Evening star., 1936-03-31

to the prison at S pm. to prepare
Hauptmann for the ordeal of his ex-
ecution. He said he would follow the
Lutheran ritual in giving Hauptmann
spiritual consolation and give him
communion.
The clergyman has been making
regular visits to Hauptmann's death
house cell since last October.
Unless another of the swift, be-
| wildering events that have punctuated
Hauptmann's case should come in the
few hours that remain, the obscure
Bronx carpenter who became the most
famous prisoner in the world will pay
with his life for the life of Charles A.
Lindbergh, jr. murdered in the $50 1000
ransom kidnapping four years ago.
The square. dirty-white execution
chamber at the State Prison awaits,
ready. The chair has been tested,
the witnesses summoned, the execu-
toner engaged.
After Is months of desperate legal
struggle to slip from under the crush
ing weight of the ransom money
found in his possession, the man from
Kamenz, Germany, apparently has
finally exhausted every weapon Of
escape.
The hour set for his execution is 8
o'clock.
The one legal avenue Of hope, ac-
cording to best information, lay in an
appeal to Justice Trenchard for a new
trial.
With Gov. Hoffman's terse, unqual-
ified announcement, there will be no
second reprieve." Hauptmann's strong
est advocate before the Pardons Court
was definitely committed against any
further interference with the sentence
of the courts.
There was the possibility that
Hauptmann himself might supply the
sensation of the last day by making a
confession or some statement the i'm
portance of which might be great
enough to bring at least delay in
execution.
There was a report last night from
a source close to the Governor that
Hauptmann had sent out word to his
wife, Anna. that he might talk more"
Mrs. Hauptmann denied It, Oficials
said they had heard nothing Of it.
But the report persisted.
If such a development should occur,
the Pardons Court conceivably could
be reconvened.
Principals in the case that for all
the days since March 1, 1882, has
astonished and Mortified the world,
were widely scattered as the hour of
punishment neared.
Lindberghs in England.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh,
parents of the child, who was snatched
from his crib that blustery night and
whose body was found later buried
under sticks and dead leaves not far
from the Lindberghs' Sourland Hills
estate, were In England-exiled from
their native America by the notoriety
born of their great tragedy.
DR.. John F. Condor, who became
known everywhere as "Jafsie" because
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Quoted under the name manufactured
from his initials. and who paid the
$50,000 ransom money in the Bronx
cemetery to a man he later said was
Hauptmann, was at his home in the
Bronx, continuing to shun discussion
of the case in which he was a leading
actor.
Attorney General Wilentz, the Rus
sian-born attorney general who prose-
cuted Hauptmann, planned to remain
at his home in Perth Amboy.
1.-THE case is closed as far as I am
concerned" he said last night
Gov. Hoffman, whose interest in de-
laying Hauptmann's execution by a
previous reprieve was explained by him
as being due to his desire to COM
pletely solve" the Lindbergh case, no.
titled Col. Kimberling that he would
be constantly available during the day
and up to the execution hour to take
any action developments might war
rant.
The one child of the condemned man
and his blond wife-the boy Man
fred-remained In New York, too
young to know.
Hauptmanns fate was sealed in 80
swift minutes dynamic with more
Of the fantastic drama that has made
itself peculiar to the entire case.
First came the brief announcement
that the Court of Pardons had denied
Hauptmann's clemency appeal. With
this second refusal within 10 weeks
to interfere, the pardons court closed
all but the small door Of hope which