The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-27
new REPRIEvE
is limited BY
GOV. HOFFMAN
Willing to Grant Bruno Stay
II Legal, Says
Executive.
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Hunterdon County and any repre-
sentatives of their departments who
may have participated, in any way in
the Lindbergh case.
The investigation should also in
clude an examination of the costs
Of this case from the date of the
commission of the crime down to
the present moment. / am sure that
If the Attorney General and prose-
cutor Joined me in request for
this investigation, there would be no
difficulty in having resolution
adopted by the Legislature and in
having this investigation started i'm
mediately."
The remainder of the Governors
statement follows:
Il am somewhat amazed and
amused at the statements attributed
to Prosecutor Hauck, particularly
his expression that I am trying to
make laughing stock of the
courts.
Labels Hauck incompetent"
Mr.. Hauck Is the young man who
Oold the Hunterdon County jury
that he was going to prove that
John Hughes Curtis actually had
contact with the gang that kidnapped
the Lindbergh baby. He proved it,
and then he later participated in
the trial which proved that Bruno
Richard Hauptmann committed this
crime single-handed.
Mr.. Hauck was so confused and
so incompetent that the latter trial,
although conducted in Hunterdon
County, was taken out of his hands
and conducted by the Attorney Gen
eral, for whom he was permitted TO
act only as an errand boy.
With preference to the Haupt-
mann home, may 1 say that I do
not consider that it was at all out
rageous for Governor. who is con-
cerned in seeing that the full meas
ure of justice is done in this case,
to simply ask that the ladder rail
and the boards supposed to have
been taken from the Hauptmann
home. should be examined upon the
premises.
Scores Wilentz, Hauck
Il would say that the action of
the Attorney General and the
prosecutor, in acting as a personal
attorney to a member of the State
PnliOn of1d nfhor
whom it is desired to secure honest
information, is far more reprehen-
sible
Il wonder what prompts the sud-
den and jealous protection of the
famous ladder and floor boards.
Every one knows that this ladder
has been pulled apart dozen or
more times; that certain sections of
it have been replaced; that it was
sent to Washington for examination
and that it was mauled around by
every police officer and reporter
who visited Hopewell; that hundreds
of fingerprintS were found upon it
the f1ngerprints of nearly every one
but Hauptmann.
1T is too bad that Prosecutor
Hauck did not have sense enough
to see that what might have been
important evidence was protected
at time when his protection was
necessary.
Earlier today. Federal govern
ment employe, Archibald Loney,
engaged by Gov. Harold c. Hoff-
man as wood expert, told Atty.
Gen. Wilentz today that he could
prove that Hauptmann was
framed" He asked Mr.. Wilentz to
prevent Hauptmann's execution
Tuesday, to permit development of
his evidence.
Mr.. Wilentz refused He told
Loney he had had more than year
to study the wood.
He and Prosecutor Hauck de-
clared open war with Gov. Hoff-
man, who accompanied Loney, a De-
partment of the interior employee,
in an examination of Haupt1lann's
old home in New York yesterday.
Mr.. Hauck indirectly accused
Gov. Hoffman's own investigators of
taking the evidence upon which
Mr.. Loney based his claim.
I'm sick of the Governors ac-
tons" he said. IF he tries to
feprieve Hauptmann. I'll fight him
in court. 1 think the Legislature
should investigate"
Hoffman's Position Unenviable
A feeling grew in Trenton that
Gov. Hoffman might nevertheless
attempt to stay the execution. He
is in so unenviable a political posi-
ton as a result of sponsoring
Hauptmann's cause that he might
we'll take a gamblers last-straw
chance to pull the fat out of the
fire.
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