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The Washington times., 1935-02-12
JURORS To GET
HAUP MANN
CASE TODAY
to do? Show Hauptmann in
there at a dress rehearsal!

to do? Show Hauptmann In
there at a dress rehearsal!
can experienced burglar
doesn't have to go in to see how
the room looks, go out and 60
back in again.
"HiS nation will never forgive
him for the thing he's done.
"The German government Is
not responsible for any Grim.
inaI, any more than Italy was
responsible for the murder of
Mayor Anton j. Cormak Of
Chicago"
Mr.. Wilentz said that no person
in the United States, except a
sister in California, knew Haupt.
mann had come into the United
States. He said:
"The police knew it was no
amateur who committed the
crime at Hopewell, N. J. If
Hauptmann hadn't fooled this
country when he Sneaked into
the land-if his criminal record
had been a matter of record
he would have been arrested In
six months.
"He crushed that child right
into inSenSibility right in that
room. The little voice was
Stilled right in that room.
He wasn't interested in the
life of that child.
Public Enemy No. Of the
world is who you are dealing
with.
you're not dealing with an
ordinary criminal.
Look at him as he walks out
in this room, panther-like, gIOat-
ing, feeling good!
whether that child drew
another breath never made any
difference to him."
Mr.. Wilentz indicated his belief
Hauptmann premeditated the
murder of the baby. He said:
did Hauptmann carry that
chisel into the nursery to crush
the baby'S skull, then and there?
What else did he have it for?
Counsel makes a great point
of beer stein in the nursery
window. Well, it was not a beer
stein, it was probably a toy and
it was not in the window.
Can the defense dispute the
baby is dead? They don't con-
tend he committed suicide, do
thPv0"
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"The answering voice of
'John'-Hauptmann-'The baby
is WE'LL
"NO wonder they didn't want
to hear those records.
IF it had been a child of an
ordinary citizen the trial would
have been over in a week and
the defendant would be con-
victed.
But there was the fame and
glory of Colonel Lindbergh and
1t attracted lawyers, news
paper men, photographers
convictS, idiots, lunatics. The
whole world wants to get into
the glory of Lindbergh and
crush him.
The record says that Colonel
Lindbergh believes this is the
man that killed his child.
ITS an honor to sit in the
same room with Colonel Lind.
bergh. He's modest, shy, and
asks nothing from any man"
Mr.. Wilentz suddenly turned
and looked at Colonel Lindbergh
sitting not far from Hauptmann
and said:
Il don't know that I could
sit here day after day without
doing something"
"Mr. Reilly said he would
have torn the kidnaDer limb
from limb.
II don't think he could tell
what he'd do.
Il don't think I'd contribute
that to law and order.
And Colonel Lindbergh has
contributed a lot to law and
order in this case.
"OtherwiSe, the mob violence
Mr.. Reilly talked about might
have come close"
Mr.. Wilentz decried defense
suspicious of the Lindbergh and
Morrow servants and others whose
names were connected with the
case from the start. He said:
Betty Cow and the family
of Violet Sharpe were watched
every minute from the time
of the crime. Their every mo-
ment was checked.
whether she knew it or not,
She was being watched every
time she spent a quarter in
store in Scotland.
Condor? Every movement
was checked. Every bank ac-
count inspected. His telephone
wires were probably tapped.
But not one suspicious thing
could be found in their ac-
tiOnS."
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to come to this court room to
have somebody from New York
call him crook!
Hes good enough for the
governor, the senate, for Colonel
Liindbergh, for Anne Lind.
bergh.
"But for the gentleman of
the defense and Hauptmann
he's a crook"
Mr.. Wilentz next called for Po
lice Inspector Henry Bruckmanr
of the Bronx, saying:
"Do me the honor, Inspector,
AID stand up"
Mr.. Bruckmann did. He is z
tall, imposing man. Mr.. Wilentz
said:
curry, look at him, one of the
highest officials in the police
department in New York. A
man whose invalid wife had to
sit by the radio and hear him
called crook.
"Bruckmann, who has never
been convicted in his life-dOeS
he deserve this from that MUIR
derer, burglar, ex-cOnvict?
"Bruckmann in charge Of a
police department of $4,000
men,"
One at time, the men Mr.
Wilentz called for stood up anc
then the Attorney General said
"These men certainly are hon
est. But attempts were made
to destroy them to save this
man."
Mr.. Wilentz scoffed at Mr.
Reilly's bitter insinuations abou
police crookedneSS." He said:
81 belong to an old and hon.
orable profession and 1 am
proud of it. Bt here are
more crooks among the lawyers
than among policemen. The
sooner we recognize this fact
the better off we'll be-"
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Don't Need Witness

