Word: flemington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2--Bruno Richard Hauptmann came face to face with Charles A. Lindbergh in the stuffy, postage stamp courthouse where he went on trial for the murder of a baby that also bore the name of Charles A. Lindbergh...
...restricting its hospitality to the jurors and others officially connected with the case. Newshawks were advised to rent rooms elsewhere, and the town's housewives were preparing to reap a rich harvest from the influx of at least 1,000 guests. Already hearing the distant clink of coins, Flemington's town council deadlocked over the proposal to permit erection of street-side hot dog stands, a measure hotly challenged by the town's two restaurateurs...
Prisoner. Flemington's strictly modern jail was built in 1930. Since Oct. 19 it has housed in Cell No.1 Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the 34-year-old German carpenter whom the people of the State of New Jersey charge with first degree murder. Hauptmann's wife Anna and their infant son Mannfried have been living in a Flemington boarding house ever since he was extradited from New York. Townsfolk nod kindly to her as she walks down the main street with her son. His jailers also say that Bruno is "a nice guy." But ever since he has been...
...incarceration, and last week accused the Federal Government of transferring two Department of Justice investigators to the West because they were implicated in trying to beat a confession out of his client. The Department of Justice promptly replied that the agents, if needed, would be back at Flemington in time for the trial...
Impervious to politics, ballyhoo, everything except strict justice, is the jurist before whom Bruno Hauptmann will go on trial for his life. He is Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, affectionately called "Uncle Tom" by his cronies in Flemington, where he has presided at the sitting of the Hunterdon County Court for years...