can bring in Violet Sharpe’s corpse and body and lay it right alongside of him if he wants; he can bring Isador Fisch's grave from Germany and put it alongside of him. That doesn’t help this de- fendant in this case a bit." 3 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ——————————————————————————————e ettt HAUPTMANN FATE INHANDS OF JURY suit was stripped from it at the point at which the nurse. Betty Gow, said she found its thumbguard. This evidence was important to the State’s case because the baby's body was found in Mercer County. Haupt- mann is charged with murder in Hunterdon County. “The State contends that the un- contradicted evidence of Lindbergh and Dr. (Charles) Mitchell and other evidences justifies the reasonable in- ference that the felonious stroke oc curred in East Amwell township in Hunterdon County, when the child was seized and carried out of the nursery window and down the ladder { by the defendant, and that death was instanteous; and from the evidence you may conclude, if you see fit, that the child was feloniously stricken on the first day of March at the township of East Amwell in this county and died as a result of that stroke.” Reviewing the ransom negotiations. in which Dr. Condon said he paid Lindbergh's $50.000 to Hauptmann | Justice Trenchard said “It is argued that Dr. Condon’s testimony is inherently improbable and should in part be rejected by vou. but you will observe that his | testimony is corroborated in large part by several witnesses whose credibility has not been impeached in any man- ner whatsoever “Of course, if there is in the minds of the jury a reasonable doubt as to the truth of any testimony. such testimony should be rejected, but. upon the whole, is there any doubt in your mind as to the reliability of Dr. Condon’s testimony?" “It is argued,” Justice Trenchard said, “that Col. Lindbergh could not have identified ‘that voice and that it 1s unlikely that the defendant would have talked with Condon. Well. those questions are for the determination of this jury.’ Cites Defense Theory. As to the gang theory expounded by the defense chief, Reilly, the court said: “It is argued by defendant’s coun- sel that the kidnaping and murder was done by a gang and not by the defendant and that the defendant was in no wise concerned therein. The argument was to the effect that it was done by a gang with the help or connivance of some one or more ser- vants of the Lincbergh or Morrow households. “Now, do you believe that? Is there | | | | any evidence in this case whatsoever | to support any such conclusion?” The doors of the court room were locked as the charge was given. The Associated Press, the only news service subscribing to the official transcript of the proceedings, was able, however, to report the instructions as they were delivered. The judge declared it a matter of | importance as to whether Hauptmann | wrote the original ransom note which was found in the Lindbergh nursery and the 13 notes that followed. He recalled the numerous State ex- perts testifying that Hauptmann wrote them, Hauptmann's denial and the testimony of one defense expert who said Hauptmann did not write them. He said: “The weight of the evidence to prove the genuiness of handwriting is wholly for the jury. About the disputed panel in Haupt- | mann’s closet which bore the pen- cilled telephone number and address of Dr. Condon, he said: “If you believe that he did (write Most-Disputed Fight for Bruno Waged : Da | By the Acsociated Press. | FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 13. —Here are salient points in the prose- | cution and defense cases in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann: The kidnap ladder—The State charged Hauptmann built it, using a board from his attic for one of the | rails. A wood expert testified the | other lumber in it came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann | worked and bought lumber. Defense | witnesses denied the one rail was #ade with a board from the attic and challenged the authenticity of inden- tifying nail holes. The defense charged the ladder was “planted.” The ransom notes—Eight hand- writing experts testified for the State that Hauptmann wrote all 14 notes. One defense expert said Hauptmann could not have written them and that they were in a disguised or copied hand. The ransom money—The Staté™ac- cused Hauptmann of hiding $14,600 in ransom notes in his garage because he knew it was Lindbergh money. Further prosecution testimony was » Dramatic Moments in Closing of Famous Trial I the notations on the panel) although he now denies it. you may conclude that it throws light upon the ques- tion whether or not he was dealing with Dr. Condon.” On the discovery of ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, the court re- marked: “Does it not appear that many thousands of dollars of ransom bills were found in his garage, hidden in the walls or under the floor, that | others were found on his person when he was arrested and others passed by nim from time to time * * * “The defendant says that these | ransom bills, moneys, were left with | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1935. fact and determine their credibility as affected thereby.” | His remark on circumstantial evi- | dence was: | “When the case against the de- fendant is made up wholly of a chain | of circumstances and there is reason- | able doubt as to any fact the existence | of which is essential to establish gullt, | the defendant should be acquitted. “It is not sufficient that the circum- stances prove, coincide with, account for and therefore render probable the hypothesis that is sought to be estab- | lished by the prosecution. They must exclude to a moral certainty every other hypothesis, but the single one of guilt.” Jury Listens Intently. | The jurors seemed