Barbara Fahs had identified him from a photograph as the driver of the car into which Mrs. Bauer had stepped. The police reminded Hoffman that he was the licensed owner of a .25 calibre Colt. He said he had given the gun to his brother on 1 February, weeks before the crime. The police checked. Hoffman's brother admitted he had received it three days after the crime. Invited to account for his movements on the afternoon of 25 March, Hoffman stated he had been in New York City, where he had called on his broker. This statement was easily disproved when the broker denied seeing Hoffman that afternoon, and it took on a sinister significance when the broker told the police that Hoffman had telephoned, asking him to vouch for his presence at his office that afternoon.
芭芭拉·法斯也已根據(jù)一張照片確定，他就是鮑爾夫人搭乘的那輛車的司機(jī)。警方提醒霍夫曼，他合法擁有一只0.25口徑的柯爾特左輪手槍。霍夫曼說(shuō)，他已經(jīng)在2月1日，也就是犯罪發(fā)生前的幾個(gè)星期，把他的槍郵寄給了自己的兄弟。警察對(duì)此進(jìn)行了核實(shí)。但霍夫曼的兄弟承認(rèn)說(shuō)，他是在犯罪發(fā)生后的第三天收到槍的。3月25日下午，霍夫曼被傳訊，要求他對(duì)他的行為予以說(shuō)明。他解釋說(shuō)，他一直在紐約市，還在那里拜訪了他的經(jīng)紀(jì)人。而經(jīng)紀(jì)人否認(rèn)他在那天下午見過(guò)霍夫曼，于是這種解釋很輕易地就被證明是虛假的。而且，致命的是，那位經(jīng)紀(jì)人還告訴警方，霍夫曼曾給他打電話，要求他證明自己那天下午待在他的辦公室里。
Hoffman was charged with Mrs. Bauer's murder. At his trial the evidence against him was overwhelming. He had been identified near the scene of the crime as the man into whose car the dead woman had stepped. His attempts to fake an alibi exposed his guilty conscience. His Colt revolver was identified as the murder weapon by a famous ballistics expert of the New York Police Department.
霍夫曼被指控謀殺了鮑爾夫人。在案件審判中，對(duì)他不利的證據(jù)具有壓倒性的優(yōu)勢(shì)。他已經(jīng)被確認(rèn)當(dāng)時(shí)出現(xiàn)在犯罪現(xiàn)場(chǎng)附近，那位死去的女士坐進(jìn)了他的汽車。他試圖偽造不在場(chǎng)證明暴露了他的負(fù)罪感。他的柯爾特左輪手槍被紐約警察局一位著名的彈道學(xué)專家鑒定為殺人的兇器。
When sentence of "twenty years to life" was pronounced upon him, Hoffman screamed at District Attorney Fach, "Go split the reward with your lying witnesses." He was led away to serve his sentence in prison.
當(dāng)被判處“20年有期徒刑”時(shí)，霍夫曼朝地區(qū)檢察官法赫大喊道去和撒謊的證人們瓜分獎(jiǎng)金去吧。”他被帶走了，送到監(jiān)獄去服刑。
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