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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14
Tragic Euents From The Night Baby Lindbegh Was Kidnapped
(By United Press)

Milestone the shocking crime, from It's dramatic climax in at Elemingon
 March 1esa LAnlheryh baby snatcied from ctade at Hopewel N. demanding ebO,OO0 ransom left behind
 March 2-Naton pcAed indignation grief Agents of
 March A-Henry tiscd Johnson friend of babys narsead absolyed by Lindbcrgh family. Ttcton obtain of "best mi ds" problem
 22-Nohn CuRts Norfolk, Va, perpctrates cruel a@Dnizcd Col IindbePgh wild chase pretending ciuc babys whercabous Cnrt laicr sentenced a although jail sentence was rem'tted
 April 2-Join F Condon (Jafse) S5O,O0O in Massachusetts directed by recipient proves fruiticss.
 May S-Gason E. Means obtains $lO4O0O from Mrs. E E. indcrg baby hoax. Convicted and mprisoncd)
 May 12-Baby's body found home.
 June 1O-ViOlct Sharpe, maid in Dwight w. Morrow hOme commits suIcidc hystercal police questioning.
 10, 1gssTedcra authorities charge of investga tuRy led to Hauptmahn's capture.
 Sept ips4Hauptmann orrested in the Bronx Ransom bills other evidence found torn to pieces
 Sept. 27-Hauptmann pleads guilty in Bronx county and Is held in $tOOOOO ball.
 charge murder by Hunterdon county grand jury ut Washington.
 Oct. 10--Hauptrnann extradied to Remington. Oct "A Hauptmann arraghed Bennington Pleads guilty
 Jan. 2-1rial opens
 Feb it-TraI ends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14
Jurors Voted Guilty
 On 7he First Ballot
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with the brave orange feather. as she donned 1t last night when she came to her supreme trial. to carry on tho fight for her sons father. Who The Jurors Are The jurors sat fin n yellow-walled room that was 20 by 70 feet. They were clustered around q big maple table, and on another table were piled the exhibits.
 Foreman Walton sat at the head of the tablo in the role of presid- ing officer. He is a slight. gray. haired man of A. the father of four children. Throughout the trial his attention has been unfiaggihg. Next to him sat Mrs. Rosie Pill. grandmother. She is an ample woman who wears horn-rimmed glasses and a sparkling sense of humor.
 Then Mrs. Verna Synder. who weight 29f pounds. She has gained 30 of them since this trial start cd. and once ate 12 rolls during ono meal in the Union Hotel dtn- ing room.
 Charles r. Synder Ono relation to Verna) has not smiled since this trial started. He Is Il serious-faced farmer. living near Clinton. If his hair were shade lighter he would bear Il striking resemblance to IIauptmann.
 Next. Mrs. Ethel Stockton. 2a- ycar-old mother of seven-year- old son. She is the best looking woman on the jury. and Is q vivid splotch of color in the box when she wears the red dresses of which she Is fond.
 Elmer smith. 85. Is an insurance man and n former justice of the peace. Ho was the life of the party in the jury's quarters at the hotel during the evenings of the trial He has q fair singing voice and
 Robert Cravatt Is the youngster of tho jury, being only 26 years old. He was educational adviser at q Civilian Conservation corps camp at High Bridge, N. J., before the spinning wheel of fate put him in the jury box.
 Philip Hockenbury is a 60-year- old farmer. He has c mustache, shot through with gray and takes life seriously. He would like to get this thing over with and return to his grandchildren.
 George Vorhees also is a farmer. He listened tntently to every Woru of testimony. Tn the evening he would play a squeaky phonograph in the jury's quarters. He prefers soft and gentle songs of other days. such as "I wandered Today to the Hills. Maggie"
 Liscom Case is retired carpen- ter. For a time it seemed that ho was the most important juror. be- cause he had weak heart and had to be placed under q physictan's care. Serious illness of Q juror would cause a mistrial. and extra ordinary precautions were taken to keep Case in good shape. Ills meals were carried up to his hotel room. so he would not have to climb stairs.
 Mrs. May Brelsford is Fleming ton housewife. She is tall. red- haired and 70 years old-the mother of two sons. She vee par ticularly interested in Mrs. Haupt- mann's testimony.
 Howard BigEs used to be . book keeper, but he was unemployed when chosen on the jury. He writes two letters day to his family in Clinton, N. J.s Biggs has been on many Hunterdon County 1uricg and knows the procedure thoroughly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

York city police dpcartment. As' cordinE to Attorney General Hom- CT s. Cummings:
 "rhe result obtained in the Lind bergh case is due to no master de- tective of fiction working on intui- tion or sporadic inspiration, but to n practical arrangement for coop eration, in which trained experts, mcthodical. patient and attentive to the smallest details hung on to tho trail until he end c m in sight"
 Thousands of letters fir o m all over the United States and from many other countries were writ ten, bearing on the Lindbergh case. Most of them were pcnncd by cranks, but the division of in- vestigation inquired into every one.
 The division even prepared 5O.- 900 index cards as a matter Of mere routine. to organize the Lindbergh files on O chronological basis.
 Case after case is filled with ma. chine guns, shot guns, revolvers and knives taken from kidnapers and other criminals. There are pieces of hangmen's ropes, which frightened around some of their necks.
 In one display there is thermos jug In which the kidnapers hid part of the S200,000 ransom money they obtained from Charles F. Urschel. Oklahoma City business man. Within 20 days after he was kidnapped, IS men and women were arrested. tried and convicted for their part in the crme
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14
Pen Picture OF Tlvo Principal Attorn eys
Edward J. Reilly of Defense Is Known as the Bull of Brooklyn Is Short, Lean, Ascetc
 in Appearance and COldly Cynical

with attention to detail, and is perfectly groomed. But there are no striped pants In his makeup. His face Is thin and of an olive hue. When he smiles, which he does occasionally when he Is exam ming a recalcitrant witness the smile has all the iciness of a man who knows he has another man trapped.
 There were occasions when W.. lentz appeared to go out of char- acter, fin the Hauptmann trial -v- when he was attempting to pattern after his opponent. He tried to thunder, but his thunder was not backed by the storm-cloud that Reilly raises out of q clear sky. There was no force back of 1t. 1t was merely summer lightning storm-and very little damage was done.
 It is when he Is cold, calculating, calm, logical, cynical, that he tears his witnesses to pieces and confused them to the point where they are prone to shout:
 You are mixing me up, you arc mixing me up."
 In court Reilly and Wilentz have been the bitterest of enemies. Out of court, they smile at each other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

abouts on the night of the kldnap' ing and the payment of the ran' som. She admits under cross-e exam ination, however, that she testified at tho Bronx extradition hearing she did not know where Haupt- mann was on March l. Ebert Carlstrom, a swede acquaintance of Mrs Hauptmann, testifies he saw Hauptmapn in a Bronx bakery on the night of March 1. He is vague and evasive under ross-examina- tion, a fact commented on by the bench.
 Thursday, Jan. 31-Twcnty-s -secOnd
 Day
 Two more witnesses positively Identify Hauptmann as having been in the Bronx on the night of March 1. State brings out that one was a bootlegger and the other the operator of q speakeasy and book making establishment. A former convict from Trenton testifies he encountered two men In an auto mobile with a ladder on March 1 who asked the way to the Lind- bergh home. and neither was Hauptmann. John M. Trendley, de- fenge handwriting expert, is ad' mitted as an expert despite the states efforts to discredit his qualifications.
 Friday, Feb. 1--Twenty.third
 Day
 Trendley, defense handwriting expert, testifies that in his opinion Hauptmann wrote none of the ram som notes. He throws discredit on the methods of Albert Osborn, chief state handriting expert and indicates under direct examination by Reilly, that he believes the specimen letters and words Tn Hauptmann's hand exhibited on large charts by the state could have been distorted in reproduce ton. Peter II. Sommer identifies pictures of the late Violet Sharpe and the late lsidor Fisch and says he saw them with q "blOnd baby about two years old" coming over from New Jersey to Manhattan on the Weehawken ferry at midnight March 1, 1882. On eros examina. tion Sommers becomes badly con- fused and makes almost no posi-. tive statements.
 Monday, Feb. 4--Twcnty.FOurth
 Day
 Five allbi witnesses called by the defense fail to answer their sup poenas. Col. H. Norman Schwartz. kopf, superintendent of the New Jersey state police, -testisicB that a duplicate ladder like tho one used in the kidnapping broke in tests under c weight of 1SO pounds, which was the combined weight at tha time of Hauptma m and the child. Nine other witness es support Hauptmann's case. Tuesday, Feb. S--Twcnty-fifth Day
 Five more defense witnesses fail to appear. Twelve testify, mostly in support of Hauptmann's claim that the late Isador Fisch gave him the ransom money. 4 Brook iyn restaurant cashier testifIes he saw Fisch jump over tho Bronx cemetery wall on the night of the ransom payments.
 Wednesday, Feb. 6--Twcnty.slxth
 Day
 pr. Erastus Mead Hudson, New York physician and stsAecnt of fingerprinting, says his methods would disclose prints on tho ladder for six months after the kidnap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

