The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-01

Case uIlJIl l.UO U ClOCk JIllo AIOLAllllB and will reconvene this afternoon at 1:30. Freeman hinted that 1t might not reach decision until tomorrow afternoon, few hours before Hauptmann is scheduled to die again.
 Friend of Hoffman
 Freeman is a republican and a friend of Gov. Hoffman. Marshall is a democrat and a political ally of Attorney General David T. Wilentz.
 Political observers agree that Will entz' political career was advanced by his successful prosecution of the Hauptmann case. They agree, like wise, that Gov. Hoffman's career vas compromised by his failure to produce pertinent new evidence to disprove Hauptmann's guilt or prove that he had accomplices following his intervention that saved Haupt- mann from execution in January.
 Attorney Anthony Salamandra, who accompanied one witness to the grand jury room doors last night, left the court house in high anger, exclaiming:
 We are leaving. This is political rumpus between a republican grand grand jury and democratic prose- cutor. If there had been any evil dence there would have been an in- dictment long before this"
 Freeman Led Revolt
 Freeman, an insurance man of 40 who wears @ wing-back collar, was close-lipped. He led the revolt against Marshall in the grand jury room yesterday afternoon, and, as 8 result, Wendel's case was taken up. Last night it was Freeman and not Marshall who told Kimberling, a Hoffman appotntee who is expect ed to succeed Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf as commandant of state police, that he shouldn't eX- ecute one man while the grand jury was considering indicting another man for the same crime.
 The inquisition was accompanied by almost as much hysteria as at tended the sudden and dramatic re- entrance of Wendell into the ranks of persons whose whereabouts are known and accounted for, Saturday night. He had been missing since February II. Part of that time he had been the prisoner of unknown men in New York city. The rest of the time he had been in the hands of Detective Ellis Parker of Bur lington county, his friend and Hoff- mans friend.
 Parker Is Accused
 Last night, while crowds gathered around the court house and picture taking flares beat down their white, hot light, Wendel's grown children, Paul Wendell, Jr., and Mrs. Dorothy Phillips, appeared as witnesses. Af- ter they had testified, their fathers attorney, John Kafes, issued a state mcnt that charged Parker with an attempt to involve the entire Wen del family in the Kidnapping.
 Parker, young Wendell said, took him for an automobile ride several weeks ago, while his father was strangely missing, and showed him a document he said was his fathers confession to the Lindbergh kidnap- ing. Young Wendell said he wanted him to sign supplementary state ment. When he refused, he said, Parker. was cnraged and threatened him and his sister. The statement also charged that Parker had invit- ed Ms. Philips to visit him, prom ising that she could make "a lot of money" and that he could pull strings" and make the case "a sev- cn day wonder"
 Parker Crowd Heard
 The grand jury last night also heard Parker, his son, Ellis, Jr., Mrs. Anna Bading, Parker's secretary, end Attorney Salamandra' uncle and client, Tito Salamandra, a Trenton liquor dealer whose broth CT, Leo, was killed in gangster feud during prohibition.
 Salamandra had heard the grand jury wanted to questoin him and he appeared voluntarily. Wendels confession" was said to have stated that he borrowed Salamandra $ car for the Kidnapping. Salamandra told reporters he had lent his car to no one.
 Wendell, a man of 48, admittedly brilliant and with reputation as a "slicker" took his ease in the county jail, mildly amused by the entire procedure. Tn addition to the charge of murder placed against him Saturday night by County Detective Kirkham, in direct disobedience of the orders of his superior. Prose- cutor Marshall, he was held on bench warrants issued in 1881 charg- ing embezzlement.
 Background of Wendell
 The background of his devious en- trance into the Lindbergh case-an advent whose first repercussion was to postpone Hauptmanns execution was of such nat2Se that no fiction writer would dare put 1t Into a book for fear of advancing the unbeliev- able.