The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-08
JUDGE TRENCHARD
 ENGAGING FIGURE

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 court house. From behind the
 driving wheel steps George. bls faithful coIored retainer From the rear seat steps the justice, q tall, ample man bundled into h dark greatcoat with a worn fur col- far. There is a echool-boyish look about hls grey tweed hat which
 has ar all-around upturned brim and dQt crown.
 CarFies His Lunch A small package is carried gln- gerIy under his arm. 1t Is his lunch packed by his wife who be. lieves she knows what lIe should
 eat, When the camera barraBe ex- piodes to the right and left he blinks. Eyes twinkle behind his
 heavy dark@rimmed glasses. He
 stops and exchanges word or two with "the boys.
 "The boys mean all right" he
 says, but my wife save the pie lures they print of me are libelouS. Frequently arguments wax hot
 in the vicinity of the maps depict ing the Lindbergh home and sur- rounding terrain. TiNse maps are thumb -tacked to a wall board d. rectly behind the witness chair. On such occasions "his honor" leaves the bench, and gathering the vo!- luminous folds of his black robe about him, marched into the fray.
 It pieages him to be in the midst
 of things.
 Has Amazing Patience He has amazing patience but can be pungent in his rebukes. His
 voice is middle timbre. well modu-
 lated, and he never raises 1t above it's regulation speaking tone. There is considerable air of the courier in his treatment of women witness ses. He does not favor the heck ling of women by counsel.
 A man of his years might be ex- pectcd to wilt as the hours drag in the hot, close courtroom packed to suffocation with everyone from the; dirt farmers wife to the slick Broadway columnist. The sturdy man who will interpret the law for the fury which will judge Bruno Richard Hauptmann is not the wiiting kind. His cheeks are ruddy and tanned from walks in the out
 doors. There is as much briskncss in his step as he leaves the court room at the end of the day through the rear entrance as there is when he enters 1t with his less distinguished fellow-citizens by
 way of the front steps in the mors
 ming. @ , l.,
 "This is my first murder trial in seven years," he says and conveys tho impression he would not Do averse if 1t is his last.
 May Not Reach COndOn
 Flemington, N. J., Jan -(UP) -The crowd of trial fans, which
 gathered in @ drizzle outside tho
 courthouse today had expected to hear Dr John F. Condon (Jafsie) relate the meiodramatic details Of the Bronx cemetery extortion pay ment, but they appeared doomed to disappointment.
 we would like to reach pr con-
 don today" said Attorney General David T. WilentZ, "but have my doubts. There will have to be some less important witnesses first, to bind together the consecutive, story of the crime we are, telling.
 Jafsie has told the story of the
 negotiations to the prosecution in- cluding his long conversation with the Bronx negotiator in which the
 man definitely proved he had fl
 knowledge of the nursery. It has been remarked that every witness thus far who was Tn the
 nursery directly after the kidnap- ing. has testified that the blankets
 were fastened down by two large pins.
 The Bronx ransom negotiator. known as "John" was shown these
 pins. He promptly identified them,
 it is said, as having come from tho crib.
 If "Jafsie" sticks to his story on the stand, his evidence will place the man who received the $b0,00O
 ransom definitely at the scene or the crime.