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Hauptmann's counsel precipitated what amounted to a pre-hearing of the murder trial evidence when he obtained a writ of habeas corpus. During hearings on this action in the New York courts, last week Mrs. Hauptmann did her loyal best to alibi her stolid husband for the night of March 1, 1932. She was not very successful. More promising was the testimony of a construction boss on a Manhattan apartment building who said Hauptmann was working for him until 5 p. m. on the fatal day. The crime took place 60 mi. away at Hopewell...
...Irishman, and therefore a wit, Mr. Leslie manages to compress many an event into a memorable epigram, and he can describe many a contemporary personage with the economy natural to metaphor. The immorality that accompanied night-clubs is chronicled wittily in this adaptation of Holy Writ; a night-club is a place...
...Thomas J. Mooney's long fight for freedom was advanced today when the U. S. Supreme Court granted permission to his attorneys to file a petition for an original writ of habeas corpus...
...tribunal did not assume jurisdiction on the writ application. It merely authorized attorneys to file necessary legal papers. Mooney's motion was the preliminary step in appealing from a decision by a lower court...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...