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Overjoyed Over Stay, Be- Lay Awake During Night lieves Bruno Will Be Listening for Clock to Saved. Strike Hour. ths By the Associated Press. By Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., April 1.—Anna KAMENZ, Germany, April 1.— Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to State prison to- Hauptmann's aged mother day for another visit with her husband, greeted today news of the last-minute Bruno Richard, whose execution last postponement of his ex- ecution with a night was stayed at the last minute. happy exclamation, "Thank Heaven, the miracle has She had last seen him on Monday, hap- this means new at which time she bade him “Auf pened; hope.” Friends had taken the •wiedersehen (till we meet again)." 78-year-old Frau Pauline “I think this will be the means of Hauptmann to their home last to saving him,” she said earlier, of the night console her during the hours when her son was delay in execution. to die in the electric chair at Trenton, N. J., Instead of wearing the mourning for the slaying of the kidnaped Lind- veil she had bought, Hauptmann’s bergh baby. wife—jubilant, her hopes soaring All her previous references to "ter- again—laid out her gay checked ror and uncertainty” were suit. forgotten, Spring however, as she learned that the elec- Her joy in Hauptmann’s new lease trocution was postponed for "at least on life was the greater for receiving 48 hours.” "loving messages” from him, relayed Welcomes New “Uncertainty." by Rev. D. G. Werner, who was pray- With a happy smile, she welcomed ing with Bruno in his cell when news this new uncertainty, as long as it came of the delay. meant hope for her son. What happened at the hotel room "It is the first good news I have the execution Bruno where Anna received the news was as Left: Allyne Freeman (in dark suit and wearing hat) talking with reporters after of Hauptmann had for ever so long,” she said, her the dramatic as the cell scene when Bruno had been delayed last night. “Interesting new angles” in the case of Paul Wendel caused Freeman, foreman of grand jury face, tired and lined from a night of news men the eleventh hour heard it while praying. at Trenton, to delay execution. Right: Col. Mark O. Kimberling, warden, reads to waiting stay. exhaustion, freshening with Joy and The Hauptmann was transformed excitement. a "I had all for some from despairing woman, on the Hoffman which Hauptmann wrote It was learned that two police officers given up hope of a time and found verge collapse and under physi- while the hour set for execution drew had been assigned to guard the South myself mumbling cian’s care, to a picture of animation. home of Gov. Hoffman. prayers when the gong of the clock near, and which was delivered to the Text of Bruno’s Letter Amboy No reason was but it was interrupted my sleep,” she said. "I Chats With Faster. office of the Governor by a prison given, heard it strike every hour from 3 in late in the same afternoon. recalled that a similar guard was She chatted happily in German with guard the “With and “be- placed at the house several weeks ago. j morning. Rev. Mr. Werner. Bronx who my dying breath,” pastor, Breath” in Last A threat was made (The electrocution was set orig- lieve at least a dying man” were Protests Innocence With "Dying telephoned against came to her room from the prison. inally for 8 p.m., Tuesday. Eastern phrases that stood out in the letter, the Governor's life to the Newark She told C. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann's standard time—2 a.m. today, German written by the same hand which the to Trial police yesterday. attorney: Appeal Hoffman—Cites time.) prosecution charged wrote the Lind- It was not taken seriously, but an I shall be able to Message from Son. “Tonight sleep.” ransom notes. Inconsistencies. investigation was made and the call bergh innermost This morning she told Robert W. was traced to a pay station in Brook- "My feelings made me Bruno Scores Condon. she "as if I Hicks, an investigator, who called on Bi the Associated Press. my arrest all my shoes? Why all lyn. quiet suddenly,” said, He scored Dr. John F. Condon, the her early, that she did sleep well. TRENTON. N. J., April 1.