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LAST RESTING PLACE
OVERLOOKS VALLEY
HE LOVED IN LIFE
Scores Gather to Pay Their
Final Mead of Homage
Simple Services Today
RITES AT HOME, IN CHURCH
ffev. Walter A. Vater Is Paying
Verbal Tribute to Commun*
ity and State Leader
Out over the broad prairies of the
state he cherished the body of the
late George Douglas Mann, loved
and respected publisher of The
Bismarck Tribune, was to be borne
by gentle hands Tuesday afternoon to
Its last resting place in Falrview
cemetery.
On a snow-flecked coteau overlook
ing the beautiful valley of the Mis
souri river he will sleep the last long
sleep near the city which he loved
and which he helped to build to its
present greatness.
From far and near friends gathered
for the simple funeral rites which
were to be in keeping with his wishes.
Brief private services were to be
conducted at 2 p. m., in the beautiful
Mann home at 232 Avenue A for
members of the family and close per
aSbal Mends.
Public Rites at *:30
These were to be followed at 2:30
p. m., by public services at the Mc
Cabe Methodist Episcopal church.
Rev. Walter A. Vater, church pastor,
Vill be in enlarge of both services.
The body was taken to the Mann
home Tuesday morning for a last
pause amid the surroundings which
he cherished before beginning the
journey to his last resting place.
All day Monday it lay in state at
the Webb Funeral parlors, surround
ed by flowers, sent by friends from
Bismarck and throughout the nation
as a final tribute. Local florists
worked overtime Monday preparing
the numerous remembrances.
Particularly beautiful were large
set pieces from The Tribune employes
and from the North Dakota Associat
ed Press association of which Mr
Mann was a former president and in
which he long had been a leader. The
names of other organizations, both
local and throughout the northwest,
were added to the long list of in
dividuals who sent floral remem
brances.
Hundreds Pay Homage
Hundreds of persons from all walks
of life came Monday and Monday eve
nlng for a last view of the face of
him who had been a friend to them.
Tribune employes formed a guard
of honor for the body, having been on
duty day and night since the funeral
cortege arrived here Saturday night.
Only one edition of The Tribune is
being printed today in order that all
Tribune employes may attend the fu
neral services. This will be printed
at the usual time for the first edition.
The usual second and third editions
have been cancelled and The Trib
une's entire circulation list will be
served with the first edition.
Normal publication will be resumed
Wednesday.
Offices of The Tribune closed at
II a. m., today.
Mercury Still Flirts
With Zero Over N. D.
Mercury in thermometers over the
state still flirted with the zero point
Tuesday with little change in sight
tonight or Wednesday.
Three North Dakota points record
ed sub-zero temperatures during the
night with Williston recording a
minimum of eight degrees below zero,
Devils Lake a minus two and James
town a minus one.
At Bismarck it was coldest at 8 a.
in., when the mercury dipped to four
above but then rose noticeably as the
bright sun continued to shine.
The forecast for North Dakota was
partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and
Wednesday not quite so oold north
vest portion tonight.
Sugar Beet States9
Solons Seek Monies
Washington, March 31.—(#)—Con
gressmen from sugar beet states
searched Tuesday for means to In
crease benefit payments to beet rais
ers under the soil conservation act.
Pirst proposed was re-enactment of
the processing tax on sugar. Second,
they discussed with farm administra
tion officials Increased benefits taken
from customs receipts. Such a proce
dure was provided under amend
ments last year to the agricultural
adjustment act.
A8K GYPSIES TO FARM
Moscow, March 31.—UP)—The gov
ernment has approved a grant *of
8,000 rubles ($1,600) for each gypsy
family in the Soviet Union in an ef
fort to change them from nomads to
settled farmers. Land for farming Is
to be made available to the gypsies,
fffho number approximately 80,000.
to Sleep on
Business Ignores
Obstacles in Rise
Denies Guilt
Paul Wendtl (above), former
lawyer, repudiated a purported "con
fession" that he kidnaped the Lind
bergh baby, Attorney General David
T. Wllentx said after questioning
him at the Mercer county Jail in
Trenton, N. J., where he was held
on an embezzlement charge. (Aaso»
elated Press Photo)
STOMACH mSORDER
PEAK WITH 2 DEAD
Chicago Fears Disease May
Reach It From Milwaukee
Via Lake Water
Milwaukee, March 31.—(IP)—An epi
demic of stomach disorders that has
caused two deaths and attacked an
estimated 120,000 persons was de
scribed Tuesday by health officials
as having struck its high point.
