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Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women...
Last week the following were news: William McCormick Blair, first cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Yale in 1907. That year a bright young Chicagoan named Francis Augustus Bonner graduated from Harvard. Yaleman Blair worked in Chicago's Northern Trust Co., famed training ground for brokers and bankers, then joined Lee, Higginson & Co. Harvardman Bonner became financial editor of the defunct Chicago Evening Post, a railroad statistician, then also joined Lee, Higginson. Last week Mr. Blair, 50, and Mr. Bonner, 49, teamed together to form the underwriting and general securities house of Blair...
...indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...
...once the prosecutor of Hunterdon County, where Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. disappeared from his Hopewell home on the night of March 1, 1932, declared that somebody was tampering with prospective jurors before whom Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be tried for Baby Lindbergh's murder at Flemington this week...
Died. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, 101, oldest living Yale graduate (Class of 1857), oldest living Christian minister in the U. S.; of old age; in Norwalk, Conn...