—The text them special fingerprints from part of The grand jury action in the Wen- had assurance that everything will ransom intermediary who identified be well Hicks said she seemed very composed. of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's "final'' the hand from where the usual never del case presented an unusual situa- again.” him as the man to whom the ransom While she was with “She appeared to be in high spirits,” letter, sent to Gov. Harold G. Hoff- take? tion in that the jury began its inquiry talking the money was paid; Attorney General Associated Press a Hicks said. "I warned her not to man last night, follows: "Why was It said to the jury I had by asking the prosecutor to leave the representative, Wilentz, who prosecuted him, and a and with build up false hopes. Her mind “TRENTON, March 31, 1936. $49,984 dollars of Lindbergh’s money? Jury room. Marshall had not favored postman brought telegram even had a word of censure for his a of Frau seemed rather analytical. She asked “Your Excellence Governor, You know It was not true, or half consideration of the charges at this cry joy Hauptmann ex- "chief lawyer” at the Flemington trial. claimed, “Oh, this is from Richard about developments in the Wendel “Harold G. Hoffman. hour after my conviction your self time, wishing to make a further in- "I assure your excellence that I am [ to inform me of the luck.” case.” “Your Excellence: send an officer to me that I should vestigation. good not guilty of this crime,” the Ger- The say where are the other $30,000 dol- telegram said: Mrs. Hauptmann told the Haupt- man-bom “My writing Is not for fear of losing Political Alliance*. carpenter wrote. “Don’t worry. Prayers will be an- mann that if he went to hands of God. It is lars. Why did you say to the jury investigator “Why did say on the wit- my life, this is in The foreman of the Al- people that saw bills In our grand jury, swered fully. Love. Richard, Bubi New York today, to see her child, Man- his will. I will go gladly, it means the people gold ness stand they saw me near Hope- lyne Freeman, is a Republican who (Hauptmann's young son), Anni.” who is in the care of Miss Ruth house, but never brought this people fred, well? to the I have end of my tremenfous suffering. Only has been a candidate for office Up present day on the witness public Werner, daughter of Rev. Mr. Werner. of dear wife and stand? For what did no idea where the Lindbergh house in thinking my my on several occasions, never, however, Mrs. Hauptmann, who had been heart. you through all this same In the eyes in Hopewell is located." little boy, that is breaking my successfully. He is, like, Gov. Hoff- near the all crime is of the jury, them two persons whom telephone day. "waiting I know until this terrible man, a war veteran and is a HICKS WILL The letter, which ran several pages, are offer life? past CHECK for something to turn up,” received the solvet, they will have to suffer unter judging my frequently addressed itself not only to county commander of the American news by phone from Fisher. the weight of my unfair conviction. "Who is responsible for building up has the Governor, but others. In one Legion. Gov. Hoffman had the Her hopes had nearly ebbed. She “For I assure your ex- all the circumstantial evidence? Is WEN DEL’S MOVES place Hauptmann wrote: passing away, support of veterans in his various po- had sent to the prison what she cellence that I am not of this there really a man who can believe “Mr. Wilentz, with guilty litical campaigns. my dying breath, that a thought might be her last message to crime. Over and over again I was I, carpenter, should have built observers hunted for some I swear God that you convicted Many po- by such a ladder? Governor's Leaves her husband: "I love you and I will * • * to convince the prosecution that litical connection with Representative an innocent man. God will be trying developments always remember you.” She was be- they murder an Innocent man. I of- "I stated that I found the money In the case. judge between me and you. I beg Hauptmann-Wendel They Trenton for North hind locked doors in her hotel room, fert to any test what science middle of August, 1934, and that I out that Prosecutor Marshall you, attorney general, believe at least myself pointed with a physician. Dr. William S. Col- may offer—but I was beggin In vain. past the money without knowing It is a Democrat, as Is General Jersey. a dying man.” Attorney lier, in attendance. I did this, not to force the prosecu- was Lindbergh money. Is there any Wilentz. who Ev the Associated Press. Gov. Hoffman released copies of prosecuted Hauptmann; Bells at intervals from St. tion to me free, but only to con- person who can say that I past one and that like Gov. pealed the letter without comment. put Freeman, Hoffman, TRENTON, N. J.. April 1.—Robert Mary's Cathedral as the execution hour vince the world that I am innocent. single bill before that date? Is a and that Ellis Earlier in the week he had an- Republican; Parker, W. Hicks, who is investigating the approached and reminded her time was "In living my last hours of my life, did chief send the Burlington County detective-ac- nounced that he would not grant a "Why my lawyer Bruno Hauptmann case for Gov. Hoff- flying. I wish I could bring some light in this witnesses home without cuser of Wendel, is a close friend of second reprieve to the man he be- important man, left Trenton this morning for case, but all what I can do, is to give even on the Governor. lieves was convicted at a trial that bringing them the stand. My North Jersey, where he said he