"We have had outbreaks similar to
this before, but never so widespread,"
Dr. John P. Koehler, health com
missioner, said. "I think the peak has
been reached and the case load will
diminish rapidly."
The second death attributed to the
disease that has been reported to
authorities was that of Henry Zjbel,
48, who had complained of illness
early Sunday and was stricken Mon
day aboard the steamer Nevada on
which he was working.
The term "intestinal influenuza" by
which the malady has become known
locally is not truly descriptive, Dr.
Koehler said, but is used only for lack
of a better one.
While urging residents to continue
to boil drinking water, Dr. Koehler
and Henry P. Bohmann, superinten
dent of the water department, said
water was not causing the wave of
illness.
Dr. Koehler talked by telephone with
Chicago officials who he said feared
the disease might reach that city
through Lake Michigan, source of
drinking water for both cities.
Dr. Koehler said he did not consider
the situation extremely serious, found
both of the attacks briefs and mild,
and based his estimate on the number
affected in the city by the fact that
one of every four of his acquaintances
was afflicted.
Marilyn Miller Near
Death in N. Y. Hospital
New York, March 31.—UP)—Marilyn
Miller, stage and screen actress, was
reported Tuesday by her physicians
as seml-cosncious in Doctor's hospital
and "not likely to live through the
day." Mtw! ^filler, who walked into
the hospital two weeks ago for
Ma
rest," developed "a toxic condition
during the night" and her tempera
ture at one time rose to 106 degrees,
one of three physicians attending her
said.
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Wants Hairy Bees
With Long Tongues
Alfred, N. Y., March 31.—(#—
Dr. Lloyd R. Watson, Alfred uni
versity scientist, plunged anew
into experiments Tuesday intended
to develop further his breed of
hairy bees.
Granted a Guggenheim foun
dation fellowship, Dr. Watson an
nounced he would try to develop
fuzzy bees with longer tongues.
The ones he has bred carry
pollen better than present types,
but their tongues can't reach as
deeply into the hearts of honey
bearing flowers.
High)
Best Spring in Six Years Seen
ftt Recovery Leaps Hurdles
of Man and Nature
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
New York, March 31.—America's
economic recovery has forged ahead
in the quarter of 1936 ending Tues
day, leading business analysts gen
erally to anticipate the best spring in
six years.
Despite an exceptionally severe
winter with storms blocking the ar
teries of trade, regardless of spring
floods tying up railways and wreck
ing industrial equipment in a num
ber of eastern manufacturing cities,
in face of fresh political and eco
nomic tension abroad, and uncertain
ties Incident to vital legal and legis
lative decisions in Washington, com
merce has continued to expand.
Steel production, reflecting in part
the accumulation of demand during
the flood interruption, has just risen
well over 60 per cent of capacity for
the first time since the summer of
1930.
Relief Roles Ominous
Unemployment and relief roles still
loom ominously large. Yet the stir
rings of activity in heavy Industry
have become pronounced In recent
months. Service and miscellaneous
lines of employment, which account
for most of the remainder, lag pend
ing restoration of a broader pros
perity.
Automobile production, according
to present estimates, ran well over
1,000,000 units In the first three
months of this year. The fact that
it has fallen about 3 per cent under
the first quarter of 1935 is attributable
entirely to the fact that production
of netf models was started in October
rather than December.
The effect of new manufacturing
was notable during the first quarter
of the year in use of electric power,
v/hich set a nev/ high record, some 10.
per cent over 1935, and all of 13 per
cent over 1929.
Building Makes Strides
Building made pronounced strides.
Total residential contracts during
the first quarter, latest statistics in
dicate, were well above 60 per cent
more than In the same months of
1935, and almost 200 per cent over
1933. Yet they were still less than a
quarter of the total for that period
in 1929.
The movement of freight appears to
have gained about 5 per cent over the
first three months of 1935.
Capital has continued to pile up in
the investment markets, forcing gilt
edge bonds up to new high prices
since the turn of the century.
