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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...
State Opens. All twelve jurors had sworn that they had formed no prejudgment on the 20th Century's most fantastic murder case. One amazing prospective juror was found who confessed that he had never heard of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh affair, indeed did not even know for what case he had been called. He was challenged by the defense for "terrible lack of intelligence," excused...
Although she had apparently made full use of all available official documents in the Lindbergh case in preparing her pamphlet, which was written in 1932, long before Hauptmann was arrested, Mrs. Spencer laughingly told reporters: "The whole thing was a satire, written and dictated by me for my own amusement merely to poke fun at the asininity of our police and court system as a whole. . . . As to the charge of the prosecutor that it was mailed to every one on the jury panel, all I can say is that I never heard of the panel. I didn...
Truculently the Hunterdon prosecutor admitted that he "did not suspect persons interested directly in Hauptmann's defense of adopting underhand methods." but charged that the incident was of a piece with other recent happenings which might yet "land somebody else in a cell along with Hauptmann...
...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 was one of the kidnappers with whom he had dealings...