VISIBLY SHAKEN
HAUPTMANN IN GAOL CONVINCED OF INNOCENCE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) ' (Received .545 p.m., Feb. 15.) FLEMBSUTON, Feb. 14. Mr. Reilly, who spent 10 minutes .with Hauptmann in pis .cell to-day, stated: “The prisoner, who was engrossed in the .plans for the fight to be made to extend his .life beyond a week fqr 'March 4fi, .is'pretty well broken up by the sentence. Hauptmann is still cphv.ineed of his Innocence, .and is visibly shaken. .He says: ‘Bow could anyone believe I—the father of a gjjllq .like, my little Mapn-fried-cmilii .kill‘anyone "else's baby?' ” Mr. Reilly indicated that the attorneys were .prepared to exhaust every last measure "of the law to sot aside the verdiqt. A .world-wide appeal for new evidence will be broadcast and a ‘‘Hauptmann appeal fund” that would receive contributions from all sources, will be established under the trusteeship of some hank.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 15
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