Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-24 | Page 2 | 'Rail 16' Again is Bruno's Hope

RAIL 16 1 6 A AGAIN GAIN IS BRUNOS BRUNO'S HOPE I TRENTON N. N J. J Jt Dec 24 UP 1 RI- RI Part of the Lindbergh kidnap ladder ladder ladder lad lad- der known as rail 16 and identified identified fied tied as having been taken from Bruno Richard Hauptmann's Bronx attic may figure in Hauptmann's plea to the New Jersey pard pardons ns court for mercy The defense has kept secret secret any any new evidence it has prepared for forthe forthe forthe the court but its petition for commutation commutation com corn mutation of at the death penalty to toUfe life Ufe imprisonment was was was' understood authoritatively to have prepared the way for an attack on on the the authenticity authenticity authenticity of rail raU 16 The court of pardons received the petition yesterday A meeting is called for Monday to consider conditional conditional conditional con con- parole of another prisoner to testify in a murder case case outside the state There is nothing however to preclude prelude pre pre- clude lude the court from considering the Hauptmann that time Should tho the court determine to hear counsel the defense it was learned may question the credibility ity of at witnesses at Hauptmann's trial who told of at seeing him about abou t the time timo of the crime in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate