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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Mother or Bruno
 Cries Out, "MySon Was .Scapeg0at For Crime {"
':H1nocent'' Was Last Cry From Hauptn1ann
Went to Chair Calmly to Pay Extreme Penalty for Death of Lindbergh Baby-Tense Scenes as
 Curtain Came Down on Last Act
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Copyright, 1886, by United Press)

Trenton, N. J.. April - (UP) - Bruno Richard Hauptmann last cry of Innocent" before he walked to the electric chair recorded the Lndbergh today as the most controversial mystery of the century Haupt- died calmly almost indfferently with his thin lips sealed against the slightest hint of a confession.
 Real Story Died With Him
 And with the deadly surge of electricity through his body there died too perhaps the only chance that the world will know the factua story of the abduction and murder of the infant son Colonel and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh in the Sourand Mountains four years ago.
 Lindbergh Case Books Closed
 Around the world went the flash that the state of New Jersey had closed it's books the mutmion dollar Lind bergh at 847 2 o'clock last night in the eectrocuon chamber of the gloomy old state prison But just surely there mions who knew that Hauptmann had died and who still were convinced that he did not commit the crime alone.
 Died On We'll Set Stage
 Hauptrnann died stage set for a fantasy and in fitting climax crime that piled sensation sensa on with such terrific momentum that half hour before the execution appeared likely that the eternal something" would yet Hauptmanns life for at least another day.
 Calmest Man In Death House
 But at last the legend of the Lindbergh had run it's couse and in it's final page Bruno Richard Hauptmann added touch of the dignity of death He perhaps the calmest in the little white room which society and chance had chosen for his death chamber
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Last Statement of
 Bruno Hauptmann

Trenton, N. J.. April 4-(UP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann left this statement with his spiritual advisers, the Rev. R. G. Werner and the Rev. John Matthiesen, as his dying words:
 q am glad that my life in a world that has not always un- derstoOd me has ended. Soon I will be at home with my Lord and, as I love my Lord, so ! am dying an innocent man.
 Should, however, my death serve the purpose of abolishing capital punishment, such pun ishment being derived (ar- rived) at only by circumstan- tial evidence, I feel that my death will not have been in vain.
 T am appeased tat peace) with God.
 T repeat that I protest my innocence of the crime for which I was convicted. How ever, I die with no malice or hatred in my heart. The love of Christ has filled my soul and I am happy with him."
 His last message to his wife was that he would "be with her in spirit" His last request was that his body be cremated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
ATTORNEY FOR
 STATE CONFERS
Meets With Those Law- yers Who Have Cases in
 Criminal Court

States Attorney Lawrence L.. Lewis this morning began confer ences with lawyers acting as counsel for those slated to be put to plea at the April criminal term of superior court when 1t opens at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Thirty defend- ants will appear before Judge Ernest c. Simpson as court opens.
 Counsel for derendants can con- fer with the states attorney Monday morning, also, according to an an- nouncement to-day. MT. Lewis pro- poses to begin the first trial of crim- inal cases on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. He has been assisted in preparation of the states cases by Assistant States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald, while County Detec- tive Roland G. filling has been working on evidence in the various cases.
 Policy Men Thursday
 It appears that trial of the nine men arrested here last month as policy writers will not get under way till Thursday of next week, at the earliest, and probably not until the following week. All nine have elected trial by jury, and the jury has been ordered not to report till Thursday morning. In addition, four other cases are listed on the docket ahead of the policy cases.
 Cases of those who enter pleas Of guilty will be disposed of Tuesday afternoon by Judge Simpson. The
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WRITER GIVES
 IMPRESSIONS From His Notes Written in Nervous Hand He Tells
 Last Details
By HARRY FERGUSON Copyright 1936 by United Press)


 Trenton, N. J., April 4.-(UP)-I saw Hauptmann die and today I find the story written in nervous scrawl on six dirty sheets of paper the notes I took between 7:15 and 8:47k o'clock last night.
 They are ragged and incomplete. They were written hastily: some times one word, sometimes phrase. They were meant to jog the memory into recalling all that happened. They start out like this:
 Sign the paper."-That meant that as soon as we got into the prison and were searched they ask us to sign an affidavit. It was 8 pledge that we would not attempt to take any "drug, liquor. knife, dagger, pistol. explosive matter or any other thing prohibited by law to any inmate of the prison." I signed without reading it, but thoughtful attendant gave every newspaperman copy later.
 My next note was:
 Line up, 7:57"--That meant they
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Contempt, Disgust h British Newspapers
Comment Muriel Jones Bitter in Com= ment-Betty Cow Hidden in Glasgow Home

