Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1936 — Page 3

MIN HUNT I COST MILLION TO PUT I HAUPTMANN ON TRIAL ''W nf German Carpenter Sealed By Testimony WXf Lindberghs, “Jafsie,” Osborn And Koehler ' | n The Sensational Murder ( ase , j April -I. (U.RX-It took *1,200,000 and mom linin' lg Bol k by police and federal agents to bring Bruno „ t,, trial in Hunterdon County Courthouse on Jan. ■

that lay Haupti'"i >“ f, °" l ’ h " Jai !. liy Hn Smith of the New * Lr Ih'h-‘’“l th.puty I-*'" of Hunterdon -•■r’. Th „ ]„;■ »■'" s " a, " d hi ' ir " a cua,d <de hinL hall ° n " ' e and brown that wasn't twhat ev‘*WLiv , ... ~| :::-t Hauptmann ' , hp u . IV he ,ombed I-'"" 1 l "‘ th '' I,,f ' of ri s’>' i" iU ‘ ab 'o pla'h " who would be m identify him. tenor -aid Egbett Roset defense counsel. "'I move to 'he New Jersey of Mr Edward J. Reilly of nelly m M ° rnin 9 Court stood up Reilly who had ■acquittals in 1.000 homicide heavy red faced man in ; trousers and morning coat. Vr are glad to have you with ■"■ Mr Ib'iily '' 'I' 11 ' 1 " 1 Trenchard nations most sensational trial was on. a day and a half to get of » and '•iglit (kt.-ral Pavid T Wilbad never prosecuted a crimi h.. found himself in little courtroom at Fleming:Kit.r- the h-'.it of so many hit-paik-’d into so small a -. three hours He laid his ■ • 'hat the < line ' Hgj ’.he:; \r i.-ntz walked halfj.ross the . mirtroom "Mrs. will you- take the Lndbergs Dressed in Black had on a little black hat lost in the l>ig oak witness «•„. io it of the shirt was w. night he kidnaped. liiat'a the shirt,” she said. back her grief. witness said Wilentz. the court. - . , Colonel Next Witness Was next. He had i in court all the time, sitting eight feet from Hauptmann the prosecution table. He two pieces of testiHe said he heard a crash night of the kidnaping— like a crate breaking" the state let the jury assume Wls the kidnaper s ladder Th»n Lindbergh told of April 2,1 .32, to St. Ray-Ceni-tery in the Bronx Dr. John F (Jafsie) Condon box full of ransom money, beard a voice, he said calling doctor, over here," a voice Condon • the rendezvous. * as Hauptmann's voice,” Lindbergh calmly. tarae the "three old men” '^■pt^s.. s who were so damaging at Ha uptmann that Justice a >“ 'al."d their testimony %- »»charge to the jury. brst was Amandus Hoch- “ iuril!, ' : s "!dier in the Prus- !’“?' wbo I ‘ ve u where la,; ” c,l(s into the main flu'.’ f ’" bl ' ndr, ’ d yards from 33 u ‘ ~ ‘ r F!’ house. About noon }lo( 'hmuth said Cdr ' Wi,h a la(idp r / IDg bOard Rkid into a ■bo'lXa Be” a !pan man d 'ike he had seen a ®bXm" a ' “' an ° Ut if he is in 9u * !K,,s ' , ‘ d Wilentz. P ann Pointed Out r ,h h ° hblPd down fom i L chair ' w, ' nl sl -iy * » Ha. nt and lai,) hiß ri « ht '■Albert ” a “ p,rna hn’s knee. ■ h" 1 Waß the aeco,ld ' ievice i, h ' USed a mechanical 10 thMnr’' I ’.'; 11 hourß ex P' ain - make ’ e °' !d curllc ues t n they wri,p - it o7h n as a hand ’ b °, rn swor ‘' ‘hat notes tC a1 of ,he ran ’ ■ fenik’? 6 " Jafsie ” M" sync’s hands on a hand ’ B*’ at '”e tiny Amerto »k o S but '°nhole and ■ ‘ii w,,neßS Cbair • .X ment Re " ,y had W ,all on Coni . Caße WIU Btaud ■ Pa,i iwn° n 8 teßt imony.” Ot of 2 gOt the Btor y W? 6 ’ l Putting “ an . : . had hlm tell ■K? 4 ® r oui u„ adve rtisement in c e “® New ’. Rolng to K Ceß1 etery at night and

