The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04
Hauptmann Has Paid
 Penalty To State
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 and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" Matthiesen's voice shook. This Man Is Dead
 Elliott lifted the eyes strap and peered at the dead mans eyes. The face was turning pale green. The executioner pulled aside the heavy shirt and undershirt to leave the chest bare.
 Dr. Howard Wiesler put a stetho- scope against the chest. Dr. Charles Mitchell, the county core oner's physician who performed the autopsy on the Lindbergh baby, and four other doctors also put their stethscopes to the chest Wiesler again listened for a heartbeat then strengthened up.
 The stethoscope clicked against a metal button on his coat as he re- leased it.
 In toneless, even voice, he said: This man is dead"
 [ The hands of the green and vel low clock-more fitting for boudoir than 8 death hamber-Which Head keeper Mark O. Kimberling had brought into the chamber pointed to 8:474 p. m.
 Four guards lifted the body and hurried to the morgue. Thus Had Bruno Died Thus Bruno Richard Hauptmann died but not the legend of the Lind bergh case.
 Hoffman's investigation of the mystery will go on, he has an- nounced, and c. Lloyd Fisher, Stumbling down the front steps of the prison few minutes after the execution, eXclaimed:
 I'm not through with this case by a damn sight. It is travesty on New Jersey justice; blot that will never be wiped out"
 Even after his death, Haupt- mann's case left big question mark in the muddle of state politics through which it had been dragged in these final frenzied weeks.
 Gov. Hoffman Silent
 Hoffman, who was determined to solve the mystery before permit ting the convicted man to die, sat in his office refusing to comment on the execution. But political foes of the republican governor already were demanding thorough inves- t1gation of the handling of the case and opposition newspapers shouted Impeachment" at the man who tried to save Hauptmann.
 The last day of the Lindbergh case and the crowds pressing against police lines at the prison; the scurrying of photographers and wild play of purple and white searchlights of movie cameramen across the prison walls set a rich background for the expiation of the baby murder
 Several thousand persons gath cred in the streets around the prison but police, turned out in full force and supplemented by troopers in bright blue and yellow uniforms, held them far back from the scene of the execution. There was only the slightest demonstration 8 sudden furry of questions and shouts. That was when the word came that: He's gone.
 Fight to Save Him
 The political and legal battle over Hauptmann's life, however, be- gan early in the day and was packed with drama from the start until a final decision half an hour be- fore the execution time.
 It started with the case broken wide open again by a decision of the Mercer County Grand Jury - which delayed execution on Tues day - to. discontinue investigation of the amazing case of Paul H. Wendell.
 Wendell confessed to Ellis Parker, one of Hoffman's investigators, that he committed the Lindbergh crime. Then he repudiated the confession.
 The Grand Jury, however, left Wendell with murded charge pend- ing against him and 1t still was pending today after Hauptmann had been executed for the same crime. officials said it would be dropped later.
 Hoffman sought to seize upon the still open case of Wendell to gain a further delay in the execution. At mid-morning. Fisher sent a tele- gram to Hunterdon County Prosecu- tor Anthony M. Hauck demanding that Wendell be indicted by Q Hun terdon County Grand Jury. Hauck refused.
 On Advice Of Wllentz | Then Kimberling asked advice oi Attorney General David T. Wilentzl