The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-13
Bruno Hauptmann ls
 Nearing Death Chair
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 e e be taken Co the .. Q. sue
 s court on new constitutional
 NySrD Cutside Hauptmnuns
 Hl1sI believed almost uEianin1Clis-
 EliHt the writ would not Dc grant,
 Ilae supreme court already has
 lIged Co intervene.
 Hay Give Repgieve
 HGMplte opinions that . reprieve EHnId be illegal, Gov. Hoffman inc NI6nted that he may order one. T. rTobAbly would Do respected, since NKeeedent has been established by NsvHgai governors over Q long period e time. The state constitution per- MftB Q Rcvcrncg Co grant TepFieves up Co mot more than co days after tlle date of conviction. Haupts nsnnn was convicted in Bennington last JanuaFy, but Hoffman and other NnweEnCrB have construed the clause fA mean tliat conviction dates from aiae time the last appeal is refused. s.But I don't know whether III grant \ KepFieve," Hoffman said with . hsrnssed air. T don't know what I'm NgisR to do and I have no cofns Hfent beyond that
 Reneges On order
 zzo reneged in New York lest Mz&1It on his previously declared in" t6litaon of ordering DF. John r. (Jaf- eIs1 Condon returned from Panama, where he is bound on the g. s. fanta Rita. The young governor eoid Saturday that he thought Con- ABnss sudden departure Friday night Spas highly significant" and he in. aHnded to have him returned for &fsegtiOning. But last night, huTTying from mysterious conferences with unidentified men on c New York street. iie said: T don't know any moro about Condon than I do about nny other future aspect of this case. what can I d07 He's on his way to south America. I can't stop him"
 Hoffman His Only Hope
 Hoffman has been HauptEnal1's hest hope for several months--since tise governor and the condemned nan talked privately for an hour zast october in the state prison dSath house and his baffled adnlis- sf0n of helplessness betrayed the failure of Hauptmann'S last hopes. Hoffman said he went to New York yesterday purely for relaxation" ct mn entertainment at the Lambs club there, but his activities cast doubt anOn his singieness of purpose in many minds. An interesting circuIn" stance was that c. Lloyd Fisher, ehief of Hauptmann's counsel, went fo New York from Remington ei. simultaneously and occupied . suite with his wife in the same hotel and four floors below Hoffman. A tall, gray haired man whom none Of . dozen newspaper reporters could ld0ntify visited with Hoffman In hs ToWns.
 No Comment, He Said
 when they left, with Hoffman saying No comment, no comment, no comment" to every question, c il0tsl detective barred other persons fnMn their elevator. Hoffman and IF companion parted ct the hotels ntFeet door and Hoffman walked ncf0ss the street. Perhaps three minutes later the gray.haired man FaAppeaEed with another man iil Q 4Mby hat and blue overcoat. The fi1See talked c few minutes in . Aoorway. Then they hurried away when Hoffman appeared at the Yambs' club soon afterward he was alone. "NO comment" he said.
 Fight In Courts
 The constitutional lawyers Haupt' mann employed indicated that he waalld make his principal fight in fiaa federal courts. One of them was Neil Burkinshaw, former assiStant attorney general who prosecuted Harry r, Sinclair on charges grows int from the Teapot Dome oil scan. 6ai. The other, Nugent Dodds, also Was e former stan member of the department of justice. He was . member of the prosecution counsel in the trial of Charles Mitchell, New York banker, charged with income tax evasion. Mitchell was acquitted: DOdds and Burkinshaw resigned lrom federal service in 1883 to es- 1abiish their lew firm.
 Bernard '. 'Finniga1. Q Chicago lawyer, brought a slim new hope t Waaiptlnann today. Finnigan lev from chicago to New Jersey to tell GOV, Hoffman about fantastic tale foid him by c client, Steve spitz, b2, serving time in Chicago for passing 6 bod check.
 eplts said that two New York s,br0kers," whom he named, offered him e20,000 of the Lindbergh ran' com money in 1884 for ei,000. He cave them the $500. he said, but dldn't get the currency. He gug- aested Hauptmann might have ob. tained some of the ransom money the same way.
 Hoffman said he would "be glad to sce Finnigan."
 Hauptmann Not Worried
 Mauptmann entered his fifth day before death, unless something saves hinl, with much less exhibition oi emotion than the minor characterl around him. Waiting less than so feet from the electric chair TOT the time when he will die in 1t, he spent Sunday calmly reading and sleeping. There was no repetition oi ~----------------.---