London, April 4-(UP)-Contempt and disgust were recorded plainly today in British reaction to the execution of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann.
 The newspapers displayed reports of the execution only in moderate detail. All made special point that Hauptmann did not confess and that he went to the chair sturdily.
 Those that did not criticize showed their astonishment at the length of time that elapsed between sentence and execution, in contrast with the swift unswerving course of criminal justice here. There were no editorials. Britons' views were dis closed in headlines, in news reports of special correspondents and in let ters to newspapers.
 Musical Comedy Prison
 'The jail looked rather like 8 musical comedy prison" said the Daily Express special correspond ent at'Trenton, and he added: "The
 (Nontinund on Pare n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
BODY OF BRUNO
 TO BE CREMATED
Attorney Fisher Will Claim It Today - Mrs. Haupt.
 mann to Seek Privacy

Trenton, N. J., April 4.-(UP).- c. Lloyd Fisher, Bruno Richard Hauptmanns chief counsel, will claim his body at the state prison morgue today and arrange for its cremation, probably tomorrow, in New York city.
 But while Fisher and Mrs. Anna
 luptmann, seeking refuge from the madness of the last few days in New York, arranged for private funeral, political tangles the Haupt- mann case created and the mys. teric5 his death was supposed to end. grew more baffling.
 Paul Wendell, former Trenton at. torney, still was in Mercer county jail, held without bail, charged with perpetrating the murder for which Hauptmann was executed. He was charged in Hunterdon county with kidnapping the baby.
 Kidnapping Charges
 At the same time District Attor. ney William F. x. Geoghan of Kings county (Brooklyh), New York, intimated that he is prepar- ing Kidnapping charges against sev- eral unnamed men who, Wendell said, seized and tortured him in r?w York to obtain his confession.
 Fisher, always convinced that Hauptmann was innocent, announce ed that Hauptmanns death didn't close the Lindbergh case "by a damn sight"
 The case will live on, probably for years, in the lives of Gov. Har- old G. Hoffman, as well as Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Prosecu- tor Anthony M. Hauck of Hunter don county, Chief of State Police H.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
ITALIAN PLANES
 ATTACK CAPITAL
Airport Shattered By Ma chine Guns, Bombs; PeO-
 pie Fled in Terror
BY BEN AMEs

Copyright, 1886, by United Press)
 Addis Ababa, April 4(UP) - Five silvery streamlined Italian fighting airplanes thrilled and ter rified the capital today with dis play of gymnastics, bombed and machine gunned the airport and flew off leaving a population quak- ing with fear that they would re- turn at any hour with bombers. One Ethiopian ariplane was des- troy:i by a bomb. Another was riddled by machine gun bullets. The room of the principal airport hangar was sieved with bullets. A United Press airplane inside was unharmed. The five planes droned over the capital at 7:30 a. m. The city was but half awake.
 As the roar of their motors be- came plain, anti-aircraft guns con- cealed in the eucalyptus groves about the city began popping a chal- lenge.
 Warriors Rush To Street
 Warriors ran into the streets in their white shamma robes, to fire at the planes, high above gun range, with their ancient rifles. Women and children began pouring from the native houses taking their poor possessions with them, to run to the groves for safety. The planes darted about over the city in formation. The sight was q beautiful one. They ignored the puny fire of the defend- CTS. Occasionally the planes would
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VERA STREET, IS
 FREED BY JURY

New York, April A. (UP) - The weeping of Vera Stretz turned to hysterical laughter today over her acquittal of having committed a crime when she killed Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, wealthy, 43-year-old Ger man industrailist with 8 wife and two daughters in Germany.
 She tainted over courtroom table last night as Jury Foreman Curtis Lee reported to Judge Cor nelius Collins at 8:l7: Not Guilty" She recovered consciousness imme- diately, but her nerves were shat tered by the sudden relief from fear of a death penalty. She wept and laughted alternately for several minutes, composed herself for a while, then became so vivacious that she laughed almost continu- ously for hours. ]
 Today she planned Hong rest in the country" with frequent chat
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
LOCAL PEOPLE
 EXPRESS VIEWS
They Were Very Different in Opinions on Guilt
 or Innocence