oblivious to the | court room scene. They had eyes only for the justice as he leaned slightly forward toward them and talked. Juror No. 3, Mrs. Verna Sny- | der, was the only one in the box who | occasionally took her glance from | Justice Trenchard. Once she stared | at Hauptmann, and then dropped her | eyes meditatively to look at the jury rail before her. Then she returned to watch the jurist on the bench. All the while Justice Trénchard's charge continued the lawyers at the | defense table attended studiously, cc- | casionally making notes on some | point. The prosecution attorneys listened in various attitudes of atten- tion and few notes were taken at their table. Hauptmann Scans Jury. Then abruptly it was all over. The | lawyers arose as the jurors, carrying coats and hats, filed soberly from the | jury box, past the prosecution table, past Hauptmann and his wife, past the defense table and out of court to the bare, virtually unfurnished room in the back of the court house where they will deliberate. Hauptmann gave each face one last searching look and then settled back a little in his chair. Mrs. Haupt- mann had words of encouragement to say to him, but he listened absently, glancing once toward the door through which the jurors had quietly de- parted. The jury returned to the court house this morning under a guard, | beayy and formidable enought to be worthy of a President. But the crowds of yesterday. the throngs that jammed Main street from curb to curb, flowing across the sidgewalks and up to the porch of the Union Hotel. were missing Shortly before court opened there were only a few hundred persons around the court house. But the State police were every- where in evidence, men in bright powder-blue tunics, guarding the doors of the court house, stationed on the steps under the old ionic facade and across the broad sidewalk Clusters of people were on the Union Hotel porch, on the sidewalks and in the streets, watching sound motion picture men setting up their machines, watching photographers at work As 10 o'clock drew near a feeling of tenseness became noticeable every- him by one (Isidor) Fisch, a man now dead. Do you believe that?” ! He told the jury it might also con- | sider the evidence that shortly after | the delivery of the ransom mann began to purchase stock in a| much larger way and to spend more | freely. Th asked: “Do you be- | lieve his testimony that the money | was left with him in a shoe box, and | that it rested on the top shelf in his closet for several months? | “His wife, as I recall it. said she never saw the box and I do not re- call thai any witness. excepting the defendant, testified that they ever| saw the shoe box there.” On the State's important laddrr! evidence, the court asked the jurors: | “Does not the evidence satisfy you | that at least a part of the wood from which the ladder was built came out | of the flooring of the attic of the| defendant?” “If you find that the murder was| | committed by the defendant in per- | petrating a burglary it is murder in| the first degree,” the court said, “even | though the killing was unintentional. | “If there is a reasonable doubt that | the murder was committed by the de-| fendant in perpetrating a burglary, he | must be acquitted If you find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree you may, if you see fit, by your verdict and as a part thereof recommend impuison- ment at hard labor for life.” | Referring to the testimony of Ar- thur Koehler, wood expert, on the ladder, the court said “You should consider the marks upon the wood and give the evidence in respect thereto such weight esj vou think it entitled to after a con- sideration of the credibility of the witness.” As to Hauptmann's own testimony: “His interest in the result may be ! taken into consideration on the ques- tion of whether he is telling the truth. His previousconvictions of | | crime may be consi d only as af- fecting his credit as a witness.” Of Amandus Hockmuth, the aged man who said he saw Hauptmann with a ladder in a car near the Lindbergh home on the day of the crime “This testimony, if true, if highly significant. Do you think that there is any reason, upon the whole. to | doubt the truth of the old man’s tes- timony? May he hot have well and easily remembered the circumstance, I‘in view of the fact that that very night the child was carried away As to Hauptmann's alibi witnesses, the judge told the jury: | “You should consider the fact, | where it is the fact, that several of | the witnesses have been convicted of crime and determined whether or not | | their credibility has been affected | thereby. And where it appears that witnesses have made contradictory Haupt- | ! { building directly where. The jury had breakfasted. as had dined last night, under a uard of six State troopers in addi- to the deputy sheriffs who have been on duty throughout the trf®t. | All night the troopers had stood on duty in the hotel. lest some one try to get near the eight men and four women who will decide Hauptmann's fate, Room Above éell Of Bruno Set Aside For Use of Jurors | By the Assoctatea press FLEMINGTON, J.. February 13.