pr. Ersstus Mead Hudson, New York physician and stsAecnt of fingerprinting. says his methods would disclose prints on tho indder for six months after the kidnap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

The best thing Hauptmann ever did in his life was to win Anna Schoeffler. Her faith was us high as the highest mountain top.
 Her conduct in the courtroom was that of martyrs wife. Let the crowd howl. Let the law grind and instruct. To her Richard was innocent. Nothing could touch him.
 Inside of her. Anna Hauptmann knew. No woman. not even the most adoring and faithful of wives can live with Hauptmann for years without knowing that some place in this man, there is dark ness, stealth. crime. She may close her eyes to 1t. She may close her ears 10 1t. Even her mind may re- ject the truth. But her heart knows.
 Helpful to tIie Last
 Anna Hauptmann has eyes of adoration, of infinite sorrow. How she wanted to help her husband in that moment when the word guilty branded his lowering brow. How she leaned forward! How she strove to reach him across the shoulders of his guards
 Never once did she look at the handcuffs on his wrists. She pre- tended she did not see them. She looked into his eyes.
 'J can walk on my own feet" she snid to Attorney General Will cntz who pushed his way through the milling throng in the enclos- urc before the judges bench last night to offer her police protection.
 Mrs. Hauptmann went to the modest home where she has had bed and board while she fought for her son, for her husband, for the shreds of her love.
 She clasped her son to her breast. Manfred, named for Ger many's first hero of the air as Baby Lindbergh was named for greatest hero of the air.
 Today she will don the plain brown checked woolen dress. the aaaI nnat NhA ,hrnWn felt hat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

the rail from the ladder and the board from Hauptmann's attic sup- posed to match 1t; the board from Hauptmann's closet with the Con- don address and telephone number on 1t. and the baby's thumb guard found on the Lindbergh premises.
 Reilly reminded the jurors of their duties to the American flag and Constitution and imparted to them the Biblical warning, Judge not, lest ye be judged"
 The high point of the closing days was reached with the address to the jury of David T. WilentZ, in which the slender, dynamic pros eOutor blasted the accused man with vitriolic fury, demanding his life as forfeit to society.
 We have proven conclusively, positively that Hauptmann com mitted this crime" he told the in- tent jury. .""You cannot but bring In q verdict of first degree murder
 Now I ask you that you show no mercy" he had thundered im- placabIy. Either he is q snake in the grass or he is innocent and should be acquitted"
 Wilentz did q thorough job. He went over every shred Of essential evidence the state had introduced the ransom notes. the ladder, the boards. Hauptmann's su d d n wealth. etc., etc.-branding Haupt- n,ann as n flend and murderer un- it to be fin the same room with d civilized man.
 Wilentz referred to "this mur- derer in whose veins runs ice water -this man who is SO cold"
 "He will be thawed out when he hears that electric switch" he intoned with sinister significance. as Hauptmann's bright eyes re- mained fixed on him in hate.
 During the approximately four hours that Wilentz spoke. he had tho jury and the courtroom under his spell. and every word of the long address was listened to with intense interest. down Co the last dramatic moment when hts close ing words were interrupted by 'he Rev Vincent Burns who shouted something about a "confessio" and threw the court into an up- roar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-14

