The Washington times., 1935-01-04
MRS.L|NDBERGH.
PICTURED IN
HEROIC ROLE
Failure to Break While on the
Stand Described BY AdeIa
Rogers st. Johns

9ODeLtSt ana scenario UTtLeT, IS
4 on the scene at Pennington, N.
J.. to t0rite special daily article
on the trial of Bruno Richard
HGuptn11nn for the kidnGp-1Iur-
der of the Lindbergh baby. Read
her story of the trial every day
IN The Washington Times.
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Copyright, 1885, by International
News service)
BENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 4.
We who sit in the courtroom at
the trial Of Bruno Hauptmann for
the murder of Charles Augustus
Lndbergh, jr., have seen some
thing we will never forget.
When Anne Lindbergh sat on
Ehe witness stand, we saw great
woman and a great lady courage
Gus in sorrow, gallant in grief-a
slim young thing in black who will
never again be happy.
And because Of her courage and
her agony, am going to make a
confession.
If the State Of New Jersey can
prove that Bruno Hauptmann was
actually the man who climbed up
that ladder and put it under
little Lindy's window and carried
him out to his death
If the State can prove he wrote
the ransom notes and left his
1ingerprints on the ladder
If Jafsie can identify him as
the man to whom he paid the
ransom money or Colonel Lind
bergh can testify that it was
Hauptmann's voice he heard that
night inSthe cemetery
If the State can produce just
ONE THING that connects Haupt-
mann with the Lindbergh kid
naping in any way Whatsoever
If the State can prove he wrote
the ransom notes, or took one dol
lar of the blood money, or was lin
1t" in any way, as an accessory
before or after the fact. or that
he had knowledge of it or gave as
sistance even to the small degree
Of building the ladder for someone
else to use
I'll go down to New Jersey and
turn the switch on the electric
chair that holds him and watch
him die in it without one mo-
ment's hesitation.
I am not bloodthirsty. In the
past, have been accused Of being
"pro-defense." have been &C
cused Of being too tolerant, of
helping to set people free that
ought not to be free.
Beyond Reach OF Sympathy
BUT any man who had anything
to do with kidnapping a child in
order to get money, any man who
takes the remotest part in steal
ing helpless little baby, in killing
Q child for gain, is beyond reach
Of any decent human sympathy.
Any man who can pvt souls
through the torture that Indy
and Anne have been through and
are still going through-a torture
q thousand times worse than
death-ought to be killed as we
kill raging beasts or venomous
Serpents or poison spiders.
There is no crime in the world
50 dreadful as kidnapping. AND
IT HAS GOT TO STOP!
Perhaps the State can prove
everything it says it can against
Hauptmann. But if they can
prove he was part of the Lind
bergh kidnapping, then he should
be treated as a menace.
An Honest Report
I promise you on my word Of
honor that 7 will not allow my
viewpoint to interfere with my
honest effort to tell you what
they do prove, and what Haupt-
mann's lawyers are able to prove
for him.
Anne Lindbergh didn't weep
she didn't break-she didn't
faint.
Sitting here in the courtroom,
she did none of the things which
movie actresses do in such scenes.
Views Sleeping Suit
The attorney general of New
Jersey took up a pair of those
woolly, teddy-bear sleepers and
held them before Anne Lind
bergh'S eyes. She stared at them
for a moment and I thought she
was going to faint.
She had nut that little woolly
Gleeping thing on her baby the
night of March 1st, 1882. She
had buttoned it about him, and
you knew that as she did so, she'd
held him close and kissed the top
OF his head and probably tickled
him inside his woolly sleepers.
And he had laughed ana snuggled
against her. She said: