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Schwellenbach Lashes
At Hearst Again
WASHINGTON, April 1. - (P)
-Renewing his attack upon Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst, Senator
Schwellenbach, (Dem., Wash.),
today accused the publisher of
shaping his editorial policies to
fit the views of big advertisers.
At the same time, it was learned
that the Senate Lobby Commit-
tee, target of a Hearst injunction
suit and of vehement criticism
in Hearst editorial columns, would
resume its investigation Monday,
with officers of the Crusaders,
anhanti-New Dealhorganization
on the witness stand.
Schwellenbach today reiterated
charges that numerous personal
documents had been stolen and
published in Hearst papers. He
blamed Hearst editorials for the
assassination of President Mc-
Kinle y.
Tax Program Critics Fail
To Convine Don ghton
WASHINGTON, April 1.- WP)
- Spokesmen from Michigan to
Amsterdam heaped criticism to-
day on the $799,000,000 tax pro-
gram of the House Ways and
Means Committee but left Chair-
man Doughton (Dem., N.C.), un-
convinced there should be any
changes.
A tow-headed Dutchman, con-
ceded by some committeemen to
know as much about the Amer-
ican tax system as they did, sug-
gested abolition of the capital
gains-tax and a 10 instead of a
proposed 22 and one-half per cent
levy on corporation dividends to
foreigners.
President Roosevelt
Gets Flood Reports
MIAMI, Fla., April 1.- (P)-A
report showing "full government
cooperation" in the recent flood
emergency cheered President
Roosevelt on his fishing cruise
which turned south todlay to
Green Bay in the Bahamas.
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
retired, chairman of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, sent the flood
report to the President which re-
lated that the "emergency period
is closing" and the Red Cross "is
ready to carry forward restora-
tion of families in homes."
Borah Will Enter
New Jersey Primaries
WASHINGTON, April 1.- P)
- A crossing of the campaigns to
nominate Senator Borah of Idaho
and Governor Landon of Kansas
for the presidency loomed to-
night, with the New Jersey pri-
maries the field of meeting.
After weeks in which the Kan-
san's strength with the state Re-
publican organization had become
apparent, Borah finally decided to
have his name in when the vote
comes May 19. Today was the
last day for filing. New Jersey
has 32 delegates.
Hauptmann Guilty In Opinion
Rendered By Pro ssor Shwrtei
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LEWIS NAMED PRESIDENT
Prof. Howard B. Lewis, director of
the College of Pharmacy, was named
president of the American Society of
Physiological Biology at the meeting
of the American Federation of So-
cieties for Experimental Biology in
New York City Saturday. Memphis,
Tenn., was selected as the 1937 con-
vention city.
No
Professor Kynofh
Evidence Sound;
Of Case Is Given
Thinks
History
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rung of the kidnap ladder -was held
bsolutely sound" yesterday by Prof.
William Kynoch, wood technologist
of the forestry school and a close
friend of Koehler. He discredited
recent doubts, expressed as to the.
validity of Koehler's proof that the
ladder had been made of wood in
Hauptmann's attic, explaining the
technique used by the United States
Forest Products wood expert.
"All wood in these northern lati-
tades form growth rings," said Pro-
fessor Kynoch, himself former direc-
tor of the Forest Products of Can-
ada. "Koehler matched rings of the
ladder wood with rings of wood in
the attic, viewed them under a micro-
scope and saw instantly that they
had formerly been together."
Koehler's quest of the source of
the ladder wood was one of the most
dramatic elements of the Hauptmann
case. To begin with, in addition to
the ring marks of the wood, Professor
Kynoch explained, all Koehler knew
of the wood was that it was cut by
a certain plane with certain types of
knives of particular keenness-this
last fact was clearly indicated by
tiny transverse marks across the
wood made by the plane.
Wood Came From Attic
Although his search seemed an
endless one at first, he finally nar-
rowed it down until he found-al-
most miraculously-the mill at Mc-
Cormicl, S.C. From there he traced
the wood to a Bronx lumber yard,
and finally a search of Hauptmann's
attic proved beyond a doubt that the
wood from which the ladder was
crudely pieced together came from
the spot.
The wood evidence, Professor Ky-
noch asserted, was just as certain as
fingerprint evidence regarding indi-
viduals.
The world had never heard of
Hauptmann until that Sept. 19, 1934,
when he was arrested as the kidnap-
er of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. And
then many greeted the seizure of
the obscure Bronx carpenter skepti-
cally-as but another of the wild
rumors that had come out of the
two and a half years of investiga-
tion of the Lindbergh case.