After a brief recess at noon
Mr.. Wilentz took a drink of water
and resumed his summation. He
said:
There can't be any more
serious crime than murder.
This murder of the. Lindbergh
child would shrink into insignif-
icance to the crime that would
be committed if this murderer
were freed.
"TO let Hauptmann roam the
streets of this country and every
woman Shudder at his going,
that would be the crime of the
century.
I'VE don't need to prove the
case against Hauptmann by
someone who sat there and
watched him.
1--WE don't need an eye
witness.
1--WE don't need a moving pic
ture Of him in the nursery.
what does counsel want us
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"What is there that would at.
tract high-priced and famous
lawyers to the murderer of the
Lindbergh baby?"
Mr.. Wilentz began to repeat
some of the phrases exchanged be-
tween "Jafsie" and "John'-"Hey
dok tor" and 1.-THE baby is CUTE "
At this Mr.. Reilly jumped up
and protested:
your honor, we cannot sit
here and permit things to be
talked about which were not in
evidenc."
Mr.. Wilentz replied:
II would like to remind de-
fense counsel / did not inter.
rupt him."
Justice Trenchard decided the
attorney general had not gone Out
of bounds, and the summation
was continued.
Mr.. Wilentz again asked why
the defense had not called for
the phonograph record of the
conversation "Jafsie" had with
the kidnaper in the cemetery
He said it was available. He
asked:
"Were they afraid of the
record?
"What was the reason that
kept them from demanding the
record in court?
"GOd, men and women, don't
you understand? We're talking
about the voice of Hauptmann.
"The voice of DIR. Condon:
is the baby alive?'
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DAVID T. WILENTZ

"It's clearly the effort of an
experienced criminal lawyer to
confuse the jury. The effort is
pla--l. The effort is evident.
To implant the germ of doubt
in the mind of one single
juror"
Mr.. Wilentz declared that where
the Lindbergh baby was murdered
did not matter-it was the fact
the child had been slain that did
He said:
Lets take common sense.
Counsel thinks if the child's last
breath came as he stepped over
the county line you have got to
acquit him.
what fooliShness! Any place
in the county of HunterdOn, if
the child received the fatal blow
anywhere in the county, that
is enough.
"It makes no difference where
the death came.
"YOu can imagine what
great joke in this civilization Of
America if he stepped over East
Amwell township boundary and
we can't convict him.
"IS he the man who went into
that room and took the child?
That's all you have to decide.
Don't mind the lawyers"
Only the most venomous snake
would have killed the baby, Mr.
Wilentz told the jury. He con
tinued:
ut had to be a fellow that
wouldn't tell anyone anything.
1t had to be a fellow who
wouldn't tell his wife about
money.
"He had to be man that you
could kill in cold blood and he
wouldn't talk.
"He tried to stow away. He
failed, and he tried it again.
When he broke into a home in
Germany he had to break into
a burgOmeister'S home.
'It had to be the type of man
who'd disgrace his own nation.
ut would have to be a man
who'd forsake his mother.
"It would have to be a man
who holds up women wheeling
baby carriages. The States of
New York and New Jersey have
found that animal"
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
"DO Your Dutu"

Mr.. Wilentz explained he came
to Flemington in the role Of
prosecutor at the direction of
the governor of the State. He
declared:
Every avenue of evidence in
this case points to one door
the door of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann."
Mr.. Wilentz, speaking in a
low voice, explained the role of
prosecutor is naturally abhor-
rent to him, but that he con-
sented to aid in this case be-
cause it is his duty. He said:
II have lost more weight
than the defendant in this case,
but I've done my duty. You
must do yOorS. You must find
this MAI guilty of murder in
the first degree If he partici-
pated in this crime.
"Participated-it doesn't mat
ter whether so or so assisted
him in the crime"
Mr.. WilentZ told the jury the
prosecutors staff and Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh do not want them
to do anything but their duty.
Colonel Lindbergh sat in court,
a short distance from where Mr..
WilentZ stood making his ad-
dress. The colonelS face was ex-
pressionless.
Mr.. Wilentz shouted!
Don't get weak! Don't be
deceived by the tricks of an ex.
perienced criminal lawyer"
Turning, the attorney pointed
at the defense counsel table and
said:
"Not one man at that table
thinks this man is innocent.
Don't be fooled on that. Yet
they are trying to create a
reasonable doubt of that guilt
in the minds of just one of you.
you can't compromise with
murdererS!
"It's your duty to find a YER
dict of murder in the first de-
gree.
"E1Cher TINS man Is guilty or
he's innocent.
"Mr. Reilly says we've got to
prove Hauptmann did this job
and did it alone.
$50 far as Hauptmann is con-
Cerned, he could have had so.
He participated in it. That is
enough.
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Jury AttentiUe

