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Swayne Vermilyea's Caretaker Takes Stand, 14 February 1935, page 2

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* . -·?" ilFEKkUARY 14, 1935 ^s&ais^sa^ j . , . _. ; . . . , ...... ~~' 2 *' -.7»T-:* . ~ .. V_ ' - £6 Die > SAVED FROM LAKE Bronx Garpehter Totters Fefi^RdilRaft »*·.«« Slightly When Senteiiccll '~ After Word With Wife in Courtroom Goes fo~~ ;~ Cells to Weep - Summary Charles fishermen sfghted them , at 3.30 = ^ break- ^m.-yesterday, hopelessly locked in Fitful Sleep Falls on Gera rapidly drifting ice-floe two miles io at off shore. Within half an hour a ' (By'*thefAssociated"Press"),_j_ man Carpenter in His after- rescue plane was despatched by the Thirteenth Day of Month --Bruno Rlcbjlrd-Hauptmann ijsai Idren's Royal-Canadian--Air--Force--from at Flemington, N.J.., last ing in Trenton and flew over the ice floe -Closes Trial With , convicted night of the murder of CJiarles Xug-' stable, dropping, blankets ' and provisions. In the" meantime- two Wellington ustus Lindbergh, Jr:, and,sentenced Death Penalty · and Dayton to die in the , electric"- chair "'the./ from men, Dennis Ingram : __ .,' -wiUiam A.Kinney) -- By weet of" Marclr 18. The jury · 3-arris. Murphy?" wen t"to-' the ^rescue'-in- a Comfemried I,Man ,, Will ms to 10-foot- skiff - and' after a ~ threefCopyright 1935. By the -Gsoclated ^Defence Counsel said _the· _case_ hour --struggle,*, curing . which-they .Shortly be_ Taken to_ would be'carried to tt«T Supreme' wet. had to cover three-quarters of a, Trenton,'N.J. mile of thin-ice pulling their . skitf Flemington, N.J., Feb. .14.--CAP) jCourt of the United States if necesboys behind them, brought the - boys ' (By James Y. Lawrence) --Death has been decreed for Bruno sary. If all possible methods of Richard ~Iauptman,ru_conv-icted of delay are used and the verdict is: had into Uus-port. --The--younger-lad-had-fallen-- into kflllns~the Lindbergh baby, UutTils Bruno Richard Hauptmann, with a counsel drafted today-- a fight not be put to .death until October. ached the ice-cold water a short time be- sentence of-death lying upon him,through high courts, fore the rescue and was completely which may last Hauptmann tottered, when sent-' ie afr- exhausted early today fell,into'fitful sleep in when brought in. months. Prison precedent combined ence was pronounced and cried ent in Vardy appeared his Hunterdon County jail quarters. little the worse being returned to his cell. His n the The anguish-to-which the Ger- with judge and jury to fix the after "tl:s-.ordeal. , of March 22. as the tentative wife wepi. >vered. tor man carpenter gave way after the night They left the Shelter at BelleThe defendant's mother. Prau and ville Sunday night and walked jury of Hunterdon, County plain date for Hauptmann's electrocution. h the and hitch-hiked the 21 miles to folk1 pronounced him the Lindbergh He was sentenced' to - "suffer Pauline Hauptmann who lives., at-- death" the week of March 18. and Kamenz, Saxony, Germany." "wrote~ >ayton .Wellington, arriving in this vicinity baby slayer passed as dawn ap- Friday is doomsday in_-the_death i President Roosevelt aletter beggtnsr* 11 Monday: TtieyTpsnirThe~ ntghtnn house liT Trenton". "" '"" ~ ","\ himrtcr be "merciful -.: upon his cell cot .{n. a farmer's, barn near Wellington, and Mrs. Charles A... s ex- .which,,.is,in, the.southwest .section At the customary breakfast hour "While Hauptmann wept, in his Colonel made no comment ,oa_the»,, alte;" of Prince Edward County, about 10 he was awakened'by his guards-and cell.- Edward J. Reilly, Chief of '..