- —. ■■ — talking to a man who called himself "John,” and finally of a trip to St. Raymond’s Cemetery where 1 he paid *50,000 ransom. "And who was this ‘John’ to whom you talked in the two ceme-1 iteries?” asked Wilentz. Hauptmann Again Identified “ ‘John’ was Bruno Richard I Hauptmann." yelled Jafsie. i Betty Oow told her story, and under cross • examination angrily fought back at insinuations of de- i sense counsel that she collaborated in the crime. Other witnesses i chinked In details of the state’s ! case. But the state saved its best until last when Arthur Koehler, depart-

HIGHLIGHTS IN LINDBERGH TRAG EDY BOR WHICH HAUPTMANN DIES i. ■ pninrp-n «®rr y IrBsWRI ' --v Hr-<* riMM Ij£h \ w Bl Il I 1 > y- L/l W"~2—Bm. —— ~~ - —Mowt ilainaging testimony again«t - ■■ ■" . On January 2, 1935, Bruno Ku hard Hauptmann 11 >a „ K i vr n b% \rthiir Ihe four nomen ami right men ol the jury, Hiinlrnlon County liouscwncs, i entered the hiMorir courtroom al Flemington, Handwriting expert#, headed by A »rr .. jz . j ‘ government wood expert. HerU, merchant* and farmera, l»*«ened for «ix week* a*» the damaging evfr N- J,to be tried for the murder of Churl.. V O-lHirn prove, to , 1 he «.U.fa.mon ohe X trs J ladder h.n.h. rto 11'..pl- • •'-•••’ "l> “ d P'"™' '»•' "-pln-nn. Lindbergh, Jr. h'n '•«' Hauptmann wrote ratuont notea. '■ — ~, '- ~ ’ 3 , .> i i * i HIPI - -it jiWiffinyHM WiMR <x ; - 'y KE- - C ITiiMßrz fwWwHw WShK ' V Jt WH '"SBk I -Wrew l < . .„. ' - -...-.-.. .. —a pallirlie figure, Mrs.. Anna il.uiptiuaim, •Death in Trenton » grnn eiec« — - — Hauptmann got hits la?t look al the oulUde world protecting l»«r condemned hudsand’# in« trie diair and the cloying flui POn the night of Februarv 13. after only a few hour- of deliberation, they brought in |.' e | >riiar j loth a# he wa* driven from Fleming- iiocem r. fought to the last to t>avc him Jer of the »aga of Bruno Riclw thru* verdict of -Guilt)," condemning the German carpenter to death in electric chair. |O|l |o T reil t ou | O rnler the death house there. from— « ar<l Haupt tug mi. (The End.) .a a e» j ■ Vfia afeflFl s>? I i fl 7Bi mt hit 'A- K J flOP” ¥ Oil liQKi fl. 1 -,-- fl| v 4 i " -eii-.alion in ili* , aM * ** aH , l ,e dramalii• J : ; llg&MflBBl wnicidc of Violet >harp. •J* Tlie tirM ransom bills hail lieen * „. Q . , ~ ——■—- ■ -— was on Mav 12. 1932. that the world maid in the Morrow parsed and detectives were trying .'«« Rirhard il/uniniann Walter Lyle, service station attendant, who learned the fair of baby Lindbergh. Hi* body home. She took poison | O trace each one to its source. r< *c< i o goo—...hill jotted down Hauptmann's automobile license tZXnnd a few rndJ- from liis home by June 10. 1932, when The ir map showed many had been on whw person a ran son b H P aup||Mann len(|wd a$ |0 0r..,,. ..V, UI-. """£ t. U.‘„p'Sl-. jßf ‘Vf-v/ uz ■ ! £ mm w hi .-T. oS ■o. j** t j rRMk UH 'a. lK v' 1 " HhiiF | Jr«si. ;■ |. £x xOHi'a Up l "' j V 1 R - ***■*•' * **„ I—< wmfUJ «*■;«*»- “blood money wa. found se- --- r - .. - f urther damaging evidence against Haupt* — - . . ■. ■ - , L tlw Lome '*" /, reted in a jarand concealed in a beam fsador Fisch, who died mann was the comparison of hit writing with Haiiptnumn fought extradition but In the garage of Hauptmann • _ garage. Hauptmann protested o f tuberculosis in Ger* that of the ransom notes. He was indicted was ordered to New Jersey to stand police searchers fouud nearly ' , . luol iey had been left in his care many on March 22, for extortion and when New Jersev indicted Inal for the death of (.luirles V LindLindbergh ransom bills that had been hiddm tm J him for murder- bergh. Jr. (To be continued b, ihr c»rpent>-r. . .

