Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1935 — Page 1

SENATE STUDIES 28 BILLS; FOUR AIMED AT CRIME Drastic Regulation of Possession and Sale of Machine Guns Is Provided for in One Measure. RECORD IS SET BY PROPOSED LAWS Extradition and Harboring of Criminal Statutes Would Be Strengthened in Other Proposals. Indiana’s war on crimp jrnt away to a fiyinjr start today in fhft Indiana State Senate with the introduction of four measures among the 2S hills which set anew record for the number of bills introduced this early in the session. A total of 24 bills were received in the House today, lhe rules were suspended to adopt the appropriations hill and one evtendinjr the delinquent tax moratorium one year with executive authority to extend it another year if necessary.

By a straight jlftrty vote, thp majority pushed through amendments to the rules by which bills may be passed in threp consecutive days, and removed the possibility of delays at the end of the session by requiring immediate action on motions to reconsider previous votes. The Senate proceeded briskly with enactment of bills under suspension of rhe rules brief recess for consideration of mils in committee Measures enacted as emergency legislation included the two bills necessary to straighten out a voters' resist ration and nomination tangle in the Second Congressional District. where Gov. McNutt has called a special election for Jan. 29 Other Senate measures passed under rules suspension with Democrats and Republicans co-operating acre a bill to extend the moratorium on delinquent tax sales another year, also passed in the House and the appropriations bill for $125,000, which already had been passed by the House. The Senate and House both voted to adjourn until 2 Monday afternoon to give members a chance to inspect bills and prepare committee reports Monday morning. Most important of the proposed Senate measures introduced in compliance with one section of Gov. Paul V. McNutt's message to a joint

Stream Pollution Attacked in Bill Backed by Sportsmen

The first of st series of 28 bills setting up new conservation laws and amendments were introduced in the General Assembly today at the instance of the Indiana Conservation Committee, acting through state conservation officials.

Every measure has been approved by the Conservation Committee, a croup of 16 representatives eleeted from the ranks of the more than 460 outdoorsmens clubs in Indiana. •‘We merely are agents for uie hunters and fishermen of the state." said M. Simmons. Conservation Commissioner. These bills have been dawn up bv representatives of the sportsmen of the state in several meetings in the last 18 months. They want these measures enacted." Os special interest to hunters and fishermen is an art called the Discretionary Bill, providing broad power to the fish and game division in suspending, abridging or mocifymg bag limits in sections of the state where conditions warrant the move. Another bill dealing with lake and stream pollution puts “teeth'’ in the present laws by providing that the Conservation Department may establish pollution standards, anct issue orders to abate any polluted condition The act also makes it a crime to violate these orders. State sportsmen, through their Conservation Committee, show a

Larger Share of State Tax Sought for Marion County

j measures designed to bring Marion County a greater proportionate shar? of state gasoline and gross income taxes were discussed by representatives of ‘he Chamber of Commerce and the Marion County delegation of the General Assembly at the Indisynapolis Athletic Club last

night. "While Indianapolis and Marion County do not expect to receive all they pay into these funds, we do ask lor fairer treatment in the division.” said William H Book, executive vice president of the Chamber. Mr. Book po.nted out that in the first eleven months of 1934. Marion County gross income tax collections amounted V’ 52716.126 but only SB3O 440 was returned to the county. Herbert Bloemker. county surveyor. presenter figures showing a similar disproportionate division of gasoline taxes The number of teaching units in each rdunty school systems governs the amount of return from these two funds. Senator Thomas A. Hendrirks. chairman of the Committee on Indianapolis Affairs in the Senate, will present the bill, which w-ill be outlined as a result of the conference Senator E Curtis White 'D., Indianapolis) announced that he

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.rc.mn of the House and Senate, is the uniform machine gun act. The bill fixes heavy penalties for illegal possession and failure t,o register such weapons. Possession on premises not ownpd or rented as a bona fide residence; finding of ammunition near the weapon; possession by a foreign-born person having been convicted of any crime of violence w’ould be regarded as possession with intent to use in a crime of violence. Use of ajnachine gun in a crime of violence would be punishable by imprisonment of 20 to 25 years. Manufacturers’ failure to make proper registration of machine guns would be punishable by a SSOO fine. on- 3 to five years' imprisonment, or both. Other proposed criminal statutes introduced in the Senate include extradition of insane persons, witnesses and alleged criminals and harboring of criminals. The latter measure, introduced oy Senator Leo X Smith <D. Indianapolis). is an echo of the John Dillinger case, in which Dillinger was alleged to have been shielded by his family at Mooresville. Harboring of criminals, even by relatives, who now’ are exempt under Indiana law, would be punishable by two to seven years imprisonment. A text book bill, introduced by Senator Chester K Watson (D., Ft. Wayne,) would empower school commissioners to purchase school text books at wholesale and rent them to parents at not more than 25 per cent of the wholesale cost for the school term.

