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Show DRAWING OF HAUPTMANN JURYSTARTS lay in Trial Opposed By State Officials; Starts Jan. 2 , FLEMINGTON, N. J., Doc. (U.B) Trial of Bruno Rich-irti Rich-irti Hauptmann, former German Ger-man machine gunner, accused flf murdering' Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., will begin on :;n. 2, regardless of techni- jury-tampering, state of- .cials indicated today. Attorney General David T. Wil-it Wil-it was revealed after a conference con-ference of prosecuting attorneys, opposed to further postponements postpone-ments of the case, and does not itwader the recent distribution to talesmen of a satirical pamphlet baling with the kidnaping as sufficient suf-ficient cause to demand a new inel. Venire Is Drawn ! iVhile the state officials were rjcussing the latest sensational ievelopment, Sheriff John H. Curly Cur-ly drew from a small jar 48 cap- fjles containing the names of H-mterdon county citizens from ,7-hom the trial jury of 12 men aid women will be selected next Wednesday. They were farmers, housewives, nurses, clerks, and etired business men. One of them us Frances Opdyke. a nurse, who ms the house in which Mrs. An-a An-a Scheffler Hauptmann, the -risoner's wife, is making her ::me. Vo Postponement 7e state's conference on the rotilem growing out of the distribution distri-bution to prospective jurors of the Limberg" pamphlet, began at mb. shortly after drawing of the ilesmen had been completed. Present were Wilentz, his two as-;?tants as-;?tants Joseph Lanigan and Rich-rd Rich-rd Stockton, and his special as-:iUnt, as-:iUnt, former Judge George K. Liree. "Will the trial be postponed lor" ,nv reason " they were asked. :It will not be postponed, except ver Wilentz's dead body," a re-;wnsible re-;wnsible attorney replied. Betty Gow, former nursemaid in the Lindbergh home and one of 'Jie state's key witnesses, was se-. laded today, presumably at the j tune of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. Irs. Lindbergh's mother. Brought a America from Scotland with ".e utmost secrecy, and under an turned name, the comely Scotch Scot-ch nurse was spirited away from Lie press upon her arrival on the Aquitania. and declined to com-Mt com-Mt on the case dur i.g the few moments she was sesn on board. She will identify the sleeping nrment in which she wrapped the -Id when she put him to bed on e night of March 1, 1932. She ill also identify this garment as leone that was returned, by way Condon, as a "token' from the Papers and as proof that the 3ronx extortioner actually pos-:d pos-:d the infant. |