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Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Jan. 17-Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his nerves rubbed raw by a fortnight of accusation, sprang from his chair in the courtroom today and shouted "Liar!" at an agent of the United States Government...
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...
...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...
...Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense, last week when Friend Curtis switched his story again, announced that he was now ready to testify that Hauptmann...
Sheriff Curtiss of Flemington added the last "s" to his name after Boatbuilder Curtis's conviction. For weeks newspapermen have grumbled at the price this official put upon his good nature. Last week Governor Moore strongly rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated...