LINDBERGH BABY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 15

LINDBERGH BABY

HAUPTMANN ON TUIAL MURDER CHARGE CASE FOR PROSECUTION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United- Press Assn.) (Received January 4. 3.30 p.m.) MONTREAL, Jan. 3. A message from Flemington says that, although httlo hitherto unrevcaled has entered the Hauptmann trial, an extraordinary atmosphere of tragic expectancy has hung oyer the proceedings from the very beginning. The selection of the jury was quickly completed to-day and the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Wilentz, began his opening address to (he jury, in which he curiously described the crime as follows: "Hauptmann built » ladder, broke into, the house, stole tho child, and then he went out of the window and down the. ladder. The ladder broke. In the commission of that burglary the child was instantaneously killed. A few miles from the-home of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh he scooped a shallow grave and dropped the little body into it."

The prosecutor declared that Hauptmann consistently declined to show the baby to the go-between, who pleaded that the mother would he reassured to learn that- her baby was well, and that Hauptmann insisted that the money should he given to him immediately or he would demand 100,000 dollars. Mrs. Lindbergh was called to tho stand. iShe described in detail the last hours she had' spent with the child. Colonel Lindbergh followed her, and he said that while sitting reading in tho library on the night of the kidnapping he heard a noise which would have come with the falling of a ladder, "if a ladder was outside."