Show BOARD MAY NOT SEE HAUPTMANN Clemency l Plea Hear lea Hearing Hear Hear- ing Opens Saturday S TRENTON N. N J. J Jan Tan 10 lP- lP P Governor Harold H. H Hoffman said today a n handwriting expert had expressed s ed the 10 definite opinion the writer of a n letter signed feigned J J. J Faulkner declaring Bruno Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Hauptmann innocent was the signer of a deposit slip for 2980 of oC Lindbergh ransom bills in 1933 TRENTON N N. J. J Jan 10 0 UP UP- UP Last hope of Bruno Richard Riehard Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt- Haupt mann to make a personal appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance before the court of ot pardons faded today when Governor Harold G. G Hoffmans Hoffman's office announced the court would not meet at the state prison The governor through William S. S Conklin his press aide said the court convening tomorrow at 1030 a a. a m. m to consider Hauptmann's plc plea for clemency would meet as usual at the executive offices A meeting at state prison would have been without precedent but Governor Hoffmans Hoffman's delay in announcing announcing announcing an an- Where the court would sit had been taken by some sonic as an indi Indi- Indication indication cation he hoped for lor a last minute statement from the man convicted of the Lindbergh murder kidnap One Remote Chance The one remote chance of Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt- Haupt mann appearing before the court lay in the possibility defense counsel counsel coun coun- sd sel might make allegations necessitating necessitating necessitating tating Hauptmann's corroboration In that event the court could adjourn adjourn adjourn ad ad- journ to state prison a mile and a half away and call the prisoner Hauptmann himself however has refused to elaborate on his old statements statements statements state state- ments and his insistence that he has nothing new to tell dimmed his chances of escaping the electric chair one week from tonight Hauptmann in his written re request request request re- re quest to appear delivered to the governor a few tew days das ago limited it to an offer to answer r all ques ques- Stor Story Unchanged Hauptmann in questioning by Colonel Mark O. O Kimberling prison warden arden has refused to change the story he told at Flemington that that he received tho the Lindbergh ransom money from Isidor Fisch his partner partner part part- ner ncr who died in Germany German It was reported today that Hoffman Hoffman Hoffman Hoff Hoff- man went to the state prison death house secretly in October on assurances assurances assurances assur assur- ances that Hauptmann would talk tall only to him Hauptmann talked but his story story story-it it was said was said was un un- un- un eha changed Asked today whether t the story were true and told that it had been Continued d on pac Pao Two Column Six BRUNOS BRUNO'S HOPES GIVEN SETBACK Continued from Page One attributed to him the governor re relied replied replied re- re plied lied I 1 wont won't affirm It or deny It it Innocence Lal Claimed el elIls His Ils preparations for Cor the tho pardons court ourt hearing tomorrow included the he assembling of many of the trial exhIbits for inspection Five of the courts court's eight members who as members o of the court of t errors and appeals affirmed Hauptmann's Hauptm nn's guilt already have studied most of them lem Hoffman will deliver to the court A letter Jetter affirming Hauptmann's Innocence Innocence in- in signed J J J. J Faulkner a name name ame that has J long ng mg been one of the mysteries of the year old Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind- Lind bergh murder kidnap cas case The name was signed to a a de deposit deposit de de- posit slip in 1933 when 2980 of the ransom ansom money was put In a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York bank The governor said the signatures on n letter and slip were similar He awaited a full tull report from froman an unidentified New York handwriting expert to whom he submitted th the thC lett letter etter r. r I 1 dont don't know what significance J if f any there is to the letter Hoffman Hoffman Hoff Hoff- man mart said It didn't sound like a crackpot letter As the tho zero hour In the Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt- Haupt mann case case draws ite near the tha letter read I 1 feel Impelled to direct these few cw lines lines' to your excellency in order order or- or der ler to dispel the preconceived idea of the guilt of Hauptmann or rather t to o sustain and affirm you in your own and rightly so formed idea 01 of his lis innocence Money Madness Of All AH the poor bum is guilty guilly of is his ils money madness which made him Urn risk a thousand dollars or so of his own good money in tho the belief belie and greedy notion that he could get Independently rich and by hiding this his cheaply acquired hoard haard he brought himself into inlo all this trouble nearly causing him to lose oso his life Ute which I hope will now be s spared ared The Implication was that Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann had purchased some of the ransom bills a as hot money The letter said the writer could not go into further details for personal reasons As far as Dr John F. F Condon CondonIs Is s concerned it said you Hyou would be e well advised to take his assertions asser- asser lons tibne with a grain of salt Ho has rens reasons ns Schism Looms Ellis ElIis H H. Parker chief of detectives detectives detec- detec tives of Burlington county who has expressed the belief that Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann Is innocent said the author of the deposit slip and the author of the ransom notes used different methods of penmanship A schism loomed in the tho ranks of Hauptmann's three man defense complicating his efforts effort to escape the electric chair |