During the first hour of Mr..
Wllentz' address, the jurors
scarcely moved. All except Verna
Snyder gazed intently at the at
torney general and followed him
closely. Mrs. Snyder kept her
head bowed-a characteristic at
titude throughout the case. Mr..
Wilentz said:
I'D love to say two or three
people were in this crime. 1t
would be so much easier for me,
though it doesn't make any
difference to you if there were
more people in on it.
But 1 am limited only to the
proof and all evidence points
only to Hauptmann."
Mr.. Wilentz explained to the
jury that the Federal Government
as we'll as the State of New
Jersey authorities and the New
York city police did all they
could possible to run down the
kidnaper before Hauptmann was
caught.
He said persons who figured in
the crime were carefully checked.
He declared the Government
spent a fortune trying to solve
the case. He quoted former
President Hoover as saying:
well move heaven and earth
to find the man who had the
audacity to kill this child"
Mr.. Wilentz added:
"And the same policy was
continued under President
Roosevelt.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen
of the jury, don't go away
thinking Betty Cow or Violet
Sharpe had anything to do
with this case.
Don't do it-fOr your con.
sciences sake. Because you
can't smear people who haven't
had any evidence brought
against them"
Mr.. Wilentz wore half-smile
most of the time as he refuted the
defense points.
His voice was alternately low
almost coaxing, then loud and
rather rasping. He frequently
banged his hands on a table in
front of the jury. or clapped them
together. Occasionally, he waved
his arms over his head in EN-
phasis.
Mr.. Wi1entz hammered at the
"smearing" by the defense of the
dead Sharpe girl and Ollie
Whately, the dead Lindbergh but
Ter. He asked:
"Why did they have to do
that to Mrs. Whately? They
had no respect for either the
living or the dead.
There was nothing too mean,
nothing too disgracefuI to which
they would not stOOp to create
some doubt in the mind of the
jury"
Don't Need Witness
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
HauptMann Quiet

Hauptmann sat in his accus-
toned seat, his pale face express
SionleSs. He had been warned in
advance by Defense Attorney Lloyd
Fisher not to make an outcry such
as he had done once during the
trial when he shouted at a wit
ness:
"Stop your Iying!"
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, father
of the slain baby sat within Is
feet of Hauptmann. The famous
flier seemed absorbed in Attorney
Wilentz' grafton. Several times
Mr.. Wilentz paid high tribute to
the achievements and character of
Colonel Lindbergh.
Before starting his grafton,
Mr.. Wilentz addressed Justice
Trenchard:
"May we ask the court that
there be no demonstrations
from the defendant or his wife
during the summation"
Justice Trenchard replied, fix
ing his eye on Hauptmann:
Let there be no demOnstra-
tiOnS."
Hauptmann was expresSionless.
Mr.. WilentZ began, taking the
text of Chief Defense Counsel Ed
ward j. Reilly'S masterful Summa-
ton:
Judge not, lest ye be
Judged
But my delightful adversary
forgot to finish up.
"He who killeth any man
shall surely be killed"
Mr.. Wilentz told the men and
women jurors who had sat in
court so many days, he appre'
ciated their services. He said:
"Since the trial began 1 have
been possessed and ObSessed
with only one idea. AS far as
I've always been governed by
the thought, I'm here represent
ing the people of this State.
Il ask you only to proceed on
the evidence you have heard.
IF there is such a clamor of
the mob as defense counsel
spoke of yesterday, it must be
because of the evidence that
came from the lips of credible
witnesses here under oath.
1T seems to me if there is
such a clamOr there must be a
reason for it and it is based on
truth"
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Calls on Agent

