The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
MURDER CHARGE
 BEING SOUGHT
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 testimony of Col. Lindbergh, Whited and others.
 Immediately after his arrival Justice Trenchard conferred with Common Pleas Judge A. O. Rob- bins, with whom he will sit on the grand jury hearing.
 Judge To Stay There
 Justice Irenchard planned to remain here all day, ready to re- ceive any presentment or tndict- ment the jury may return, If the jury does not finish its delibera- tions today, he is expected to ad- journ the session until Wednesday morning. Officials believed, how ever, that the case could be dis posed of today.
 Attorney General David T. Wi- lentz of New Jersey, joined the judges conference at 10 a. In., the hour set for the convening of the grand jury.
 Scheduled to be one of the first witnesses, Col. Charles A. Lind bergh was to motor here from the EngIewood home of his nlDther-in- law. He will establish that the baby was stolen from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell the night of March l, 1882, and found dead in a shallow gravesless than five miles away two months later.
 Another important witness vii. be Willard Whited, a logger, who identified Hauptmann as the prowler he saw around the Lind bergh grounds the day before and three days before the crime.
 Are 23 Witnesses
 In all the state had 23 witnesses and authorities were confident that today's proceedings would be- gin series of events leading to hauptmann's execution in the elec- tric chair. While all evidence link ing the German carpenter to the actual kidnaping is circumstantial, authorities pointed out that many men had been convicted and exe- cuted on weaker circumstantial cases.
 If the kidnapping and murder in- dictment is returned today, New Jersey will move tomorrow to ex- tradite Hauptmann from the Bronx county, New York, sail, where he is under indictment for extortion. District Attorney samuel Foley, of Bronx county, said that if New Jersey did not extradite Haupt- mann by Thursday he would pro- ceed at once with the extortion trial.
 Foley co-operated with New Jer- sey fully, sending witnesses and evidence he will use in the extur. ton trial if and when it is held. should Hauptmann be indicted for the graver offenseS in New Jersey, but acquitted he will be returned to New York for trial on the ex- tortion indictment. The maximum penalty for this offense is 20 years which could be doubled if the court held that Hauptmann' ; criminal record in Germany made him a second offender within th,, meaning of the New York state law.
 Summary of Evidence A summary of the circumstantial evidence to be presented to the grand jury today:--
 Handwriting experts will testify lthat Hauptmann's handwriting and the handwriting of the ransom notes is identical"
 Witnesses will testify that the lumber used in the kidnaper's ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where hauptmann worked only a few months before the crime.
 Hauptmann will be placed in the vicinity of the Lindbergh home a few days before the crime. Federal agents will describe Hauptmann's arrest and the find- ing of more than $14,000 of ran som money in his garage. Various witnesses will identify him as the passer of ransom money.
 If the grand jury returns the m UT der indictment Hauptmann probably will be tried in Novem- Der.
 Witnesses summoned to appear before the grand jury include two department of justice agents; Frank Wilson of the United States treasury department; three New York policemen: several handwrit- ing experts; Captain John J. Lamb and other New Jersey state police officials; and Arthur koehler, gov- ernment forestry expert who trac- cd the lumber used in the kidnap ladder to Bronx lumber yard. Miss Ceclle Barr, New York thea- ter cashier who Identified Haupt- mann as the man who passed a Lindbergh ransom note ln payment for \ theater ticket on November