Evening star., 1935-02-17
BRUNO IS B00ED
ONENTER|NGCELL
NEAR CHAIR ROOM
Asks for Bible, Pictures and
Cigars as He Begins
Wait.
THREAT TO OFFICIALS
DISCREDITED BY POLICE
Letter Mailed to Gov. Hoffman
From Washington Is Believed
Work of Crank"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j.. February 10
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was booed
by inmates of the New Jersey State
Prison today as he entered the death
house to await the outcome Of efforts
by his attorneys to save him from the
electric chair.
The condemned man, who entered
the prison still protesting he was in
nocent of any part in the kidnapping
and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh,
jr.. and who heard some one in the
crowd answer I'VE know you're inno-
cent, Bruno" found the prison at
mosphere tense.
Three prisoners saw him as he was
being examined in a small room of
the center corridor and started to
boo Immediately 900 in the mess
hall joined in. 1t was several minutes
before guards restored order. The
three were taken to their cells and
will be disciplined. Col. George L. Sell
by, acting principal keeper, said.
Wants Wife's Pictures.
After being led to the death house,
Hauptmann, who has said he would
go TO the chair like a man." made
three requests. He asked for a Bible
and a new one was given him. He
asked for a picture of his wife and
baby and was informed he could have
it. He asked for a box of cigars given
him by Sheriff John H. Curtiss of
Hunterdon County, but was promised
another box instead.
Several hours after the prison doors
closed behind Hauptmann at 1898
am, Gov. Harold G.. Hoffman made
public a letter threatening death to
himself, Supreme Court Justice Thom-
as w. Trenchard and the jurors who
found Hauptmann guilty of murder in
the first degree. The letter, post
marked Washington. D. c.. was
mailed at 8 pm. last night.
Written in a long scrawl, and bear
ing crude skull and bones. the letter,
sent to Hoffman, and addressed to
him, Justice Trenchard and the jury,
warned you may all meet the death
of revenge" II Hauptmann's sentence
to death is not commuted to life
sentence" by February 81.
The Governor said he would turn
the letter over to the Department Of
Justice.
Il want to have this mark (the
skull and cross bones) removed from
Hauptmann," the writer of the letter
said. "and at least give him life SEN
tence till the kidnaper is found If
not, so may you all meet the death of
revenge. not even all the Army or the
State Militia can protect you. II you
do not make the move mentioned by
February 81.
"Frame-up" Charged.
The letter was signed 1926 and
$4,000 people of the U. S. A." In a
paragraph beneath the signature, the
writer charged the case against
Hauptmann was a "frame-up," spoke
disparagingly Of Attorney General
David T. Wilentz, chief prosecutor of
the one-time German machine gum
ner, and said New Jersey was guilty
of breaking the Federal law"
1t was generally believed the letter
was the work of a crank, but Gov.
Hoffman's action in referring 1t tc
Federal authorities added a serious
note to its receipt.
AS Hauptmann-now prisoner IT,
400-sat In cell 9, six steps from the
death chamber which he has been
sentenced to enter the week of March
18, his attorneys continued plans to
appeal from the conviction and delay
the execution of the sentence.
Egbert Rosecrans of defense counsel
set Tuesday as a tentative date for
his appearance before Justice Trench
ard to ask that the State bear the
expense Of appeal. Hauptmann yes
terday signed petition asserting he
was a pauper.
Today Hauptmann left Pennington
under guard as heavy as that which
accompanied him the night he was
brought to Hunterdon County Jail
from the Bronx.
Five cars, containing troopers, con-
stables, Sheriff Curtiss and Warden
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