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* BRUNO IS BODED | ONENTERING CRLL Police Believe Threat to Jersey Governor Was Work of “Crank.” (Continued From First Page.) Harry O. McCrea made a leisurely trip to Trenton, covering the 24 miles through open countryside in 55 min- utes. Hauptmann's farewell to Flemington as to autograph three pictures of himself, taken by newspaper men on one of the prisoner’s trips through the library to the court room. Sends Photo to Mother. He asked that one be given to his wife and another be sent to his mother, Frau Pauline Hauptmann, who lives in Kamenz, Saxony, Ger- | many. The third he gave to Hovey Low, deputy sheriff who sat beside Hauptmann throughout the trial. ‘The prisoner said little on the trip, smoked four cigarettes, watched an airplane overhead. He was bracing himself, his guards felt, for what may be his last public stand. Photographers asked the prisoner to pose for a last picture. He obliged Some one put a microphone in front of him. “I'm innocent,” he said His guards whisked him away. Once inside the jail Hauptmann ‘went through the same procedure that | all prisoners do. His commitment pa- | pers, signed by C. Lloyd Fell, Hunter- | don County clerk, were presented to | Irving Bleam, prison clerk Down the main corridor he walked, out into the sunlight as he.crossed a small yard, and into the red brick | death house, where six others await | death. A few minutes after entering the | prison he was stripped of his familiar gray shirt and he doomed the bluish ! gray prison uniform. Within an hour | he ate his dinner of sauerkraut and | pork, coffee, bread and dessert. Jailer Is Severe. i Col. Selby, stern disciplinarian, said he would stand for no “circus” while Hauptmann is an inmate. Little | news of Hauptmann’s activities will | seep outside, and Hauptmann, de- | prived of newspapers, will learn little of what the world says of him. . He may see his wife or blood relative once a month, but he will not be per- mitted to see his son Mannfried until the week before he dies Two guards will constantly patrol the death house corridor. While Hauptmann ponders his fate and his lawyers prepare their appeal, State’s attorneys and State witnesses scattered afar. Attorney General Wilentz, and an assistant, Robert Peacock, hurried off to Forlda for a two-week vacation. Hunterdon County Prosecutor An- thony M. Hauck, jr., planned to follow them tomorrow. Betty Gow sailed on the Berengaria for her native Scotland, and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Anne Lindbergh, prepared to depart for Mexico, D. F. U. S. PROBE ORDERED. Agents Inclined to Blame “Nut” for Letter. Two Department of Justice agents have been ordered to stop off in Tren- ton to investigate the receipt of death THE - SUXDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 17, 1935—PART ONE. s A8 Do Faces Reveal Character?—Study These During the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, many persons main- tained his face was “too kind” for that of a kidnaper or baby slayer. But the accompanying faces seem to leave in doubt just what a kidnaper or murderer’s face looks like. In the center at top is a sketch by Norman Sudduth, depicting what the average person thinks a confirmed criminal O = No. 1—William Edward Hickman, confessed kid- naping 12-year-old Mar- ian Parker of Los An- geles and returning her mutilated body to her father after the ransom had been paid. He was electrocuted. No. 2—Murray Hum- phries, Al Capone's lieu- tenant and successor as Chicago’s public enemy No. 1. Now serving 18 month in Leavenworth Penitentiary for tax eva- sion. Questioned in nu- merous gang killings, in- cluding the St. Valen- tine’s day massacre. No. 3—Kenneth Neu, condemned and hanged at New Orleans this month for the slaying of Sheffield Clark, Nashville business man. Forty-five minutes before the hang- threats by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard and members of the Haupt- mann jury, it was admitted by the de- partment yesterday afternoon. The agents are stationed in that area. A department spokesman said that the action was taken in spite of their belief that the letter was written by s “nut” and the fact that death threats ordinarily are not held within the jurisdiction of the Federal de- partment. The letter itself had not been turned over to the department yesterday afternoon, it was said, al- though its receipt and subject matter had been made known to them. At the inspector’s office of the Post Office Department, it was learned that no action had been taken, but that an inquiry might be instituted upon Tequest of New Jersey authorities. Since the letter bore a Washington postmark, the investigation would start in this city, it was said. WILENTZ SEES U. S. SAFER FOR VERDIC Hopes Bruno May Deter Others From Crime—Begins Florida Vacation. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., February 16.1 —David T. Wilentz, dapper prosecu- tor of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, came here tonight on vacation and expressed this belief: “I am sure most of the people feel the United States is just a little bit safer for the conviction of Haupt- mann.” Not Hauptmann as a man sen- tenced to die in the electric chair for slaying the Lindbergh child, but as & symbol that may deter “some one else from crime” leads Wilentz to this belief, he said. As for himself, after he and Mrs. ‘Wilentz had penetrated with diffi- culty the crowd that greeted them at the railway station, the New Jer- sey attorney general said: “Who remembers the prosecutor of Judd Gray? Of Ruth Snyder? Within & few weeks the public will have for- gotten me, too.” Wilentz later talked of the case as he and Mrs. Wilentz—“My very cap- able associate”—prepared for a Flor- ida stay of several weeks. He thinks the conviction of Hauptmann “will be affirmed” by the Supreme Court. Condon Goes to Panama. NE® YORK, February 16 (#).—Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, who testi- fled against Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, sailed today on a 17-day cruise : to Panama. ‘He was in a gay mood and tossed confetti and serpentine to the group on the pier, which included Al Reich, former heavyweight fighter and Jaf- sie’s companion and bodyguard. BAG OF GEMS LOST Mrs. Cabot Stevens Offers Reward for Return of Heirlooms. Mrs. Cabot Stevens of 1516 Webster street last night reported the loss of Jewelry worth some thousands of dol- lars contained in a small chamois bag which she believes she dropped in the downtown business district late yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Stevens said the bag, inclosed in a linen envelope-shaped cover, ap- parently slipped from a pocket in which it was pinned. She offered & reward for the return of the gems, capsisting of pearls and diamonds which she sald were family heirlooms. ing Neu sang “Love in Bloom” in a cheerful voice. No. 5—Bruno Richard Hauptmann. No. 6—George “Machine Gun” Kelly, con- victed and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping. Kelly is No. 4—George McGee, who, with his brother Walter perpetrated the Mary McElroy kidnaping in Kansas City. Miss Mc- Elroy, released for $30,- 000 ransom, pleaded for leniency at their trial, having George McGee's sentence held to life im- prisonment. Walter was sentenced to death. in Alcatraz Prison, Island” for hardened criminals. the Federal “Devil's No. 7—Thomas Robinson, jr., wanted by the Department of Justice in the kidnaping of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll of Louisville, Ky. Rob- inson, who has a criminal record and has been committed once for a 30-day observa- tion in a Tennessee asylum, is still at large. No. 8—Verne Miller, named as one of the machine gunners at the Kansas City Union looks like. Hauptmann’s photo is surrounded by those of men charged with all sorts of crimes, ranging from tax evasion to murder and kid- naping. The Department of Justic enemies. convicted appear below: Station massacre and later slain by sters “to keep his mouth shut.” No. 9—Verne Sankey, 2d, in Denver. Sankey committed by hanging in his cell at the South State Prison. No. 10—Richard Loeb (left), and Nathan Leopold, jr., now serving life terms for the kidnaping and murder of little Robert in Chicago, a brutal crime that at world-wide attention. No. 11—Henry Judd Gray, accomplice to “sash welght” murder of Albert Snyder, art editor of a Ruth Snyder in the brutal South Dakota farmer, arrested with his wife and Gordon Alcorn in the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, e brands some of them as public ‘The identity of the men and the crimes of which they were motor boating magazine. Both Mrs. Snyder and Gray died in the elec- tric chair. No. 12—Robert Ed- wards, Wilkes-Barre, P youth, convicted of ing Freda McKechnie at a lake resort. The trial attracted much attention as another version of “An American Tragedy.” Young Edwards was de- nied a new trial last No- vember, but has an ap- peal pending in the Penn- sylvania Supreme Court. The death sentence was pronounced, but no date has been set for execu- tion, pending the court action. No. 13—Harry Pierpont, another of the Dillinger gangsters. Pierpont was found guilty in the Sar- ber slaying and sent to the electric chair. No. 14—Gordon Alcorn, companion of Verne San- key in the Boettcher kid- naping, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in Leavenworth. He began his term on February 10, 1934. No. 15—Harvey Bailey, considered by the De- partment of Justice to be one of foremost bad men and jail escape artists. He is serving a life term on Alcatraz Island for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel. A.P.and Wide World Photos. gang- suicide Dakota Franks tracted “As Good as Fingerprints,” Says Koehler of Ladder Marks | Regional Convention to Draw By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—The