Not since Gerald Chapman stepped on the scaffold at the State Prison at Wethersfield to pay with his life for the murder of a New Britain policeman has Waterbury shown as much interest in what it's proponents call execution" and what Its opponents call Illegal murder" as 1t did last night in the death of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann in the electric chair at Trenton. Thousands of the city's residents sat with their ears glued to radio loudspeakers as they waited for the answer to their unasked question: Life or death?" One could almost imagine 8 concerted sigh from the city when, a few min- utes before 9 o'clock, dry voiced radio announcers told a waiting world that the Bronx carpenter had forfeited his life to society for a crime that to the very end he swore he did not commit.
 Opinions Differ
 And even more than during the Hauptmann trial, even more than in the months while he was awaiting execution, opinion in Waterbury as to his guilt differed. Even more sharply did opinion differ on whether or not Bruno should have been executed last night, or whether he should have been allowed de- lay, Still heard, too, are the argu- ments over Governor Harold Hoff- man of New Jersey and his sincerity, over Attorney General Wilentz of New Jersey and his insiStence that Bruno die, and over 8 dozen other angles of the case that has been called the "crime of the century,.
 Different Answers
 Should Hauptmann have died last night? Everyone seemed to have 8
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
SEASON OF BROOK
 TROUT OPENED

Albany, April 4.-(UP) The brook trout season opened today throughout the state except in one county in the Adirondack mountain region.
 Sumner M. Cowden, superinten- lent of fish culture, advised fisher men to use garden tackle"-worms He said the streams are unusually high. and the water is flowing swift ly. This, he said, will keep the fish low, and the worm will fall where the fly can't.
 The new requirement limits one fisherman to 10 pounds of fish or 20 fish. in one day. The old rule was 10 pounds or 25 fish.
 Fishing will be permitted through out the state except in Essex county where the season opens May 1. and closes after Labor day. Elsewhere the season ends August 3l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04

1 Every legal battle for life had failed him. At the last minute Gov Harold C. Hoffman had announced reluctantly that he did not have the power to grant another reprieve.
 If every there was time when man would speak from his heart that time for Hauptmann was at 8:30 p. m. Friday. He released the hands of two Lutheran ministers who stood beside him in the death cell. "NoW just let me have a minute to myself" he said softly in Ger man.
 Last Prayer Silently
 Silently, he knelt on the cement floor beside cot stripped even of its bedding. His head, clipped to receive the electrode of death, glis- tened in the light of an overhead bulb. Hauptmann prayed.
 For almost 10 minutes the man who knew he was without hope said his last prayer silently.
 Then he lifted his face toward the light. The shadows of the cell bars fell sharply across his face.
 In the death house corridor stood two guards.
 Now I'm ready" Hauptmann said.
 He got to his feet. The right leg of his brown trousers Tapped. It was slit for the electrode. Hauptmann reached out his hand to guard. Neither spoke. Three other guards shook his hand.
 We Are Ready
 we are ready" one guard told him.
 The man who had 30 paces yet to walk shook hands with the min iSterS.
 | With the Rev. John Matthiesen. his Spectacles almost dropping off his nose, in the lead, they turned tov..rd the steel door beside which Hauptmann had lived for more than year.
 The guards said quietly:
 "Goodby."
 Hauptmann didn't reply.
 Not a single condemned man in the death house spoke to Haupt- mann.
 Matthiesen's voice rose clearly above the soft shuttle of feet on (Continued on Page 8)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Americans Had to Find Someone to Blame,
 She Asserted NEVER BELIEVED HE
 WOULD BE KILLED SObS Out Her Grief as She Was Told of Grim
 Tragedy
BY WALDO WILKE

Copyright, 1886, by United Press)
 Kamenz, Germany, April 4 - (UP) - Old Frau Paulina Hauptmann sat red eyed from weeping on the edge of her bed in her tiny home to- day, mumbling over and over:
 My son is a martyr. The Americans had to find 8 scapegoat to blame for this terrible crime"
 She fell silent for a time and then said:
 My son is such a good man" - she spoke of him as if he lived still. They should have known him. vinced of his innocence, just as I Then they would have been con- am convinced of it every day"
 She shuddered and a sob shook her. Her throat choked. She trem-
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Final Nelvs Flashes
RETURNS TO HOSPITAL, DIES

Boston, April 4.-(UP)--Last Tuesday, Henry w. Brennick, 69, and his sister, Mrs Mary Hanson, 70, were run down by an automobile while crossing Back Bay street. They were taken to City hospital where, after treatment, Brennick was discharged. Today Brennick was taken back to the same hospital and soon after ward died of skull fracture. He had tumbled down stairs at his home His sister still is under hospital treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04

