GREAT LEGAL BATTLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7

GREAT LEGAL BATTLE

LINDBERGH BABY CASE

MURDER ALLEGATION

OPENING OF TRIAL

(Kl«c. Till. Copyright—United Press Assn.) FLEMINGTON (N.J.), Jan. 1.

Final preparations have been completed for the opening tomorrow of the trial of Bernard Richard Hauptmann, who is charged with t.lu; minder of the Lindbergh baby.

This normally quiet town of 3000 inhabitants finds its population increased at. least 50 per cent, with tin- presence of hundreds of journalists and a corps of attorneys, witnesses, and curiosityseekers.

Tho trial is expected to continue for at least a month, and the indications are that it will lie a dramatic legal battle, starting with the selection ot the jury. Tho defence has procured one of the most, celebrated New York criminal pleaders, with tin able group of assistants

The New Jersey State Attorney General will personally conduct the pro sedition.

Loading witnesses include Colonel Lindbergh anil his wife, Betty Bow. the child's, nurse, and John Condon, whose negotiations for a ransom ended in a hoax.

The State Attorney indicated that his t*liief contentions would lie that Hauptmann wrote tho kidnapping notes, built the ladder mod to remove the child, possessed the ransom notes, and must have murdered the child soon after removing it from its crib on the night ot March 1, 1932.

Hauptmann’s defence -is expected to bo that. “I was not. there,” and that he received tho ransom money from a friend who is now dead.