Post by sue75 on May 29, 2011 21:28:47 GMT -5
Assisted at Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial --
Edwin K. Large Jr.
Agent for major corporations; Assisted at Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial
EVANS, Ga. - Edwin K. Large, Jr., 98, died on April 3, 2011, at his home at Brandon Wilde. The son of Atlanta postmaster Edwin K. Large and Edna Page Large, Edwin was born in Atlanta on January 28, 1913. As the postmaster's son, he was on hand for many historic events, including Atlanta's first air-mail "delivery," a bag dropped by a barnstorming pilot on top of Stone Mountain. Ed attended Atlanta public schools through junior high, when he won a work-study scholarship to the Taft School, a boys' boarding school in Watertown, CT. Graduating from Taft in 1931, he entered New York's Columbia University, where he again worked his way through school. He also played first base for Columbia's varsity baseball team, a position previously held by Lou Gehrig. Meeting Mr. Gehrig at a campus sports banquet, Large asked him for advice on playing his old position. "Essentially," Mr. Large recalled, "Gehrig said we should field better and score more runs than the opposition." In 1935 Large entered Columbia Law School. His interest in law was heightened by the opportunity to assist the prosecution at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptman, accused kidnapper of trans-Atlantic flyer Charles Lindbergh's infant son. The prosecution was headquartered in the Flemington, NJ, office of Large's uncle, Judge George K. Large. Young Ed served, "gloriously, as a gopher." He always thought that the jury's controversial guilty verdict was fair-up to a point: "I'm sure," he said, "that Hauptman made the ladder used to reach the nursery window. Did he climb it? We may never know. But he refused to implicate anyone..."
Edwin K. Large Jr.
Agent for major corporations; Assisted at Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial
EVANS, Ga. - Edwin K. Large, Jr., 98, died on April 3, 2011, at his home at Brandon Wilde. The son of Atlanta postmaster Edwin K. Large and Edna Page Large, Edwin was born in Atlanta on January 28, 1913. As the postmaster's son, he was on hand for many historic events, including Atlanta's first air-mail "delivery," a bag dropped by a barnstorming pilot on top of Stone Mountain. Ed attended Atlanta public schools through junior high, when he won a work-study scholarship to the Taft School, a boys' boarding school in Watertown, CT. Graduating from Taft in 1931, he entered New York's Columbia University, where he again worked his way through school. He also played first base for Columbia's varsity baseball team, a position previously held by Lou Gehrig. Meeting Mr. Gehrig at a campus sports banquet, Large asked him for advice on playing his old position. "Essentially," Mr. Large recalled, "Gehrig said we should field better and score more runs than the opposition." In 1935 Large entered Columbia Law School. His interest in law was heightened by the opportunity to assist the prosecution at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptman, accused kidnapper of trans-Atlantic flyer Charles Lindbergh's infant son. The prosecution was headquartered in the Flemington, NJ, office of Large's uncle, Judge George K. Large. Young Ed served, "gloriously, as a gopher." He always thought that the jury's controversial guilty verdict was fair-up to a point: "I'm sure," he said, "that Hauptman made the ladder used to reach the nursery window. Did he climb it? We may never know. But he refused to implicate anyone..."