The Washington times., 1938-02-26
BY CARROLL PEEKE

AVGSSAAO oVSOASAA NNOSSs
Nine.thirty p. m!
Then Special Prosecutor Ray.
mond Neudecker will go before
the Special Grand Jury impaneled
to hear the evidence against
Friedrich Wilhelm Wolfgang
Hohenloff, the Baron Won Blau,
in the fictional murder Of Ron.
aid Brooks, prominent Washing
ton architect.
The jury of twenty.three out:
standing citizens in all walks OF
life from salespeople to architects,
from housewives to public account
ants-will, under the leadership
of Foreman U. s. Representative
Francis Case Of South Dakota,
begin their deliberations.
EXPECTS INDICTMENT
Today it looks very much as
though the Baron expects to be
indicted. He is "off his feed" &C
cording to jail attaches, and will
not touch even the delicacies
which mis- wealthy and promi-
nent friends have been sending
to him.
Besides-his nearest henchmen
seem worried, too. It may be that
loan business fell through and, II
it did, will the distinguished Sena-
tor, who has been approached,
take the case? The question isn't
one of fees, but of expenses Incl
dent to trying to free the Baron!
wouldn't you say it was enough
for man to give his expert serv-
ice without fee, without going to
the trouble of spending his own
money in behalf of client whose
case, if not hopeless, is at least
so bad that no less than four
prominent defenders have said
that, purely on the evidence, they
wouldn't undertake a defense?
HOPES GAG TO GO
From that you may be able to
see why have been so brash in
my predictions! It isn't that I
have based them on any personal
knowledge of the case. AS a mat
ter of fact, the things I have pub
lished up to now have been de-
velopmerlts you could have knowl-
edge of as we'll as I, if you had
been looking for them.s
But, Monday. I hope, this gag
of witness silence" will be re-
moved, and I can go at this thing
in the way I love best to handle
a straightforward report
ing, without all this limiting and
hemming and having! That is,
if Mr.. Neudecker can get me off
the stand by Monday night.
I suppose you're wondering
about that matter that had me
worried yeSterday-that Hatha-
way, the insurance man, sent me
regarding Brooks insurance in
favor of Ruby Robert. Well, Ruby
explained that all right last night
at least I'm willing to accept
l.er version for the present. It
had nothing to do with the case
against the Baron. I still don't
think so.
understand that Senator
David I. Walsh, Chief Justice of
the Radio Jurisdiction, and Sen
ator Robert F. Wagner, Presiding
Justice, have their charges COM
pleted and are waiting only for
the moment to arrive when they
will instruct you in your jury duty.
Mr.. Neudecker is out of town,
and so there is nothing new to be
obtained from him until after the
opening session of the Grand Jury
at any rate.
There seems to have oeep a
dearth of society angles, save for
the Whirl Of speculation regarding
the reasons. why Mrs. j. Haden,
who, as you know, is the daugh-
ter of Tennessee's distinguished
and the nations beloved late Sen
ator Bob" Taylor, has entered
the case. She could not be reached
over the week end, which means
we must wait for that informa-
ton until Monday at the earliest.
MRS. CALDWELL SILENT
Mrs. Caldwell has suddenly
frozen up" on the reporters, and
will not talk to any of US on the
telephone, not even to Ruby Rob-
ert, whom she apparently had
taken into her confidence a little
when the story broke"
E. Burton Corning prominent
Washington architect, has been
excused from jury service, owing
to his close connection with the
affairs of Ronald BrookS-and
there is going to be one of the big
surprises of the trial or I miss my
guess. He knows plenty about
Brooks professional affairs and it
has never for one moment been
suggested that this fictional mur-
der was motivated by personal
causes. 1t was just a cold blooded,
business like, appalling Staying
done to get out of the way a man
whose very existence threatened to
imperil an international plot, &C.
cording to the way it will be pre-
Sented to the jury.
Well, I understand Ruby has
been put to bed from exhaustion,
after her week at the District
Jail, and I could do with a little
shuteye myself, before we tackle
the Grand Jury seSsions Monday
I expect to clean up the details of
the preparation of this case
Monday night we go into the in
vestigation-and then
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