THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1981
Page 7
State / National
By Scott McCullar
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What’s up
at Texas A&M
Tuesday
ISC POLITICAL FORUM: Members to camp overnight
enacting Texas prison system Tuesday at 2 p.m. to Wednesday at
I p in. by Rudder Fountain.
STUDENT “Y”; Thanksgiving service with Dean C. H. Ransdell
and the Century Singers at 8 p.m. in the All-Faiths Chapel.
|MK(.A Pill ALPHA NATIONAL SERVICE: Weekly
Kiting at 6:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. Pledge meeting following at
:3() p.m.
CONA: General committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
IORSEMENS ASSOCIATION: General business meeting at 7
p.m. in 115 Klegerg.
Ill ALPHA: Former Buddhist Chattra Tamang will be teaching
at T p.m. in 402 Rudder.
)CIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: Pictures
lor Aggieland and discussion of Houston Tool Show and next
I semester’s activities at 7:30 p.m. in 102 A&A.
lATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: International Stu
dents will have Bible Study at 8 p.m. in the Student Center.
1 Rosary will be said at 9 p.m. in church.
(i:\AS A&M WRESTLING: 7:30 against Texas in the Deware
ield House. i i
Wednesday
il.EPHANT WALK: Meet at Sulb at noon.
OMEGA PHI ALPHA N ATIONAL SERVICE SORORITY:
Weekly meeting at 6:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder. Pledge meeting
following at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday
TUDENT Y ASSOCIATION CONCESSIONS COMMITTEE:
Will be selling buttons, bumper stickers, and license plate
frames in the MSC Hallway 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
GOD SCIENCE CLUB: Will be selling pecans in MSC before,
during and after game.
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United Press International
DALLAS — A man is suing his
lawyer for not appearing at a di
vorce trial in 1979, charging that
because of the attorney’s absence
his former wife got most of his
property.
The suit, filed in state district
court by Robert Mootz, accuses
attorney Brian A. Eberstein of fail
ing to appear at the trial and sabo
taging Mootz’ chances of an equit
able settlement with his wife.
Eberstein says he is angry ab
out the suit and said it could ruin
him professionally. He said
Edmund Burke, the attorney for
Mootz’s former wife, told him and
his partner that the Dec. 10, 1979,
divorce trial had been resche
duled.
W.J. Morris, Eberstein’s for
mer law partner, accused Burke of
breaking an unwritten code of
conduct among attorneys that di
vorce lawyers inform each other of
changes in hearings or trials.
Burke said the problem was
caused by a misunderstanding.
“We were down at the court a
few days before the trial,” he said.
“Morris was there, and I told him
we needed to reset a contempt
motion regarding Mootz, who
wasn’t giving up some property he
was ordered to. I said that motion
was going to be set for the next
week.
“But I did not mention resetting
the trial dnd we did not do it. They
knew that. We were within two
feet of the clerk, and Morris
watched as she reset the contempt
hearing but not the trial. ”
Eberstein agreed there may
have been a misunderstanding but
said there was no reason to con
tinue the trial without him.
“If someone had called us and
said, ‘It’s time for the trial, get
down here,’ do you think we
didn’t want to go down there?” he
said. “Hell no, of course we re
going to be there. But no one even
called us from the courthouse.”
Eberstein added: “I don’t de
serve this kind of adverse public
ity. It is one big headache, very
disturbing, terribly unfair by
Mootz, and you can’t get some
thing like this off your mind. ”
Mootz, 54, currently spends
considerable time in Mexico and
makes a living off investments,
said Sheila O’Connor, the attor
ney now representing him in the
suit against Eberstein.
Mootz’s new attorney in the di
vorce case, Charles Robertson,
appealed to the Texas Supreme
Court, which does not hear di
vorce appeals. He has now
appealed to the nation’s highest
court, the U.S. Supreme Court,
seeking an order forcing the Texas
Supreme Court to hear the di
vorce appeal.
United Press International
§TST TRENTON, N.J. —
) cage-like rooms containing
lence from the “trial of the
tury” — including a ransom
2 and a nightgown of the infant
of aviator Charles Lindbergh
vere displayed Monday for the
:ouldset (time in 45 years,
to $3bl ilraost 90,()()() pages and pieces
vidence detailing the murder
kidnapping of 20-month-old
arles Lindbergh Jr. were sea-
after the 1936 trial of Bruno
iptmann, a German immigrant
rit ivicted of the slaying.
But Hauptmann’s widow, Anna
uptmann, last month sued the
teto gain access to the files, and
IT] v. Brendan Byrne ordered the
opened.
State police Friday set strin-
it ground rules for the viewing.
After a news conference, about
photographers and reporters
re allowed glimpses of mate-
jls in two 10-by-10 rooms. The
Raining documents are being
of Mai -
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ired in nine crates in a special
ini at state police headquarters
v jth (lit West Trenton.
One of the crates contains a sec-
« of the trunk of Hauptmann’s
develop
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Hauptmann’s lawyer, Robert
yan, said he would challenge
e restrictions put on the viewing
the evidence.
He said since state police will
ow only four researchers at a
ore to view the materials, it
Id take his team a year to corn-
evidence they need to prove
auptmann’s innocence.
I In the two rooms opened for
Rial viewing, photographic en-
|rgements of the Lindbergh
by, of the ransom note and of
le infant’s pajamas were dis-
layed.
The ransom note read: “Dear
Sir, have $50,000 ready. We warn
you for making anyding public or
for notify the police, the child is in
gute care.”
Another item displayed was a
poster, dated March 11, 1932, that
read, “Wanted: Information as to
whereabouts of Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., son of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, world famous
aviator.”
Hauptmann was convicted for
the March 1, 1932, kidnapping,
and was executed April 6, 1936, in
the electric chair at Trenton State
Prison.
Since Hauptmann’s trial, ques
tions have been raised about state
police conduct during the investi
gation, about whether Haupt
mann was justly convicted and
even about whether the Lind
bergh baby was really slain.
Two men — one from Bidde-
ford, Maine, the other from San
Francisco — wanted the evidence
released so they might be able to
bolster their claims to being the
Lindbergh baby. A number of
news agencies also are seeking to
examine the evidence.
Among the evidence that has
been kept in an empty cell is:
—-A crude wooden ladder iden
tified as having been fashioned
from planks from the floor of
Hauptmann’s attic;
—Blond curls saved by the
Lindbergh family that matched
hair found on the tiny corpse;
—Marked bills paid as ransom
and passed by Hauptmann in a
Bronx gas station and found in his
garage;
—A flannel shirt, worn by
Charles Jr., along with matching
threads from the dead baby’s
nightshirt.
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