—A room directly above Bruno Hauptmann's jail quarters is set aside for the deliberations of his jurors. The cheerless. on the third floor of the new jail behind the court room was provided with chairs and a makeshift stand, on which trial exhibits could be examined. The three windows look out on a narrow court between the court house and the jail. On the second floor of the jail beneath the room is Haupt- mann’s cell. Special padlocks were installed on all doors leading from the witness room to offices on the third floor, to assure no interference with the jury during its deliberations. A passage- way connects the witness room with the court room. statements you should consider that Points in Case on Ladder and Ransom ‘ Notes and Alibis for Important tes. that Hauptmann spent the rest of the $50,000 ransom in speculating in stocks and in living expenses over a two and one-half year period. Hauptmann said the money was in a shoe box left with him by Isador | Pisch before Fisch sailed for Germany, where he died. He said he played the stock market with savings and with money made in the fur business with Fisch. Hauptmann's alibis—Hauptmann, his wife and other defense witnesses testified that on the night of the kid- naping he was at the Bronx bakery where his wife worked. Prosecution witnesses swore Hauptmann was near | the Lindbergh estate early that night. The State attacked the veracity of some of Hauptmann's alibi witnesses. Defense witnesses said Hauptmann was at home enjoying “moosic” the night the ransom was paid. Dr. John F. Condon, ransom intermediary, and Col.. Charles A. Lindbergh identified Hauptmann as the “John” who re- ceived the ransom money. A theater ticket seller testified Hauptmann used a ransom note to buy a ticket in November, 1933. Hauptmann and other defense wit- nesses sald he was at home at a ! birthday party that night. A Your | vinced bare witness room ' *% A5 BRUNOMAYASK PUBLICITY ONTAX FEDERAL RULING, RETURNS FOUGHT Constitutionality of Jersey Income Filing Date Next Law Involved in Case Doubted by Defense. By the Associated Press FLEMINGTON. N. J, February 13.—The New Jersey statute under which Bruno Richard Hauptmann may be convicted of murdering the Lindbergh baby may be taken to the United States Supreme Court for a test of its constitutionality. Although defense counsel said they were confident the jury would acquit, a member of the defense staff ex- pressed the opinion & Federal ques- tion was involved. The indictment against Hauptmann was drawn, almost word for from an act, passed about 1895, whic provided that a culprit could b charged with first-degree murder if a killing occurred during the com- mission of a high misde: nor, such as burglary. A member pointed out that a conviction for first-degree murder, carrying the death penalty, could not be returned by the jury unless they were con- the killing occurred during the commission of the underlying crime, burglary The prosecution burglary continued as long as the kidnaper was in flight and conse- quently, with the death of the baby occurring at the foot of the kidnaj ladder, a murder conviction was legal The defense counsel pointed however, that the criterion of had not been ruled on by the Uni States Supreme Court POLITICAL LEADER DIES Fatal 60. of the defense staff c contended the Crash Injury Proves to Jerome T. Fuller, BIRMINGHAM. Ala., February 13 (#).—Jerome T. Fuller, 60, a leading political figure in Alabama for many vears, died here terday from ir juries received in an automobile acci- dent last week. A native of Centerville, Ala., was State compaign manager fc b. M. Miller and Senator Bankhead in 1930 against t Locke *“Jeffersonian” ti Mayor Frank Dixon race for Governor. he EARNS WAY WITH BONES ITHACA N. Y, February 13 (#) Hy Sachs, Cornell junio:, is payi his expenses through college bones. He collegts from frogs to horses assembles them, and students, schools. museums and private individuals. Now he has regular sources of clude circuses, lion f West, game farms and farme; Ithaca. skeletons of | 'AnEJReunions to Be Talked ] Month Brings Bill—Crime Aid Cited. By the Associated Press With the approach of another in- come tax filing date next month, a drive is being pushed in Congress to stop publicity about taxpeyers' re- turn mplaining that is “the great- est scientific aid ever given to crimi- nals,” Representative Bell, Democrat of Missouri, introduced a bill yester- day to repeal the section in the 1934 revenue act which makes portions of the returns able public in- spection. His was the second step toward this end at t ion Kidnaping Feared “The publicity on Income tax in- formation would allow kidnapers to ply scientifically their nefarious prac- eatest menace to the ' said Bell, a former it Court judge property who had recently Id be the living noter of fraudu- and rackets. Busi- be subjected to unfair pulous competi- owners an come i ¢ Bacon. Republican of ) calls the present law to snooping.” is the the 0 strike 1 Recovery all re- “public record Publicity Held Unnecessary. is unnecessary, hold- law supersedes Bacon says thi the subject ation in tr se i of more form of a h, Republi- re the Treas- House with a list securities oided House from com- oposals, but members r opposi- income tax in- other have expresed iblication of China Pre- sented Illinoisan by Sailor. BLOOMINGTON. I February 13 1! feels like doing he can heave a Relic From Wall of of the Great 1 Correll by a member Chaumont. By Bruno Jurors After Trial By the Associated Press FLEMINGTON. N.J.. February 13— A plan for a permanent organiza of the Hauptmann jury in order hold a reunion party once a vear w be discussed when the trial ends. Ode Baggstrom. chief j ble. sa “I think they'll be in favor of it." said Baggstrom, “an organization with a president and secretary annual affair and re-enact old “We'd have dinner in the Union Hotel dining room again. behind screens, but with no State troopers Baggstrom said maybe the “affair” would be a birthday party “jus we had for Mrs. Ethel Stockton Constable Sue Dilts. with music and dancing afterw “We'd shake the roof ce ting ‘The oldest juror, Philip Hockenb: and victrola would be 33 rd for them all Most of here.” I wondering bachelor. Robert arried when reunion organization idea He watched the flower as the jury took ins in his school bus he second-floor veranda of t “Thi should be preserved,” t has been suggesfed is jurors’ 22 children as Thoughtfulness is on Trial . . . 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