Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour after the U. S. Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union for 40 years as secretary of its board, helped smash Tammany...
Last week in Trenton, N. J., where the Hewitt trust fund is administered, it was revealed that Mother Hewitt had asked for a nine-month extension of time to account for some $400,000 of Ann's share of the income which she had received as her daughter's guardian during her minority. In her formal complaint Daughter Hewitt charged that her mother had squandered that money in gambling and high living at Deauville, Monte Carlo, Villa d'Este, Agua Caliente. She further charged that her mother had deprived her of an education, dressed her poorly, kept...
Crime's grisly Man of the Year was the German carpenter who in his death cell in Trenton, N. J. last week heard that Charles, Anne and Jon Lindbergh were in the act of becoming the Exiles of the Year...
Said Prisoner Hauptmann, just ten years married, in his Trenton death cell: "My God, won't this be a terrible anniversary present for my Annie...