willingness to be penalized if they are caught violating fish and game laws, by sponsoring a bill providing for seizure and condemnation of property used in the violation of these laws. This means that the hunter found shooting out of season may lose his gun. or the fisherman spotted with an undersized bass may have to give up his tackle. Along the same line is a proposed law providing for the revocation of the hunting and flshir.g license of any one convicted of violating any law for the protection of fish or game. Also there is a proposed amendment calling for a jail sentence on the first conviction of killing a deer or wuld turkey and making the jail sentence compulsory on a second offense. Sportsmen also hope to lower the bag limit on quail from 15 to 10 a day. They ask for an open season on mourning doves and pheasants at the discretion of the Conservation Department. They intend to make it unlawful to sell certain game fish in Indiana whether taken here or shipped in from another state.

would submit a bill providing that the Marion County Infirmary be taken over for operation by the state as a farm branch of the Central S'ate Hospital. Infirmary residents would be moved to the property now occupied by the Marion County Hospital for the insane at Julietta and Julietta patients would be transferred to the ! state-operated Central State Hospital or the proposed branch. FOG DISPERSED BY SUN Return of Fair Weather Accompanied by Lower Temperature. The low-hanging fog which covered Indianapolis from -Sunday until yesterday has lifted and todav dawned fair Weather bureau officials foresaw no return of the fog. they said. Colder weather coming from the northwest reached here last night, bringing the temperatures down to below freezing. *

„ Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; not much chanjre in temperature; lowest tonigrht about .->l.

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Albert Osborn Sr. One of the key-figures in the state's case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann is Albert S, Osborn Sr., who testified today.

DRUNKEN THUGS ROB PHARMACY Slug Clerk With Rifle Butt. Escape With Undetermined Loot. With an abandoned •'airflow” automobile as their only clew, police today were searching for three drunken hoodlums and their chauffeur who last night looted two cash registers and a safe at the Ivan Chaplin Pharmacy, 39 E. 34th-st, of several hundred dollars. One of the thugs sadistically beat a drug clerk on the head with the butt end of a rifle. The trio was masked. The fourth gang member waited outside the store at the wheel of an “airflow’” car. The bandits entered the store, menacing Frank Gates, 26. of 2017 Central-av. and Robert Harrison, 17, of 3175 Graceland-av. clerks. Mr. Gates, who w’as forced to open a safe, said he could smell liquor on their breaths. Mr. Gates and Mr. Harrison were commanded to lie on the floor. The hoodlums maliciously beat Mr. Gates on the head with the rifle as he lay on the floor, he told police. Mr. Chaplin this morning refused to make public the amount of money taken by the bandits. AMELIA EARHART TO START PACIFIC HOP Aviatrix to Leave Hawaii Today, Is Report. By f nth </ Pri ss HONOLULU. Jan. 11. —Amelia Earhart Putnam will take off today in a red monoplane on a 2400-mile flight across the Pacific Ocean to Oakland. Cal,, if the w’eather is favorable, the United Press learned from reliable sources. Although there was no official announcement of Miss Earhart's plans, the United Press source of information was considered authoritative. The plane is ready, its 500-horse power Wasp motor tuned to an exact rhythm by Army mechanics at Wheeler Field, its two-way 50-w’att voice radio broadcasting equipment thoroughly tested and ready to function. According to present plans the takeoff will be made sometime this evening. On that schedule. Miss Earhart who flew across the Atlantic alone in 1932. w’ould fly through the night to land in Oakland tomorrow morning. Russian Dies at 123 * By t nitrfl Pres* MOSCOW. Jan. 11.—Ivan Mashuphin. 123, died today in the Moscow’ clinic of patho-physiologv of an infectious disease. His age was authenticated by documents. Times Index Bridge 12 Broun 17 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 27 Curious World 27 Editorial . 18 Financial ■ 26 Food Pages 20-21 Hickman—Theaters 23 Pegler 17 Radio 24 Sports 22-23 State News 2g Woman's pages 12-13

