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From Jan. 2 to Feb. 13, 1935, the State of New Jersey was engaged at Flemington in trying Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Concessionnaires sold to the 60,000 daily sightseers 10? replicas of the kidnap ladder, reporters adjourned to Nellie's Tap Room, after filing a million words daily, to sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream...
...Special Committee on Publicity in Criminal Trials prepared (but never released) as a result of political complications ensuing from the Hauptmann trial. The half-dozen recommendations which formed the nub of this week's report, therefore, while studiously avoiding any direct reference to the doings at Flemington, evoked strong recollections of that amazing case as point by point the committee implied a well-known horrible example for each reform proposed...
...Flemington, Sheriff John H. Curtiss packed newsmen into the stuffy courtroom like cordwood, accepting "donations" of $5 and $10 for seats...
...Flemington, officials of high and low degree paid off social and political obligations by obtaining courtroom passes for the curious...
...Flemington, defense and prosecution rehearsed each night for the benefit of the press. Detailed previews of the trial's every legal move were on every U. S. newspaper front page the next morning before court convened...