CRIME: Flemington Fantasy

In Hunterdon County. N. J., 150 members of a jury panel received in last week's mail 150 pamphlets. Bound in brown paper, the cover was entitled:

No. 2310

CRIMINAL

FILE

EXPOSED!

Aviator's Baby

Was Never

Kidnapped Or

Murdered

Possessors of the document were warned not to reveal the booklet's contents "to any newspaper, as all news of this trial has been suppressed by order of court." There followed in strict legal form the record of a case in which one John Doe, tramp, was tried for the "kidnap and murder" of a 20-month-old child...

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