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January 12, 1935
VIOLET SHARPE KEPT MYSTERY TRYST ON NIGHT OF KIDNAPING
By Warren Hall
The woman proprietor of a Yonkers lunchwagon told police yesterday that Violet Sharpe, the high-strung Morrow maid who committed suicide rather than face further questioning about the Lindbergh kidnaping, waited nervously in the lunchroom with two blankets under her arm the memorable night of March 1, 1932, until two men picked her up in an automobile.
Simultaneously, a Bronx garage owner located service records which showed that Bruno Hauptmann brought his green sedan to the garage on April 3, 1932, the day after the $50,000 ransom was paid, and had the body painted black. (A witness testified at the trial in Flemington on Wednesday that he saw Hauptmann in "a dirty green sedan" near the Lindbergh estate.)
The reference to Violet Sharpe, which may be siezed by the defense to bolster their contention that the kidnaping was an inside job, came from Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, 45, who operates a small eating establishment at the Yonkers dock of the Alpine-Yonkers ferry.
The 28 year old English girl bustled into the place about 7:15 that evening, Mrs. Bonesteel said, and asked if she could wait there for some friends. "A German girl who used to come into my place with her told me she was employed at the Morrow estate, but I didn't know her name," she explained. "She waited about an hour and a half, walking up and down with two gray blankets under her arm, looking out the window every few minutes. Finally a dark sedan drove slowly past and stopped about 150 feet away. She ran to the car and jumped into the rear seat. Then the car drove away toward the center of Yonkers. Two men were in the front seat."
LETTERS LINK HAUPTMANN TO BABY'S ROOM
By Martin Sommers
(Staff Correspondent of The News)
Flemington N. J., Jan. 11 -- The sly hand of Bruno Richard Hauptmann was thrust into the nursery window of the Lindbergh Sourland Mountains mansion here today. For the first time, the State was able to put the hand of the German in the now famous southeast window on the night curly-haired Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnaped and murdered.
When new and compelling evidence moved him still nearer to the electric chair for the inhuman killing of the child, Hauptmann grew extremely nervous. His eyes darted around the courtroom as though he feared immediate harm, and he talked frantically with his attorneys.
The accused murderer's hand was placed on the window sill over which Baby Charles was snatched to a cruel death by the clearest and most elaborate exhibition of handwriting comparisons ever prepared for any murder trial, plus the deadly pointer of a white-haired, world-famous expert, Albert S. Osborne.
STOP WHISPERING, HAUPTMANNS TOLD
By Grace Robinson
(Staff Correspondent of The News)
Flemington, N. J., Jan. 11 -- Mrs. Anna Hauptmann has made several attempts to pass confidential information to her accused husband during the morning and afternoon recesses of his trial, The News learned today.
All her efforts have been frustrated by police, who have insisted that any conversation between Bruno and his yellow-haired wife in court should be in English, and loud enough for his guards to hear. At the start of the trial, the couple attempted to use German, but this was immediately stopped by Attorney General Wilentz, because Hauptmann's court guards didn't understand German.
STAGE MAKES BID FOR JAFSIE'S ACT
Flemington, N. J, Jan. 11 (A. P.) -- Principals in the Hauptmann murder trial are being swamped with offers to tell -- and act -- their parts in the Lindbergh case.
Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon has been offered "thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars," Attorney General David Wilentz said today, to tell his story. There has been no indication that the former lecturer on education would accept the offer, although he said previously he would take up to $50,000 -- the amount of the ransom he paid for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh -- to restore it to the baby's father.
Miss Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nurse, and others figuring in the case have received lesser offers.
Even the jury has not been overlooked. A vaudeville booking agent is said to be prepared to offer them $300 a week each to tour the nation's circuitds in a unit show.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Melting Pot Stew
Brooklyn: You call yourself an aristocrat, Reggie, and say you want special subway cars reserved for you and your class. Well, New York is said to be the melting pot of the world. That means the best and most worthwhile part of the soup remains in mass at the bottom of the pot, while the scum rises to the top. So what does that make you, Reggie? -- JACQUES DE COSTA
Change Of Venue
Bronx: Move the Hauptmann trial across the river to Madison Square Garden, and charge $1 to $5 admission. Give the money to Lindbergh, or give it to Mrs. Hauptmann and the baby if Hauptmann burns, or maybe just give it to us unemployed. -- STOOGES RAY AND OTTO
Scot Living Standards
Brooklyn: If Irisher, who tells Mr. Reilly in the Voice that Betty Gow could live the rest of her life in Scotland on $650, has ever gone to Scotland, he would know that thousands of his fellow Irish have gone to Scotland and taken jobs which the Scotch should have, because the Irish will work for half the wages the Scotch demand. I know, because I come from the west of Scotland. -- SCOT
VIOLET SHARPE KEPT MYSTERY TRYST ON NIGHT OF KIDNAPING
By Warren Hall
The woman proprietor of a Yonkers lunchwagon told police yesterday that Violet Sharpe, the high-strung Morrow maid who committed suicide rather than face further questioning about the Lindbergh kidnaping, waited nervously in the lunchroom with two blankets under her arm the memorable night of March 1, 1932, until two men picked her up in an automobile.
