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WILENTZ CLOSES, DEMANDING DEATH Fiery Summation Interrupt ed by Shout of Minister Another Confessed. ! (Copyright, lf»3ft, by the Associated Press) | FLEMINGTON. N. J.. February 13 — An angry demand for Bruno Richard ! Hauptmann's death sealed New Jersey's I rase against him yesterday for the murder of Baby Lindbergh. 1 His voice raised in scorn and fury, ! Attorney General David T. Wilentz j fried out in his all-day summation for i a Jury mandate which will put Haupt- | mann in the electric chair, but as he ; finished he was interrupted and the court room thrown into confusion by a spectator-clergyman's shout. Prom his perch on a window sill of ; the jammed court room. Rev. Vincent j G. Burns, a North Jersey pastor, in terrupted the summation to cry: ! "A man confessed that crime to me ! in my church." He later said the man ! was not Hauptmann. Struggling, he was hauled down and taken away. Later Justice Thomas j W. Trenehard ordered him released, after instructing the jury to disregard | the incident. The preacher had told ; his story before to both prosecution and defense, but neither called him as a witness. Hauptmann sat tight-lipped through out Wilentz's fiery all-day summation. bs the prosecutor swung his fist and called him "the lowest form of ani- , mal." a pariah who "contaminates the eir." Anna Hauptmann was statuelike in her chair, but the jurors, by slight gestures and fleeting expressions, fre quently betrayed their feelings. Hits Mercy Recommendation. Savagely Wilentz demanded that Hauptmann be put to death like a dangerous beast, and told the jury that β verdict of conviction with a recom mendation of mercy would be "wishy washy." Only the electric chair, he cried, would "thaw out" Hauptmann's cold ness—"He is cold, yes. but he will be thawed out when he hears the switch." At times the prosecutor's passionate bursts of oratory all but left him ex hausted. He shouted that the murder of the Lindbergh baby would be "insignifi cant" as compared to the "crime" of freeing Hauptmann. that "every wom en in her home would shudder again." Bitterly. Wilentz exclaimed of "per jury" in the phoney defense" "Perjury is a joke in this ease." he cried. "They would swear to any thing, anything to save Hauptmann. · j Defends Others. His phrases dripped with scorn as he arraigned the "assassination" of : Dr. James F. "Jafsie" Condon, the j man who paid the 550.000 ransom; | Nurse Betty Gow. Ollie Whateley. the ' dead Lindbergh butler: Violet Sharpe. ' the suicide maid, and others. "Nothing too mean, nothing too dis graceful. to plant some little germ of doubt in the mind of one juror, their only hope." he exclaimed He rebuked the defense contention that Col. Lindbergh could not have remembered the voice of the ransom : man—the voice he swore was Haupt mann's. God! Could you ever forget it?" Wilentz cried. "Would anybody ever forget it? His hope!" Dr. Condon's identification of Haupt mann as the ransom "John" was enough in itself to convict the car penter of first-degree murder, Wilentz contended The attornev general concluded his plea with: "If this jury will do its duty, we can translate Col. Lind berghs loss and sorrow into some gain for civilization, to show that whether we ratch a man walking into the room or not. we can crush them, we can crush these snakes, we can crush these criminals: that society isnt so weak that we can't deal with them. That's the job that you can do. * * The court room was thrown into con fusion by the cry of the minister from his window-sill perch. The court stenographer, the lawyers nnd Justice Trenchard heard no more, apparently, than his words If your honor please " Those near him said he hollered. "A man confessed that crime to me in mv church." An officer pulled Burns down from the sill, clapped a hand over his j mouth and hustled him out. The justice rapped for order as the excited crowd milled in the court room after the jury had retired, ordered the deputies to clear the room and sum moned counsel for a conference in his chambers. It was decided to let the clergy man go. Burns first told his story at Fort Lee, N. J., November 23, 1934, it was recalled yesterday. He announced then that a man had come to his church on Palm Sunday of 1932 and "confided to me his part in a kidnaping crime." Asked why he had not turned the man over to police. Burns said: "That was out of the question: he came to my church for protection Wilentz charged that Hauptmann's defense against the charge he kid naped and murdered Baby Lindbergh was financed by "idiots, cranks and fools": pleaded that no mercy be shown, and dubbed him "public enemy No. 1 of this world." He defended with vigor the circum stantial evidence on which the State depends for conviction, and enumerated that part of the case which he said was not