>e Lindbergh verdict. \lso silent were Dr. John".," years miles south of Trenton, and Tues- ate oatmeal, bread and coffee. Then Defence ,£taff, said an appeal would F. Condon, ransom intermediaryfe "has day made their raft on the lakeshore he lay back again, silent and de- be carried to the United States Su- and Mrs. Dwight Morrow. -Thepreme Court if necessary. Sen or half a mile from the village. Their pressed, to resume hU rest. child's grandmother,-' who, weree Ed- plan--was-to rrairh_Rochester_N.Y., Sometime, within a few hours Or The first tribunal expected to hear prosecution witnesses. 1 ,__^_; L. _^.a-feir-daysr-fts-Sheriff-John-H.-Cur- the, plea, - the-State Court of Errors 40. miles across the lake. Attorney-General David T.-W11-it ten They had gone about a mile out tiss decides, Hauptmann will be de- and Appeals, meets for its next term entz, chief of the iiroseoutlon staff, , Miss in .the lake when caught in the ice livered to the keepers of the State late in May. The Court of Par- praised the jurors, saying: "The naPrison at Trenton and lodged In the dons will not hear it before Octoabout floe which was drifUiig iji»f.. They, death hQuser-not,fatJ[roni,the-el«:-r 1 went hatf" drlfteTwTtn~lnT" floe two and trie chair. Before The date set for The jurors; ~whb sentenced-- him eous inen'and women." ' opens a half miles when sighted today. , execution, the weefc of March 18, more emotion 'than - "did Ingtpn-. Chairman Sumners of the y took , Ingram and Murphy ,who effect- his counsel, perfecting an appeal, showed Hauptmann. as he . stood befor* House Judiciary 'Committee said: e they ed the boys' rescue, hold medals for will obtain a stay and carry-liis case "Any other verdict · would have bay to rescuing a man from an ice floe two through the .New Jersey Appellate them at JjO.45 p.m. last night. ' been a reflection on' the, ability of then years ago. They carried In the Courts. Speaks to.Wife -. the American · people to "govern" skiff today two ladders which, when Wife Not Admitted themselves." " . ·" " "; ry 14-- they reached the floe, The sheriff said lie would not per-, .With- a look of affection the 36- The mother of Betty-C5o'w, formthey laid ce floe across £he thin ice. Crossing upon mit Mrs. Hauptmann to visit heryear-old prisoner turned to his er Lindbergh nursemaid, -told':*-" e time the ladders, they pulled: their skiff husband again while he remained in faithful wife and said:' London pa.per that the verdict ."Tin-' "It's"'all right, Annie.' 1 dried after them. For three-quarters of the county jail, but he may relax dicated Betty 1 front the attacks' Back in his cell, out of the gaze made on her.' · . o ran a mile to the boys,'and then back the restriction. · ... Shelter to, trie open water, this perilous C. Lloyd Fisher, another ol Haupt- of the curious, Hauptn.mnn burst mann's attorney who practices in into tears. · night procedure was followed. United Hundreds of people lined the Flemington. spoke highly of the The jurors required" mor> than 11 s. were shore watching the rescue. When jury.' He knows nfost of the mem- hours to reach their verdict. They it Wel- the boys were brought in, they bers of the jury and shook hands were closely guarded after the case Kidnapping were~taken to"the office of Dr. R. with several as they departed from ended but a courthouse report was for their homes. . that two of the four women had sr, 12. A. Thompson where, they receiv- the hotel 1 ed sec- ed medical attention and were put , ."This,' Fisher observed, "is an held out.for a recommendation o! In Fifty Words I Sjonest- .'ury, I was shocked to mercy. That --ould have meant ft Hauptmann,.., APPEAL'JOXPECTED BREAKFASTS EATEN

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