Evening star., 1936-04-07
L|NDBERGH CASE
INQUIRIES PUSHED
Jersey Legislature, How.
ever, Refuses to Authorize
Probe of Officials.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., April 7.-Ofhcials
pushed two Investigations Of phases
Of the Lindbergh kidnapping case today,
but attempts to win legislative au-
thority for two related probes were
listed as closed chapters.
The New Jersey Assembly, by de-
cisive votes last night, turned down
two proposals to investigate the con-
duct of officials associated with the
case.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, however,
continued his own investigation in an
attempt to completely solve" the
crime
In Brooklyn, N Y, District Attorney
William F. x. Geoghan renewed today
attempts to verify the story of Paul
H. Wendell, who says he was tortured
there TO compel him to confess" he
kidnapped the Lindbergh baby and was
in possession of it when it died. He
subsequently retracted the confession.
Grand Jury to Meet.
AAC ~ACASCl SOuIltS, ~. j., SldIlQ
jury was scheduled to meet today TO
continue its inquiry in his case. Wendell
is held in jail on a murder charge.
The legislative resolutions for in-
vestigation came last night from both
sides of the divided, Republican ma
jority in the lower house.
One, by the Governors opponents,
would have created a citizens COM
mittee headed by President Harold w.
Dodds of Princeton University, and
directed at the Governors activities
only. The other, a Hoffman proposal,
would have directed legislative COM
mittee to investigate the acts Of all
officials concerned in the case, includ-
ing the Governor, and would have
authorized investigation Of the Lind
bergh kidnap-murder case from its
inception.
From Assemblyman Philip P. Geb.
hardt, Democrat, from Hunterdon
County, where Hauptmann was con-
victed, came the plea that it would
be far better, if possible, to forget
the whole matter"
few hours earlier, the body Of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was
electrocuted as the Lindbergh baby
slayer, was cremated in a crematory
in Queens, New York, after brief fu-
neral services. Anna Hauptmann,
who until the end maintained her be-
lief in her husbands innocence, broke
down with grief and had to be led
away.
Says He Saw Baby.
Whether the grand Jury will take
notice Of information John F. Hollis,
former police chief Of North Arlington,
Mass, claims to have about the kid
naping, remains to be seen.
Hollis, now jailer at the Plymouth,
Mass, House Of Correction, said he
had wired the foreman of the grand
jury that he saw Wendell and Haupt-
man with the kidnapped Charles A.
Lindbergh, jr., in North Abingdon on
April 10, 1882.
He said the baby was in a light
green sedan which bore New Jersey
license plates. and was sitting between
the two men.
He declared he communicated his
information to Gov. Hoffman last
January and a month ago received a
letter of thanks from him. He said
he also wrote to Attorney General
David T. Wilentz of what he had
seen but got no reply.
Hollis said he asked the grand iurv
foreman not to close the investigation
into the Wendell case until it has
heard his (HollisD story, but up to
last night he had received no reply.
Not to Leave Country.
Mrs. Hauptmann has no present
plans to leave this country" and in ac-
cordance with her husbands expressed
wish has dedicated her lifetime to an
attempt to vindicate him, Rev. D. G.
Werner said last night.
The Adventist clergyman. who was
suspended following his activity in the
Hauptmann case, said he commune
Gated to the widow these last requests
Hauptmann made just before he went
to the chair at Trenton Friday:
Mrs. Hauptmann should never drop
that name.
She should not give up her United
States residence.
She should devote herself to proving
his asserted innocence.
All these things, the minister said,
Mrs. Hauptmann agreed to do.
The condemned man left a will,
dated before the Lindbergh crime and
his arrest, leaving everything to his
wife, but his defense consumed what
property they held.
In Yorkville, German section Of
Manhattan, there was another "Haupt-
mann meeting" last night, at which
dozens paid IS cents to hear Bruno's
spiritual advisers speak.
Next Monday night, sponsors said,
sealed messages given by the con-
demned man in his last hours to be
read to certain friends and groups
after his death, will be read at SINH
lar meeting.
PROMISES DEVELOPMENTS.