The Bismarck tribune., 1934-10-09
new JERSEY JURY
DNDICTS SUSPECT
ON MURDER Count
Testimony by Col. Lindbergh
CIinches Testimony Heard
by Jurors Monday
ExTRADlTlON TO FOLLOW
Parent Declares Voice He Heard
in Cemetery Was That Of
German Alien
ExTRADITIoN TO FOLLOW

Trenton, N. J., Oct. o.-tReBruno
Richard Hauptmann's voice came
echoing down the months Tuesday
from . Bronx cemetery to = Jersey
courtroom to call his own name as
the murderer Of the baby Lindbergh.
"The voice Of Hauptmann is the
voice I heard In the cemetery that
night when the $4,000 ransom was
paid" Col. Charles A. Lindberg told
the Hunterdon county grand jury
late Monday.
The grand jurors accepted It as
clinching testimony. They returned
IN indictment charging murder.
Hauptmann, held In the Bronx, New
York, under charges Of extortion, has
been notably uncommunicative since
his arrest last month. Taciturn and
tisht-lipped g he has been, 1t was
words from ehis npS that sealed the
murder indictment against him.
Remembered Voice
Those words-'.hey. Doctor! Over
here, Doctor!"-were spoken by the
man who got the ransom money from
Lindbergh's intermediary, DR.. John F.
Condor. They were spoken in the
cemetery where the payment was
made. Lipdbergh heard them, and
remembered the voice.
Although the case Is invariably re-
ferred to as the "Lindbergh kidnap-
ing" the Hunterdon grand jury re-
turned no kidnap indictment. Kid
napers may only be sentenced to life
terms. Murderers face the electric
chair.
Governor Moore will ask New York
to turn the prisoner over to New Jer-
sey promptly. The papers probably
will be signed before night. Some
believe Gov. Lehman Of New York
may approve the extradition immedi-
ately, without the formality Of q
hearing.
Col. Lindbergh told his story in IS
minutes. He was one OF two dozen
witnesses who testified Monday be-
fore the 23 grand jurors sitting in
Pennington, less than Is miles from
the big white house in the Sourland
Hill country from which the baby
was kidnapped March l, 1882.
Jurors See Evidence
Before hearing Col. Lindbergh, the
grand jurors-three Of whom were
women-examined several grim bits
Of evidence which lay on q table be-
fore them. There were the ransom
notes and their envelopes. all In
Hauptmanns handwriting. experts
said: there were specimens Of his
and his 1882 auto regis
tration card: there was the wood
chisel found near the Lindbergh
home after the kidnapping: there was
part Of the tell-tale ransom money
the SO bill spent ct the gas station
just before Hauptmann's arrest, the
$40 note found on his person when
he was taken into custody, and part
Of the currency cache in his garage;
there was the autopsy report Of DR..
Charles E. Mitchell, Mercer county
on the baby's body. and
the laboratory report Of Arthur
Koehler, who traced the wood Of the
kidnap ladder to the Bronx lumber
yard where Hauptmann once worked.
When the last witness had been
heard, the indictment was drawn
and presented to Supreme Court jus
tice Trenchard. It named Bruno
Is defendant. and it set
forth the charge g the murder Of
one Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Jr,
an infant"
The murder indictments may mean
the abandonment, for the time being,
Of the plans Of Bronx county to try
Hauptmann on the extortion charge.
In the event Of m acquittal on the
charge here. he viii be returned to
New York.
District Attorney Samuel J. Foley !
Of Bronx county announced that he !
would 60 to Trenton, N. J., Tuesday |
afternoon to confer with Gov. Moore
and Attorney General WilentS, con-
cerning extradition Of Hauptmann.