circumstance. About circumstantial evidence he said: "When it starts to scream all I the lip evidence in the world can't j overcome it." j As not circumstantial, he listed: The identification of Hauptmann by Condon and Joseph A. Perrone. taxi driver, who said Hauptmann paid him n, dollar to deliver a ransom note to Condon. Closet Board Cited. The board in the closet of Haupt manns' home with writing on it by j Hauptmann—Dr. Condon's telephone ι number and address—as admitted by Hauptmann in the Bronx. j The identification of Hauptmann by ι Amandus Hochmuth, Millard Whited | and Ben Lupica as a man seen lurking ι near the Lindbergh home before the 1 crime. ! Col. Lindbergh's identification of . Hauptmann's voice as that of the man he heard say "Hey. doctor, in the Bronx cemetery ransom rendezvous. "The brokerage accounts, the sleep- j ing garments and the $15,000 in gold In the garage is not circumstantial, | he said. "And any one of these things is sufficient." Picking up one of the ransom notes end pointing to the mystic symbol for signature, he said: "And he (Hauptmann) put his sig nature on there. There it is: The blue circle, the red center and the hole; Β in blue for Bruno, R in red for Richard, hole's Η for Hauptmann. "Our signature.' Nobody could repro duce that except Bruno Richard Hauptmann." He pointed to Hauptmann s habit of placing the dollar sign ($) after 4 * — —-— — Dramatic Moments in Closing of Famous Trial At left: Attorney General David T. Wilent? in his car as he left the court house at Flemington after summing up the case against. Bruno Hauptniann. —A. P. Photo. At right: Dramatic photo shows officers evicting Rev. Vincent Burns from the court room after he had shouted that another man had confessed the Lindbergh kidnaping to him. —Copyright, A P. Wirephoto. an amount, instead of before, and held up one of Hauptmann's own docu ments to show that in this wise it com pared with the ransom notes. He defended the elderly Dr. Condon from the defense insinuations. "If the Lord ever spares me and I am one-half the man at 75 that old Dr. John F Condon, the doctor from the Bronx, is. I want to tell you. if it is possible I will be more grateful to the Lord than I can imagine any person is." For confrast to Dr. Condon Wilentz referred to a defense witness, who, he said, "was a perjurer who stunk to the heavens!" As tie reviewed the events that Ιοί lowed the kidnaping, the negotiations for the ransom and the sending of the baby's sleeping suit to Col. Lindbergh, the prosecutor draped the tiny pajamas across the jury rail. Some of the woman jurors gazed at it and swallowed. "Would Cut Out Heart." The attorney general emphasized the cruelty of the futile searches Col. Lindbergh was forced to make for his baby, which then lay dead and un noticed in a shallow grave. He said of Hauptmann: "Why, he would cut out your heart, honestly, with a razor and think noth ing of it, and go upstairs and eat. That's how cold-blooded this mur derer is." As to Isador Fisch, Hauptmann's alibi for the money found in his ga rage and the target of the defense, who charged he. not Hauptmann, was the receiver of the ransom, Wilentz said the defense "didn't prove any thing except that Fisch was a poor man. that he never owned an auto mobile, had the cheapest room, that Fisch gave Hauptmann everything he had before he left, and that Haupt mann supplied him with money for the trip ι to Germany, where Fisch died of tuberculosis)." "We have treated this fellow ι Hauptmann ι entrely too w ell," Wil entz told the jury. "If I had my choice I wouldn't get in the same room, I wouldn't become contami nated. I wouldn't want to breathe the same air. I feel itchy, I feel oozy, I just couldn't stand being anywhere near him. I never would walk into that jail even to get a confession from him. "This murder of the Lindbergh child," he cried, "would shrink into absolute insignificance in comparison to the crime that would be committed if this man were freed. That would be the crime of the century. ~ "To let him roam the streets of this country and make every woman in her home shudder again, that would be a real tragedy, an American tragedy." Claims Baby Was Crushed. Wilentz contended, too. that Haupt mann "crushed" the baby Into in sensibility before he took the child from the nursery, that he used the chisel found near the house for this purpose. Thus, he explained, the baby made no outcry—a point the defense had emphasized. The excitement in the court plain ly irritated Justice Trenchard, and after instructing the jury to disre gard anything irrelevant they may have heard, he announced he would charge them today. The charge will probably be between 45 minutes and an hour in length. Burns was at the trial soon after it opened six weeks ago and studied Hauptmann's face to determine in his own mind if he was the same man as the one who "confessed." Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the State police, said Rev. Mr. Burns came to the authorities some woeks ago and told them that Haupt mann was the man who had "con fessed" to him. Earlier today the clergyman said that although the man who came to his church "re sembled Hauptmann" he was not as dark complexioned as the defendant. Was in Court All Day. A resident of Tenafly, Burns had been in court all day. The jury, once it receives the case tomorrow, will not be permitted to leave its guarded deliberation chamber in the rear of the court house. Nothing but food may be taken into the room. As for sleeping, the law allows the jurors to do as they will as long as they remain In the room. A guard of six uniformed troopers was assigned to the jury today on order of Justice Trenchard. to prevent "any annoyance" from the crowds in the court room and street. Attorney General Wilentz said "hys terical" women in the crowd might seek to reach the jurors' quarters and attempt to influence them. The summation, at times, was little more than an angry tirade. Rambles Back and Forth. Wilentz rambled back and forth over the great field of circumstantial evidence, trying to link the carpenter with the kidnap ladder, the ransom notes, the baby's sleeping garment, the $50,000 ransom collection, but ever and again he returned to Hauptmann himself to denounce him, to call him names, to call him public enemy of the world No. 1. He watched Wilentz as he had \ watched Reilly. Y'ith interest, but he seemed no more touched by the attor ney general's invective than he had when Reilly defended him. One by one, Wilentz took the six persons whose character Reilly had attacked and whom, by Insinuation, he had tried to connect with the crime—Betty Gow, Violet Sharpe, Ollie Whateley, Henry "Red" Johnson, Isadore Fisch and Dr. Condon. "So far as Hauptmann is concerned, he could have had 50 help him: li he participated in this murder that's all you have got to deal with," Wilentz said. "He (Reilly) can bring In Violet Sharpe's corpse and body and lay it right alongside of him if he wants; he can bring Isador Fisch's grave from Germany and put it alongside of him. That doesn't help this de fendant in this eue a bit." * Group Retires After Judge's Charge—Court Review Is Praised by Both Sides. I (Continued Prom First PaceΛ counsel— I think it covered the sit uation fairly well." Doors Ordered Closed. I The instructions began shortly after court opened at 10:02 am. The ! judge polled the jury, asked if the defendant was in place and remarked: "The officers will now close the doors and not let any people in or out until the jury hUs been Instructed and retired." All of the principals sat quiet and I most of them showed the strain of ; the long trial. Hauptmann was gray faced as usual. His wife, a few seats away. · appeared haggard. Col. Lind bergh watched the judge intently, his face serious. The judge told the jury it must be guided by the principles of law which he would set forth. He added that they were the sole judges of evidence. ! however. You must not consider what I shall say concerning the evidence ai being accurate, but you mU6t depend upon your own recollection. You must not only consider the evidence to which I shall refer, but you must consider all of the evidence in the case." Explains Legal Point*. He explained the point of law which requires the defendant to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt be fore a conviction can be found. "If there be reasonable doubt whether the defendant be guilty he is to be declared not guilty. · · · The evidence must establish the truth of the fact to a moral certainty, a cer tainty that convinces and directs the understanding and satisfies the reason and judgment of those who are bound to act conscienciousl.v upon it." Reviewing the State's evidence, the court remarked : "The fact of death seems to be ! proved and admitted. "There is evidence from which you may conclude, if you see fit. that the person who carried away the child, entered the nursery or child's bedroom through the southeast window of the nursery room by means of a ladder placed against the side of the house, under or near the window, and this occurred shortly after 9 o'clock at night." Judge Trenchard reminded the jury of the scene about the Lindbergh house when the baby was stolen on the night of March 1, 1932. He re called that Col. Lindbergh testified he heard a crash that sounded like wood on wood and that thereafter a broken ladder was found. Recalls Servants' Stories. "Miss (Betty) Gow and Mrs. (Ollie) Whateley testified that later, about April 1. 