The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-17
HGuptnlGnn to Carry
Appeal for His Life
to Supreme Court
To Sell Life History to Raise Money;
Mother in Germany Expresses
Hope In Re.Trial

Bruno Richard Hauptmann and his
wife Anna marked the tenth anniver-
sary of their wedding on October 10
in the death house while his lawyers
mapped the preliminary strategy fol
the Supreme Court fight they will
wage in an attempt to save him from
the electric chair.
Unless he wins this fight or the
court Of pardons commutes his SEN
tence to life Imprisonment, the lat:
ter question of grave doubt, he will
probably go to his death, one of his
lawyers, Egbert Rosecranz, said. Nc
application for clemency will be
made, Rosecranz said, until all legal
moves are exhausted.
The promise of further fight, and
the visit Of his wife brought back ia
Hauptmann some Of the confidence he
manifested throughout his long trial
and his eight months in death row
before the court of errors and appeals
sustained his conviction in a unani.
mouse decision yesterday.
Coincidental with the visit of Mrs
Hauptmann, the warden of the pri.
son, Col. Mark o. Kimberling, leased
Hauptmann's autobiography to his
attorneys, Rosencranz and C. Lloyc
Fisher. They had striven for months
to have the manuscript released ir
order to sell it TO help finance Haupt'
mann's appeal.
To Sell Autobiography
The story of the German ex-ma'
chine gunner's life, written in long.
hand in German, was completed May
a, and Hauptmann requested at that
time that he be allowed to give it tt
his wife and lawyers.
"The autobiography" Col. Kimber
ling said in a statement, EVA.
translated into English, carefully
read by the principal keeper, who dis
cussed the possibilities of release
with Governor Hoffman, Commits
sion (of institutions and agencies,
Ellis, and the prison board of COVER
nors.
cit was felt that no permission
should be granted for the release {. .
| while Hauptmann's case was on ap
peal to the court Of errors and ap
peals. There appeared to be little Of
no basis for objections to its release
after the decision of the court"
Hauptmann's Mother
Is HeartbrOken
Kamenz, Germany, Oct. 10.-Ths
worn and aged mother of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann burst into tear.
tonight when she talked of "Americar
justice"
"No words can express my feelings
about American law" Frau Pauline
Hauptmann said when she met cor
J respondent on her doorstep. She hat
just returned from a forest with 8
heavy load of wood and basketfu
of mushrooms.
81 read confirmation of the death
verdict in a local newspaper .anc
know what you are going to tell me,
she said. After inviting the CORE
spondent in, she suddenly lost contro
Of herself. Throwing her hands up ii
despair, she burst into tears and Sob
bed: "A man who has no money has
no right to live"
my son is a good lad, and there.
| fore must suffer. Bruno has to take
the blame for everything and give
Lindbergh his satisfaction"
After a short silence while sh.
folded her hands as if in prayer, she
asked whether the sentence would b.
carried out Immediately. She breatheG
a heavy sigh of relief when tolc
another appeal was planned.
"Let as hope a re-trial will be
started which might finally clea,
him." the care-worn mother said.