would a of the friend of Mr. I Gov. Hoffman has said, however, “reeked with unfairness, passion and description God, my God, hardly can't believe "check the movements" of Paul H. first time when prejudice.” Fisch, whim I sah the on all that what happened by my that he had no knowledge of the Wendel. I meet Mr. Fisch. (Description I have trial. But It was necessary to convict Wendel developments until he read former Trenton has Hauptmann Governor Is Silent. Wendel, lawyer, given already, allso all the circum- me and so close the books on the case. of them in the newspapers. repudiated "confessions" that he kid- The Governor, who kept himself stances). ivu. wxicxiu&, wxixx (Continued From First xny uyuig Dream, Wilentz Hits Wendel Story. naped Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.. His Page.) available with the by telephone prison “Were I connected in any part ox I swear by God that you convicted Attorney General Wilentz, opposing case is now before the Mercer County in the event of any last-minute de- an Innocent man. Once will stand “incredible, and out ol harmony with this terrible crime, I never would have you the Hauptmann plea for a stay of grand jury and he is held on a mur- velopments that might call for swift before the same to whom I the known facts in the case.” troubled your excellence in any way. Judge go execution before Justice Trenchard der charge. action by him. said he had no knowl- never have ask the In a few hours. You know you have are Parker, 65 years old, best known for The same I would yesterday, said: “A lot of things happening to edge of Col. Klmberling's decision to also the done wrong on me, you will not his work on the famous Hall-Mills Court ol Errors and Appeals, only "Some newspaper men got an give me time,” he said. "The Wendel long execution deiay the until the warden Pardons to take cause in take my life but also all the happiness is most murder case, has a record of having Court of my Inkling of the Wendel story and served thing the important angle telephoned him shortly before official in one of my family. God will be Judge be- now.” solved 250 cases and having sent 121 consideration. I know my society by publishing it. Ellis Parker right announcement was made. He made tween me and murderers to death by electrocution or sense of justice that a person guilty of you. realized that he had gone beyond the Hicks said he knew of the Wendel no comment. "I hanging. He explains his detective such a crime, can’t deserve any con- beg you, attorney general, be- bounds of law and decency (in having angle 30 days ago, and that on Mon- A crowd of at least 2,500 persons a lieve at least a dying man. Please methods by saying that he “Just fig- sideration. But I was fighting with Wendel committed as a voluntary day night, after the Court of Par- was gathered in the neighborhood of a to Investigate, because this case Is not turned down sec- ured ’em out.” clear conscience I did have right patient at a State hospital) and so dons Hauptmann's the prison as the execution hour solvet. It only adds another dead to asked He has been closely associated with do so before God and the world. surrendered him to the Mercer County ond clemency plea, he Gov. neared. the case. Gov. Hoffman in the investigation of “May X ask fair thinking people— Lindbergh authorities. Hoffman for three days more to in- Among them were many women. I have been convicted of this "Your excellence. I see this as my the Hauptmann-Lindbergh case. would "Can there be any conclusions but vestigate. Small children darted about in nearby duty, before this State takes life, were Hauptmann, deep in the State crime without the circumstantial evi- my that he (Parker) participated with “Gov. Hoffman’s spirits very streets, sensing the excitement with- false witnesses—no! to thank you for what you have done Hicks said. "He said he wanted Prison, yet the constant center of all dence, and them others in a scheme to thwart the low,” out realizing that it epitomized one of did for me. I write this with tears In to a and think developments, slept soundly and long Never and never. Why people say orderly processes of law?” get good night's sleep the strangest crime dramas of all his- me near my eyes. If ever prayer will reach it over.” last night after the ordeal that had on the witness stand they saw The attorney general's reference was tory. you, they will come from me, from the Gov- its climax when his execution was Hopewell. The motive can be only to what he considered Parker's fail- Hicks declined to say what The prison area was roped off, and an my dear wife and my little boy. ernor told him. stayed at the last minute, with a crowd money and to play important part ure to turn Wendel over to the au- only persons having business there case. to the "In all your effort to save my life of more than 2,500 persons gathered in the Lindbergh Up pres- thorities of Mercer County in Feb- were permitted inside the police lines. ent I have no idea where the Lind- and see that justice Is done, I assure outside. day ruary. immediately after obtaining Bulgaria reports a marked business Through the barred windows of the house in is located. your excellence, that your effort was Wife Goes to Prison. bergh Hopewell the alleged "confessions.” revival in the last year. prison could be heard the shouting of "Why did, and does Dr. Condon hide spent to an innocent man. less “I thank from the His wife, Anna, suffering hardly convicts. It is always that way when so many things he knows? It Is not you excellence, bottom than her husband under the strain a fellow prisoner dies. for the course of justice that this man of my heart, that has been them since his ar- The “And God bless upon turmoil among the prisoners says everything. Why did Dr. Condon may you, rest in 1934, also had her September, reached its height an hour before the say in my cell he cannot testify against •‘Respectfully, first good sleep in days, and went to hour Hauptmann was to die. With me? Dr. Condon •'BRUNO RICHARD My God, any your HAUPTMANN. *• the after noon ■V prison shortly hoping half an hour remaining, the clamor witnesses, did you ever realise what P. S. “Why was not any considera- to see Hauptmann. died, and silence broken only by a you did? In a short time I will stand tion given to my four witnesses whom General Wilentz, asked to- Attorney sort of drone took its place. before a Higher Judge and you will live saw me In the same hour between 8-9 A!\D THERE'S ©YLY ONE if of day the postponement Haupt- a little longer, but you and you never In the bakery In New York? on the mann's execution him, Great Lamps Illuminate Scene. surprised can leave this world with a happier 1st of March, 1932? There were no echoed sentiment about the Outside the main door of the general prison Inner feeling as I do. friends of mine. There are all a of 100 or more all of State house when he replied: group persons, "Gentlemen from the prosecution strangers to me. Even one of them whom credentials to be with- “Nothing is surprising any more.” possessed where are all the direct evidence? came in very bad condition from the Wilentz said he have a state- in the lines, stood about. Across might police Fingerprints, footprints, you all know sick bed. No witness from the State make on Wendel case the the ment to the street, directly opposite prison there are some In existence. Oh yes I came up at all to cover this particular were the trucks of later in the day. entrance, ranged For what did the police take right by period, to place me in New Jersey." There was a report, lacking con- the movie makers, with great lamps firmation, that the grand jury was of blinding brilliance mounted on confident band’s effort to the was lacking four votes necessary to return them. favor? Somehow, I feel escape chair, chair. an indictment in the Wendel case. The prison searchlights added their that I won’t go to that I composed. “How did The unprecedented action of the brightness to the cool night. feel that good things are ahead.” Richard look?” she wanted Fisher continued: to know. prison warden—the man charged at Further down along the prison wall saw In the “He was as Fisher told her. law with the prisoner’s execution—and other huge lamps were focussed upon "When I Hauptmann usual,” “He 1s the same.” the grand jury ripped the astonishing the door which—following the execu- morning, he wasn't in good shape always at all. for sev- "And can I see him tomorrow?” she case wide open to new possibilities, tion—was to be flung open to permit (Hauptmann wept eral minutes when visited asked. legal authorities frankly were in a the newspaper men to race out and yesterday You should come to this Bank warden). Fisher it she could. quandary today as to what might hap- across the street to the prison garage, morning by the prison thought likely and con- Col. never has been In- pen next. which, for the occasion, was turned There was evidence of grief Kimberling into a which the cern; but he was back in his old clined to enforce strictly the visiting .... C. Lloyd Fisher, chief defense coun- workshop, from story when you need money would over hundreds of wires. form at 5 o'clock. rules with Mrs. Hauptmann, and she sel, said he had no Idea what avenues speed has seen dur- In a to the "He ate part of the meal (dinner) her husband frequently were the in the execu- corridor close modest opened by delay The the more than has been WORSTED-TEX office of the warden despite reports to the contrary. ing a year he tion. So far as he Knew there was no pleasant, soldierly BECAUSE from our in moving to a new cell, which is the imprisoned there. experience precedent. the official witnesses watted They The British Lounge is exclusive with WORSTED-TEX had at but at 8 practice on the day of execution, The tenseness of the entire case was In the case