plane marks on the ladder used in the kidnaping of the son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh ‘were prac- tically as good as fingerprints” in de- termining the builder, Arthur Koehler, wood expert and witness for the prosecution in the Hauptmann trial, declared tonight in a radio address broadcast by National Broadcast- ing Co. Koehler, a Federal employe, com- pared the annual rings of each tree to fingerprints, also, and said no two e aidke, “One end of the kidnaping ladder rail showed exactly the same width and variation in width of the rings as one end of the board from Haupt- mann’s attic, which left no doubt in my mind they once were one board.” Koehler told how the lumber was traced by means of marks “of the machine planer on the two bottom | rails” to the Dorn Co., McCormick, S. C. From there, he said, it was traced to the Bronx in New York. He sald he recognized the “ridges left by a hand plane on one of the Note Threatens ladder rails and on the rungs’ as possible clues as to whose tools were used to make the ladder. “It was obvious that the knife in that plane had numerous nicks on the cutting edge and that there could be only one plane in the whole world that could have left that tell-tale pattern,” he said. “Not only was the plane found in practically the same condition that it was when the ladder parts were planed, but other wood planed with the same plane was found in Haupt- mann's garage.” PILOT & WANTED Applicants Are Sought by Civil Service Commission. Uncle Sam would like to hire a sea- going pilot and tugmaster. ‘The job is at the Norfolk Navy Yard and pays $3,000, and applications will | be received at the Civil Service Com- mission, Seventh and F streets. Aspirants must have handled ves- sels of at least 10,000 tons. Death Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. the first Jersey with a “death fore February 27. page of a note threatening Gov. Hoffman of New of revenge” if Bruno Hauptmann’s sentence is not ‘The jury and Justice Trenchard, who uptmann, also were threatened. Federal agents are trying ¢ [ RETAIL CREDIT MEN | GONVENE TOMORROW | Delegates From Seven States. Easley Banquet Speaker. Retail credit men from seven States will gather in Washington tomorrow | and Tuesday for the eighth annual | meeting of the Columbia Regional Conference of Credit Bureau Execu- tives. Sessions will be held the Mayflower Hotel. J. Bert Easley of the Federal Hous- ing Administration will be the princi- pal speaker at the banquet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Italian gardens of the Mayflower. The conference is to be held under | the auspices of the Associated Retail Credit Men of Washington, and credit men from Delaware, Maryland, New | Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, | Virginia, West Virginia and New York will attend. 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NEW ADVERTISING TALK SERIES WILL COMMENCE The first of a new series of “Short ‘Talks on Advertising,” prepared for broadcasting by the Bureau of Re- search and Education of the Adver- tising Federation of America, will be given tomorrow at 6:05 p.m. over Station ,WRC. Norman C. Kal, president of the give the first address, his topic being “Your Interest in Advertising.” This is the third series of five- minute radio talks presented weekly over stations throughout the country. We Can Save You Money Hot-Water HEAT If you plan to buy hot-water heat. or to replace your worn-out boiler see us. We are heating ex- rts and seli the famous American diator Products. recognized as the world's finest. You are not obligated to buy hen you call upon us for an esti- ate. Let us talk over with you your heating requirements. We also handle repair work. 10,000 ON PAROLE REARRESTEDINU.S. Crimes Range From Lar- ceny to Murder, 1934 Survey Shows. BY REX COLLIER. More than 10,000 convicts listed as under parole or sentence were re- arrested during 1934 for crimes rang- ing from larceny to murder. These beneficiaries of official | leniency expressed their gratitude to | society by committing, according to charges placed by police, 14 murders, 86 assaults, 126 robberies, 240 burg- | laries, 384 larcenies, 45 forgeries or counterfeiting offenses, 16 crimes in- volving rape and many other lesser offenses. | These figures, disclosed by the Justice Department’s division of in- | vestigation in a summary of crime | statistics for the past year, tend to | corraborate Director J. Edgar Hoover's | declaration that “parole today is be- | coming one of the major menaces of | America.” Through misapplication of parole, Hoover asserted, “convicts are being freed with little or no supervision and often with no sound reason for re- ! lease.” The records of some States in this connection, he has asserted, are “a disgrace to America.” ' Hoover Places Blame. “To my mind,” Hoover said last week, “there can be only one reason | why thousands upon thousands of men who