The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16

Col. Mark O. Kimberling, head prison keeper, said Mrs. Hauptmann told him that she he'd advised her husband that ''so far as she could see there was no definite promise of any further chances."
 Mrs. Hauptmann said her hus- band continued to keep up his cour- age and that she had hopes of see- ing him again, although she did not intend to take their baby, Malns fried, to the death house.
 Cold Outside Prison
 It was cold outside the prison. despite the pale glow of Q January sun on the long pile of dull red stone, when Mrs. Hauptmann went to the death cell to tell her husband that she had no definite promise of . reprieve or any other such action to save him.
 wearing c small black hat, from which her yellow hair fell to the nape of her neck, she hurried from her cab, across the sidewalk end up 6 half dozen grey steps to the main entrance, where an overhangine arch cut off the n1eager sunlight.
 Inside, she was passed by the guards and taken to the death house where Hauptmann and five other condemned men live in cells adtoin- ing the electrocution chamber. A bright light beamed on his face aa sl1e stood outside the bars of the cell and outside . heavy screen, url- able to touch him as she said good by, perhaps for the last time. A daylight gave 0 vague glimpse of the bright sky but permitted Hauptman barely to tell that there was daylight outside.
 Showed Little Emotion
 There was, as ever, little emotion in their meeting. HAuptmann knew as he peered through the screen ct the quiet woman in the corridor, that he might never see her again. But if he recalled their happier days together, # he recalled the desperate. battle she has made to aid him since his arrest, there was no mention of 1t between them. Sorrowfully, Mrs. Hauptmann told him that she did not have any good news. The court battle 60 for, she said, had been in vain. There was, of course, still hope. Something that vague something" which dee fense counsel 50 frequently have mentioned--might be done in the courts, possibly in Washington. But there was no news of Q rec prieve.
 The nerves which have made the prisoner 0 man of ice except on rare occasion again withstood the shock of mo news" as the hours sped toward Friday night when they will send for him to take Q few steps along the corridor, through Q door aS gray and cold aS death It. self and Into eternity.
 Not One Tear Shed
 Neither Hauptmaiai1 nor his wife shed . tear that could be seen by those few who were present when they said their simple goodby.
 He asked in Q toneless voice about the baby and she told him of the child who was brought here last night, but who will never see his father in the house of condemned men.
 They talked, mostly in German, for more than half an hour. When she returned to the prison lobby, Mrs. Hauptmann was dry.eyed and, occasionally, c smile dickered on her ooloriess lips.
 She sat for Q few minutes in Q stiff oak chair and then went into the office of Warden Kimberiing.
 While she talked to the warden, the undertaken who usually han- dles funerals from the prison on. tered end set In the chalr she had just left.
 Whether Mrs. Iaauptmann had made arrangements to claim the body of her husband was not rec vealed immediately.
 Crowd on Outside
 Outside the prison, crowd had collected on the sidewalk. old women in white housecaps and ghawls had come from the nearby shabby houses to catch . glimpse ot Mrs. Hauptmarn.
 An aged toothless woman in on old brown coat leaned against the fender of Q motion picture camera automobile and wept softly.
 Children played on the dirty brown steps leading into the mali, entrance end defied the aimiess ef- forts of c policeman to drive them away. Truck drivers in dirty 0ver- alls and caps craned their neckS tc see over the movie apparatus fo- cused on the entrance.
 Mrs. Hauptmann came tiinidly from the prison. She appeared to have changed little since the frantic days when her husbands name waa blazoned In headlines ct the time police broke" the Lindbergh case. The frantic, dRzed look that made her face c blank when the battle over Hauptmani began was gone and she seemed more sure of herself, al. though by no means confident oi success.
 She made her way, under expert guidance, through the crowd and waited patiently @ her taxlcab wai surrounded.
 She has learned how to answer question: evasiveiy. She neatly avoided c query as to whether she had seen the governor by saying:
 If you know that, you know more than I do."
 She had learned also how to say: NO comment on that." After she had gone, Kimberiine said:
 This was their final visit lniosl something develops that would Do ( reason for allowing Mrs. Hauptlnanr to 60 to the death house again.
 "ehe told me that she didn't tel him he would get . reprieve and she adviged me that she had no goot | news for him, She told him of thl