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Impervious to politics, ballyhoo, everything except strict justice, is the jurist before whom Bruno Hauptmann will go on trial for his life. He is Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, affectionately called "Uncle Tom" by his cronies in Flemington, where he has presided at the sitting of the Hunterdon County Court for years...
Cases. The prosecution will contend that Hauptmann is guilty because...
...positively identified as the man who passed a $10 ransom bill at an uptown Manhattan filling station; he had $20 of the ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom...
...Hauptmann did not know the money he was passing was ransom money. He "dipped into it" when he found a shoe box full of it left by Isidor Fisch, who owed Hauptmann $7,500 which he never repaid...
...Hauptmann did not write the ransom notes, the evidence of the child's sleeping suit falls of its own weight...