THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, Apel 4, 1966 1] ' NOW OPEN! | ALCAN | Il edged as an expert, spent nearly two years tracking down the wood in the kidnap ladder. He finally tracéd one piece from a lumber mill in South Carolina to the Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann had been a cus- tomer. He said another piece had been part of a floorboard in Hauptmann's attic. | CHISEL WAS A LINK | He said the chisel foune asaz the ladder had been used in ts | construction. k State police built a duplicate ladder and placed it against Lindbergh's house. Men went up and down, carrying various weights. At 180 pounds the lad- der broke in the same place as the original. The Lindb baby weighed 30 pounds. Long before Hauptmann's arrest po- lice believed the man_ they wanted weighed between 150 and 180 pounds. Hauptmann weighed Bruno Hauptmann Died 30 Years Ago By BOB DUBILL ; TRENTON; Nod: CAP Thizty without even bringing them to| Fifty minutes later a nurse- years ago Sunday, Bruno Rich-|the stand. My God, my God, I|maid discovered the baby miss- ard Hauptmann was executed|hardly can't believe on all that|ing. On the window was a crude for murdering the Lindbergh | what happened by my trial. But note demanding $50,000 ransom. baby. it was necessary to convict me|On the ground near the 2%- land so close the books on the|storey house in nearby Hopewell Four days before he died in » : . CRE...» was a crude three-piece ladder. the electric chair at: New Jer. lit was broken in one place. sey's state prison, he wrote his| CONVICTION VALID last letter, a long one to Gover-| 'The prosecutor -- aggressive, Beside it was a wood chisel. nor Harold Hoffman insisting he |articulate David T. Wilentz--|_,1W° months later a workman was innocent. 'conceded qualms about capital|Stumbled across the baby's body The Associated Press obtained| punishment, but he insisted|\" shallow grave five miles a copy last week from William|Hauptmann's conviction was from the Lindbergh home and M. Dwyer, press secretary to!valid and still does. jonceer off rica id ey oo ex- creer Hc Nting a ee oie had been saved by Hoffman's | ith i n - 18, , 170. yy \that has altered my faith in the to a 35-year-old German-born liting -- taven Sank press secretary, Edward Con-\yerdict of the jury," Wilentz, ny | 4 inelly. now 70, said in an interview. |cafpenter in New York City. His|writing experts testified the The !etter said: | Wilentz admits he's still besicond was Bruno Richard Haup-| handwriting on the original and "My writing is not for fear of bothered by capital punishment. ns m 4 ta bata Ey puncte ransom notes was | losing my life. This is in the! 'I'm in the twilight zone, I'm Raw maine 'Thro h an Hea tmann contended he had hands of God, it is His will. I )neutral. When I read of some jing veal ed h Fe J af lf d the ransom money in a will go gladly, it means the end jof these fiendish murders I get ca itera eto Hf me he hae box left in his possession Hof: my tremendous 'suffering. \the feeling capital punishment|n0),co000, Lindbergh paid the/shoe Doe Tamed Tasdor F $50,000 ransom the night of|by a friend named Isador Fisch ee eae ee te 452 Simcoe St. S. 723-0011 Oshawa's New Furniture and Appliance Store feat- uring Admiral T.V., Zenith, Top Service end mony top lines of furniture and appliances. Fertilizers ....... Oniy in thinking of my dear wife| should be retained. But there and my little boy, that is break-|are times I have reservations." April 2 in a Bronx cemetery. ing my heart. I know until this Condon testified that the voice terrible crime is solved they will have te suffer under the weight of my unfair conviction. .-. Whatever his personal feel-jat the cemetery telling him| who had returned to Germany in 1933 and died in 1934. ings, the death penalty for first-|where to leave the money was| degree murder was New Jersey |that of Hauptmann. The govern: | * \law. Wilentz was the attorney-/ment distributed circulars car- | HEAT WITH OIL Evergreens ...... Shade Trees ..... Flower Shrubs ... "May I ask fair thinking peo- | general of the state and, he says|rying serial numbers of the) |ple--would Ihave been con-|"it was my duty." |money, most of which was in victed of this crime without the; he case against Hauptmann | gold certificates. | circumstantial e v idence and/was largely circumstantial. |" motorist gave a $10 gold ' on false witnesses, No! Never and Qn a cold, windy night March|note to a Bronx gas station at-| curred in other cities of jnever.... ; 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh|tendant who jotted down the South Viet Nam. (AP Wire- "Why did my chief lawyer | Jr. 19-month-old son of Amer-|number of the auto licence photo by radio fr re oe lica's flying hero, was kidnapped | plate, When police arrested ge ee ene a "you must be born anew." from his crib. Hauptmann, he had a $20 ran-| Then he spoke even more |BRUSHED OFF NOISE |som gold note in his possession. | puzzlingly of His being of- | Lindbergh and his wife, the| Police found $14,600 more in his | fered up, a light to the world, |former Anne Morrow, were talk-| garage. | not to condemn it but save ling downstairs. They heard a| The Ladder--Arthur Koehler, | it. "For God so loved the |noise which Lindbergh brushed|a wood technologist acknow]:- ' world that he gave his only hee em Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." Two months ago, Jesus had been ordered eliminated as an incendiary, fomenting un- rest. PROTESTS DECISION When the decision was put before the sanhedrin, meeting in the chamber of hewn stone adjcining Pilate's apartments at the fortress Antonia, Nico- demus had protested against prejudging the man, without deliberation of evidence. "s DIXON'S OIL. 313 ALBERT ST. 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 SERVING OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS Hedges ......... LANDSCAPING A SPECIALTY "DROP IN OR CALL" Van Belle Gardens "Your Friendly Gorden Centre" 5S MINUTES EAST OF OSHAWA On Highway No. 2 ANTI-U.S. DEMONSTRATIONS | about 200 hard core youths. Other demonstrations oc- and tear gas were used in Saigon to break up the anti- government, anti-American demonstration involving Club-swinging Vietnamese riot police wade into youths in first use of force in cur- rent political crisis. Clubs Jewish Scholar Rided | Christ During Crisis Strangely, the only voices raised in support of Christ in the period of His con- demnation and execution came not from His closest allies, but from those out- side His following. This Easter article about those dissenting outsiders and iconoclasts concerns a Jew- ish scholar who defended Christ in His time of crisis, when His usual advocates failed Him. 623-5757 that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is-with him." Jesus, dismissing the out- ward wonders, had said that what mattered chiefly was man's inner condition, that he must renounce his self-right- eous pride, recognize his moral inadequacies and be- come dependent on God asa little child. ag nO 8a, year ago, when you talked with this Galilean. In his responsibility, as an eminent instructor in the academies of Jerusalem, he had visited Jesus privately to determine, fairly and open- mindedly, just why some of his colleagues were so dis- turbed by the ways of the newcomer from the north. Nicodemus had addressed the Nazarene as a _ fellow 'Rabbi, we know By GEORGE CORNELL AP Religion Writer The wind is against you, old man. Why fight it? Give in. Be sensible and heed the ruling pressure of the day. It's politic. It is approved. It bears the sanction of the crowd and crown, of Caesar's power and majesty. And yet you bridle at this course! What ails thee, Nico- | demus, great old rabbi, © learned teacher, sage of Is- rael How stubbornly you fret. » "They drink the wine of vio- lence!" ' So the prophets often warned--in vain. Be realistic. ~ It is fruitless to object. The thing is set, the order sealed and duly authorized. The man . will die. You tread on dangerous ground, grey-bearded one, and few will stand beside you in this hour. As a member of the temple court, the sanhed- rin, you already have felt the lash of scorn for sympathizing with the rebel Nazarene. Now the incriminating gale blows even stronger. And who could move against it, who re- . sist? Even the apostles of Jesus, His closest compan- ions, had scattered into hid ing, silence and fear.. One, Judas, had sold Him out, and another, Peter disavowed Him. None of the others raised a voice in protest. In His crisis, only a strange, mixed handful of individuals are stated by scripture to have demonstrated support for him. An odd lot they were --some women, a thief, a | soldier and two ranking | Pharisees. The lonely minority, deviants, the brave. TOOK RISK The pair of Jewish leaders had the most to lose. Their titles, fortunes, reputations. Why risk it all? How much safer and discreet to acqui- | esce. | Yet you balk, Nicodemus. | - You remember that night, a ! 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