of an Indictment gathered 7:15; o’clock, assisting thousands of Washingtonians being first and new when and Worsted-Tex is exclusive with The Hecht Co. This when Hauptmann was to have started upset him for the time, given emphasis early today returned against Wendel, Fisher felt we an his walk to the were still brought a realization of the imminence have developed efficiency in British Lounge is authentic, as designed by ROSSO, the that a way would be found to extend chair, they and of death. (Hauptmann was moved the stay of Hauptmann’s execution, In the corridor—uneasy uncertain yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy^ internationally famous clothing designer. from cell 9 to 8, which is nearest the but whether such a would be what the delay boded. way death chamber door.) MAKING LOANS TO INDIVIDUALS through a court of law, the office of Witnesses Are Searched. Fisher, whose eyes were damp as EISEMAN’S the Governor or the Court of Pardons Twice while they waited, the wit- \ he left the prison late In the after- —which twice has denied Hauptmann nesses were searched for weapons. SEVENTH & F STS. which a minimum noon when all hope appeared lost, s! | calls for clemency—Fisher did not know. Every precaution was being taken to s was bitter in his expression of opposi- Several witnesses were questioned prevent anything that might upset the ^-MJ-. .L-i'i!=$ of ex- tion to capital punishment. C < requirements, the jury yesterday, some of tragic drama of a man being to s s by grand put "The murdered man dies like that and time. them more than once. Among them death in the electric chair. pense your -” and he snapped his fingers, MATCH Your Odd were Wendel’s son and daughter. The Robert Elliott, the executioner, had ^ \ "but the poor devil in the death house later, Mrs. Dorothy Wendel Phillips, gone down to the death chamber to be lives in mental anguish for months.” \ Coat With Our \ tainted after testifying. ready for the execution, and two Reads With Pastor. Parker was closeted with the Jury clergymen were extending the solace Scripture Special When news of the stay of execu- tor some time. of their church to Hauptmann. tion was carried to the condemned Wendel To those who waited, tense, in the Family Quizzed. attention to corridor man he was giving his It was Parker who turned Wendel above, shooting frequent the reading of scripture by Dr. 1 TROUSERS 1 authorities late glances at their watches as the execu- $ $ IT IN STRIPES over to Mercer County the Psalms cxxi WEAR Werner, especially 5 A huge stock a aa last week after obtaining the "confes- tion hour came, there came Albert f $ and xxiii—“The Lord is my shepherd, v of Odd TYou- J which Wendel has since vigor- Hermann, who is clerk of the Pardons ,7 J $ that have a suit sions” I shall not He leadeth me-” It’s practically imperative you striped Court and also a to Gov. want; $ sers in hun- j secretary season. all the on ously repudiated. The minister hurried from the 5 dreds of in your wardrobe this Of stripes moved the events of the Hoffmann, and said: pat- and Up $ So swiftly to hotel where Mrs. Arms is far "There has been a of 48 prison the terns, mate- ; horizon this British Lounge stripe by execution day that the issuance by delay J Spring’s Hauptmann—who appeared yesterday S rials and shades. Save the price 5 toned down to a haziness a for hours.” the most pleasing smoky Gov. Hoffman of 30-day reprieve a new black satin dress and Still the witnesses waited. At wearing of a new suit by matching your $ man. As for Charles Zied, the man who was to have 8:05 $ that wins the favor of every well dressed who had purchased a mourning veil- s odd coat. mile” with p.m. came Col. Kimberling himself, $ Problem a walked the “last Haupt- waited. Bring Your Financial the British Lounge itself, the jacket shows slightly announcing the stay of execution * mann. was almost buried under the waistline. It is it. Bunting into her room he shouted: jacket, a lower and shaped-in in the case personally and giving the reason for longer avalanche of developments “Good Anna!” I I to Officer of Our Bank and adds The news was carried to the con- news, Any an easy-fitting suit that slenderizes the figure of Hauptmann. Both the minister and Fisher eald ... demned man by his counsel, Lloyd Young Men’s .. .»■' I,. M III —II ■ a fancied height. The fabric is a pure soft-finished Zied Had Given Up Hope. Mrs. who has aged m Fisher. Hauptmann was with Rev. Hauptmann, * for this suit. Zied, a Philadelphia gangster who months All-Wool worsted the perfect cloth lounge D. G. Werner, his former pastor in appearance greatly during the killed a Camden policeman, had given the Bronx. of ordeal which have marked her hus- up all hope and was resigned to death Men's Shops—Second Floor * _ He took the news calmly and with- _ In the chair—a sharp contrast to out at once saying a word. 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