HAUPTMANN APPEAL

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20629, 1 June 1935, Page 25 (Supplement)

HAUPTMANN APPEAL

Wife’s Game Struggle to Raise Funds. . NEW LAWYER TAKES CASE. NEW YORK, May 19. JF IT WERE not for Uncle Sam chasing Bruno Hauptmann for income tax and occasional moves by his lawyers who are preparing his appeal against his conviction for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, he would soon be America’s “ Forgotten Man, No. 1.” Public attention is attracted to-day only by the great fight his wife has been making to bring his case before the highest court in the country where the hearing will commence next Tuesday. The notice of appeal lodged by Egbert Rosecrans, Hauptmann’s new junior counsel, sets out 193 reasons why the conviction should be upset. Especially is District Attorney Wilentz criticised, for calling Hauptmann “ an animal of the lowest form— Public. Enemey No. 1 of this world.” This language is challenged as being beyond the pale of Court procedure, even under the stress of the excitement which marked the case. Another ground is that Colonel Lindbergh himself was allowed to sit in Court in close proximity to the jury for many days, thus stimulating sympathy for the unfortunate child’s parents. Wife’s Faith. Through all the recent developments, Anna Hauptmann stands revealed as the really tragic figure in this amazing case. Though she appears bewildered by the long train of events, and while quarrels between her lawyers and managers have wracked her body and exhausted her mind. “ I know we are going to win Richard’s appeal,” she declares. For many months she has been subjected to personal lawsuits by people trying to get a share of Hauptmann’s alleged secret hoard of gold. Then her new lawyers sent her to the vaudeville lecture platform to tell her tragic story in the hope of getting money to press her husband’s appeal. She travelled 6000 miles in six weeks trying to interest the public in her cause, and addressed 50,000 people, but collected only 8000 dollars (£1600), of which 6000 dollars went to discharge a debt to the former counsel for the defence, Edward Reilly, whom she discharged. To-day, Mrs Hauptmann relies upon Lloyd Fisher, a new chief counsel, and her pastor, the Rev Daniel Werner, who, she declares, knows from talks with Hauptmann that “ Richard was quite incapable of doing that awful