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incredible, and out Of harmony with
the known facts In the case"
Parker, 65 years old, best known for
his long work on the famous Hall-Mills
murder case, has a record Of having
solved $50 cases and having sent 121
hanging. He explains his detective
methods by saying that he ''just fig
ured 'em out"
He has been closely associated with
Gov. Hoffman in the investigation of
the Hauptmann-L -Lindbergh case.
Hauptmann. deep in the State
Prison, yet the constant center of all
developments, slept soundly and long
last night after the ordeal that had
It's climax when his execution was
stayed at the last minute, with crowd
of more than 2,500 persons gathered
outside.
Wife Goes to Prison.
His wife, Anna, suffering hardly less
than her husband under the strain
that has been upon them since his ar
rest III September. 1884, also had her
first good sleep in days, and went to
the prison shortly after noon hoping
to see Hauptmann.
Attorney General Wilentz, asked TO-
day if the postponement of Haupt-
mann's execution surprised him,
echoed general sentiment about the
State house when he replied:
Nothing Is surprising any more"
Wilentz said he might have state
later in the day.
There was a report, lacking con-
flrmation, that the grand jury was
lacking four votes necessary to return
an indictment in the Wendell case.
The unprecedented action of the
prison warden-the man charged at
law with the prisoners eXecution-and
the grand jury ripped the astonishing
case wide open to new possibilities.
Legal authorities frankly were in a
quandary today as to what might hap
pen next.
c. Lloyd Fisher, chief defense coun-
sci, said he had no idea what avenues
were opened by the delay in the execu-
tion. So far as he knew there was no
precedent.
In the case Of an indictment being
returned against Wendell, Fisher felt
that a way would be found to extend
the stay Of Hauptmann's execution,
but whether such way would be
through a court of law. the Office of
the Governor or the Court Of Pardons
which twice has denied Hauptmann
clemency-Fisher did not know.
Several witnesses were questioned
by the grand jury yesterday, some of
them more than once. Among them
were Wendels son and daughter. The
later, Mrs. Dorothy Wendell Phillips,
tainted after testifying.
Parker was closeted with the jury
for some time.
Wendell Family Quizzed.
It was Parker who turned Wendell
over to Mercer County authorities late
last week after obtaining the "confes-
sions" which Wendell has since vigor-
ously repudiated.
So swiftly moved the events Of the
execution day that the issuance by
Gov. Hoffman Of 30-day reprieve for
Charles Zied, the man who was to have
walked the "last mile" with Haupt-
mann, was almost buried under the
avalanche of developments in the case
Of Hauptmann.
Zied Had Given Up Hope.
Zied, a Philadelphia gangster who
killed a Camden policeman, had given
up all hope and was resigned to death
in the chair-a sharp contrast to
Hauptmann who almost to the last had
expressed q belief that something"
would happen to save him.
But even Hauptmar1n, who has won
the sobriquet Of man Of steel" because
of his steady refusal to finch during
the torturing months that have fol-
lowed his arrest in September, 1884,
broke yesterday and accepted death
last night as inevitable.
This was apparent In Q letter to Gov