1932." the court went on. "they found the thumbguard, which Miss Gow had securely tied to the wrist of the child's sleeping suit when she put him to bed: that they found this thumbguard in the road leading from the Lindbergh home and on the Lindbergh property, with the knot still untied, from which you may pos sibly conclude that the sleeping suit was stripped off of the child at that place." The jury was instructed that it may conclude from the evidence that the baby was stolen by some one who entered the nursery of the Lindbergh home through the window by means of a ladder. The defense had contended the baby was carried down the stairs of the home by some one on the "inside" and that the ladder was a plant. Sleeping Suit Cited. The court also charged the jury that it may conclude the baby's sleeping 1 suit was stripped from it at the point at which the nurse. Betty Gow, said she iound its thumbguard. This evidence was important to the State's ca.^e because the baby's body was found in Mcrcer County. Haupt raann is charged with murder in Hunterdon County. I "The State contends that the un contradicted evidence of Lindbergh and Dr. ι Charles ι Mitchell and other evidences justifies the reasonable in ference that the felonious stroke oc curred in East Amwell township in , Hunterdon County, when the child 1 was seized and carried out of the nursery window and down the ladder by the defendant, and that death was instanteous; and from the evidence ' you may conclude, if you see fit, that the child was feloniously stricken on the first day of March at the township of East Amwell in this county and died as a result of that stroke." Reviewing the ransom negotiations, in which Dr. Condon said he paid Lindbergh's $50.000 to Hauptmann. , Justice Trenchard said: "It is argued that Dr Condon's ; testimony is inherently improbable and should in part be rejected by ; you. but you will observe that his I testimony is corroborated in large part by several witnesses whose credibility has not been impeached in any man ner whatsoever. I "Of course, if there is in the minds of the jury a reasonable doubt as to the truth of any testimony, such I testimony should be rejected, but. upon j the whole, is there any doubt in your j mind as to the reliability of Dr. Condon's testimony?" • "It is argued." Justice Trenchard said, "that Col. Lindbergh could not have identified that voice and that it is unlikely that the defendant would have tailed with Condon. Well, those questions are for the determination of j this jury. ' Cites Defense Theory. As to the gang theory expounded by the defense chief. Reilly, the court said: "It is argued by defendant's coun sel that the kidnaping and murder was done by a gang and not by the defendant and that the defendant was in no wise concerned therein. The argument was to the effect that it was done by a gang with the help or connivance of some one or more ser vants of the Lindbergh or Morrow households. "Now. do you believe that? Is there any evidence in this case whatsoever to support any such conclusion?" The doors of the court room were j locked as the charge was given. The Associated Press, the only news service subscribing to the official transcript of the proceedings, was able, however, to report the instructions as they were delivered. The judge declared It a matter of importance as to whether Hauptmann wrote the original ransom note which was found in the Lindbergh nursery and the 13 notes that followed. He recalled the numerous State ex perts testifying that Hauptmann wrote them, Hauptmann's denial and the testimony of one defense expert who said Hauptmann did not write them. He said: "The weight of the evidence to prove the genuiness of handwriting Is wholly for the jury. About the disputed panel In Haupt mann's closet which bore the pen cilled telephone number and address of Dr. Condon, he said: "If you believe that he did (write the notations on the panel ι although he now domes it. you may conclude that it throws light upon the ques tion whether or not he was dealing with Dr. Condon." On the discovery of ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, the court re marked: "Does It not appear that many thousands of dollars of ransom bills were found in his garage, hidden In the walls or under the floor, that others were found on his person when he was arrested and others passed by him from time to time * * * "The defendant says that these ransom bills, moneys, were left with him b> one ilsidor) Pisch, a man now dead. Do you believe that?" He told the jury it might also con sider the evidence that shortly after the delivery of the ransom. Haupt mann began to purchase stock in β much larger way and to spend more freely. Then he asked: "Do you be lieve his testimony that the money was left with him in a shoe box. and that it rested on the top shell in his closet for several months? His wife, as I recall it. said she never saw the box and I do not re call thai any witness, excepting the defendant, testified that they ever saw the shoe box there." On