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ment of agriculture wood export, wont to the wltnew chair. He told an enthralling detective story of , how ho had taken Bruins of saw<lu»t, splinters, nicks on boards •and come to the conclusion that Hauptmann's tools were used In building the ladder that the kidpmper abandoned under the Lindi bergh nursery window. He wont further than that; he swore that ! one rail of the ladder was rlppl-d out of the flooring in Hauptmann's ! own attic. Last Prosecution Witness j "The state rests,” said Wilentz. The state had woven a tightstrong web of circumstantial evidence. Hauptmann was seen near I Hopewell on the day of the kidnaping; he was identified as the than who collected the ransom and wrote the notes: he was identified 'as the man in the two cemeteries; he was caught passing ransom blllo; ransom money was found in 1 his own home. But the state could not produce a witness who saw Hauptmann climb into that window and kidnap the baby. “It all reads like a movie scenario,'” shouted Reilly, opening for j the defense. Hauptmann could not have committed the crime, the defense contended, because on the ntght of j March 1, 1932 he was sitting in a, bakery in the Bronx waiting fori his wife to get through work so! he could escort her home. Several'

persons snld they saw him there. Elvert Carlston saw him there, remembered that Hauptmann laughed at him because h» spoke broken English. Imuls Kiss, then a bootlegger, saw Hauptmann there, too, Mrs. Hnuptmanu said he was there. Defendant Guided by Reilly Then Hauptmann got on tho stand. Under Reilly’s guidance he explained that a man named Isldor Fisch, a former business partner, gave him the ransom money that was found in the Hauptmann garage. Where Fisch got it, Hauptmann didn’t know and no one else knew because Fisch went away to Germany and died of tuberculosis. “Hauptmann, did you kjdnap the Lindbergh baby?" asked Reilly. “Were you ever tn Col Lind bergh's house in your life?" "No I never was." “Did you build that ladder?” Hauptmann looked at the ramshackle ladder, laughed and said' “I am a carpenter.” Affluence Was Explained Why did Hauptmann quit work and live in ease after the ransom wax paid? Because he had made some money in the stock market. Peter Sommer testified he was I i sure it was not Hauptmann who' I kidnaped the Lindbergh baby be-1 jcause he saw the actual kidnapers; I on the Weehawken ferry, escaping ' from New Jersey. A woman was

with them, he said, and she was Violet Sharpe, maid In the home of Mrs. hwlght Morrow who later committed suicide. She curried a blonde, curly-haired baby, laldor Fisch wns with her. "Tho defense rests," said Reilly. Wilentz walked up and down lu front of the jury box, waving bls arms. "Hauptmann is Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world," he shouted. "He Is the kind of man who would cut out your heart and then go upstairs to dinner. I hate to be in the same room with him. The state of New Jersey asks you to bringback the only verdict possible • in thia case—murder iu the first degree." "Judge not lest ye bo judged." i cautioned Reilly, reading the Bible to the jury. "Don't send this man I to his death and then, years from l now. learn that somebody else has confessed on his death bed.” The jury retired at 11:23 A. M. | Feb. 13. At 10:28 P. M. the bell in | the courthouse tower tolled —signal that a verdict had been' reached in a capital case. Hauptmann never flinched as he stood up to hear Trenchard say: "Bruno Richard Hauptmann, you | have been convicted of murder of ! the first degree. The sentence Is ■ that you, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, suffer death at a time and place and In a manner provided by law."

