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Defense, Shortly after Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx with $20 of the Lind bergh ransom money in his pocket, Anna Hauptmann fell into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court...
Prosecution's witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message...
...other picture, "The Million Dollar Ransom" was written by Damon Runyon for those who like their underworld straight. A benevolent beer-baron gives his life for his daughter and a millionaire kid. The moustached heavies are as sinister as you could ask and if you have no violent objection to Andy Devine's whining, and if you can endure underworld and Damon slang you will find the picture passable but unsafe...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...
...John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting, he hits a goldfish bowl. The innocent owner of the kidnap apartment, who happens to be the toughest and slickest...