Real Police Efficiency Begins Where Politics Ends

RETURNED from a trip of investigation to Milwaukee Chief Mike Morrissey and Corporation Coun#pl James E. Deery were prepared to submit to Mayor John W. Kern an enthusiastic report on the operation of the merit system in the Milwaukee police department. If the findings of Chief Morrissey and Mr. Deery influence Mayor Kern, as the two men hope they will, a bill to bring about adoption of the merit system in the police department here will be introduced in the current session of the General Assembly. Adoption of the merit system long has been urged by The Indianapolis Times. The two investigators will report to the mayor that they attribute the success of the Milw*aukee police department, which often has been called the most efficient

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935

HAUPTMANN WROTE ALL RANSOM, NOTES, SCRIPT EXPERT DECLARES

CLAIMS JUDGE PROMISED TO SPARE KILLER Murray Offered to Save Dillinger From Chair, Piquett Says. By f nilrfl Prr** CHICAGO. Jan. 11.—Louis P. Piquett. squat and bushy haired mouthpiece” for the outlaws of John Dillinger's gang, revealed from the witness stand in Federal Court today that he had been promised by an Indiana, judge that Dillinger would be saved from death in the elertric chair if he surrendered. Piquett’s testimony, given in the hushed court room of Judge William Holly where he is on trial on charges of being the “master mind" of the Dillinger mob. named Judge William J. Murray of Crown Point. Ind„ as offering the promise. He denied conspiring with Dillinger—although he admitted meeting the outlaw in Chicago a few hours after the famous toy gun episode—and hotly refuted the statements of a dozen Government witnesses that he arranged for plastic surgery operations on the faces of the Hoosier outlaw and Homer Van Meter for a price of SIO,OOO. “Did you ever see Judge Murray in Chicago?” Piquett's attorney l asked him. “Yes,” Piquett answered quickly. “I saw him some time in May in the Ford Exposition Building at a Century of Progress. My wife was with me and W’e talked for a half hour about the Dillinger case.” Q—What did Judge Murray talk with you about? A —l asked him what w’ould happen if Dillinger sur- ! rendered and returned to Crown | Point? Q —What did he tell you? A—He ; said that if he w’as tried and.the j jury found him guilty and imposed i the death penalty he would com- j mute it to one of life imprisonment! because he did not believe Dillinger j personally was responsible for the | slaying of Officer O’Malley. Officer William O'Malley of the ; East Chicago police was killed in his attempts to frustrate a holdup of the East Chicago State Bank in the fall of 1933. Dillinger was arrested in Tucson, Ariz., on the charge and returned to the jail at Crown Point ir. January of 1934. Q —Did you tell Dillinger of your conversation with Judge Murray? A—Yes. I saw him here in Chicago, on the near north side, tw’o or three days later. I told him w’hat Judge Murray had said and begged him to surrender, but he wasn't very much interested. LIQUOR SIGNS BANNED IN PROPOSED MEASURE Black Sponsors Rill Aimed at Exterior Advertising. Display of exterior signs advertis- i ing brands of alcoholic beverages ] offered for sale would be prohibited if the General Assembly adopts a bill introduced today by Rep. Wil-1 liam J. Black <D.. Anderson). The bill strikes at signs on the j exterior of buildings, stores or rooms in w’hich alcoholic beverages are j sold, and declares violation to be a j misdemeanor, punishable by a fine | of not less than $25 nor more than| SSO. Each day the display of illegal signs is continued would constitute a separate violation. SAFER SCHOOL BUSSES IS OBJECT OF BILL .— Shatter-Proof Glass and Steel Bod- ' ies Called For. A bill requiring steel bodies and nonshatter glass in all school busses \ in use in Indiana was introduced in ; the House of Representatives today by Rep. William J. Black <D., Anderson) . The use of wooden body busses would be wholly prohibited after j Sept. 1. 1939. under the bill, and installation of the new conforming equipment would be at the rate of one a year in districts having five busses now in use.

in the country, to the four factors which Jacob Laubenheimer, Milwaukee chief, has named as the most important in his City's program of crime prevention and suppression. These are (1) The sound and constructive laws under which the Milwaukee pol.ee department operates; 1 2) the permanent tenure of office of the department's executive heads. <3* the complete absence of politics from the department, ana <4* the sincere cooperation of the public and the press with the police. Yesterday in an address before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Mayor Kern pledged himself to encourage the civil service system of appointing municipal employes and the operation of the police and fire departments on a non-political basis.

