Despite the freezing tem; large crowds assembled in th streets witness the arrival of the jurors snd the principals. in the case, Hauptmann, who looked paler "and more deep-eyed than usual, hurried to his seat in the court-room without speaking to his lawyers.
Col. Lindbergh, his voice tense but quiet, related the story of how his baby's sleeping suit had been sent to him to prove that the persons demanding the ransom were the actual The colonel spent the entire morn-{ing in the witness-box and was sub-JJected to a grilling cross-examination by the defence. which questioned him for an hour and a half.
Col. Lindbergh admitted that he had not examined the references of hhis butler. nor had his wife done so.
would have been possible, he said, for anyone in the house to' remove the baby through the hall without him or his wife seeing.
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