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Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women...
Father. Col. Lindbergh was the State's third witness. When he took the witness chair, reporters' eyes popped wide with amazement to see that the aviator was wearing a revolver in a shoulder holster under his loose-fitting coat. Oldtime newshawks recalled that the flyer had been carrying a gun for five years, ever since cranks began sending him threatening letters...
...mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
Married. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, 42, ranking survivor of the Shenandoah dirigible crash, who has flown more hours (4,000) in lighter-than-aircraft than any other U. S. flyer; and Jean Wilson, 32, Los Angeles department store buyer; in Manhattan...
...three hops they had flown 7,530 miles in less than 52 hours flying time. Only man to fly the long Pacific Route to and from "Down Under," Kingsford-Smith was last week hailed as a flyer second only to one-eyed Wiley Post...