FAMOUS FLYER IS DETERMINED
JUSTICE BE RENDERED
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FATHER OF SLAIN INFANT
HAS BEEN UNREMITTING IN
EFFORTS TO RUN DOWN
SON'S MURDERER.
FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 30—
The father of the murdered Lind
bergh baby has been New Jersey’s
‘‘star- witness” in the trial in Flem
ington of Bruno Richard Haupt
mann. >
It is no secret that the prosecu
tion expects the story that was
told by the flying colonel to carry
tremendous weight with the jury
that holds Hauptmann’s fate in its
hands
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s
role is a double one.
He is the young father who told
the tragic story of the kidnapping
and death of his first born son, of
the futile efforts to get the child
back unharmed, of the final scene
in a Trenton morgue when he iden
tified a tiny body as that of his
child.
He also was an accuser, identify
ing ^Hauptmann by his voice as the
man who allegedly collected $50,
000 ransom for the safe return of
a child who was then lying dead in
a lonely thicket a few miles from
the Lindbergh estate near Hopewell
Identification by voice is a difficult
matter, state attorney's realize. But
Lindbergh’s is a trained ear, they
contend, long attuned to the sound
—Of delicate mechanisms, and the
state will ask the jury to believe
that the ears which listened intently
to the smooth purr of an airplane
motor on that history-making trans
atlantic flight can be trusted to iden
tify a voice heard one dark night
near a Bronx cemetery, when, it is
presumed, Lindbergh was just as
algrt and intent as he was on his
hop to Paris
Only One Man Contacted
■
Final acceptance or refusal of
that identification by the jury may
prove to be decisive. Dr. John F.
Condon, the “Jafsie” who negoti
ated the ransom payment, says thej
man to whom he gave the $50,000
was the only one he contacted. It
was that man who, when pressed by
Condon for evidence of good faith,
sent Lindbergh's intermediary the
sleeping suit the child wore .the
night it was stolen, and thereby link
ed himself directly with the kidnap
ing.
Lindbergh says that man is Haupt
mann.
The defense strategists were plac
ed in an unusually delicate position
by the expected appearance of Lind
bergh on the witness stand.
If they had subjected the aviator
to cross-examination calculated to
discredit his identification too much
they might have created an adverse
impression on the jury. On the
other hand, if his testimony had
gone unchallenged, a telling blow
against the defense would have been
struck.
At Prosecution Table
Colonel Lindbergh sits at the pros
ecution’s table during the trial, just
as he sat when the hoaxer John
Hughes Curtis was tried and con
victed of obstructing justice in the
hunt for the baby’s kidnapers two
and a half years ago.
It is said here that that seat at
the prosecution’s table is a fitting
place for him.
In the 72 frantic days that preced
ed the finding of the body, the col
onel, acting at times independently
of the police, spent many sleepless
days and nights, always on ^the
hunt. It was he who drove Dr.Con
don to the spot where the ransom
money was paid, and deceived by
Curtis’ stories, made futile trips at
sea to contact a non-existent kidnap
boat.
When the child’s body was found,
all need for caution vanished, and
thereafter Lindbergh worked in the
closest harmony with the police. He
testified against Curtis. When Bru
no Hauptmann was arrested, he and
Mrs. Lindbergh were on the west
coast. They sped east by plane
landing at Trenton where Lindbergh
conferred with Col. H. „ Norman
Schwarzkopf, director of the kid
naping investigation.
Saw Suspect ‘Disguised’
A day later Lindbergh testified
before a Bronx, N. Y., grand jury
which indicted Hauptmann for ex
tortion in connection with the ran
som money found in the latter's
garage and on his person.
And on the following day, the flier
returned to the Bronx, where, dis
guised in a cap and dark glasses, he
stood with a group of detectives
while Hauptmann was made to re
peat the words used the night the
ransom was paid. He then identi
fied Hauptmann by his voice.
Radio Rates As
Poor Educator
CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 30 — Harvard
psychologists declare there is little
chance that the radio will ever be
come a successful medium of edu
cation.
Experiments on a large number
of subjcets at the Harvard psycho
logical labratory have shown that
difficult material is better under
stood and remembered when it is
read than when it is heard.
“The radio has a somewhat dull
ing effect on the higher mental pro
cesses of the listeners,” the scient
ists report. “He is definitely less
critical, less analytec, more passive
ly receptive, when listening to the
radio than when he is face to face
with the speaker.”
An experiment was conducted
whereby persons listened to two
stories ait the same time, one broad
cast and one read by a speaker in
the room. The listeners were asked
to write the story they remember
ed. Most of them recalled the story
that was told by the speaker in the
room, it was found.
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