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TRIAL BEGINS

Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2--Bruno Richard Hauptmann came face to face with Charles A. Lindbergh in the stuffy, postage stamp courthouse where he went on trial for the murder of a baby that also bore the name of Charles A. Lindbergh.

All day they sat there--seven feet apart--in their rickety pine chairs while the State of New Jersey began grinding away at the task of selecting a jury to try Hauptmann for the crime that stunned civilization.

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