Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont...
Testimony adduced last week at Flemington by the State of New Jersey to persuade the jury to send Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for murder...
...Franklin Roosevelt it must have seemed that he was the centre of the nation's interest. Yet in the newspapers of that day and the next the President and his speech were unceremoniously jostled to one side on the front page by dispatches from a small New Jersey town where a German ex-convict was on trial for the murder of the son of a popular aviator...
...Bruno Hauptmann's twelve chosen peers were even moderately intelligent newspaper readers, they must have been entirely familiar with Attorney General David. T. Wilentz's preamble as he opened for the State of New Jersey. He traced the old ' story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder...
...Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping she told Johnson and the servants in the Morrow household at Englewood that she was going to Hopewell...