Stocks Steadily Climb
During the first two months of the
year, the stock market advanced al
since the summer of 1931, as measured
by the Associated Press average of 60
representative issues.
The stock market developed hesi
tancy during March but failed to ex
perience anything in the nature of a
serious reaction.
Unemployment, according to the
latest estimate of the national indus
trial conference board, still hovered
around the 10,000,000 mark.
Soldier Bonus Bonds
In Mill City Vaults
Minneapolis, March 31.—UP}—Vaults
of the Minneapolis federal reserve
bank Tuesday held the northwest's
first shipment of soldier bonus bonds,
$10,000,000 worth of them, in readi
ness for -payment to veterans next
June. Gov. John N. Peyton of the
bank said no bonds will be paid out,
mailed or delivered before June 15.
The shipment, first to be received
from Washington, represents about
one-eighth of the total of $83,000,000
needed to pay bonuses to the esti
mated 167,000 eligible World War vet
erans in the ninth federal reserve dis
trict. They will receive an average
of $500—10 of the bonds. North Da
kota will get about $8,000,000: South
Dakota about $11,000,000, and Mon
tana about $10,000,000.
Funds Favored for
N. W. River Control
Washington, March 31.—(/P)—Flood
control projects tentatively added by
the commerce committee Monday to
the original list selected by the war
department, swelling the measure
from $300,000,000 to $385,000,000, in
cluded:
Red River of the North: Reservoir,
Lake Traverse and Bo is de Sioux river,
South Dakota, $1,115,200.
Missouri river basin: Levees, Belle
Fourche, S. D., $24,100 levees, For
syth, Mont., and vicinity, $65,900
levees, Wibaux river, Mont., $42,300
levees, Marmarth, N. D., $21,700
levees, Saco, Mont., $26,800 levees,
Glasgow, Mont., $25,800.
GLASGOW HONORS BOUVAR
Glasgow, Scotland, March 31.—(#)—
In Glasgow's new street directory
"Bolivar Terrace" has displaced
"Montgomery Terrace" and at one of
the street corners a tablet names
Simon Bolivar as "the liberator of
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru."
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31,1936
Hauptmann Doomed to Follow
Lindbergh Baby Into Oblivion
Coteau
SMNUOUS FIGHTS
TO SCRAP TAX PLAN
II
Ohio Solon Would Increase
Present Corporation In
come Tax Rates
ATTACKS FDR'S PROGRAM
Revenue Chief Invites Experts
to Draw on Other Addi
tional Sources
Washington, March 31.—(fl*—Stren
uous fights to scrap the $799,000,000
tax program appeared certain as the
house ways and means committee
headed Tuesday into further hearings
on the proposals.
Representative Lamneck (Dem.,
Ohio), in the vanguard of the opposi
tion of the administration's money
raising suggestions, said he would
attempt to force through a plan of his
own. He would Increase the present
corporation income tax to yield $500,
000,000 and pick up $270,000,000 by re
pealing provisions exempting corpor
ation dividends from the normal in
come levy.
The plan before the committee con
templates getting $591,000,000 from
new taxes cm corporations, graduated
according to percentages of income
withheld from distribution $100,000,
000 from a "windfall" tax to recapture
part of unpaid AAA processing taxes,
$83,000,000 from temporary continua
tion of capital stock and excess prof
its levies, and around $25,000,000 from
a tax bn corporation dividends des
tined for foreign shareholders.
On the house floor Monday, Lam
neck branded these proposals as "rev
olutionary."
More opposition testimony was on
the agenda Tuesday.
Although Guy T. Helvering, inter
nal revenue commissioner, invited the
committee Monday to consider draw
ing on additional sources for tempor
ary funds because the program does
not comply completely with the presi
dent's revenue suggestions, commit
tee members said they doubted if they
would accept.
II
IS REPORTED SPUT
II
Plan for British, French and
Belgian Military Conversa
tions Is Feared
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
London, March 31.—Great Britain's
cabinet, awaiting Adolf Hitler's final
reply to the Locarno power program
for a Rhineland settlement, was re
ported seriously split Tuesday over the
plan for military negotiations with
France and Belgium.
Authoritative sources said Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin's govern
ment reached a tentative decision to
start next week the Anglo-French
Belgian defense conversations, pro
posed in the Locarno plan to which
Hitler had offered objections.