LINDBERGHS TORTURED 73 DATS BY UNKNOWN FATE OF STOLEN BABY Time Between Kidnaping, March 1, 1932, And Finding Os Infant’s Body Marked By Ransom Hoax And Futile Clews Hopewell, J. J„ April 4 TU.RJThe day and night of the first of March in 1932 was bleak ami cold in th<> Sourlund mountain region and a gusty wind whipped through the forests back of the big white stone mansion three miles from tho small town of Hopewell. N. J.

Inside the home, comfortable and wurm the world’s most widely publicized baby, Charles Augustus [ Lindbergh. Jr., spent the day like any other normal infant of tho age of 17 months. In fact thin secluded spot had been selected by the child’s famous ' parents for the precise purpose of 1 giving him a normal life by shielding him from maudlin public that insisted on interrupting tho private lives of the Lindberghs. Present in the House as a dreary ; i dusk drew near were the child, its mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and the regular household staff. Three Household Workers The staff was composed of an English butler, Oliver Whatley, his

I wife, Elsie, who was the cook, and | nursemaid. I Betty Oo w, attractive brunette nursemaid. Earlier in the day Miss Gow had been at tho Englewood homo of the child's grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, and it had been ' planned to take young Lindy there, too. But the baby was suffering from la slight cold: plans were changed I and Miss Gow was called to the Lindberghs residence near Hope-i well. At 7 P. M. Mrs. Lindbergh and' Miss Gow took the youngster to the nursery and saw that he was bundled warmly into his bed. Miss Gow made the rounds of the windows, closing shutters. There was one, warped by the I weather, that could not be locked.! She struggled with it unsuccessfully, then turned out the lights and went out of the room. Lindbergh Returns Home At 8:15 Colonel Lindbergh arrived unexpectedly from New York. He was scheduled to have made an address at New York University but he had become engrossed in business problems and had forgotten the engagement. j | At 8:30 Whatley announced j dinner and the Colonel and his I wife sat down to eat. i The meal finished Mrs. Lind- | bergh went upstairs to prepare to I retire. The colonel went to his i study to work over some papers. The stage now was set for the ' first move in a crime that was to I shake the world and to cause more universal public interest than any other of modern days. Study Under Nursery At approximately 9:30 Colonel I Lindbergh heard what he del scribed as a "rather sharp crack.” i He didn’t pay any attention to it j for the whistling wind was breaking branches from trees outside. At 10 o’clock, nursemaid Gow, ready to go to bed, took one last , look into the yursery. The baby wasn't in its bed. The nursemaid hurried to Mrs. Llndi bergh's quarters, found that he wasn't there either and asked if it j might be that Colonel Lindbergh j had taken him downstairs. "You had better ask Colonel I Lindbergh," said Mrs. Lindbergh At the nursemaid's question, Lindbergh threw his papers aside and dashed upstairs, his long legs taking two steps at a time. Family's Fears Confirmed A hasty search revealed what the Lindberghs and Betty Gow feared. The baby was not to be found. While Coionel Lindbergh was the nation's No. 1 hero and the | baby the nation's No. 1 child, they had been out of the news for some • time. Headlines of the day were con -| cemed with sanguinary battles be-1 tween the Japanese and Chinese,! President Hoover's special message I to Congrcee and the investigation of the city government of Mayor James J. (Jimmy) Walker. They were destined for tho hellbox the second Colonel Lindbergh called Whatley and told him to inform police the child was missing. A few hours later the whole world knew that the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped. Lindbergh Searches Estate The Hopewell police already having been informed Colonel Lindbergh telephoned state police Lindbergh now grasped a rifle and rushed out in the darkness in a futile trip over his estate. The police arrived and went to the nursery. On the sill of the window whose shutter would not lock they fouud a footprint and a note. The note said: Dear Sir! Have 50 000* redy 26 000* in 20* bills. After 2-4 days we will inform you where to deliver the| mony. "We warn you for maing anything public or notify the police. "the child is in gute care. “identification for our letters are signature” The symbolic signature was composed of circles of red and blue with holes punched at certain points. This note was the first clue in ' what was to become the greatest manhunt the United States ever, has known. Ladder 50 Feet Away Below the nursery window were Imprints of a ladder and several blurred footprints. Investigators found a chisel and then, fifty feet from the house, they found the ladder. It was constructed in three sections and it was broken at a joint where two sections Joined. It was presumed the ladder broke under the combined weight, of the kidnaper and the baby and