Hoffman, who once granted re- prieve to the German carpenter and who failed to grant him second only because he felt such a move would be illegal.
 2.-A possible legislative investi- gation of the conduct of the entire Lindbergh baby case, including the parts played by the governor, Att torney General David Wilentz, suc- cessful prosecutor of Hauptmann, and the last minute arrest on murder charge of Paul H. Wendell, disbarred Trenton attorney.
 3.-Murder and Kidnapping charges against Wendell and the grand jury's possible further investigation of 1t.
 4.-Possible federal intervention for the manner in which Wendell was brought to New Jersey after he allegedly was taken into custody by "unknown persons" in New York city.
 Hoffman Faces Fight
 Hoffman, until he intervened in tho case by granting 8 reprieve to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
SEARCH FOR TWO YACHTS

St. Petersburg, Fla, April 4-(U. P0-Coast guard amphibians take off today to search for two yachts long overdue in the St. Petersburg Havana sailing race.
 Coast guard officials said both boats were seaworthy and they felt little concern for the safety of their shippers and crew.
 Missing are the 34-foot Yawl Sea Call, owned by William E. Everett, St. Petersburg, and the 42-foot schooner Albatross, owned by Dr. Samuel H. Sordo of Havana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
FATHER, SON WERE KILLED

Springfield Mass, April 4-(UP)-An eId- erly Westfeld man and his son lost their lives and three companions sustained minor hurts in a midnight automobile collision on Plainfeld street, which has been lightless since the recent floods. William Jasmin, 22, was killed instantly when his automobile crashed into parked truck, and his 76-year-old father Wifred died of a skull fracture at hospital shortly afterward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Salesman Found
 Dead In Hotel

A man, who registered as c. c. Smith of New York city, a salesman for a New York Pro- duce company was found dead in bed at the Hodson hotel this morning. He registered at the hotel on March 31st. Medical Examiner Dr. Edward H. Kirschbaum gave cause of death as heart failure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
MIDGET FAST WITH SHOVEL

Lorain, O., April 4-(UP)-One of the fastest pick and shovel worker on Lorain WPA projects is John OConner. He is feet, 6 inches tall, and weighs only 100 pounds. T can keep up with any of them, " O'Conner said. Other workers agreed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
ETHIOPIAN ARMY IN FLIGHT

Rome, April 4.-(UP-Emperor Halle Selassie's entire army in the Lake Aschangi zone has been defeated and is fleeing in wild disorder to the south, it was announced officially today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Execution Fails To Silence Talk
 Ouer Whole Case
ernOr Hoffman at Stake-POssible Investiga- tiOn of the Entire Lindbergh Case
BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent

Trenton N. J, April = (UP) = The execution of Bruno Richard Haupnann by senced reper- cussions of the Lndbergh case.
 Among the political and legal tangles still remaining are:
 1-The political future of Governor Harold G.
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Fair, Warmer Tonight; Sunday Partly Cloudy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04

Final Edition
 Closing Stocks Late NeuOs Finishes
Evening star., 1936-03-16
OKLAHOMA c. O.P.
! T0ACT ON NLANDON
SkeIIy, Wentz Lead Fight to
Pledge Delegates to
Kansas Governor. y
an the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0ClaJe0 FIeSos
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 16.-
With many leaders outspoken in favor
of Cleveland delegates instructed for
Gov. Alf NJ Landon of Kansas for
President. Oklahoma Republicans
came here today to decide whether
the majority of the State delegation
to the national convention would be
pledged to the Kansan.
James S. Twyford, Oklahoma City,
was scheduled to head the Resolutions
Committee and sound the call for
Landon in the keynote address.
Leading the fight for Landon-in-
structed delegates were w. G. Skelly,
national committeeman up for re-elec-
ton, and Lew Wentz, long prominent
in party affairs.
Six of the Is national convention
delegates named at district conven-
tions have been instructed to vote
for Landon and 9 are uninstructed,
although one convention did indorse
his candidacy. The six delegates at
large to be named today complete
the delegation. Landon is the only
person indorsed by any of the district
conventions.
After Twyford had withdrawn from
o race for State chairman, and it
seemed there would be little oppoSi-
ton to the slate offered by the Landon
group, a number of delegates led by E.
e. Drake, Oklahoma City, and Joined by
scattering of supporters of Senator
Borah and Col. Frank Knox, held a
protest meeting late last night.
Most of the fire, however, was di-
rected at So-called unofficial COM
manders" of the party and Landon
was not an issue.
Patrick Hurley, former Secretary
of War and close friend of former
President Hoover. continued to refuse
to make public statement on the
presidential nomination situation.
Friends said he told them he did
not want to be named delegate to
the convention.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TO-DAY.