With Der Fuehrer's formal counter
proposals promised for sometime
Tuesday, however, several ministers
were reported to view with misgivings
the parallel plan for British, French
and Belgian army general staff con
ferences.
The Daily Mail said there was dan
ger of a "cabinet crisis" over the
issue.
METHODISTS GAIN
Manila, March 31.—(JP)—A net in
crease in membership of 4,451 was re
ported to a recent joint session of the
Philippine and North Pholippine con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The church's membership in
the islands now totals about 88,000.
Onawa, Iowa, March 31.—UP)—A
grief-stricken family Tuesday be
reaved the dramatic death of 18-year
old Ruth Hathaway, brilliant high
school student, who drank a glass of
poison in the high school locker room
before a group of incredulous class
mates.
"Watch me commit suicide," class
mates quoted her as saying.
She raised the glass containing the
poison to her lips. Her classmates,
Reva Terry, Rosina Junger and
Phyllis Smith, looked on with un
believing eyes.
The girl drained the glass. She
UNDY LOSES SELF IN
REVIVIFICATION IDEA
AS HAUPTMANN DIES
Works on Mechanical Heart and
Lungs in Secluded Manor
of South England
NO STATEMENTS EXPECTED
British Papers Follow Bruno's
Last Minutes Without
Lindbergh Mention
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
London, March 31.—Work on a
mechanical heart and lungs was Gol.
Charles A. Lindbergh's chief interest,
persons close to him said Tuesday, on
the day Bruno Richard Hauptmann's
heart was to be finally stilled for the
slaying of the kidnaped Lindbergh
baby.
The Hon. Harold Nicolson, one of
the colonel's closest frfiends in this
country and now his landlord, said
Lindbergh has spent most of his time
working on this scientific instrument
since his arrival in England more
than two months ago.
Nicholson said the Lindberghs "will
certainly refuse to say anything when
Hauptmann is executed," as he is
condemned to be Tuesday nigtyt in the
state prison at Trenton, N. J.
For the last several weeks, the
Lindberghs and their second son, Jon,
have made their residence at the 14th
century home, "Long Barn," at Weald,
Kent, which they rented from Nicol
son.
The family has been away fre
quently, however, on motoring trips
in England, Scotland and Wales.
The work on the mechanical heart
and lungs device, understood here to
be a valveless pump, was begun by
Lindbergh, in cooperation with Dr.
Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner, ot
the Rockefeller Institute of New York,
long before his arrival here.
All London newspapers published
lengthy dispatches from TrentoA
Tuesday, describing Hauptmann's
"last hours," but not a single line
appeared in print about the Lind
berghs or their activities.
SOLONS THREATEN
TO OVER-RIDE FDR
SEED LOANS'VETO
Western Lawmakers Demand
That Farmers Be Allowed
Cash From Special Fund
Washington, March 31.—VP)—The
senate was faced Tuesday by a threat
of western solons to override the
president's veto of the $50,000,000
emergency seed loan bill unless farm
ers on relief were permitted to obtain
loans from the president's special loan
fund.
Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.),
served notice of the group's attitude
at a conference of senators with rep
resentatives of the Farm Credit and
Resettlement administrations, seeking
to break a deadlock between the two
agencies as to which should make
seed loans to farmers on relief.
Wheeler, chairman of the confer
ence, said the agendies would report
to the group within two days and that
if they failed to make provision for
loans to farmers on relief "we mem
bers of the senate agriculture commit
tee will take up the $50,000,000 seed
loan bill again and report it out with
the intention of passing it over the
veto."
When the president vetoed the bill
he announced he would make $30,
000,000 available from relief funds
for seed loan purposes, and later
issued an executive order allocating
that amount.
The conference was called by Sen
ator Murray (Dem., Mont.) after Gov.
Elmer Holt telegraphed him restric
tion upon eligibility of relief farmers
to obtain loans was a "matter of
serious concern" in Montana,
Fearing Blindness, Girl
Drinks Poison in School
crumpled to the floor. In a few min
utes she was dead.
Still clutched in her hand were four
letters. One was addressed to the
senior class thanking her classaiates
for electing her president.
Another was addressed to the fac
ulty, thanking her instructors. A
third was directed to her dramatics
teacher.
The fourth was addressed to her
mother. Its contents were not di
vulged.