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thnl the breaking was the sharp crack that Colonel Lindbergh heard as he pored over his papers In his study. The Lindberghs, although they did not know it then, were entered on n 73 day stretch of cruel tincertuinity. During that time they were to run down hundreds of futile dews and to be duped out of *so,tit mid out for the sar.i return of their son. Body Found 73 Days Later The crudest blow of all was to full on the 73rd day—May 12 for then the t hild's body was found in a shallow grave in tho flourland mountains within sight of the Lindbergh home. The Lindberghs felt certain nt first that their son was safe. They immediately promised to pay the *50,000 ransom demanded. They broadcast a solemn promise "not to try to Injure those connected Sjlh the the kidnaping.” They published their son's diet and asked those who held him to follow it closely. Disturbed by failure of the kidnapers to contact him and fearing that it might be because of the lawenforcement officials and reportiers that surrounded his home, Colonel Lindbergh finally announced . the appointment of official intermediaries. . Those appointed were Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, New York underworld figures. They achieved | nothing. Jafsie Enters Picture On March 8, an elderly and respected educator of New York's Bronx, Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Cbni don, gave an interview to the ' Bronx Homo Nows. In it he offered to act as an intermediary. Surprisingly enough his offer was accepted almost immediately. Four hours after the interview appeared in print a letter was posted to him. It read: I "If you are willing to act as gobetween in Lindbergh ease please follow strictly instructions. I (Hands inclosed letter personally to Mr. Lindbergh. It will explain everything. Don't tell anyone about it so will be found out press or police is notified everything are cancell and it will be a further delay. After you gets money from Mr. Lindbergh put then 3 words in paper: Money is ready. | “After not(e) we will give you further instructions, x x x lie at house every night between 6-12 xxx between 6-12 by this time you will hear from us.” Lindbergh Became Convinced Lindbergh was convinced of the authenticity of the note to Condon and eventually “Jafsie” turned *50.000 over to the purported kidnap.er in SI. Raymond's cemetery. In return he received s receipt for the money and false instructions as to where Lindbergh could be found. Dr. Condon, however, had the full confidence of Colonel Lindbergh, and Jafsie was the chief state’s witness at the trial which ordered the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnaping and murder of LlnuTiergh's I son. William Allen, a Negro truckdriver, was the person who accidentally stumbled upon the baby’s I body. He saw what he thought was I a child's leg sticking out from a ; clump of leaves and earth. Physicians decided a fractured skull ; caused the death of the 17-month-old son of the Lindberghs. BRUNO HAUPTMANN I FROM PAGE ONE) his cell and advocates investigation to “clear up any uncertainties which still persist.” Justice Trenchard sets new date for Hauptmann execution on week of Jan. 13. Doc. 21 — Lindbergh sailed secretly with his wife and son Jon for England. i Dec. 23 — Hauptmann signed pe- ' tition for clemency, clearing way for consideration of his case by New Jersey court of pardons, his last judicial hope. Jan. 16, 1936 — Gov. Hoffman granted 30-day reprieve to Haupt- . mann. Feb. 16 — U. S. Supreme Court rejected second plea of Hauptman. Feb. 19 — Hauptmann resentenced to die in the week of March 30 by Justic Trenchard. Feb. 19 — Samuel S. Leibowitz ended efforts in behalf of Hauptmann, saying he was convinced of the convicted man’s guilt. March 20 — Night of March 31 set as date for Hauptmann’s execution. March 28 — Paul Wendel, a dis- ' barred Trenton attorney, delivered | to Mercer county authorities under strange circumstances by detective Ellis Parker. While in Parker's hatads, he had confessed the Lindbergh kidnaping. Delivered to the Mercer county jail, he repudiated confession. Authorities said he could not possibly have had a connection with the crime. March 30 — Court of pardons refused Hauptmann's plea for clemency on the basis of new evidence presented by Gov. Hoffman. Gov. Hoffman announced there would be no new reprieve. March 31 — Hauptmann granted 48-hour stay at request of Mercer county grand jury, investigating Wendel implication. April 1— Execution date reset for April 3 at 8 p. m.