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Post by hurtelable on Sept 10, 2014 21:41:14 GMT -5
you don't know how his vision was in 1932. I think it was good enough to see a mans face in a car. I agree his vision wasn't great but doable
Pu-leeeze! Hochmuth was reported to be "partly blind" due to cataracts in June 1932. I would take "partly blind," without anything more specific, to mean grossly impaired vision. And even Hochmuth himself claimed he saw Hauptmann from about 30 feet away, a considerable distance for someone visually impaired. The governor's people, once they obtained the report on Hochmuth from the NYC agency in the reinvestigation, knew instinctively that Hochmuth's identification of Hauptmann at trial was a sham. The transcript of the pre-trial conversation between Assistant Atty. General Peacock and Hochmuth confirms this impression.
Even a bad guy, like Hauptmann probably was in some respects, shouldn't be physically identified as a perpetrator of "the crime of the century" by an old man with cataracts and grossly impaired vision, considering that conviction for that crime depended on Hochmuth's highly dubious identification and the penalty for that crime was the electric chair.
That was a perversion of justice perpetrated by the prosecution, and the same would be true no matter whom the defendant was!
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 11, 2014 5:46:40 GMT -5
I don't buy it, however the witnesses wernt the only thing that doomed Hauptman his time on the stand the wood, and handwriting
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Post by babyinthecrib on Sept 19, 2014 9:25:27 GMT -5
I always believed that Hoffman was on to something with this investigation. I found his death, although many years later somewhat suspicious.
(June 1954, Hoffman died in a New York City hotel room of a heart attack. Just before dying, the disgraced former governor wrote a confession and admitted that he had embezzled over $300,000 from the state.)
Who has time to write a confession?
His death appears more like a suicide or murder!
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 19, 2014 15:15:47 GMT -5
if Hoffman was on to something, why did they kidnap paul wendel? Hoffman didn't die in a hotel it was a apt owned or rented by the saints and sinners club he belong to. I took a picture of the building a few years ago. it is a mystery how he died, I don't think it was murder, but either suicide or heart attack. I could never get any documents to support either one
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Post by Michael on Sept 19, 2014 16:09:43 GMT -5
if Hoffman was on to something, why did they kidnap paul wendel? Hoffman didn't die in a hotel it was a apt owned or rented by the saints and sinners club he belong to. I took a picture of the building a few years ago. it is a mystery how he died, I don't think it was murder, but either suicide or heart attack. I could never get any documents to support either one It was a suicide, and Hoffman never kidnapped Wendel. It's possible no one ever kidnapped him in fact, and from what Wendel willingly told Bleefeld, he (Bleefeld) was always convinced Parker had been right.
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 19, 2014 17:07:50 GMT -5
mike I disagree, wendel was kidnapped and Hoffman wasn't directly involved but was briefed. I could never get any police reports in the city to make a judgement, I will stick to suicide
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Post by babyinthecrib on Sept 19, 2014 17:16:18 GMT -5
Or made to look like suicide!
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Post by Michael on Sept 19, 2014 17:22:07 GMT -5
mike I disagree, wendel was kidnapped and Hoffman wasn't directly involved but was briefed. I could never get any police reports in the city to make a judgement, I will stick to suicide Wendel was picked up but not by Hoffman's direction. Next, it was exactly what Wendel wanted. He came out of Parker's house one night and commented to the guy waiting for him that " they think I kidnapped the Lindbergh child." When Parker was told what he said he found it odd since he said no such thing during their chat. It was a tangled mess that was created by Wendel himself, and it did not end once he was picked up. There was a ton of speculation that he and Bleefeld were in cahoots, and it accelerated during the Parker Trial when they were both seen, numerous times during recess, huddled up together exchanging whispers and jokes in the hallway. This is one of the men Wendel claimed kidnapped and tortured him into making a confession that could have sent him to the electric chair. Hoffman's re-investigation was important - and is important - to solving the crime in its entirety.
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 19, 2014 18:52:44 GMT -5
I don't think it solves the case in its entirely,i believe wendel was kidnapped and tortured and ellis parker looked like a fool along with his son and gov hoffman
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Post by Michael on Sept 19, 2014 19:27:04 GMT -5
I don't think it solves the case in its entirely,i believe wendel was kidnapped and tortured and ellis parker looked like a fool along with his son and gov hoffman I think the Governor landed on his feet, but obviously it wound up harming Parker in more ways then one... Solving the case is like assembling a giant jig-saw puzzle. There are pieces everywhere that must be found then assembled. The Hoffman Collection contains several of those pieces. The problem is that most people want a smoking gun. I've found that by putting these pieces together a smoking gun begins to emerge. But in order to do so one has to draw from ALL sources - and not just the one's they "like."
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 19, 2014 19:38:49 GMT -5
I understand mike, you will be the first one to put the pieces together if you can, but I believe you wont
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Post by Michael on Sept 20, 2014 7:54:31 GMT -5
I understand mike, you will be the first one to put the pieces together if you can, but I believe you wont Thanks Steve, but I truly believe I could do it now. The problem is that I continue to turn up stuff that adds to it, so I don't want to cut myself off needlessly when I can continue to accumulate more. Just had a recent interview that absolutely must be included in all of this, and I knew as soon as I heard what was being told to me it there wasn't a shadow of a doubt it was true. Many people think this case is too far gone, but I think we've all proven here that it isn't.
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Post by romeo12 on Sept 20, 2014 8:05:54 GMT -5
good luck, we both agree its a crazy case.thats why I look at other cases in the meantime, like lizzie borden
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