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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...
...twelve chosen peers were even moderately intelligent newspaper readers, they must have been entirely familiar with Attorney General David. T. Wilentz's preamble as he opened for the State of New Jersey. He traced the old ' story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh...
Mother. First witness on the stand was a former county engineer to give the lay of the land at the Lindberghs' Hopewell home. Witness No. 2 was sombre little Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the dead child's mother. In a quiet, well-modulated voice Mrs. Lindbergh testified to her activities on fatal March 1, 1932. From her 40 minutes on the stand. Prosecutor Wilentz quarried three new foundation stones for the prosecution's case...
...prosecution placed the following value on these three bits of testimony from Mrs. Lindbergh...