LINDBERGH TRIAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22620, 7 January 1937, Page 10

LINDBERGH TRIAL

EXECUTION OF HAUPTMANN DOUBTS IN UNITED STATES PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1 A New Jersey State trooper has discovered a cache of £5412 in gold and notes, which is believed to be part of the Lindbergh ransom money, according to a despatch to the Philadelphia Record. It is anticipated that the discovery will reopen the entire case. The trooper who found the money had been assigned to investigate the famous kidnapping case over many months. Since the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh there have been many assertions that the executed man was not guilty. Few cases have disturbed the world as did this trial of a German immigrant charged with slaying the child of a national hero. The United States spont itself in an orgy of sentimentalism for and against the accused man. After the execution, which was postponed for many months, on one pretext and another, a wave of disfavour fell upon Dr. "Jafsie" Condon, the man whoso evidence was mainly instrumental in sending Hauptmann to his death. Last week it was reported by the Gothenburg (Sweden) correspondent of the Deily Express that a Suede named Svedborg had evidence that Hauptmann was not implicated in the murder of the child.