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...Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont...
...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 of the case when...
...admitted as evidence. Defense fought tooth-&-nail for its exclusion on the grounds that it had been tampered with, that it had never been connected with the defendant. Once the ladder was admitted, the prosecution's most impressive expert to date resoundingly attributed its manufacture to Defendant Hauptmann in no less than five different ways...
...Witness Koehler fastened a vise to one end of Justice Trenchard's bench, clamped a piece of wood in it and skimmed off a shaving with the plane found in Hauptmann's garage. With a piece of paper and a pencil he made a rubbing of the planed surface as a child reproduces the design of a coin. He then made a similar rubbing of a planed surface on the ladder, showed the jury that the striations on both rubbings were identical...
...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...