$31,420 OF RANSOM MONEY STILL NOT LISTED AS FOUND

Ay Lnited Pr>s* FLEMINGTON. N. J , Jan. 11.— Testimony at thp trial of Bruno Hauptmann today showed the following accounting of the Lindbergh ransom money: Demanded by the extortioner. $70,000. Paid by Col. Lindbergh, through Dr. J. F. Condon, to “John,” $50,000. Recovered at intervals, chiefly in New York, as “passed” bills, $3980. Recovered from the Hauptmann premises in the Bronx, $14,600. Total recovered. $18,580. Still unaccounted for, $31,420.

MILK CONTROL BILL OPPOSED Two of City’s Three Producing Units Voice Opposition to Legislation. Trouble in the Indianapolis milk industry, apparently at peace since Dec. 1 w’hen a price agreement ended a definite threat of a milk holiday, flared again today as a bill for the control of the industry was considered for introduction into the Legislature. Although the bill is not written, but only being considered, by Lieut. Gov. Clifford Townsend’s committee of distributors and producers, it had developed considerable opposition from at least two of the three cooperative organizations for producers. The Independent Milk Producers’ Association. Inc., apparently leading the opposition, distributed a twopage argument against it, and the Indianapolis Dairy Produce Council announced through J. D Littleton, manager, that it opposed the bill. These tw’o organizations have approximately 2400 farmer members, of the 3400 farmers in the Indianapolis milk shed who are organized. There are about 6000 dairy farmers in the milk shed. The Indianapolis Manufacturers of Dairy products, an organization of distributors, through its chairman, Guy Roberts, who also is a member of the Lieutenant Governor’s committee, said his organization would be for “any bill that appeared to be to the best interests of producers, consumers and distributors.” The bill is almost an exact duplicate of one written for Illinois by the Chicago Pure Milk Association, a powerful co-operative farmers group that staged, a year ago. a milk w’ar in the. Chicago rrffrK shed. Co-operative associations here said they considered it too expensive and political to be feasible. Lieut. Gov. Towmsend said, when the opposition was called to his attention, that “any one who opposes this bill is against legislation in the industry.”

TODAY'S WEATHER

Hourlv Temperatures 6a. m 31 10 a. m 36 7 a. m 32 11 a. m 39 8 a m 33 12 (noon).. 39 9 a. m 34 1 p. m 42 Tomorrow's sunrise, 7:06 a. m.; sunset, 4:41 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, 11 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.02 at sf> level; temperature, 32; general conditions. clear, hazy; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, three miles. VANDAL SLASHES TIRES Cars Parked Near Church Suffer, Pastor Tells Police. A vandal wantonly has been slashing with a knife and ruining tires on -autos parked near the United Brethren Church, 704 Park-av, its pastor, the Rev. George F. Snyder, reported to police today. •

Mayor kern win be told of the method of appointments and promotions used by the Milwaukee police. All preliminary appointments are made by a non-partisan Board i of Fire and Police Commissioners, ; after which *he appointees must pass rigid physical, written and oral examinations before they can be admitted into a six-months police training school. When they have completed this course of instruction, the rookies are sent out with older policemen j until they become thoroughly familiar with the routine of police life. Examinations also are given which must be passed before any patrolman is eligible for promotion and these promotions, as well as demotions, can be made only by I the board and the chief. Police salaries are high, begin-