1ODA1.
Meeting, Washington Chapter,
American Society for Metals, Dodge
Hotel, pm.
Meeting. Fellowship Club Of Master
Masons, Hamilton Hotel, pm.
Meeting, El Dorado Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner and card party, 500 Club,
Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Bingo party. Pythian Temple, 1912
Ninth street, $50 pm.
Meeting. Eta Chapter, Beta Chi
Sorority, Carlton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, knights of Columbia fourth
degree, Mayfower Hotel, 8 pm.
Concert, Capella Choir, Maynower
Hotel, pm.
Card party, Parent Teacher Asso-
citation, Roosevelt High School, 8 pm.
Dinner, Jacoby Society, Lafayette
doteI, pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon Civitan Club, Lafayette
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Lecture, Rev. DR.. Joseph sizoo, May
flower Hotel, II am.
Luncheon. Optimist Club, Mayfower
Hotel, 1880 pm.
Dinner, Joppa Lodge. Chapter No.
y, o. E. S., Joppa Hall, 42O9 Ninth
street, 5 pm.
Meeting. Anthropological Society of
Washington, New Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue, 8 pm.
Dinner dance, Costello Post, Amer
lean Legion, Broadmoor Hotel, 7:3o
pm.
Dance, Massachusetts, State So
ciety, Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Dinner dance, Ancient Order of
Hloernians, Mayfower Hotel, 7:3O
pm.
Banquet, Friendly Sons of st. Pat
rick, Mayflower Hotel, 7:3o pm.
Dance, National Park Service, La
9ayette Hotel, 10 pm.
Dinner, Bon Vivants Club, Lafay-
ette Hotel. pm.
Dinner, Pi Gamma Mu Sorority
1614 I street, $50 pm.
Dinner, Georgetown Clinical So
clety, University Club, pm.
Meeting, Young Peoples League.
BNa1 Israel Synagogue, Fourteenth
and Emerson streets, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
By the Associated Press.


DEL MONTE, Calf, March 16.-
Sweetbreads a la Samuel G. Blythe
,n-m-m, smell 'em-were the king Of
savory dishes today, winner in a con-
test of the American Society Of
GourmetS.
Because alcohol, tobacco and highly
seasoned foods supposedly dull the
palate, the Gourmets vowed solemnly
that they abstained from cocktails,
cigarettes and hors d'ouvres during
the tasting Saturday night.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's
Sunday night at the White-House
scrambled eggs was among dishes that
fell by the wayside.
Baked Ham Second.
Author Sherwood Anderson's recipe
for baked ham won second honors
and meat ball preparation submitted
by Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt,
the stage pair, placed third.
1t took three ballots and consider
able deliberation by the judges to
reach their decision.
Here is the winning recipe:
Soak the sweetbreads in salted
water one-half hour.
Place them in saucepan and just
cover with water, to which a table
spoon of vinegar has been added.
Let simmer 20 minutes.
Remove and dip Immediately in
cold water. Season with salt and
pepper.
Walnut Flavor.
Dip SweetbreadS in white Of an egg
and roll in Underground black walnut
meats. Saute slowly in a covered
pan.
Among the non-winners were Nat
uralist william Beebes crow hash;
Author William Sesbrook's sardines
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Why March
Has MANY |
Dangers !

March is considered by many
the most dangerous month of the
year, because the change of sea-
sons is more than a good many
systems can stand.
Occasional sunny days give
people false feeling of security.
Don't be misled! Colds are
prevalent now, and thousands suf-
fer from the after-effects of earlier
colds. 1t is important that treat
ment be prompt-and dependable.
Build up your system by taking
Father Johns Medicine to increase
your strength and vigor. This fa-
NOUS body builder has been more
than a treatment for colds for over
over 80 years.
1t helps to develop the physique
of children and adults who are
below par, by increasing weight
and building tissue.
Don't wait-be prepared-get
It today.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Sweetbreads Recipe Wins
Samuel Blythe's Dish Elected by Gourmets
Here's How He Cooks 'em.

and jam, and Author Ben Hecht's
lobster.
The judges were Irwin S. Cobb. the
humorist; Hugh Wiley, writer; Charles
Caldwell Dobie, author; Armin Han
sen. artist: s. r. B. Morse, capitalist:
Harry Leon Wilson. author-and
Blythe.