Word: hauptmanns
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...Internal Revenue agent was able to trace $18,580 of the ransom money, $14,600 of it directly to Defendant Hauptmann...
...tried to cast doubt over Hauptmann's complicity in the crime on the ground that $31,420 of the ransom money has never been officially accounted...
Sensational out-of-town developments of the week included the prosecution's announcement that it was investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...been deliberately planned by her publicity-wise husband George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
...Jersey an eminent victim of influenza was Professor Albert Einstein. Some of the lawyers and witnesses in the Hauptmann murder trial at Remington had the sniffles, but not severely enough to impede proceedings more than a day. Elsewhere in New Jersey, in the southern part, colds and influenza forced the closing of many a school. Some Pennsylvania and Delaware schools, across the Delaware River from affected New Jersey communities, also had to close because so many children and teachers were...