LINDBERGH BABY

Grey River Argus, 3 January 1935, Page 5

LINDBERGH BABY

TRIAL OF HAUPTMANN What the Charge Will Be (.Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received January 2 at 7.5 p.m). FLEMINGTON(New Jersey), January 1. Final preparations are completed for the opening to-morrow of the trial of Hauptmann on the charge of murde:ing the Lindbergh baby. This is normally a quiet town of three thousand inhabitants, but it now finds' the popn lation increasing at least fifty pot cent with the presence of hundreds of journalists and a corps of attorneys, witnesses and curiosity seekers. The trial is expected to require at least one month, and the indications are that it will be a dramatic legal battle, starting with the selection of a jury.

’’rhe defence have procured one of the most celebrated New York criminal pleaders. w*ith an able group of assistants. 'rhe New Jersey State AttorneyGeneral will personally conduct the prosecution.

Leading witnesses include Lindbergh .‘■.nd his wife, al*o Betty Gow, the child’s nurse; and John London, whose negotiation for the ransom ended that hoax. The State's Attorney has indicated that the chief contentions will be that Hauptmann wrote the kidnapping notes, and that he must have murdered the child soon after removing it. from it.-* crib on the night of March Ist, 1932.

Hauptmann’s defence is expected to be, “I was not there,” and that he received the ransom money from a friends who is now dead.