ALLEGED MURDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22005, 11 January 1935, Page 9

ALLEGED MURDER

LINDBERGH BABY dASE ACCUSED AND THE RANSOM ' NEW YORK, J tin. 9, The trial was continued to-day at Flemington, New Jersey, of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with murdering the infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh. Three times during the proceedings Dr. John Condon, who was called to the witness stand, identified Hauptmann as the man with whom he had conducted the ransom negotiations and to whom he had paid the i>0 ( 000 dollars' ransom in the Bronx cemetery.

Witness also stated that he had recognised Hauptmann in a street in New York in August, 1934, but he wtu» himself on a bus going the opposite way, and by the time he had descended the man had disappeared. Mr. Reilly, who cross-examined witness, was not able to shake his evidence, and was even a butt for Dr. Condon's pleasantries, which not only made the crowd, but also the presiding judge, laugh. Dr. Condon described how he had pleaded with the kidnapper to be "honest and courageous." and how, after receiving the latter's assurance that the baby was safe and would be returned, he had handed over the ransom.