European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 7 information from Fri files Lindbergh trial testimony challenged a information from Fri files casts doubt on the Testi Mony of several key witnesses in the 193s trial of Bruno Richard convicted and executed in the Kidnap murder of the Lindbergh according to published the information was obtained under the Federal Freedom of information act and published jointly in the Hunter Don county Democrat and the new Brunswick Home it contradicts testimony by the prosecutions fingerprint expert and handwriting analysts As Well As the identification of Hauptmann voice by the baby aviation hero Charles the newspapers the files also raise questions about statements by the go Between in Ransom negotiations and the identification of Hauptmann by a taxicab Driver who carried a Ransom the newspapers disappearance the kidnapping Case is the Best known one in american court on March 19monthold Charles Lindbergh disappeared from his second Story bed room at the Lindbergh Lindbergh and hundreds of policemen across the country searched for the baby until May when a Workman Over the body in a shallow grave just five Miles from the Lindbergh two years on police arrested a 35yearold the Day after his police found in Hauptmann garage of the Ransom that Lindbergh had paid in a Hauptmann had said the Money had been Given to him years earlier by a Friend and business partner leaving for after a highly publicized five week Tri based almost entirely on circumstantial Hauptmann was convicted of he steadily protested his inno Cence until his electrocution april kidnapping was not made a Federal of sense until after the Lindbergh hostility the Fri records were not used during the for reasons never made the newspapers said material from the files clearly indicate hostility Between state investigators and Federal copies of the Fri files were turned Over to the Hunter Don county Democrat by two Philadelphia area Thom As Kelly and his James who filed the Freedom of information act re quest and who have been studying the Lindbergh Case for almost 30 v included in the materials Are copies of investigatory memos from Field copies of Ransom notes and the Swiss rail passenger traffic up in 80 Switzerland a passenger traffic on Switzerland Federal railways was up Pei cent in the largest in crease in 10 and a spokesman it appears that motorists Are beginning to Ransom Money and other evidence used against the newspapers the Fri the newspaper spell out these contradictions Fri tests indicated there were fingerprints on Ransom notes although the states expert testified none handwriting experts did not positively identify Hauptmann As the Man who penned the Ransom notes until they Learned that Money had been found in Hauptmann according to an agents a cab Drivers positive identification of Hauptmann As the Man who asked him to deliver a Ransom note came 2lh years after the event and after a Pep talk by a police the go Between who handed Over the Ransom Money in a new York City Ceme Tery told Fri agents after arrest that Hauptmann  be the Man he dealt at the he said Hauptmann was the Lindbergh own identification of Hauptmann voice was questionable be cause the aviator Only heard Hauptmann speak two words from a distance of 50 some years after he heard a voice from behind a hedge during a Ransom drop off april a memo from then Fri chief Edgar Hoover raises doubts about Lindbergh ability to positively identify the voice he heard at the Ransom drop off As that of the newspaper Mother nature was not to blame this time a broken water main floods a portion of swallowing a car As hundreds of Gallons of water poured through the police rerouted traffic while water workers attempted to Stem the a photo Chicago school unit May charge parents with neg eco it pupils skip inoculations Chicago a the Board of Edu cation is consulting Legal authorities about a plan to charge parents with neglect if Stu dents dont comply with state immunization and health officials a total of children Haven at tended City schools since this fall because they have not complied with the state Man Angeline acting school super said weve tried an everything and now i think its time to go after these parents be she to get the children Back in school is the Bottom the school boards Legal department is conferring with the office of Cook county states attorney Richard Daley about possible Legal solutions to the including the Peoria officials last Peoria Public school Stu dents about seven percent of the total enrolment failed to meet the 15 state deadline for health and were excluded from As were the Chicago when the Peoria county states attorney subsequently announced he would charge their parents with child All but seven children quickly met the authorities parents of the seven children were charged in mid november with child be but Only one child remained without the required immunization and physical and dental examinations by a 26 court charges eventually were dropped against All the including that of the last who returned to class by authorities the Chicago Public school children currently excluded from classes include percent of All High school level students and sixteenths of one percent of elementary Stu Caruso she said she was concerned that some students Over 15 years old might just drop out this is the real Caruso they Are not Only not they Are not educated either and they Are out there with no the Board of education risked losing More than million a month in state Aid last october unless at least 80 percent of the cites students were in compliance with the state health hundreds of nurses and other staff were pressed into overtime enabling the Board to meet the admitted killer freed on 12minute technicality Baltimore a a Man who admitted killing his girlfriends infant son by throwing him Down an 11story trash Chute was freed by a court Friday on the grounds that his confession came 12 minutes too states attorney William Swisher called the release of James a travesty of Justice and called him a very dangerous Mcclain was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in connection with the death of 10monthold Phil Muf Fin his conviction and sentence were later upheld by the Maryland court of special in a later the court of appeals ruled that a defendant had to be taken before a court commissioner within 24 hours of arrest or the state could not use subsequent that ruling was found to be retroactive in Mcclains Mcclain admitted killing the child be cause he thought his 18yearold Debora was seeing another i cuddled muffin up in my he was still i walked him to the garbage i Laid him in the opening and just let him Mcclain said in his but Mcclains confession ended 24 hours and 12 minutes after his according to Gary an assistant states Swisher blasted the courts ruling and predicted the Man will most Likely cause us problems in the this is the Type of thing that confuses the Public and makes us look foolish in the eyes of the Swisher told judge Martin the criminal court proceedings Here marked the first time in which photographers were allowed in that court under a new experimental state