Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Oct. 17, 1935, eight days after New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals had unanimously affirmed Hauptmann's death sentence, Governor Hoffman, a Republican, secretly visited the condemned man's cell, talked with him for more than an hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman...
Public criticism of Governor Hoffman's behavior was touched off late in December by the departure of Colonel Lindbergh & family for England (TIME, Jan. 6). At once a large section of the nation's Press hotly blamed the New Jersey Governor for driving the No. 1 U. S. hero into exile. One of its Democratic members demanded that New Jersey's Legislature investigate the Governor's actions. The Legislature, Republican-controlled, did nothing...
Party lines broke, however, when 30 hours before Hauptmann was scheduled to die on Jan. 17-New Jersey's Court of Pardons, a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court having denied his pleas for clemency or delay- Governor Hoffman granted him a 30-day reprieve "for divers reasons," hinted that important new evidence had come to light. Few weeks later, no new evidence having appeared, New Jersey's Republican State Committee openly broke with the Republican Governor by declaring its intention to displace him as leader of the Party...
Wendel. At this point the proceedings dipped into pure fantasy. Fortnight ago members of New Jersey's Court of Pardons mysteriously received copies of a 25-page "confession" to the Lindbergh kidnapping signed by one Paul H. Wendel, a 50-year-old Trenton lawyer who was disbarred in 1920 after conviction of perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives...
Princeton Protest. Next day Governor Hoffman cautiously admitted that he had known about the Wendel matter for some time. While New York and New Jersey police and U. S. Department of Justice agents moved to investigate Wendel's story that he had been kidnapped and tortured, public outrage boiled over. "IMPEACH HOFFMAN," screamed the Trenton Evening Times in a front-page editorial. "It is up to every citizen," roared this Independent sheet, "to demand Hoffman's impeachment and the jailing of all the political mobsters who are obstructing justice and defaming the name of the State...