Evening star., 1933-05-08
MEANS AND FOX
PLACED ON TRIAL
'Lindy on Way to Testify.
i Rich Mclean Jewels to
Be Shown.
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negotiations; Charles B. Burhams, G.
r. Tudor, Ralph w. Brickerd, Adelaide
Williamson. Will A. Ritchie. Charles
H. Mitchell. William H. Wright, Ingrid
Lagerqvist, Clarence D. George, George
Lenz and F. L. Fulmer. all Of Aiken,
8. c.
DR.. Charles H.. Mitchell Is the county
physician in New Jersey who performed
an autopsy on the body of the Lind
bergh baby. He will be asked to testify
as to the length Of time the child had
been dead.
Attorneys for Defense.
). William Tomlinson IS attorney for
Means and Joseph Turco for Whitaker.
Assistant United States Attorney Robb
Is aiding Rover In the prosecution.
The court also asked the jurors If
they knew Norman s. Bowles, disbarred
attorney and reputed friend of Means
brother of the defendant, or Ralph M.
Easley Of New York, with whom Means
and Whitaker are alleged to have had
: some dealings.
The prisoners, debonair as usual, are
being tried under an indictment charg-
ing an attempt to defraud Mrs. Mclean
of $4,000 after Means already had
> hoaxed her into giving him $104 900
with which to ransom the Lndbergh
: baby. The additional $4,000 was in
= tended. Mrs Mclean testified in the
previous trial and conviction of Means.
: to redeem the "hot money" paid by
: Col. Lndbergh through "JafSie" to a
. mysterious John"
. BY Col Lindbergh's personal story
the prosecution expects to show that
while Whitaker. allegedly posing to Mrs.
Mclean as The Fox" chief kidnaper of
. She Lndbergh baby. was, according to
, Mrs. McLean's story. telling her he had
Just held the kidnapped child In his arms,
. the baby's body was wasting away in a
thicket near Sourland Mountain.
Necklace Has IL Diamonds.
The gems, consisting Of magnificent
. necklace Of 72 diamonds and two gilt
tering diamond bracelets-all valued at
from $1,000 to ,00o-will be dis
played to the jury in connection
, with Mrs. McLean's statement that she
J was about to pawn them to raise the
$35,000 allegedly asked by the de-
. fendants.
The rope Of diamonds alone is said
to have cost about 100000 some years
. ago. OF the six dozen diamonds which
. compose 1t, the smallest is karats In
size and the two largest in the center
are IL karats each. One of the brace
J lets, of checker board design, studded
with scores Of large diamonds, cost
originally s25 900. The other, a circular
} band one inch wide, literally encrusted
with sparkling blue white stones, with
! four larger diamonds as the central
motif, Is worth even more, 1t Is under
, stood
= The celebrated Hope diamond. which
Mrs. Mclean recently turned over to a
, pawnbroker to raise money, was not in
!. cluded among the gems which she
) sought to pawn at the time Of her
: negotiations with Means and Whitaker.
. to show that Mrs. Mclean was acting
8 IN the best Of faith when she dealt
with the men whom Government ON
cials declare to be among master
swindlers of all time"
Means Beard Shaved.
The portly Means. q recent Van Dyke
= beard shaved OF just before the OPEN
= ing of the trial, sat near Whitaker at
t1tC CVuILSCl ldblC d1lo 11otClCo &lGCL-
lively as Rover outlined the Govern
mentis case against the defendants. At
times Means face was wreathed with
the familiar dimpled smile with which
he has greeted other phases OF the Gov
ernments indictment and prosecution
of him. The wives Of both defendants
sat with spectators near the attorneys
rail
Rover's account of the negotiations
which he said the Government would
prove that Means and Whitaker carried
on in their alleged efforts to dupe Mrs.
Mclean sounded more like detective fic-
ton than serious summation Of facts.
Rover described the negotiations as
''most fantastic"
The prosecutor declared Means car
ried on secret negotiations with Col.
Guggenheim and Mrs. Mclean at the
same time, shortly after the Lindbergh
child was kidnapped. but when Means
obtained 100000 from Mrs, Mclean,
he dropped the dealings with Col. Gug-
genheim and told him to keep quiet"
Rover charged that Means made re-
peated promises to produce the kid
naped baby. making arrangements first
to return the child to Mrs. McLean's
home, "Fairview," here, then at Aiken,
as. c., and again at El Paso. Tex. Each
. time, the jury was told, Means or
Whitaker, or both gave weird excuses
for their failure to bring the child to
Mrs. Mclean.
Outlines Evidence.
The district attorney said he would
prove that Mrs. Mclean gave Means
100000 at her home on Massachu-
sets avenue on March 7, year ago,
and that he carried the money away in
a box under his arm; that Means told
her he would bring the baby to Fair
view" on March 10; that Mrs. Mclean
waited in vain all that night and that
Means finally explained that he had
been unable to break through police
lines and that there would be some
delay.
In the meantime. Rover said, Means
had told Col. Guggenheim he would
turn the baby over to him and the lat
to get the child. Col. Guggenheim OBJ
tanned permission to use the private
car Of the Austrian Minister.
When Means failed to keep in touch
with Col. Guggenheirn, the Army of1cer
is said to have been advised that the
kidnapers wanted negotiations to con-
tinue through the agency of Catholic
priest and that Col. Guggenheim should
remain inactive and silent.
MES. MCAcdIl Illc lulSc, MLSc 1NCASOAA,
and Father Hurney waited all night at
Fairview on March Is, but neither
Means nor the baby appeared. Means.
Rover declared, finally phoned and ex-
planned that a decoy car. equipped with
electric signal lights. had been sent
ahead of the automobile returning the
Aaby and that the decoy car had
flashed a warning of danger and the
car bearing the baby had been forced
to turn back
Later, Mrs. Mclean allegedly was
: advised that it would be necessary for
her to 60 to her home at Aiken, where
!. the baby would be delivered to her by
the chief kidnaper alias "The Fox, No.
49," and Neil Williams. Mrs. Mclean
went to Aiken and, Rover asserted, was
, met by Means and Whitaker. 1.-The