The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14
Condemned Man Painted M Cell
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nerves. He began "thawing" soon after the jury returned it's ver- diet of guilty at 10:44 last night, and today his spirit seemed to have been broken completely.
 Painted ln His Cell
 He tainted immediately after being returned to his cell from hearing his death sentence, but was quickly revived.
 0. Lloyd Fischer, local member of the defense staff, said he would visit Hauptmann later in the day to discuss plans for an appeal on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. Fisher and other defense counsel said the record of tht six weeks trial was yepiete with errors.
 However contrary the verdict may have seemed to the defense, it was eminently satisfactory % Hauptmann's prosecutors. And the American public's approval was reflected in the hundreds of congratulatory telegrams which showered down to-day upon the jurors:
 The defense would not concede the verdict solved the mystery of the kidnaping and murder of Col Charles A. Lindbergh's infant son. The prosecutors insisted 1t proved conclusively that Hauptmann alone committed the crime which shocked the world on the night of March l. 1892 and kept all of civilization guessing for nearly three years Thereafter.
 Appeals to Delay Death
 Tomorrow Hauptmann will be taken secretly to Trenton to await execution. But it is unlikely that { he will be put to death before tho middle of May as the filing and hearing of any appeals his law yers may prepare will cause auto matic postponement of the electro cution date.
 The jury which found Haupt- mann guilty was out for II hours and 20 minutes and took five bal- lots. On the first vote the jur- l ors agreed unanimously that he ! was guilty. Four additional polls 1 were necessary before they could agree that he should be sentenced to death.
 The entire operation of condemn ing Hauptmann last night was over so quickly that few could realize
 
 suspense was at an end.
 Justice Thomas w. Trenchard, In his wrinkled black robe, mounted ], the bench at 1O:43 p. m. There 1 was gravity and dignity in his face. 1 The jury box, where Attorney Wi- lentz and his colleagues of the Iprosecution had been sitting, await ing the verdict, was emptied. Con- ! stables swept papers from the de- fense and prosecution tables.
 One Figure Missing 7 There was one familiar figure 7 missing when the major characters had taken their seats. That WAS Col Lindbergh, who throughout the ] trial had been a faithful observer of ats progress and an interested listener to testimony.
 Only one minute after the jus tice had looked through his glass; es at the attorney general and in- ] quired if the court was ready for the verdict, Hauptmann had been condemned.
 The ceremony was simple. Some one in the group of jittery court officials forgot to ask Hauptmann Lloyd Fell, began to ask the jury the usual question. He was in- terrupted by Justice Trenchard who said, sternly, "let the defend ant rise"
 Hauptmann rose to his full height, taking his guards with him. He stood erect, in the position of soldier. His spine was stiff and his shoulders straight. But his 7. face was that of man about to face firing squad. The words of Attorney Fisher had warned him / of what was to come.
 Verdict is Given
 ''Hsve you arrived at a verdict?" the court clerk asked quietly.
 The foreman of the jury, Charles Walton, smallish man who at the moment had an ashsn face and reddened eyes, rose and swayed uncertainty at the end of the jury box.
 we have" he said.
 "How say you?" the clerk asked.
 we find the defendant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, guilty as charged" he said.
 There was a pause. It was n significant pause, for if Walton had said more, if he had added and we recommend life Imprisonment" Bruno Richard Hauptmann's life would have been spared. There were no more words from Walton.
 Newspaper copy began moving out of the courtroom. Hanptmann, staring stolidly at the foreman, ciaration in the spasmod!c movement of his jaws. His face had a deep crimson glow. His. thick neck was reddened. But his hands were clamped close t. tho sides of his creased trousers.
 All Were in the Air
 Justice Trenchard fumbled with papers on his desk. He is a hu- mane man, but q turist. He stiff fcned himself against the unenvi- able duty that was his.
 Attorney General WilentZ, in- wardly jubilant over the victory, was apparently so stunned that he could not make the usual notion for immediate sentencing of the
 "Mr Attorney General" said Justice Trenchard, "do you wish will you make--is 1t not time for you to ask for the sentencing of the prisoner?"
 Wilentz stepped to the Justice's Dencn ana maoo the motlon, Tn voice 50 low that only it's overtoncs were caught by the press benches, ten feeet away.
 Justice Trenchard ordered Hauptmann to stand up once more. His sentence was brief and couched fin the simplest of terms. He did not lecture Hauptmann. He did not comment on the case. IIe merely said that 1t was incumbent upon him, as judge, to fulfill his duty.
 Death Sentence Given
 Under the statutes,p he said. cit now becomes the duty Of the court to sentence the defendaa. to die in the electric chair not earlier than four weeks from this conviction, and not later than eight weeks. It is therefore the sentence of this court that the de- fendant shall die in the electric