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...Hearst Press was reported still holding open its offer of $75,000 for a confession. Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced a party for newspapermen "win, lose or draw." And 20,000 citizens of towns in the neighborhood of Flemington were preparing a carnival invasion of Flemington as the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. approached its final phase last week...
Hunterdon Country Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8--The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most--his sister,--came into this courtroom today to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of suspicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime...
With painful concentration, two uneducated carpenters in the little courthouse at Flemington, N. J. last week watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect...
...48th birthday last week Alexander Woollcott was still enough of a newspaper reporter to go to Flemington, N. J. to cover the fourth week of the Hauptmann trial for North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy...
Testimony adduced last week at Flemington by the State of New Jersey to persuade the jury to send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for murder...