have repeatedly committed crimes are set free to commit other | and often more dangerous offenses against the law. This is the failure | of public officials to faithfully carry out their public trust, placing para- mount the welfare and interests of society.” | Of 10,293 persons arrested last year while on parole or while still under | sentence om previous charges (sus- {pended sentences and releases on bond pending appeal are included in ! the latter category) 380 had been con- | 1 victed previously of criminal homicide. | 1.788 had been convicted of robbery, | 1353 of assault, 2,798 of burglary, 2.610 of larceny and related offenses, | 606 of forgery and counterfeiting, 155 | of rape, 151 of drug law violations, 76 of carrying weapons and related of- fenses and 30 of driving while in- toxicated. Of 127,858 repeaters (technically termed recidivists) arrested during the year, 2,597 were on parole at the time and 7,696 were under various sentences, These repeaters had been convicted of thousands of major crimes. Nine hundred and nine had been convicted of criminal homicide, 4,394 of rob- bery, 4,18¢ of assault, 11,557 of bur- tomobile theft, 2,685 of embezzlement | and fraud, 3,079 of forgery and| counterfeiting, 631 of rape, 2,427 of drug law violations, 1,274 of carrying concealed weapons and 1,084 of driv- ing while intoxicated. New Crime Analysis. An analysis of new crimes charged against the 809 who had been con- victed of criminal homicide shows that 30 faced new charges of crim- inal homicide, 59 were charged with robberies, 112 with assault, 42 with burglary, 134 with larceny, 6 with forgery and counterfeiting, 9 with rape, 5 with drug law violations, 35 with carrying concealed weapons and 10 with driving while intoxicated. Twenty per cent of all persons ar- rested for criminal homicide had pre- vious criminal records. The same percentage applied to those arrested | for driving while drunk. The class of criminals with the highest per- centage of previous crimes—&60.1—was that of narcotic law violators. UTLITES PARLE (PN THURSDA Public Ownership to Be Dis- cussed by 51 at Session Here. With 51 speakers of national note on its five-day program, the ninth bi- ennial conference of the Public Own- ership League of America will open Thursday morning in the Willard Ho- tel in co-operation with the National Municipal Utilities' Association, the People’s Lobby and 23 other affiliated Women are not the repeaters that men are, the crime reports revealed. | Of 23,645 women arrested, only 222 | per cent had previous nngerprlnfl cards on file, as compared to 352 per cent for all persons involved in the study. Only 2 per cent of the 10,293 persons arrested while on pa- role or under sentence were women. | The statistics were compiled from fingerprint records received by the bureau’s identification unit during the last year. The records showed that | 220470 persons were charged with | major crimes, such as murder, rob- bery and assault, and 114,112 with minor offenses, such as vagrancy, dis- orderly conduct, traffic violations and drunkenness. Celebrate Founder's Day. The local chapter of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity will hold its Founders’ day anniversary at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Mayflower Hotel. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, retired, will speak betore the group. Reservations may be made through Roger L. Baldwin, 632 In- vestment Building. groups. The conference, billed as one on “public ownership and permanent prosperity,” will embrace within its scope many phases of social, economic and industrial problems. It will con- clude with an informal banquet Mon- day evening, February 25. The address of the president of the conference, Willis J. Spaulding, com- missioner of public property of Spring- field, Ill.. will be made at the opening session on Thursday at 9 am. There will be an address of welcome by Dis- trict Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. The scope of the program includes public utilities, natural resources, | finance, municipal problems, labor, | agriculture, co-operation, political ac- |tion and international relations. Senator-elect Holt of West Virginia will speak Thursday afternoon on “The Progressive and Public Owner- ship Movement in West Virginia.” “Knoxville’s Municipal istribution System for T. V. A. Power” will be the | topic of R. E. McDonnell, consulting ! engineer of Kansas City, Mo. The Night Final Edition on White Paper The use of pink paper has been discontinued in the Night Final Edition of The Evening Star and hereafter the front page of this edition will be printed on White paper. RED STARS A row of Red Stars is printed down the right-hand margin of the front page to identify the Night Final Edition. Call National 5000 and order the “Night Final” delivered regularly to your home, and delivery will start immediately. 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