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First issue of Boys' & Girls' Newspaper carried a report of the Hauptmann verdict, with heavy emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, manacled between two guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell his knees gave way. The steelyeyed, German ex-convict crumpled, fell on his face. The guards dragged him to his cot. As he lay there, he broke down for the first time since his indictment last October for willfully killing the Lindbergh baby. "Oh, my God," he sobbed, "I feel awful...
...failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
Back shot the testy little Virginian, mentioning no names: "I may say that whatever prestige, if any, I may have was not gotten by using my position as a member of the Banking & Currency Committee of either house of Congress to gamble in foreign exchange with a prison-convict partner nor in any attempt to influence the action of the Federal Reserve authorities for my own pecuniary benefit...
...Owen, who now heads an inflationist group passing as the "Sound Money League," piously replied: "Of course, I would not charge Carter Glass with the undeserved prestige of 'gambling' with a 'prison-convict partner' or for that matter of compounding with the two thieves upon the Cross to sup with them in Paradise. I hope, however, that Paradise will be his destination. There may be left some shred of charity in his heart." No trifling cloakroom squabble was last week's dispute. This time it concerned not only the parentage of the Federal Reserve...