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Show STARTLING TILE IS ; TOLD COIICT Eolke H. Brandt Declares He Was ".lobbed" Into Vear Sentence, j PARDON IS EXPECTED Sensational Developments Regarding Re-garding the Uleged Robbery of Residence ol Financier. B- lpiernation News sv:. - KKW tOKX. laa. Sfl -Toiko Brandt, the handsome fOOlW ScandlnaWHUS valei to Mortimer L. bcblff. who asked a par- I don or commatatlon or aantanoO riom j Govnnor Olx on the around thai ha ansa ! Mobbed" info a thirtv-srar aentOnca i"i a burslarv" in fhe BdlUohalre'i home, will bo fre if ih rCcomiiicndation of Oiatrlcl AltOTItOI S'hitnan Has any Influ- I anca upon Dae chief aatoettttva a; Al- , hany. Mv, Uliltman today bean Hi arHttfW Of his report on Ula rt OOVOrnOT ! ON and will prem It tha ROVOnior or, Monda Whlla tha dlatrM attorn himself would rot OBjf mora UaM "1- tha ipternaiionai Nowa Banrlco learned that the rt.ori tfll r' commend a full pa i Jon Mr. Whitman. M waf a ; laimd rni- rivctv, eotrtrinoad '!"' Brandt a atorr of th clrcumatancea undr wblcb lie w arreslrl and sent to prison for tbtrtv srATf i trae. Thordforo. aroordlnn to per-mifc cloaa to him. ha will iaaai th pardon on the followine KTOttAda: Grounds for Pardon That Brandt did not ntr the riMi nvenu liom or Mr. and Mrs ffchlfl In Mar-ii 1W7. with n intnr lo rob. but went there op Ih' Invitation of ineui-her ineui-her or Hi household Thai hla entry wh not btinrlarioua, h it thai he Wn1 thrOOSh tha front door with a ke. cien to him bv this member mem-ber of the honaohold. and ihat. when Mr. Pi-hirf nnaaOOOtedly entered the honee. Mr. Biandt BUddenly aelaed l - emi 5ti.-kpins and aaaaultod tha million hire purpose!) to n.nk iiiiiiHif appear a thief. In order that the 0 titer person niitht not he Buapocted. That Brandt, with this lda of Chivalry Chiv-alry cain.lv rnnfeaaed himself aullty and ;,.pte(j l is ;,-.;ie sentence, hiit with th assurance of i spr esentatltreo of the mil-. llonaJre'a family thai he would he lih- rsted within a ve;(r. Plslrh-t Attorney Whitman's convtc- . tion or Hrandt's Innocence waa reached, i it is Faid. after he hid made private inve-tijt.it ions that reaehed far into the case find after h talked finally tod ! with i"ari Plschai Itniihn who repre- semerl Br.mdt: AmsIhIhiiI District Attor-, ney Nott and Howard Chilis the aW- vmtf who prosecuted him. ;ind .tudce otto rtossMkv. who a him the lone sentence. , Asked Senator's Aid ! in private investigation disclosed ilia , fact. a'ordlnc to the Internntion.il News I Service's irformant. that Brandt nar-j nar-j tlaily told the same PtOTV four dsyi .if- tr he waa sentoncrd thai he to'd to Oovonior DIs in hla ann'leauon for I pardon, Then, three yeare aco. 'ue wrote the ssm f..tv iilenticallv to h tt.iin I'nlieo: States senHi,ir inoi or New Yolk istHfei find iiskil Tor htS aid The person who learned of Brandt's I eiahn Immediately after the roiuut inan'a I COnvloUou was i"tl Fischer Hansen, his 1 tlorrie Haii-er. admitted tnls toda'. ! .s to ih United Stated senator, it is 'Unow:i .hat Mr. VThltman had been In I communication with hjm and has pp-relved pp-relved Ola report on Ih matter. a certain letter which Brandl speaks ( or In Ms HPPlication for a pardon and ' which has ben OOOaalonally referred to I In tii newspapers Is th main point, it Is said. In th vounc man's favor. Carl Pie bar Hansen who has buiit around the letter Incident a plnv to be! named "Tii Law." described it tods'- He wiote the p'ni-. I I :-aid with the sann- idea thai Xols arroti hla famous "t Ac-i Ac-i use" doeumnt In the Drejrfua case In Kr.ip.-e. to arouse nubll- sentiment In favor of an hinOcent man He cave nn the idea of Maclnc II however, when he j saw the Proportions of Ih asitation foi I a reopenlntr of the Brondt case. I Expected Early Release I "When I appeared for Brandt he . would t-'il me noth'.ns." said Hansen. "Hi said he w-as KUlltV. I askeri ' him, "Why do you want a lawyer. HienV Be said. Oh, it will look heiiei. I in coins to pet out of prison In ten months or a roar. The SchhTa have told in to.' "Attar h a sentenced to thirty vears.' OOntlnOSd Hansen. "Brandt still was . onfldent cf Kettinp: out. He naked rr.e foi a cigarette when I saw him and laujthinsly moulted If thirty vears mnnl fen months or twelve. I told him that I was soir. hut it really meant thirty ars. j "The nett day a big envelope ad-. ad-. dressed to me .-anie from Brandt. 1 tore "! tad of It open ami Si ddentall) i"i-Opes i"i-Opes i!-.e end of another envelope Which was hielOOOdi This lime? envelope whs addre.s"-. i. :he person wh Brandt was calling upon the night of tha o-ial!ed o-ial!ed robbery and assault. It said that for the sake of that person Brandt was willing to serve any number r.f vears. for h felt eartaln that that person would work for hla release." Fischer Hansen said that be Immediately Immedi-ately took the ltter to .Tudc Rosalskv s court, where he, the nidge. Assistant Dtatrlet Attorney rfoti 'id Howard nan- read It The leiter was turned i'i to Car wl-.o w.-is repiescntlric the Inteiets of the hiff family. Safe Was Open. It was said today by a person intimate with tie case at the time of Biandt ri'si op the robbery charge, that When he waa in tha Schiff house th safe waa open and all of Mr. .Seh'.ffs n. worth mans thousands of dollars, were within his grasp. "Whs didn't h iak them?" Inoulied this informant "Why did h have onl a couple of atlckplns when the millionaire million-aire surprised blm. when, according to Brandt's own story, tie Uml then been In the house more than two hour" " It waa also pointed out for the first lime that at Brandt s arraignment Howard How-ard fjana th schirr attorney, appeared A, hi ;"- ! and told tha meatatrsio (It was Whitman. rurtousKi that he would wane evsmlr.jtton This Brandt told no storv whatever at that prelim-Inarv prelim-Inarv hearing Neither Jndc Bosjiskv. Assistant rKs-irid rKs-irid Altorne- Nott nor Mr Oans hsd n' thine to sa- abut the Brar.dt ceea today. A new future appeared, however. This was bbmi i). Cravaih, the raspoua ...r- potation lawe. He -precnfe Kuhn t.oei A. t'onipanv. In wtilrh Mi Rc'ufe has large Interests He had a lorit tiw with Ptstrirt Attomev Whi'man alw. ,t the ase Neither would dfaB HSJ the eonferenre. |