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DEATH OF LINDBERGH BABY

4 Murder Trial to Start DRAMATIC LEGAL BATTLE EXPECTED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received January 2. 7.5 p.m.) Flemington (New Jersey), Jan. 1. Final preparations are completed for

I he opening to-morrow of the trial of Hauptmaiin. who is charged with th? murder of the Lindbergh baby. This normally quiet town bf 3001) inhabitants finds its population increased by nt least 50 per cent, vith the presence of hundreds of journalists ami a corps of attorneys; witnesses and curiosity seekers. The trial is expected to require at least a month, and indications are that it will be a dramatic legal battle starting with the selection of the jury. The defence has procured one of the most celebrated New York criminal pleaders with an able group of assistants. The New Jersey State Attorney-General will personally conduct the prosecution. Leading witnesses include Colonel Lindbergh, his wife. Betty Gow, the child’s nurse, and John Condon, who took part in the negotiation for ransom. The State’s attorney indicated that the chief contentions would be that Hauptmann wrote the, kidnapping notes, built the ladder used to remove 'he child, possessed ransom notes and must have murdered the child soon after removing it from its crib on the night of March 1, 1932. Hauptmann’s defence is expected to be “I was not there” and that he received the ransom money from a friend who is now dead.

A cable dated September 20 stated that Bernard Richard Hauptmann, of New York City, had been arrested as the receiver of the 50,600-dollar ransom money paid by Colonel C. A. Lindbergh in a fruitless effort to recover his infant son. The authorities recovered 13,750 dollars of the ransom money. Police-Commissioner John F. O'Ryan stated that the recovered ransom money was found in Hauptman's garage. The commissioner said he believed the arrest would solve the kidnapping mystery. Two persons had identified Hauptmann as the receiver of the money.

Hauptmann, who is 35" years of age, is .'i, carpenter by trade, who entered the United States in 1923 as a stowaway while on parole from a German prison.

A London cable dated December 30 stated that the newspaper “People” stated that the man who supplied the information leading to the arrest of Hauptmann was living in England at a seaside town, fearing the / vengeance of gangsters. He is known as “Tommy Gun Tex” Burns, and was born in Britain, but spent nearly all his life in America. He said that.’ finding himself penniless and stranded in England after deportation from America, he went to the American Consul and “squealed” to save his wife and family from starvation.

Burns told the “People’s” representative that he himself was implicated in the crime: He described how Hauptmann was carrying the baby down the ladder when he slipped and crashed on top of the baby. Confederates hauled both into a car aiid drove off. Presently they slowed down in order to look at the baby, and discovered it was dead. They then buried it.

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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 7

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DEATH OF LINDBERGH BABY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 7

DEATH OF LINDBERGH BABY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 7

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