Dr. E. E. Vlngles, county coroner,
officially pronounced her death a sui
cide, motivated by a fear she was
doomed to blindness,
FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE
City Attorney Instructed to Pre
pare Amendment to Zon
ing Ordinance
The board of city commissioners at
their regular meeting Monday night
deferred action on the proposal to
construct a sanitary sewage treatment
plant at Fort Lincoln. The proposed
construction would be made under a
works progress administration grant.
City Attorney Charles Foster was
Instructed to prepare an amendment
to the present zoning ordinance for
submission to the commissioners at
the next meeting of the board.
Create Sewer, Water District
Ordinances creating sewer district
No. 28 and water main district No. 30,
both to serve the Park Hill addition,
were passed by the board, and the
Ack's Radiator shop was granted per
mission to move a wooden structure
temporarily into the limits of the fire
zone.
T. R. Atkinson, city engineer, was
instructed to submit to the board fig
ures on the estimated cost of discon
necting building mains from the sani
tary mains and connecting them with
the storm water mains.
The question of licensing delivery
trucks in the city was referred to
Foster. The board also instructed
Myron Atkinson, city auditor, to re
fuse permission to use the auditorium
to the League Opposed to War and
Fascism.
Will Buy Motor Grader
Bids on the motor grader to be used
by the street department will be
opened at 8 p. m., April 13, the board
decided.
The board approved the sale of
lots 7 and 8, block 88, Williams Survey
addition to David E. Johnson for
$150 lots 1,2 and 3, block 38, Flannery
and Weatherby addition to R. A. Hoff,
911 Sweet St., for $75, and lots 9 and
10, block 68, McKenzie and Coffin
addition, to A. G. Bahmer, 926 Seventh
St., for $75.
Action was deferred on the offer of
T. C. Casey and F. E. Young to pur
chase lots 1 and 2, block 40, Flannery
and Weatherby addition. The Febru
ary report of Dr. A. M. Fisher, city
health officer, was approved.
GRANT NETS $1,983.15
Carson, N. D., March 31.—Grant
county netted $1,983.15 as result of
the leasing here of 58 quarters of state
and school lands. Highest price paid
for a single tract of land was $90 and
the low was $15.
V
A
from crime to punishment, these four pictures trace "the crime of
the century" from the crib in the Sourlands mountains heme from
whioft the Lindbergh baby was stolen nearly four years ago to the
foreboding brick deathhouse of the New Jersey state prison, where
the convicted kidnaper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, stole to the
end, goes to his doom in the electric chair tonight.
Trenton Prison Is
Lure for Morbid
CITY FATHERS DEFER
FORT SEWAGE PLANT
Dingy Section Crowded With
Reporters and Curious Come
to See Bruno Die
Trenton, N. J., March 31. {IP)
Down through the lower end of the
city the curious and the idle moved
Tuesday to look upon the sprawling
brown prison where Bruno Richard
Hauptmann will die tonight—unless
the unexpected happens.
It stands in a cheerless neighbor
hood of old brick and frame houses,
of vacant lots and factories. Across
HOFFMAN THREATENED
Newark, N. J., March 31.—(/P—A
telephone threat that Governor
Harold G. Hoffman was going "to
be bumped off" was received at
policp headquarters shortly before
last midnight, apparently from a
crank.
the way from the entrance lie the
dark silent waters of the old Delaware
and Raritan canal.
Today the place seemed drearier
than ever. Police came out this morn
ing and roped off Third street to
keep back traffic. The street is to be
patrolled all day and into the night,
and only those with passes may enter
the lines.
In a dingy little store and tavern
on a corner near the prison, telegraph
keys clicked. Working men leaned
against the bar or sat at bare tables
looking through the smeared windows,
watching the high brown walls, the
barred windows, the tower* where
guards stood with riot guns,
Soup Eater Growls
A man ate a bowl of snapper soup
and growled out noisy opinions about
the case. No one gave him much
attention.
There wasn't much talk in the
tavern, not much talk about Haupt
mann anyway. Now and then someone
would drop a remark.
Back in the grand hotels of the
town, in the taprooms, the lobbies,
the rooms of the guests, the prepara
tions went on for the trip down to the
prison and the execution.
Some thought of Mrs. Hauptmann
and felt a kind of numbing dread.
