Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-26 | Page 1 | Bruno Reprieve Plan is Denied

iu U auth I I I- I L GOVERN GOVERNOR HOFFMAN Replies Replica to Rumors BRUNO REPRIEVE PLAN IS DENIED Stay of Execution Is Not Contemplated TRENTON N. N J. J Dec 26 UP RI- RI Governor Harold G. G Hoffmans Hoffman's press representative announced to today ay the g governor vernor had hjad authorized hint him to say sayat at at the pr s nC ho lid id contemplate a reprieve for Bruno Richard Hauptmann should the court of pardons refuse clemency The announcement was made as a reply to published reports that the governor would grant Hauptmann a day 30 stay of execution if the pardons pardons pardons par par- dons court falls fails to act William Villiam Conklin the press representative representative said Governor Hoffman would not be at his statehouse office today but had authorized him to say At the present time I have no such pl plan n in mind Previous Previously I the governor had said any report of a contemplated re reprieve reprieve reprieve re- re was unauthorized A last minute reprieve would not be unusual One Ono was granted John Favorito Favorite the last man to go to the chair at state prison and another was recently granted a negro Romaine Romaine Ro Ro- maine Johnson whose new death sentence has been fixed fL-ced for next week Favorito was granted a reprieve on August 13 13 a n few hours before he was to die after acter another prisoner sent the tho warden a no note to offering to take the blame blamo for or the tho murder The prisoner later repudiated the note saying fellow prisoners had urged him to send it Favorito was executed last Jast month Johnson who killed a white whito woman wom worn an an obtained a stay when his attorneys attorneys said they thoy would present evidence evi I i dence he ho was feebleminded The Tho governor has hIlS power to grant reprieves any time timo within 90 days after December 13 13 the tho date Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann was to die Tho The court of pardons which has the power to commute his sentence to life imprisonment will meet on Monday to consider another matter matterand matterand and may act on his plea for mercy at that time NEW V YORK Dec 26 26 UP Jack R-Jack Jack Lait newspaper writer asserted last night he had learned Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh was driven into exile by threats that ho he and ond his wife would be and killed if Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed The Tho assertion was followed by a declaration of ot Colonel H H. Norman in command of the New Jersey state threatening threatening threatening threat threat- ening letters received by Colonel Lindbergh did not indicate this to tobe tobe tobe be tho the case Lait however said the threats th that t drove th the to embark embark em- em bark for tor an indefinite stay in England England Eng Ent- land were made by potential m murderers mur murderers mur- mur r- r actuated by a n desperate sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy for tho the convicted kidnap- kidnap slayer of Charles Lindbergh Jr Hauptmann's execution dale date is the tho week of January 1 1