ILL 0’ WISP MAYOR SHOWS i UP JN COURT Bangs Appears at Hearing and Citizens Go Wild With Joy. BY TIPTON BLISH Times Staff Writer HUNTINGTON, ind.. Jan. 11.— Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs came home today! Dramatically, as he left New 1 Year’s Day with a rollicking skip ahead of the sheriff, the Mayor today astounded his cheering citizens by walking into the very Circuit j Court whose order he has beer, avoiding. He sat dowm at the defendants' i table along with City Attorney j Claude Cline and. sternly repn- ; manded by the court and ordered to cease any further demonstration, the j overalled citizens subsided into an awed silence. The hearing proceeded. It w’as on I an order issued by the circuit Court i New Year’s Day on application of | the Northern Indiana Power Cos. re- j straining the City of Huntington from entering into the commercial j or residential electric pow’er business which the city since then has continued stubbornly to do. First Official Appearance Attorney Cline and J. P. Adkins, superintendent of utilities, were served with the rstraining order as their men on that historic day connected the first home with municipal power and carried out a campaign pledge within an hour after going into office. But the Mayor, a former college president and a lawyer with an international license, left the city and since then, unencumbered by the court .order the sheriff never was able t® serve, has directed further work fri connections until a total of nearly 50 customers have been connected. When the Mayor seated himself ; at the defendants table today it was the first time he had been officially present in the city for 11 days. “What, are your plans?” The Indianapolis Times asked him. Attorneys Wrangle Bitterly “I have no statement to make other tharTthat no matter what action this court takes I shall have the j work go along the same, lines.” the Mayor said. “I have the organization perfected to do it and many potential customers have agreed to take municipal service when we can get to them.” The Mayor’s entrance into the court w r as not the only disconcerting event of the court day for the attorneys of the Northern Indiana Power Cos. When court took up at 10 before Special Judge David Smith, in walked pint-sized Attorney Cline, n three-m-one defendant and defense attorney in addition. The other two defendants. Mayor Bangs and Adkins. did not appear. “How,” asked the company's attorneys, Fred Bow’ers and Milo N. Feitner. “can we conduct a hearing if there are no defendants?” The crowd guffaw’Cd. “I Am the Defendants” “I am the defendants,” said pintsized Attorney Cline, and not as the defendants, but as their attorney, he asked the court to name a bond which he said the company should post to guarantee payment for any damage that might come to the city’s property because of the re- j straining order. Attorney Bow’ers mentioned $25,- j ''oo. There was much argument j and finally Attorney Cline said he thought that would be all right. Then the judge said he thought it was all right. Attorney Bowers jumped to his feet. He had changed his mind. “I ' think that’s a ridiculous amount,” he stormed. The packed courtroom booed. Then there was a general discussion about reduction of the bond to $15,000 and. on being asked by the court. Attorney Cline said he had no objection. ;

ning at $l6O a month for patrolmen. and retirement pensions and pensions are high enough so that a policeman may live comfortably without other means of support after his retirement. Mayor Kern also will be told by Chief Morrissey of the palatial Safety Building in which the Milwaukee police headquarters are located and of the complete and elaborate equipment with which the department is provided. After an envious inspection of the building. Chief Morrissey expressed the hope that Indianapolis mignt some day be able to secure a grant of Federal money for the construction of a similar building. Chief Morrissey and Mr. Deery discussed the operation of the merlTsystem yesterday with Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Milwauk" a Socialist chief executive for the last 18 years. Mayor Hoan sard

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Bruno’s Face Is Death-Like Mask as Famed Scientist Describes Similarities and Peculiarities to Jury. $14,600 ‘BLOOD MONEY’ IS EXHIBITED Federal Ag-ent Identifies Lindbergh Bills Recovered From Bronx Garage; Fear Bruno May Attempt Suicide. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE I’niled Press Staff Correspondent FLEMINGTON, N. J„ Jan. 11.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his face, a death-like mask, today heard himself described as the author of the Lindberjrh ransom notes. Albert S. Osborn, handwriting expert and scientist, declared: 1. All the ransom notes were written by the same hand. 2. The writing in the ransom notes stamps them as the product of Hauptmann, as proved by Hauptmann’s script in other documents, Mr. Osborn described the contents of the notes, and placed before the jury a graphic picture of their similarities and peculiarities, of which he noted, he said, “seven or eight.”

GOLD LAW MAY BE HELD VOID High U. S. Officials Are Fearful of Supreme Court Ruling. By £ nited Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Supreme Court Justices pounded Government counsel in the momentous gold cases with renewed questions today regarding power of the Government to abbrogate its promise to pay bondholders in money of the value that existed before devaluation of the gold dollar. The Government appeared so concerned over the persistent questioning of its position that Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings unexpectedly returned to the court and made a last-minute effort to bolster arguments supporting abrogation of gold clauses in more than SIOO,000.000.000 of obligations. Government counsel had been confident at the outset of the hearing Tuesday that the court unquestionably would sustain Congress’ action. But under day after day of questioning in the somber Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol, they were so worried that Mr. Cummings rushed into the breach to make the closing summation. BOTH HOUSES PASS TAX SALE MEASURE Provides for Continuance of Moratorium. A bill continuing the moratorium on the saleb of properties for delinquent taxes for another year, was passed by the House of Representatives today under suspension of rules. It was introduced by Rep. Lenhardt- E. Bauer <D.. Terre Haute). The measure, carrying out the recommendations of Gov. Paul V. McNutt’s annual message, gives the Governor power to extend the moratorium for a second year if conditions require. Rep. Bauer said he was introducing the measure early in the session to prevent the advertising of properties for sale at an expense of between $50,000 and $60,000. The bill creating the 1934 moratorium was passed so late in the session last year that legal advertising had been started and expense incurred. Also acting under suspension of rules, the Senate passed the moratorium bill shortly after the House action. Peace Leader Dies in East PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 11.— The Rev. William Harrison Short. 66. a leader in the promotion of international peace, died of a hean attack during a business conference yesterday.

