SEQUEL TO DEATH OF BABY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 19999, 5 January 1935, Page 11

SEQUEL TO DEATH OF BABY

MURDER TRIAL IN UNITED STATES CONVINCING EVIDENCE BY LINDBERGHS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 4, 5.5 p.m.) MONTREAL, January 3. A message from Flemington says that although little hitherto unrevealed has entered into the Hauptmann trial, an extraordinary atmosphere of tragic expectancy has hung over the proceedings from the very beginning. Reconstruction of Crime The selection of the jury was quickly completed to-day, and the Attorney-General, Mr Wilentz. began his opening address to the jury in which he curiously described the crime as follows: “Hauptmann, to build the ladder, broke into the house, stole the child, and then he went out the window and down the ladder. The ladder broke in the commission of that burglary and the child was instantaneously killed. A few miles from the Lindbergh home, Hauptmann 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 be reassured to learn that the baby was well, and that Hauptmann insisted that the money be given him immediately or he would demand 100,000 dollars. Testimony of Parents Mrs Lindbergh was called to the stand. She described in detail the last hours she spent with her child. Colonel Charles Lindbergh followed her, and he said that while sitting reading in his library on the night of the kidnapping, he heard a noise which would come with the falling of a ladder, if the ladder was outside.