The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-02
FOUR SEATED IN
JURY To HEAR
LINDDERGH CASE
Two Housewives, MaChlnlSt
and Farmer Accepted
as Trial Opens.
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upon the availability of the tales
men.
Time after tlne the prospective
Juror admitted he had formed such
a strong opinion that no evidence,
whatever its nature, could sway his
judgment.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas
". Trenchard, trying to speed the
selection of a jury, asked many
questions himself. and occasionally
exhibited annoyance at the tales
mems refusal to bend their judg-
ment to the facts as they will be
brought out by the states $50 wit
neSSeS.
An hour and a half after Justice
Trenchard brought his gavel down
on the pine bench with a mild tap,
and officially declared the trial
open, only one juror had definitely
been seated.
Col. Lindbergh sat within a few
feet of Hauptmann, but not once
did the two men exchange a glance.
Col. Lindbergh hardly smiled once
from the time he entered the court
until noon recess.
He sat between Col. H. Norman
Schwarz'Iopf and a state detective,
with his arms folded. looking
straight ahead. Occasionally, Col
Lindbergh leaned slightly forward
and supped his hand at one a to
hear the low-voiced evniremen.
Hauptmann gazed straight to the
front. He occasionally turned
slightly and watched the proSpec-
tvie jurors, but not once did he look
at Col. Lindbergh.
Hauptmann saw yesterday, for the
last time in private conversation
before he is found guilty or &C
quilted, the blond wife who has
stuck by him from the moment Of
his arrest. There were tears in
Anna Schoefier Hauptmann's eyes
when she left the Jail. There were
none in Hauptmann's.
The frantic preparations for the
trial which have made Flemington
an %uproarious boom town, we're re-
placed by an atmosphere of strange
calm in the Courthouse although the
street outside boiled with people
and excitement. Only the gathering
of a hundred telegraph instruments
which are to pour a million words
a day into world news channels
showed the Importance of the case,
Detective to Testify
known, will be those whose names
are the most prominent-Col. Lind
bergh, and his wife. Anne Morrow
Lindbergh. Col. Lindbergh will
establish the facts about events in
his household on the blustery March
night his child was stolen. His wife
will tell how the infant, suffering
from a cold, was put warmly to bed
and how the nurSemaid, Miss Cow,
made the horrifying discovery that
the crib was empty.
Beyond that, it is believed, the
tall aviator will be called upon only
to cover the poignant moments
when he identified the body of his
son, after its discovery in a shall
low grave in the hills near his home
1t is the minor characters of the
drama. who will provide the CROWDS
demand for sensation. Such a man
for example, as Joseph Perrone, who
will take the stand to testify that
Bruno Hauptmann paid him a dol
lar to take a kidnap note to the
kindly old Bronx professor, DR.. Con-
don, who later gave the negotiator
Col. L~indbergh's $4,000.
Such q witness also, will be Arthur
johnson, the New York detective,
who will spread on the court records
unless his testimony is excluded
the story of Hauptmann's early
criminal career as the bad boy of
Kamenz." Germany as a burglar,
highwayman and Jail breaker.
Mystery Angles Expected
It is the defense which will pro-
vide all the mystery angles" The
state will attempt to strip the trial
free from a hundred mysterious CO.
incidents that have made the case
an unparalleled criminal story.
The defense, on the other hand,
will inject John Hughes Curtis of
Norfolk, the imaginative boat
builder who committed a cruel hoax
on the Lindbergh family when he
pretended he was in touch with
the actual kidnapers of the baby.
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