The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24

We have to admit that charge with shame. Hauptmann was convicted at a trial held as openly as could be imagined; his appeal went to the supreme court. Then Gov. Hoff- man of New Jersey saw fit to re- open the case. Hoffman now ad- mits he made a mistake. We will admit he did. too.'
 On the other hand. Col. Lind bergh has always invited publicity by stunning it, after the manner of Creta Garbo. We do think he would have been pestered less if he had acted more as a popular hero is sup posed to act, and been less embar- rassed in the public gaze.
 Scripps- Howard newspapers - Perhaps the Lindberghs were justi- fled in their escape. It was a per- sonal decision which nobody else could make for them. Certainly no parent will quarrel with it. We would like. however, to think that 1t was no necessary.
 New York Times-Gangsters and kidnapers have ranged the land with too much recklessness and too great immunity. The inevitable re- suit we see strikingly set forth in this Lindhergh decision to seek safer surroundings elsewhere. It is as if America had decreed exile for her own son.
 Hartford, Conn, Times: If 1t is true that Col. Lindbergh and his wife are to leave the United States permanently, because living here has been made intolerable for them, the people of them United StaetS have cause for shame. That is true regardless of whether the Lind- berghs are leaving on account of fear that kidnapers will try to take their second son away from them, or because newspapers of certain type will not give them moments peace.
 It was intolerable enough when kidnaper held law enforcement in such low respect that he dared strike a home of such prominence. It compounds the disgrace that an- other Lindbergh child is not safe even with the country stirred as it was over the earlier incident.
 Philadelphia Inquirer: ". .. That the Lindberghs have been driven to seek refuge abroad rebounds not at all to the credit of this coun- try, particularly of the state of New Jersey :. It is deeply to be regretted that this family is forced to seek sanctuary abroad while the man vino was convicted as long ago as last February of Kidnapping and killing their child still lives to inspire mauslin sympathy; and while Gov ernor Hoffman scatters doubt con- corning the processes of the law"
 Philadelphia Record: ". The Lindberghs have done precisely what any other American citizens would do in similar circumstances The criminal element continues to ride high in America Revival of the Hauptmann case by Governor Hoffman with the new hue and cry according to Lindbergh, proved the last straw |. The roots of this situation lie deeper than they seem. We pride ourselves upon the bill of rights, yet England. has no written constitution at all, no supreme court"
 Chicago Tribune: Our shame be- fore the world and before the tribunal fo TOUT conscience has been brought home to us in the justifiable course adopted, we know with the utmost reluctance. by Col. and Mrs. Lind bergh. The only way out is through the restoration of the national moral, the revival of the sense of common responsibility for good gov- ernment, the hold to strict account ability of public officials and the po- litical personnel which controls them"
 Hartford, Conn, Courant: If itI (the departure) constitutes a hum- Hating reflection on conditions with respect to law and order in the United States, it will perhaps be . "a. A En t..n.I