the State's important ladder evidence, the court asked the jurors: "Does not the evidence satisfy you that at least a part of the wood from which the ladder was built came out of the flooring of the attic of the defendant?" "If you find that the murder was committed by the defendant in per petrating a burglar}' it is murder in the first degree." the court said, "even though the killing was unintentional. "If there is a reasonable doubt that the murder was committed by the de fendant in perpetrating a burglary, he must be acquitted. "If you find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree you may. if you see fit. by your verdict and as a part thereof recommend imprison ment at hard labor for life." Referring to the testimony of Ar thur Koehler. wood expert, on the ladder, the court said : "You should consider the marks upon the wood and give the, evidence I in respect thereto such weight es : you think it entitled to after a con sideration of the credibility of the witness." As to Hauptmann's own testimony: "His interest in the result may be taken into consideration on the ques tion of whether he is telling the truth. His previous convictions of crime may be consid(#ed only as af fecting his credit as a witness." Of Amandus Hockmuth. the aged man who said he saw Hauptmann with a ladder in a car near the Lindbergh home on the day of the crime: "This testimony, if true, if highly significant. Do you think that there is any reason, upon the whole, to doubt the truth of the old man's tes timony? May he hot have well and easily remembered the circumstance, in view of the fact that that very night the child was carried away?" As to Hauptmann's alibi witnesses, the judge told the jury: "You should consider the fact, where it is the fact, that several of the witnesses have been convicted of crime and determined whether or not their credibility has been affected thereby. And where it appears that witnesses have made contradictory statements you should consider that fact and determine their credibility ι as affected thereby." His remark on circumstantial evi- j dence was: "When the case against the de- I fendant is made up wholly of a chain of circumstances and there is reason able doubt as to any fact the existence of which Is essential to establish guilt, the defendant should be acquitted. "It is not sufficient that the circum stances prove, coincide with, account for and therefore render probable the hypothesis that is sought to be estab lished by the prosecution. They must exclude to a moral certainty every other hypothesis, but the single one of guilt." Jury Listens Intently. The jurors seemed oblivious to the court room scene. They had eyes only for the justice as he leaned ! slightly forward toward them and talked. Juror No. 3. Mrs. Verna Sny- | der, was the only one in the box who occasionally took her glance from Justice Trenchard. Once she stared at Hauptmann, and then dropped her I eyes meditatively to look at the Jury rail before her. Then she returned to watch the jurist on the bench. All the while Justice Trènchard's charge continued the lawyers at the defense table attended studiously, oc casionally making notes on some point. The prosecution attorneys listened in various attitudes of atten tion and few notes were taken at their table. Hauptmann Scans Jury. Then abruptly it was all over. The ! lawyers arose as the jurors, carrying j coats and hats, filed soberly from the | jury box, past the prosecution table, past Hauptmann and his wife, past ] the defense table and out of court to ι the bare, virtually unfurnished room j in the back of the court house where they will deliberate. Hauptmann gave each face one last searching look and then settled back a little In his chair Mrs. Haupt mann had words of encouragement to say to him. but he listened absently, glancing once toward the door through 1 which the jurors had quietly de- j parted. The jury returned to the court house this morning under a guard, heavy and formidable enought to be Worthy of a President. But the crowds of yesterday, the throngs that jammed Main street from curb to curb, flowing across the 1 sidewalks and up to the porch of the Union Hotel, were missing. Shortly before court opened there were only a few hundred persons around the court house. But the State police were every where in evidence, men in bright powder-blue tunics, guarding the doors of the court house, stationed on the steps under the old ionic facade and across the broad sidewalk Clusters of people were on the Union Hotel porch, on the sidewalks and in the streets, watching sound motion picture men setting up their j machines, watching photographers at ι work. As 10 o'clock drew near a feeling of I tenseness became noticeable every j where. The jury had breakfasted, as I they had dined last night, under a ι guard of six State troopers in addi | tion to the deputy sheriffs who have ι been on duty throughout the trW ! All night the troopers had stood on j duty in the hotel, lest some one try I to get near the eight men and four ! women who will decide Hauptmann's fate. Room Above Cell Of Bruno Set Aside For Use of Jurors ! By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J.. February 13.