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...satisfied with having committed political suicide last month, Governor Hoffman is now busily tearing up whatever shreds of reputation were left to him. On Saturday evening, after Liebowitz had announced his unwillingness to interest himself further in Hauptmann's defense, Hoffman made a statement to the press which was both cowardly and inconsistent with his previous utterances. Although "more convinced than ever" that the case was still unsolved, Hoffman declared that he would not grant a second reprieve...
...reviled by a vengeful public. Governor Hoffman directed the State Police "to continue their search for any other person or persons involved in the crime"; explained his action thus: "I ... share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed [Hauptmann] in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime...
...hour after the U. S. Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...large nor the press has been fully satisfied as to the veracity of his statements or to the simon-purity of his dealings. He has been in close contact with what might be called the criminal elements of the cause celebre, he has been largely responsible for convicting Hauptmann, and yet, despite the mass of circumstantial evidence, there is great feeling in the country today that, though Hauptmann was implicated, he was but a tool and a subordinate working for others higher...
Long before the execution, Condon had entered into a contract with a sensational magazine for a series of articles entitled "Jafsie Tells All". Today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann nears the death chair, as the New Jersey court of pardons turns down his plea for a respite and as the public sithers in a wave of doubt and high-feeling, Governor Hoffman hurls the credulous and timely challenge-Condon has not told all And implication adds:-he knows far more than he has told and he is fleeing the country in fear...