The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-24

V \ The booklet sent to veniremen . was copyrighted by Mary Belle @ Spencer who conducts conti- . ,iential news syndicate at 155 N. = Clark street, Chicago. Mrs Spen- .s cer, a lawyer. said she had mo s idea" how the copies reached the Y veniremen.
 ' The pamphlet. entitled ''No \ T23110-Crimina File" was written . early in 1893 and is the account of "a fictitious trial of John Doe. @charged with kidnapping the son of "Charles A. Lemberg, famous avi- Sator". The defense contends that Sthe infant walked from the Linn berg" home and was killed by wild .animals.
 Some of the Contents !. Mrs Spencer defends Doe in the ~trial and wins his acquittal. but a ~preface to the booklet says that the wchief of defense counsel was s1ynched by mob at the spot where %the baby's body was found. q Hauck charged that the booklet smentioned by inference many char Iacters who will testify in the lIldls 1llSy "SAS edisguised by misspelling, but cas- eiiy identified, he said. Col Lind. @bergh in the pamphlet was "Col. @Limberg"; Betty Cow, the child'a -nurse, was "Elizabeth Gah"; the Icommander of state police was "Col xSchweartupf" and Hunterdon @county was Hunter.
 . The booklet contained this warn- ling notice:
 Any person who obtains pos ~session of this document is hereby acausioned to treat it as strictly con- sfidential. Under no condition can Nits contents be revealed to news @papers, as all news of this trial has Lbeen suppressed by order of the 1court."
 Mrs Spencer said the booklet was 1distributed through dealers. She Esaid she had written it merely to wshow the general inefficiency in Administration of law" and that the cal example"
 c. Lloyd Fisher, of Hauptmann's legal staff, said he never had heard of the pamphlet and was certain his associates likewise were un- aware of it. He said mailing it to veniremen might have been a publicity stunt, or it might be third party whom l might be able to discuss later"
 Writer of Booklet
 " Chicago, Dec 24.-(UP)-Mary Belle Spencer, lawyers who wrote and copyrighted the booklet mailed to prospective jurors in the trial 5 of Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the Lindbergh baby kidnaper, said to-day that 26,000 copies of the pamphlet have been circulated and she had mo idea" how it came to the veniremen's hands.
 < She wrote the book, she said, "morely to show general inefficient cy in administrator of the law Tho Lindbergh Kidnapping was used she asserted, "only as a hypotheti- cal example,.
 It was Mrs Spencer who during the first year of the Chicago world fair constituted herself it's unoffi- ciai censor of dress and undreSs. Engaging Attorney Jay D. McCar- thy, who shares her law office, she haled Sally Rand into court and prosecuted her on moral grounds.
 When her daughters, Mary Belle, IA, and Victoria 12, subsequently won a bathing beauty contest she ! explained that there was no par allel with Sally Rand because the girls contest was conducted at an exclusive country club.
 She is the wife of Dr Richard Vance Spencer of Chicago Heights and has bene lawyer 20 years.
 Recently she defended her hus- band when he was prosecuted for failing to send Mary Belle and Vic toria to school. Neither has hao a day of formal education.
 In court Mrs Spencer said the children learned to read just by themselves" Both are experts with pistol and rifle. Instead of chtl- dren's books, Mrs Spencer has read to them for years from the Con- gressional Record and reports or criminal curt proceedings.
 She was public guardian of cook county at the time the girls were