—A room directly above Bruno Hauptmann's jail quarters is set aside for the deliberations of his jurors. The cheerless, bare witness room on the third floor of the new jail building directly behind the court room was provided with chairs and a makeshift stand, on which trial exhibits could be examined. The three windows look out on a narrow court between the court house and the jail. On the second floor of the jail beneath the room is Haupt mann's cell. Special padlocks were installed on all doors leading from the witness room to offices on the third floor, to assure no interference with the jury during its deliberations. A passage way connects the witness room with the court room. Most-Disputed Points in Case Fight for Bruno Waged on Ladder and Ransom Notes and Alibis for Important Dates. By the '^sociateJ Press. FLEMINGTON. N. J., February 13. —Here are salient points in the prose cution and defense cases in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann: The kidnap ladder—The State charged Hauptmann built it, using a board from his attic for one of the ! rails. A wood expert testified the other lumber in it came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann worked and bought lumber. Defense witnesses denied the one rail was Hade with a board from the attic and challenged the authenticity of inden tifying nail holes. The defense charged the ladder was "planted." The ransom notes—Eight hand writing experts testified for the State that Hauptmann wrote all 14 notes. One defense expert said Hauptmann could not have written them and that they were In a disguised or copied hand. The ransom money—The Stati"ac cused Hauptmann of hiding $14,600 in ransom notes in his garage because he knew It was Lindbergh money. Further prosecution testimony was y that Hauptmann spent the rest of the $50,000 ransom in speculating in stocks and in living expenses over a two and one-half year period. Hauptmann said the money was in a shoe box left with him by Isador Fisch before Fiseh sailed for Germany, where he died. He said he played the stock market with savings and with money made in the fur business with Fisch. Hauptmann's alibis—Hauptmann. his wife and other defense witnesses testified that on the night of the kid naping he was at the Bronx bakery where his wife worked. Prosecution witnesses swore Hauptmann was near the Lindbergh estate early that night. The State attacked the veracity of some of Hauptmann's alibi witnesses. Defense witnesses said Hauptmann was at home enjoying "moosic" the night the ransom was paid. Dr. John F. Condon, ransom intermediary, and Col.. Charles A. Lindbergh identified Hauptmann as the "John" who re ceived the ransom money. A theater ticket seller testified Hauptmann used a ransom note to buy a ticket in November, 1933. Hauptmann and other defense wit nesses said he was at home at a birthday party that night. 4 BRUNO MAY ASK FEDERAL RULING Constitutionality of Jersey Law Involved in Case Doubted by Defense. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON. N. J., February 13.—The New Jersey statute under which Bruno Richard Hauptmann may be convicted of murdering the Lindbergh baby may be taken to the United States Supreme Court for a test of its constitutionality. Although defense counsel said they were confident the jury would acquit, a member of the defense staff ex pressed the opinion a Federal ques tion was involved. The indictment against Hauptmann was drawn, almost word for word, from an act, passed about 1895. which provided that a culprit could be charged with first-degree murder if a killing occurred during the com mission of a high misdemeanor, such as burglary. A member of the defense staff pointed out that a conviction lor first-degree murder, carrying the death penalty, could not be returned by the jury unless they were con vinced the killing occurred during the commission of the underlying crime, burglary. The prosecution contended the burglary continued as long as the kidnaper was in flight and conse quently, with the death of the baby occurring at the foot of the kidnap ladder, a murder conviction was legal. The defense counsel pointed out, however, that the criterion of flight had not been ruled on by the Dnited States Supreme Court. POLITICAL LEADER DIES Crash Injury Proves Fatal to Jerome T. Fuller, 60. BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. February 13 <A>>.—Jerome T. Fuller. 