The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
7nuptn,dnn Runs His Dwn Fight For Life
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 1 principal witnesses against him,
 return from a vacation in pan-
 An for questioning. Don't do that
 ht n0W," he said. T have soEne- 1|ne else in mind" What he rec-
 1mended caused a sudden confer
 |ce in the executive mansion Fri- 48v niglat of Governor Harold O. #etfmaT, Fisher and Harold Hauck, &AnterdOn county prosecutor. Sat- HfGay the governor called in and Ettsonally cross examined Willard
 hlted, Gourland mountain resident #'1o was one of two man who said t|ley had seen Hauptmann near the state of Colonel Charles 4. Lind- Nergh at approximately the time his Infant son was kidnapped.
 Hoffman Queries Whited
 Hoffman taxed Whited with rec UFds showing that he told police be- 30fe EEauptmann's trial that he had seen no one near the Eindbergh es- tate and could in no way help them Identify the kidnaper. He appar- antly did little to shake Whiteds la- ter Identification of Hauptmann. xEauptnanil next wants 88-year old Afnandus Hochmuth put on the sanane test. Hochmuth, too, identified Tzauptmann as a man he saw in a motor car near the Lindbergh es- tate. 'srhe old mans crazy" Haupt- mann said when Hochmuth testified 9Iaat Hauptmann had ladder in his car. Since the trial, defense at torneys claim they have learned that Hochmuth has seriously defective | eyesight. "Hauptmann Is smart" Elsher said. "lie knows as much | about this case as anybody and is informed about everything going on"
 Next Reprieve Rumor
 It was reported without confir- arlation today, five weeks before l aauptmann is scheduled to die, that i Governor Hauptmann had decided to offer no further reprieve until few minutes before the time of his execution.
 The governor will test him then, 4he report said, with an offer of reprieve and the prospect of com- mutation of sentence If he clears up | 7rlystifying angles of the case. Hoff- man already has risked his political ambitions, which many persons be- Iieve include the presidency, on his ability to prove that Hauptmann had accomplices undiscovered by the state police and attorney generaps' ofIlce, both headed by democrats. Hoffman is a republican.
 The. governors office denied the report that last minute reprieve might be granted the German car- penter.
 '"The governor intends to issue no xeprieve except with the acquies- cence of the attorney generals of- 1ice." said William Conklin, press representative of the governor.
 Says Witness Lied
 Trenton, N. J., Feb. 24-(UP)- Gov. Harold Hoffman today charged that the printed and written rec ord" shows that Willard Whited, Lindbergh case witness, was lying" whGn he placed Bruno Richard 7Iauptmann near the Lindbergh es- tate shortly before the Kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby on March l, 1882.
 Asserting that "there seems to be q studied effort to suppress from the public certain important infor- Ynation concerning the Hauptmann (case," the governor declared that the discrepancy" in the Whited ..k@~an. on,sId ,,ot ha ayNioi ifad aWQV | by "the alibi boys."
 Whited, subject of an extraor- dinAry inquisition in the executive offices at the Capitol Saturday, is one of the keystones of the Haupt- mann prosecution since 1t was on his identification that the German carpenter was extradited from New York city to New Jersey.
 To Seek Legal Advice
 The governor has indicated that he will seek legal advice to deter mine whether the extradition and subsequent trial would be invalidat- ed should Whited be found guilty of perjury.
 The governors statement:
 "In view of the fact that there seems to be a studied effort to sup press from the public certain i'm portant information concerning the Hauptmann case and my interest in 1t from the standpoint of seeing that final and complete justice is done in the matter, I wish to make this further statement in connec- ton with Willard Whited:
 T did not question this man upon whose Identification Haupt- mann was brought back from the Bronx to stand trial in New Jersey because thought he was not tel ling the truth, but because the printed and written record shows that he was lying.
 Signed Statement
 On April 26th, 1892, he gave to the state police a signed statement in which he said that he had never seen any cars or suspicious persons in the woods nor in the vicinity of the Lindbergh home. His next signed statement is dated October 9th, 1884, when after having been repeatedly shown photographs of Hauptmann by Corporal Wolf of the state police, and having been prom 1sed payment and part of the re- ward, he went to the Bronx County jail and identified Hauptmann as man he had seen twice in the vici- nity of the Lindbergh home prior to March 1st, 1892.
 T have both signed statements in my possession. The 'alibi boys may