[4] The trial of Hauptmann attracted sightseers to the courthouse and the attached jail.

In October 1934, The New York Times reported that the courthouse was drawing hundreds of curious spectators.

[5] Edward J. Reilly was hired by the Daily Mirror to serve as Hauptmann's attorney.

The State also introduced photographic evidence demonstrating that the wood from the ladder left at the crime scene matched a plank from the floor of Hauptmann's attic.

His appeals were rejected, though New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman granted a temporary reprieve of Hauptmann's execution and made the politically unpopular move of having the New Jersey Board of Pardons review the case, though the Board found no reason to overturn the verdict.