Simultaneously, a Bronx garage owner located service records which showed that Bruno Hauptmann brought his green sedan to the garage on April 3, 1932, the day after the $50,000 ransom was paid, and had the body painted black. (A witness testified at the trial in Flemington on Wednesday that he saw Hauptmann in "a dirty green sedan" near the Lindbergh estate.)
The reference to Violet Sharpe, which may be siezed by the defense to bolster their contention that the kidnaping was an inside job, came from Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, 45, who operates a small eating establishment at the Yonkers dock of the Alpine-Yonkers ferry.
The 28 year old English girl bustled into the place about 7:15 that evening, Mrs. Bonesteel said, and asked if she could wait there for some friends. "A German girl who used to come into my place with her told me she was employed at the Morrow estate, but I didn't know her name," she explained. "She waited about an hour and a half, walking up and down with two gray blankets under her arm, looking out the window every few minutes. Finally a dark sedan drove slowly past and stopped about 150 feet away. She ran to the car and jumped into the rear seat. Then the car drove away toward the center of Yonkers. Two men were in the front seat."
LETTERS LINK HAUPTMANN TO BABY'S ROOM
By Martin Sommers
(Staff Correspondent of The News)
Flemington N. J., Jan. 11 -- The sly hand of Bruno Richard Hauptmann was thrust into the nursery window of the Lindbergh Sourland Mountains mansion here today. For the first time, the State was able to put the hand of the German in the now famous southeast window on the night curly-haired Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnaped and murdered.
When new and compelling evidence moved him still nearer to the electric chair for the inhuman killing of the child, Hauptmann grew extremely nervous. His eyes darted around the courtroom as though he feared immediate harm, and he talked frantically with his attorneys.
The accused murderer's hand was placed on the window sill over which Baby Charles was snatched to a cruel death by the clearest and most elaborate exhibition of handwriting comparisons ever prepared for any murder trial, plus the deadly pointer of a white-haired, world-famous expert, Albert S. Osborne.
STOP WHISPERING, HAUPTMANNS TOLD
By Grace Robinson
(Staff Correspondent of The News)
Flemington, N. J., Jan. 11 -- Mrs. Anna Hauptmann has made several attempts to pass confidential information to her accused husband during the morning and afternoon recesses of his trial, The News learned today.
All her efforts have been frustrated by police, who have insisted that any conversation between Bruno and his yellow-haired wife in court should be in English, and loud enough for his guards to hear. At the start of the trial, the couple attempted to use German, but this was immediately stopped by Attorney General Wilentz, because Hauptmann's court guards didn't understand German.
STAGE MAKES BID FOR JAFSIE'S ACT
Flemington, N. J, Jan. 11 (A. P.) -- Principals in the Hauptmann murder trial are being swamped with offers to tell -- and act -- their parts in the Lindbergh case.
Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon has been offered "thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars," Attorney General David Wilentz said today, to tell his story. There has been no indication that the former lecturer on education would accept the offer, although he said previously he would take up to $50,000 -- the amount of the ransom he paid for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh -- to restore it to the baby's father.
Miss Betty Gow, the Lindbergh nurse, and others figuring in the case have received lesser offers.
Even the jury has not been overlooked. A vaudeville booking agent is said to be prepared to offer them $300 a week each to tour the nation's circuitds in a unit show.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Melting Pot Stew
Brooklyn: You call yourself an aristocrat, Reggie, and say you want special subway cars reserved for you and your class. Well, New York is said to be the melting pot of the world. That means the best and most worthwhile part of the soup remains in mass at the bottom of the pot, while the scum rises to the top. So what does that make you, Reggie? -- JACQUES DE COSTA
Change Of Venue
Bronx: Move the Hauptmann trial across the river to Madison Square Garden, and charge $1 to $5 admission. Give the money to Lindbergh, or give it to Mrs. Hauptmann and the baby if Hauptmann burns, or maybe just give it to us unemployed. -- STOOGES RAY AND OTTO
Scot Living Standards
Brooklyn: If Irisher, who tells Mr. Reilly in the Voice that Betty Gow could live the rest of her life in Scotland on $650, has ever gone to Scotland, he would know that thousands of his fellow Irish have gone to Scotland and taken jobs which the Scotch should have, because the Irish will work for half the wages the Scotch demand. I know, because I come from the west of Scotland. -- SCOT