Pennington, N. J., Feb 14.-- (UP)-Edward J. Reilly, chief of counsel which defended Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Is popularly known as the Bull of Brooklyn"
 There is no nickname for his opponent, Attorney General David T. Wiiehtz, the dark and fiery "po- litical lawyer" who, undertook 10 press the most sensational prosecu- ton in the history of the nation.
 The two men are as opposite as the forces they represented--the mann to the electric chair on charges of murdering Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's son, and the other every means, by every technicallty and every triviaiity, to keep him from walking that last mile.
 Reilly's entrance into the Flom- ington scene was always spectacu- lar-from the day he first appear cd, in his striped pants and mould ed sack coat, with white carnn- tion in the lapel, to the final day when he stood before the jury of common -place Hunterdone clti- zens and exhorted them to spare the defendants life.
 Reilly is 0 big man, towering man, who has seemed to thrive oIi his battles against ovefpowering odds. There is q ruddy glow on his massive c0untenance. He has rep resented the "tops' in the under world, and he had done well by them. That his practice has done well by him is proved by his ox- cellent turnout, luxurious offices, and outward appearance Of afhu- ence.
 pressive. Every word he utters of patriotic adherence to the con- stitution that guarantees every man "the right to a fair trial" To to every other judge before whom he has appeared, he is courteous, deferentlal, almost apologetic--ln- court procedure, yielding grace- fully when he knows he is beaten.
 His greatest success is as what his profession knows as "cop batter" When he has minor fig
 
 stand he goes to work with the joy of battle in his eyes. His face is suffused with an even deeper glow than usual. His voice rises.
 You were derelict in your dce- youty, wurrent you" He thunders, and often the police official squirms uneasily, swallows hard. and looks as though he were about to break down and confess the crime himself.
 He has a ponderous appearance. He likes display. And he likes ad- vertisement. No news reel photO- grapher has ever had to beg for poses.
 His opponent, Wilentz, is as cold ly cynical as Reilly is warmly en- thusiastic.
 WiIentz is short, lean, ascetic in appearance. He clothes himself
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
DOUGLAS NEVIS
PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
 REVIEWED. BY COUNCIL

A special meeting of they Doug las City Council was held last eve- ming for the purpose of going over some of the public works projects which are badly in need of atten- ton with the view of getting them lined up and approved to follow the work of St. Ann's avenue when that is finished.
 Most of the work discussed cen ters around the wharf; the ap- preach to the dock needs strength ening, quite little repair is need ed in and around the cannery, a new roof must be put on the coal shed, and the floats have to be strengthened up, it was reported If possible, the Council decided, the local EZRA crew will be put to work on the wharf as soon as it can be.
 The special meeting was avail ed of for the second reading of the bus franchise ordinance which is now ready for its final reading and passing, when the Council meets again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
WILLIAM BOYD,
 ACTOR, IS DEAD
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 21.- William Boyd, veteran player, and once the leading man on the stage for Maud Adams, Mrs. Fiske, Ethel Barrymore and others, is dead here as the result of gastric hemorrhages after an intestinal ailment.
 NEW LOW LIQUOR PRICES are still in effect at THE TOTEM GROCERY. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
Spring Arripes Today But
 Aduent Ciuen Gold Shoulder

The Old Witch, who sits atop the Nugget Shops famous witch totem pole, shivered bit.
 ''Heh. B-r-r-r. So this is the First Day of Spring, eh?" she quer- jed this morning.
 Well, that weather man up in his nice warm building on the hill may say this weather don't mean nothin'. But I'm tellin' you it's gettin' colder every yeat," she con- tinued.
 Why, take the First Day of Spring last year. Heh! Most tenn perature that day was bettern 40 And-b-r-r-r-didn't get no colder than 29. And, as I recollect, there was only a wee mite O snow on the ground.
 Now you take last night. Why land sakes alive, I swear to good ness I4theugh we was agoin' to have blizzard There's half-a-inch O snow still on the ground this mornin' B-r-r-r. And if that old temperature goes above 32 today, I'll eat my wooden bonnet.
 "Heh. Can't tell me it's not get tin colder every year"
 Incidentally, United State S Weather Observer Howard Thomp- son and his assistants today said the First Day of Spring this year was, indeed, a bit colder than that noted last year.
 However, they refused to be quoted as to whether the Old Witch was right in her guess that things were gettin' colder each year."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
MURDER MOVIE OPENS TONIGHT
 AT COLISEUM
Lew Cody, ZaSu Pitts Have Lea adin g Roles in
 Private Scandal