60. a leading political figure in Alabama for many years,* died here yesterday from in juries received in an automobile acci dent last week. A native of Centerville, Ala . he was State compaign manager for Gov. L·. M. Miller and Senator John H. Bankhead in 1930 against the Heflin Locke "Jeflersonian" ticket, and for Mayor Frank Dixon in last year's race for Governor. » EARNS WAY WITH BONES ITHACA N. Y„ February 13 OP).— Hy Sachs. Cornell junioi, is paying his expenses through college with bones. He collects skeletons of animals, from frogs to horses, polishes and assembles them, and sells them to students, schools, museums and private individuals. Now he has two dozen regular sources of skeletons. They include circuscs. lion farmers in the West, game farms and farmers near Ithaca. PUBLICITY ON TAX RETURNS FOUGHT Income Filing Date Next Month Brings Bill—Crime Aid Cited. By the Associated Press. With the approach of another In come tax filing date next month, a drive is being pushed in Congress to stop publicity about taxpryers' re turns. Complaining that it is "the great est scientific aid ever given to crimi nals." Representative Bell, Democrat of Missouri, introduced a bill yester day to repeal the section in the 1934 revenue act which makes portions of the returns a\ailable for public in spection. His was the second step toward this end at the present session. Kidnaping Feared. "The publicity on Income tax In formation would allow kidnapers to ply scientifically their nefarious prac tices with the greatest menace to the American people,'" said Bell, a former Kansas City Circuit Court judge. "Widows, unsuspecting property owners and those who had recently come into wealth would be the living quarries of every promoter of fraudu lent stock schemes and rackets. Busi ness men would be subjected to unfair advantages by unscrupulous competi tors." Representative Eacon. Republican of New York, who calls the present law "an invitation to snooping." is the author of a similar resolution. Bell goes farther than the New Yorkrr. however, in proposing to strike from the National Industrial Recovery Act a provision designating all re turns made under that law as "public records." Publicity Held Inner essary. Bacon says this is unnecessary, hold ing that the revenue law supersedes the N. I. R A. Taxes are the subject of more proposed legislation in the form of a bill by Representative Fish. Republi can of New York, to require the Treas ury to supply the House with a list of holders of tax-exempt securities with the amount of tax thus avoided. The bill is opposed by Seceretary Mor genthau. Speaker Byrns and other House leaders have refrained from com ment on the repeal proposals, but some influential majority members have expresed privately their opposi tion to publication of income tax in formation. BRICK 2.134 YEARS OLD R"lic From Wall of China Pre sented Illinoisan by Sailor. BLOOMINGTON. Ill. February 13 ί/P).—If T. B. Correl' feels like doing any brick-tossine. he can heave a missile 2.134 years old The brick, onee a part of the Great Wall of China, was given Correll by his grandson. T. J. Bliss, a member of the crew of the U. S. S. Chaumont. Annual Reunions to Be Talked By Bruno Jurors After Trial 'm By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON. Ν J.. February 13 — A plan for a permanent organization of the Hauptmann jury in order to hold a reunion party once a year will be discussed when the trial ends. Oder. Baggstrom. chief jury constable, said today. "I think they'll be in favor of it.-' said Baggstrom. "an organization with a president and secretary, to hold an annual affair and re-enact old times. "We'd have dinner in the Union Hotel dining room again, behind screens, but with no State troopers." Baggstrom said maybe the "affair" would be a birthday party "just like we had for Mrs. Ethel Stockton and Constable Sue Dilts. with victrola music and dancing afterward. "We'd shake the roof celebrating " The oldest juror. Philip Hockenbury. railroad section gang worker. would bo 59 when the first reunion takes place. and Mrs. Stockton, the joungett jurywoman. would be 33. "It wouldn't be hard for them *11 to come." ί-aid Baggstrom. "Most of thrm live within 20 miles of here " The chief constable is wondering whether the jury bachelor. Robert Cravatt. will be married when reunion time rolls 'round. Tlie permanent oreanization IdeA was Baggstrom's. He watched the fraternal spirit flower as the jury took its Saturday spins in his school bus and walked briskly on the second-floor veranda of the hotel. "This spirit should be preserved," said Baggstrom. An idea that has been suggesfed is to organize the jurors' 22 children as a subsidiary. Your Thoughtfulness is on Trial . . . Remembering February 14th to be Valentine Day is one thing . . . remembering it with a gift from SMALL'S means so much more! 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