Word: hauptmanns
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Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie"') Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. At a nearby table, Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyer, Lloyd Fisher, glared into a beer glass. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bartender named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down...
...opening night the jury seemed to have been packed by an astute pressagent. A verdict of "Not Guilty" was returned by twelve good men & true including Jack Dempsey, Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden and Edward J. Reilly, the Brooklyn lawyer who failed to get Richard Bruno Hauptmann acquitted. In the play's first week, less celebrated jurors convicted beauteous Actress Nolan only once. Author Rand is prepared for either decision. If the defendant is acquitted, the judge berates the jury for a bad decision. If she is convicted, defense asks for a new trial, the judge grants...
...past four months, stolid Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann...
...cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River...
...arguments the defense used to wedge a loophole through which Hauptmann might escape the death penalty, five were outstanding. It was argued that Hauptmann had been deprived of his constitutional rights when Justice Thomas W. Trenchard had admitted the kidnap ladder in evidence at the trial. Also cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor...