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Elvert Carlstrom. a young Swede, appeared with a Hauptmann alibi for the fatal night of March 11, 1932. He said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
Louis Kiss, a Hungarian silk painter by trade, but a bootlegger on the side, recalled getting lost in The Bronx on March 1, 1932, wandering into the Fredericksen restaurant, seeing Hauptmann with a dog. A big, ragged man named Luther Harding swore he saw two men in a car with a ladder near the Lindbergh home on the afternoon of March 1, that neither was Hauptmann. He had turned his information over to the police next day, he said. When asked to pick out the officer he had talked to, Harding picked the wrong one. It was then revealed that...
...Xylotomist Koehler said that he had searched for a year and a half for the mill and lumber yard which had supplied the pine for most of the rungs in the ladder. The mill was finally located in South Carolina. The lumber yard was found in The Bronx, the very lumber yard where Hauptmann had bought wood...
Sensational out-of-town developments of the week included the prosecution's announcement that it was investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...charge of the ailing Mirror two months ago (TIME, Nov. 26). Already wise old Editor Brisbane had begun to tinker with the paper. He wheedled other publishers into voting for the Mirror's admittance to City News Association, the press service that covers Manhattan and The Bronx for its members. Consistently blackballed from membership, the Mirror had suffered badly in local coverage. Everything was set for the Mirror's election at last week's meeting of City News until the World-Telegram delegate failed to appear. Lacking that affirmative vote, the "Noes" of the Associated Press...