In a big empty garage, across from
the prison the press headquarters have
been set up for tonight—telegraph
keys, typewriters, tables and reams of
paper. This in addition to the tavern
quarters.
The official witnesses will come to
the prison at 7:15, hear a brief on how
(Continued on Page Two)
REVOLT PROBE BEGINS
San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 31.
—(/?)—The United States grand jury
began its investigation Tuesday into
the cases of Pedro Albizu Campos and
six other Nationalists charged with
conspiring to overthrow the United
States government in Puerto Rico by
force.
The Weather
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and
little change in temp.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COURT OF PARDONS
Bruno Denies Rumor That Ha
Sent Word to Wife He
Might 'Talk More'
WEND EL CASE IS UNDECIDED
Few Brief Minutes of Life Are
Kidnap-Killer's Because
of Extra Execution
Trenton, N. J., March 31.—£*)-•
The iron nerve of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann cracked Tuesday
only a few hours before the ex
ecution he "broke down and was
weeping freely."
(Copyright, 1936, A. ft)
Trenton, N. J., March 31.—•
Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
who had a mad dream he could
kidnap a baby and capture a
fortune, finally faces death to*
night.
Unless another of the swift|
bewildering events that havi
punctuated his case should de*
velop in the few hours that re
main, the obscure Bronx car
penter who became the most
famous prisoner in the world*
will pay with his life for the
$50,000 ransom collected for
the murdered Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., four years ago.
The execution chamber at
the state prison is ready. The
chair has been tested, the wit
nesses summoned, the execu
tioner engaged.
After 18 months of desperate legal
struggle to slip from under the crush
ing weight of the ransom mone^
found in his possession, the man from
Kamenz, Germany, apparently ha*
finally exhausted every weapon of
•scape.
Gangster Precede* Hauptmaam
The hour set far his execution ti
8 o'clock, but a Philadelphia gangster
killer will give Hauptmann a few mon
precious moments of life. The gang
ster, Charles Zled, also is to die to*
night and because he is to go first
Hauptmann will live 20—perhaps 30—
minutes longer than he would if he
alone were to feel the electric death
stroke tonight.
The one legal avenue of hope, ao*
cording to best information, lay in aA
appeal to Justice Thomas W. Trench
ard for a new trial.
With Gov. Harold G. Hoffman's
terse, unqualified announcement,
"there will be no second reprieve,"
Hauptmann's strongest advocate be*
fore the pardons court was definitely
committed against any further inter*
ference with the sentence of the
courts.
There was the possibility thai
Hauptmann himself might supply the
sensation of the last day by making
a confession or some statement the
importance of wwhich might be
enough to bring at least a ditay In
the execution.
Hauptmann May Talk
There was a report Monday nighfc
from a source close to the governor
that Hauptmann had sent out word
to his wife, Anna, that he might
"talk more." Mrs. Hauptmann denied
it. Officials said they had heard
nothing of it. But the report per
slstccL
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
were in England.
Dr. John F. Condon, who became
known everywhere as "Jafsle," who
paid the $50,000 ransom money in a
Bronx cemetery to a man he later
said was Hauptmann, was at his home
in the Bronx.
Attorney General David T. Wilents,
the Russian-born attorney general
who prosecuted Hauptmann, planned
to remain at his home in Perth Am
boy.
Hoffman Available
Governor Hoffman, whose interest
in delaying Hauptmann's execution
by a previous reprieve was explained
by him as being due to his desire to
"completely solve" the case, notified
Col. Mark O. Kimberling, prison war
den, that he would be constantly
available during the day and up to
the execution hour to take any action
developments might warrant.
The prisoner's wife spent the alghft
In a Trenton hotel.
There was a possibility she might
seek to see Hauptmann once more
but prison rules forbid, and CoL Kim
berling has said he will not make any
exception.
Hauptmann's spiritual adviser, the
Rev. John Matthlesen, arranged to
spend much of the day with the pri
soner.
The one child of the condemned
and his blonde wife—the boy
Manfred—remained In New York, too
young to know.
Fate Sealed Quickly
Hauptmann's fate was sealed in 30
swift minutes.
First came the brief announcement
that the court of pardons had denied
Hauptmann's clemency appeal. With
this second refusal within 10 week*
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