Down the list OF State Wit
nesses went Mr.. Wilentz, defend
ing them against the character
assassination" of the defense.
He shouted:
"They tried to drag every
body right down in the mud
with Hauptmann!"
When Mr.. WilentZ asked Viii.
liam Frank to stand up, the
man did. And Mr.. Wilentz turned
to the jury and said:
Especial Agent Frank, Of the
United States Treasury De-
partment. And they say Frank
falsified the records of Haupt-
mann'S financial dealings.
"How ridiculous that an agent
of the Federal Government
would do that.
"ThOSe records we took from
his own handwriting.
Especial Agent Franks char
acter is to be aSSaSSinated, how
ridiculOus!"
Mr.. Wilentz set up photographs
of the nail hole in Rail 16" OF
the kidnap ladder. He said:
"They say Corporal WeltOn
took the pictures so recently
that they are still fresh. They
forget that the ladder has been
repOsing in the safe of the
county clerk for week."
Mr.. Wilentz made a blanket de
fense of all his witnesses, saying
"TheSe men come from all
parts of the United States to aid
in the case. l don't know how
much it will cost, but am
responsible for it. 1 wanted
opinions from experts all over
| the country, and the opinion
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
{ O-MANIAC,' }
LAWYER CALLS
DEFENDANT
inch to keep from coming here
from the Bronx"

inch to keep from coming here
from the Bronx"
Mr.. Wilentz reminded the jury
the defense had put only one of
their handwriting experts on the
stand. He added:
"The defense counsel asked
for an adjournment to examine
the handwriting. They had four
or five experts. But only one
dared to come into court, one
all the way from East st. Louis.
"Why aren't the other experts
here?"
Mr.. Wilentz sneered at the de-
fense's failure to produce phono-
graph record on which DR.. John
F.. "Jafsie" Condor initiated the
voice of John" of the Lindbergh
ransom, made long before the ar
rest of Hauptmann. He said:
"We brought the record here.
But did they call it, did they
play it? No. Were they afraid
they might hear the voice of
Hauptmann coming from that
record made two years before
his arreSt?"
Ridiculing the defense claims
of lack of money, Mr.. Wilentz
said:
"They got the best criminal
lawyer in the East. There wasn't
a man in New Jersey they
thought could do the job as we'll.
"They had enough money to
procure the man who, by repu-
tatiOn, has cleared more mur-
derers than any other metro
pOlitan lawyer. A lawyer doesn't
defend a murderer just to de-
fend a murderer
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INFANT KILLED.
IN HIS CRIB,
IS CHARGE
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for this man to find his way
into that room.
"And he crushed and chOked
the life out of that little baby
right then and there in that lit
tie crib!
"YOu must remember that you
are dealing with a man with
ice water in his veins, Public
Enemy No. l of the world!
He knew what he was doing and
he went into that room.
"YOu saw him here in this
court room. You saw how his
hands spread out! You saw
that panther-like stride. You saw
that gloating look"
Mr.. Wilentz spread his arms and
with his fingers stretched out claw
like, staggered across the court
room to illustrate his description.
The spectators listened intently
The court room was packed-one
of the largest crowds to get in
since the trial started. A majority
of the spectators were women.
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Defends Police