Private Scandal" an adroitly- produced murder mystery comedy that depends upon speed and clev- erness rather .than horror for its effectiveness, opens tonight at the Coliseum Theatre.
 The cast is composed of zaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks and Lew Cody, with Olive Tell, Jed Prouty, Charles B. Middleton, Rollo Lloyd and Hale Hamilton heading the supporting players.
 The film was produced by Charles R. Rogers for Paramount, and Ralph Murphy, who directed last seasons "70,000 Witnesses" han dled the megaplfbne.
 The original story was written by Vera Caspary and Bruce Man ming, while Garrett Fort, noted short story writer, is responsible for the screen play.
 The story raises the murder suicide question when Lew Cody is found dead in his real estate office. Caught in the market crash in which he loses investors funds he realizes that the only way out is suicide, making it appear like murder so that his insurance poli- cies can repay the investors.
 To Ned Sparks, sour-faoed de- tective, is given the task of un- ravelling a complex tangle of clues that first point to suicide, then turn to an hitherto unsuspected plot against Cody's life. When Sparks begins unravelling the mys- tery, countless obstacles are placed in his path; he finds each mem Der of the office staff lying to avoid exposing a private scandal ? Yet, through these lies, he finds the answer to the mystery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
BRITISH AGENT
 GRAPHIC STORY
 OF RED RUSSIA
Early Days of Revolution Depicted in Movie
 at Capitol

In British Agent which closes at the Capitol tonight, the two stars give what is confidentially claimed to be the outstanding characterization of their careers,
 The stark, colorful chaos that was Russia during the early days of the Revolution, is the locale of the drama Kay Francis as Ele- na, an aristocratic Russian who has become obsessed with the suffering of the peasants, dedicates her life to the Red Ideal as personified by Lenin. Her life is saved, during a street riot by Stephen Locke, an unofficial diplomatic agent for England, role portrayed by Les lie Howard They fall in love with each other.
 Lenin is fired on by an assassin and wounded. Locke is accused of the crime and a price placed on his head.
 Elena learns he will be in a eer- tain building at "a definite time, and betrays his whereabouts tosthe Reds who determine to bomb the building. The girl goes to the rem dezvous a little earlier, determined to die with the man she has be- trayed She tells Locke what she has done, and clasped in each oth- CTS arms they await their doom. Suddenly the bells of the city toll out the news of Lenin's recovery; the Soviet is in firm control of the government; the reign of terror is ended.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
NOTICE OF ADMINISI RATOR'S
 SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Tn the United States Commission
 er's Court for Juneau Precinct.
 Division Number One, Territory
 of Alaska. Tn Probate.
 In Re the Estate of WILLIS w.
 BATCHELLER, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Howard D. Stabler, adrninis- trator with the will annexed of the estate of WILLIS w. BATCHEL- LER, deceased, will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the Unit ed States, if the highest and best bid offered is satisfactory to said administrator, and subject to con- firmation of said court, on Tues day the 18th day of April, 1885, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. on said premises hereinafter described. all the right, title, interest and estate of said Willis w. Batcheller, at the time of his death, to wit, a fee simple title subject to first and only mortgage of the First National Bank of Juneau, due June 21, 1885, in the sum of $932.00, and 8go interest thereon from June 22, 1884, in and to the property here matter described; and all the right, title and interest that the said es- tate has acquired, by operation of law or otherwise, other than or in addition to that of said deceased at the time of his death, in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate at Juneau, Alaska, at the corner of Second and Main Streets opposite the Empire Build ing, and bounded and described as follows: LOT EIGHT (8) BLOCK TWO CD of the townsite of Ju- neau, Alaska, and the buildings thereon and appurtenances there unto belonging. Terms and condi- tions of sale: cash, in lawful money of the United States, ten d0) per cent of the purchase price to be paid the administrator on the day of sale, and the balance upon con- firmation of sale by said court and the delivery of a conveyance.
 Dated: March IA, 1885.
 HOWARD D. STABLER,
 Attorney -at-Law,
 Shattuck Building,
 Administrator, etc. First publication, March IA, 1885. Last publication, April Il, 1885.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-21
NOTICE PUBLIC SALE

Willys- Knight coupe converted truck; year-model 1928; engine num- Der 4480. This car is on display at the Service Motor Company, 3rd and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska and may be inspected at that place during business hours, and same is to be sold to the highest bidder FOR CASH.
 Sealed bids will be accepted at the U. s. Bureau of Fisheries of flee, 324 Federal Building, Juneau, Alaska until 200 pm, April 10, 1885. Bids must be dated, state clearly that they are for the Bureau of Fisheries coupe converted truck, and signed in ink.
 The Government reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 DONALD s. HALEY,
 Warden, Alaska Service First publication, March q, 1885. Last publication, March B, 1935.