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...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...
Scene. Flemington is the seat of Hunterdon County, on New Jersey's western border. A meticulously neat, elm-shaded town of nearly 3,000, it serves as a trading centre for a rich old agricultural community. About ten miles to the southeast is Sourland Mountain, where the child was kidnapped...
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...
...injure in any way those connected with the return of the child. The prosecutor of Mercer County, in which lies a part of the Lindbergh lands, agreed to give the criminals immunity. It was then found that the nursery, where the crime was committed, was in Hunterdon County, whose law officers issued no promises...