Again Mr.. Wilentz defended the
actions of police in the case and
attacked the witnesses brought
forth by the defense. He shouted:
"They brought forth the dead.
"They brought forth the dead
to defend this man, both the
physically and the morally
dead"
Mr. Wilentz referred to Mr..
Reilly's contemptuous assertion
that the State had pictured
Hauptmann as a man at once a
master mind and a fool" He
said:
"Why, look back on the his
tory of any big criminal and
you'll find that combination.
Hauptmann thought he was the
big shot, bigger than them all,
But, because of his egOmaniac
traits, he was trapped.
Where is that SuitcaSe?"
The suitcase was given to the
attorney general.
The slim, black-haired, youthful
looking prosecutor dropped it on
the floor before the jury with a
bang. Continuing, he said:
Lets see about this. I'll SteE
on it. Here is 100 pounds. But
he gIided over it.
There's been talk about the
State police. SupposinE Trooper
Kelly should have gotten finger
prints and didn't.
His failure and lack would
have been the same before
Hauptmann.
"The whole world hasn't
turned crooked because Of
Hauptmann.
"That side of the table (de-
fenSe) hasn't a monopoly on
honesty and truth. Not by a
long shot.
"The bungling doesn't mean
Hauptmann isn't guilty-not by
long shot,"
Mr.. Wilentz repeatedly hit back
at the defense charge the State
had "bungled" the Lindbergh baby
investigation. The attorney gen.
eral went close to the jury box
and said:
"WhiIe we're talking about
bungling this case, who was
closest to it, Hauptmann and
the defense or Colonel Lind
bergh and the prosecution?
Colonel Lindbergh, who
might have been expected to
complain if there was in
efficiency, says New Jersey has
good State police.
HE has voiced no complaint,
ut all comes from the de-
fenSe table.
while I've been arguing and
examining, may have seemed
offensive. 1 want you to know
it was never intended that
way, even to the insane man
on the stand.
"They say DR.. Condor was
a suspect because he was all
alone when he paid the ransom.
Condor was checked. He was
watched.
"Hauptmann went to a
cemetery, appropriately, because
he's always dealing with the
dead, everything about him has
been dealing with the dead.
Some are physically dead,
others brought here are morally
/ dead"
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came back from every place,
'Hauptman!'
what happened to all their
experts? They found only one
handwriting expert with the
courage to come into court.
"Now the defense keeps talk
ing about its lack of money.
That's an effort to get the
sympathy of the jury.
"There'S no evidence to show
they havn't got money. In fact,
1 think they have lots Of money.
Il think they got money from
cranks, idiots, fools, and un-
Americans everywhere.
$50 that they got, they say,
the best four available lawyers
for this case. They got a radio
to broadcast over. They got
money all right.
81 think they spent more
money than the State did"
The Attorney General spoke
scathingly of the defense's ad
mitted radio plea for possible alb
witnesses to come forward tt
Hauptmann's aid. He said:
'I'm not finding fault with
the defense but no radio talks
for us. No radio talks before
the trial, during the trial, or
after the trial." .....
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country though only Miss Han
nah Fisch testified. He said:
Il wasn't going to take a
chance on bringing some crank
here to swear to some death
bed confession of IsadOr Fisch.
"We were prepared for that.
That explains the FiSch family,
ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, and if any further ex-
PLANTATION is needed. / am pre-
pared to make it to the prop
erIy constituted authorities.
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
GOW.Testin1Ony

Mr.. Wilentz defended Betty
Cows voyage from Scotland. He
said:
Contrast her eagerness to
come here and tell her story to
the reluctance of Hauptmann.
Hauptmann fought to the last
The Washington times., 1935-02-12
Record Again

fend a murderer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-05
May Broaden New
 Tax Wealth Bill
 To Include Others
New Deal Circles Studying Advisability Broadening
 Tax Wealth Program
(By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON July 5 Some legislators and experts are known to feel that if the new taxes are levied only on the very wealthiest persons the revenue resulting will not live up to the governmental expectations.
 This disclosure came after a White House conference in which plans were laid to push ahead on the tax measure and enact it this session, despite the Republicans de- mands that the whole question go over to a special session in the fall.
 New Deal circles are studying the advisability of broadening the tax wealth program to include the mid dle income brackets, as well as the million dollars a year class.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-05
Of July Is Success In Nome
 With Ball Game

The Fourth of July Celebration in Nome went off with BANG yes terday, with a band concert, races and athletic events, and a baseball game in the afternoon. The only things lacking this year which were common practice before the fire were a literary program and a big pub lie dance in the evening.
 The Nome Brass Band opened the exercises with a concert of about thirty minutes, which was followed by the athletic program-both of which features drew large crowds
 In the afternoon a baseball game between the U. s. C. G. Northland and City of Nome, was played.
 The Nome team drew away from the Northland in score from the op- ening innings, but after the middle of the game had passed the North land worked the score up to even. The ninth inning ended with the score 5-5 and another inning was played. The same result then. The eleventh inning was begun and in the last half of that inning Nome pushed a run over to win the game
 Following are the names of those who played. It was impossible to ob- tain the positions which the follow ing men played for the Northland:
 Continued On Page Four)
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-05
FARMER IS IN JAIL FOR
 SWIMMING AWAY AND
 LETTING NIECE DROWN
(By The Associated Press)

LAKEPORT California, July 5-Rescued from an an- gry crowd by Policeman S. Murphy aged forty farmer now being held by authorities while they investigate the strange drowning of his fourteenyear-old niece Marie Meyer
 He and his wife and their two small children accom- panied by the niece roWboating Blue Lake where they dove into the water Murphy telling Miss Meyer he going to duck here which he did several times She was a poor swimmer and suddenly seized him.
 botn of them went down and after struggle Murphy broke free and barely able reach shore Witnesses of the struggle the water threw rocks him as he away from the girl letting her go down to her death The police hurried the farmer through the aroused crowd and placed him in jail, to await further developments