LINDBERGH CASE
“NEW AND FANTASTIC ELEMENTS” ALLEGED CONFESSION BY ANOTHER MAN United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 29th .March. New and fantastic elements entered tlie Lindbergh case to-day just 48 hours before Hauptmann is scheduled to die in the electric chair for the murder of the child Apparently in a last frantic effort to gain a reprieve for the condemned man, detectives employed by Governor Hoffman submitted to the Pardon Board an alleged confession of Paul Wendel, disbarred attorney, who has been convicted several times of perjury and other felom ies, that lie murdered’the child.
Tlie Attorney-General, Mr Wilentz, and other State officials said that they gave little credence to the confession as Wendel had been several times committed to iilsane asylums for observation, but they subjected him to long questioning, during which he repudiated tlie entire confession, saying it was forced from him'through prolonged torture.
.Meanwhile, however, it developed that Wendel had previously been taken before a magistrate and formally charged with murder. Thus, unless the Pardon Board grants a reprieve or tlie Governor again intervenes, Hauptmann will die while a formal murder charge is pending against another.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 31 March 1936, Page 5
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190LINDBERGH CASE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 31 March 1936, Page 5
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