Springville Herald | 1937-05-06 | Page 5 | False Confession in Lindbergh Case |

Type	issue
Date	1937-05-06
Paper	Springville Herald
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Article Title	False Confession in Lindbergh Case
Type	article
Date	1937-05-06
Paper	Springville Herald
Page	5
OCR Text	Show him, Wt'iKicI by I'.nkor, rin.'il ict clivc and life-long friend of the governor's. False Confession In Lindbergh Case NKWAIIK, X. J.. May 5 ir.in-1 ir.in-1 Paul H. Wenilel. Trenton attor- ney, testified today ;it the kidnap-con.spiracy kidnap-con.spiracy trial of Ellis H. Parker that he was told a confession was necessary in the LindlKrgh baby case to further the political career car-eer of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. Wendel's false confession, allegedly alleg-edly forced from him by torture, was the basis on which Hoffman granted a three-day reprieve to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted con-victed murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. The statement was made to
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