that he was proud of the record of the Milwaukee police, but he declared that a law providing for the establishment of the merit system was not pnough to assure an honest and efficient police department. “While the merit system is the major part of an efficient police department,” Mayor Hoan said, “it must be remembered that corrupt department officials or a corrupt city administration can ruin any police force and destroy the good in any law. “If politics are allowed to creep in. the men on the force .nay feel that they are being discriminated against, citizens will lose their respect for the police and the police will lose the good will of the public which is so necessary for the efficient operation of the department."

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He called attention to the repeated use of the word “singnature” for “signature” and “ingnore” for “ignore.” Before the handwriting expert, a key witness in the. prosecution’s case, was called to testify, the court had received for identification the bundle ot $14,600 in ransom bills that, was dug from hiding places in Hauptmann's garage in the Bronx. Frank J. Wilson, interne 1 Revenue Intelligence Officer, identified the money and told of thp Government's tracing other ransom bills from shops and other sources in New York. 1 The most striking testimony he offered was that since Hauptmann’s arrest, no further ransom money has been recovered. But he qualified the statement, under cross-examination, by saying that he could not check every place in the world to determine the truth of his belief. Schwarzkopf on Stand % The defense explored deeply the facts surrounding a deposit of nearly S3OOO in ransom bills in the Federal Reserve Bank, on a slip signed “J. J. Faulkner” which was not, in Hauptmann’s handwriting, but the state .countered with the suggestion that it was passible for any person to sign a fictitious name to such a deposit slip. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the New Jersey State Police, testified briefly to specimens of Hauptmann's handwriting, immediately before Mr. Osborn was called to the stand. Mr. Osborn dwelt in detail upon the similarity of the symbols at the bottom of each ransom note, declaring that they could not. have been made from “description,” since they were mechanically identical, and the three “pin holes” in each were not "perforations” but “pnehed by somp crude mechanical device.” “Hold them up to the light together. and you can see through the punches—they are identical,” he says. Devoted Life to Study Court, recessed for lunch while Mr, Osborn was telling his engrossing story. Mr. Osborn, elderly, scholarly, and a man who had devoted his entire career to a study of handwriting, was regarded as one of the state's most important witnesses. Direct examination was conducted by Joseph Lanigan. special assistant attorney general. Mr. Osborn is slightly deaf and the questions were shouted at him. Q—What is your profession? A—l am an examiner of disputed handwriting. He said he had operated in 39 states, Canada, had been in business for more than 30 years. He said he had written the books, "Questioned Documents” and the “Problem of Proof.” Honored by ReilD Q —Have you testified ir homicide cases in New Jersey? A—Yes. Attorney Edward J. Reilly declined to cross-examine the witness for his qualification, saying: “The defense is willing to admit the witness studied all of these writings if he said he did.” Mr. Osborn asked the court if ne could use a mechanical device to improve his hearing. Judge Thomas W. Trenchard gave permission. Q—When did you first see the ransom notes? A—ln May, 1932. Q—Did you photograph them? A—l did. Q —Havp you made further examinations? A—Yes, and of their photographs during the past two and a half years. Q —Tell us of the work. A—l examined the handwriting of more than 100 persons suspected of being the writers. Q —And did you reach a conclusion ? A—Yes. that the writer had not been found. Q —Did you examine the disputed notes and Bruno Hauptmann’s writing? A—Yes. Q —What opinion have you reached? A—My conclusion is that all the ransom notes were written by the writer of certain papers signed Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Hauptmann sat staring at the witness. His face had just a touch of color in it. Mr. Osborn went on to .say how (Turn to Page Three)