Hoffman to Hauptmann

One hour after the U. S. Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.

Threatened with impeachment by politicians, denounced by the Press and reviled by a vengeful public. Governor Hoffman directed the State Police "to continue their search for any other person or persons involved in the crime"; explained his action thus: "I ... share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed [Hauptmann] in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime. . . ."

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