But, bit by bit, evidence was
pieced together against him, and af-
ter a drawn-out trial of nearly five
months, a jury of eight men and
four women convicted him of first
degree murder without recommenda-
tion for mercy on Feb. 13, 1935.
Identified By Station Attendant
Hauptmann was first associated
with the Lindbergh killing when on
Sept. 19, 1934, he was identified by
a gasoline station attendant as a
passer of the marked ransom money.
After his arrest, a search of his
garage revealed $14,600 of the mon-
ey hidden away.
The Bronx county grand jury in-
dicted him on an extortion charge,
and the Hunterdon County, N.Y.,
grand jury indicted him on a murder
charge. He lost a fight for extradi-
tion, and on Jan. 2, 1935, began a
fight for his life at Flemington, N.
J. The counsel for the defense was
headed by Edward J. Reilly of Brook-
lyn, and associated with him were C.
Lloyd Fisher, Frederick A. Pope and
Egbert C. Rosencrans. Fisher is
still acting as attorney for Haupt-
mann. Attorney-General David T.
Wilentz led the prosecution, aided by
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, Jr.,
former County Judge George K.
Large and several assistants. Circuit
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, 70-
year old, ailing jurist, presided at the
trial.
The state called 88 witnesses and
took 15 court days in presenting its
case chronologically from the day of
the abduction of the Lindbergh baby
down to the time, more than 30
months late. when Hauptmann was
first nabbed by police.
Each time the prosecution attempt-
ed to score a point, the defense would
attempt to repudiate it. When Wil-
entz called in handwriting experts
who testified Hauptmann wrote the
ransom notes, Rielly's expert witness
said Hauptmpann did not write them.
Koehler's testimony was counter-bal-
anced with statements of the de-
fense's "practical" wood experts who
held that there was no similarity be-
tween the wood in the ladder and in
Hauptmann's attic floor. The defense
attempted to establish an alibi for
Hauptmann on the night of the kid-
naping, and produced a motion pic-
ture ticket-taker who said he remem-
bered Hauptmann giving him one of
the ransom $5 bills.
Dcnied Owning Money
The defense made much of Haupt-
mann's own testimony regarding the'
ransom money found in his posses-
sion. He insisted throughout the trial
that he was innocent, and declared
that the money found in his garage
was money left in a shoe box by Isa-
dor Fisch, consumptive little German
furrier, Hauptmann's business part-
ner, who went to Leipzig, Germany, to
die.
But the defense witnesses, includ-
ing the stolid defendant himself, ap-
peared not to impress the jury.
And then there was the testimony
of Colonel Lindbergh that the gut-.
teral voice, calling "Hey, Doktor,"
in the cemetery, was Hauptmann's.
Dr. Condon himself identified Haupt-
mann as the man with whom he made
arrangements for payment of the
ransom and as the man who actually
collected it in the cemetery.
Following the jury's verdict of
guilty, Justice Trenchard set the date
of Hauptmann's execution for 8 p.m.,
Jan. 17, 1936. But Hauptmann's at-
torneys and his tireless wife, Anna,
kept working in his behalf. There
were repeated rumors of new evidence,
although very little was produced that
was at all definite.
Maintains I'nnocence
Nevertheless, Iaupumann main-
tained his innocence and his belief
that he would not die, and his at-
torneys made a plea to the New Jer-
sey State Board of Pardons. Jan. 11,
the Board of Pardons refused to grant
him clemency. Jan. 14, the United
States Circuit Court refused to reverse
the verdict of the state circuit court.
The United State Supreme Court of
the United States refused even to con-
sider the case. It seemed that Haupt-
mann must die at the appointed hour,
Jan. 17.
Then, at the 11th hour, Jan. 16,
Governor Harold B. Hoffman, who
had all along indicated that he be-
lieved some evidence yet to be in-
troduced might exonerate the convict-
ed man, issued a brief, curt reprieve.
He gave no reasons for his action, but
simply delayed the execution for 30
days.
Because of legal technicalities, Jus-
tices Trenchard had to set a new ex-
ecution date, the week of March 30
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was named. But even after that, new
developments kept popping. "Confes-
sions" were claimed to have been re-
ceived and even now authorities are
considering the alleged confession of
Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton at-
torney, who now holds that he was
forced to make a statement and was
in no way connected with the crime.
Gaston B. Means, former federal in-
vestigator, from his cell in Leaven-
worth penitentiary also "confessed"
that he killed the child. Authorities
have repeatedly said that they dis-
credit both of these "confessions."
Perhaps the most remarkable thing
about the entire case has been Haupt-
mann's stoicism, broken only Tues-
day night, as the hour of his death
approached. Until that time he wav-
ered not one bit, looked his accusers
coldly in the eye and simply reiterat-
ed, "I am innocent."
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