Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1935 — Page 9

FEB. 13.1933

MORE THAN 100 WITNESSES TESTIFY IN BRUNO’S TRIAL

STATE CHARGES HAUPTMANN WAS KIDNAPER, KILLER AND TAKER OF $50,000 RANSOM Dav-by-Day Summary of Case Reveals Methods Used by Prosecution to Tie Crime to Stolid German Carpenter. Bt tnliH freii The steps by which the state of New Jersey built up its murder case ajjainst Kruno Richard Hauptmann, and the efforts of the defense to combat the relentless piling up of

evidence, are detailed in the following day-by-day summary of the trial: WEDNESDAY. JAN. 2 Trial opens. “Jersey justice" moves swiftly with rapid selection of ten Jurors. THURSDAY, JAN. 3 Jury of eight men and four wornfen sworn. David T. Wilentz. stf.te prosecutor, outlines case against Hauptmann, branding him as the kidnaper, murderer and receiver of the $.50.00® ransom money. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh go trrough hea-t-b r eaking ordeal of telling of the events on the night of March i, 1932. FRIDAY, JAN. 4 Col. Lindbergh, stoical after the strain of identifying tne mutilated clothing of his dead son. identifies Hauptmann positively as the owner of the voice he heard m the Bronx cemetery on the night of the ransom negotiations. MONDAY, JAN. 7 Betty Gow, the baby s nurse, tearfully tells her story of the night of the kidnaping and identifies the Infant's sleeping suit and other garments. The state has now presented its basic facts of kidnaping, murder. identification of the victim and the payment of ransom money. TUESDAY, JAN. 8 The state builds up its rase to link Hauptmann both with the kidnaping and the acceptance of the ransom. Joseph Perrone, Bronx taxicab driver, identifies Hauptmann as the man who gave him $1 ton March 12. 1932, to take a note to Dr. John F. Condon, or “Jafsie,” the ransom negotiator for Lindbergh. Amandus Hnchmuth, 87-year-old Fiemington resident. Identifies Hauptmann as a man he sawin an automobile with a ladder near the scene on March 1. Hauptmann creates scene by calling one witness a "liar" and the other “crazy.” A1 Reich, associate of ••Jafsie,” and others pave way for Dr. Condon's testimony. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 9 Dr. Condon identifies Hauptmann positively as the "Joi.n” who accepted the ransom money in the cemetery. “John is Bruno Richard Hauptmann.” he cries dramatically. THURSDAY. JAN. 10 Under cross-examination. Dr. Condon proves an alert witness and disappoints any hope the defense may have had of ‘‘making a monkey of him.” Col. Henry Breckinridge. lawyer and friend of Col. Lindbergh, upholds and approves the actions in the negotiations of Dr. Condon. FRIDAY. JAN 11 Albert S. Osborn, famed handwriting expert, testifies unequivocally that Hauptmann wrote all the | ransom notes. The $14,600 of ran--9 som bills found in Hauptmann's garage is introduced in evidence. MONDAY. JAN 14 The state Introduces a surprise witness. Miss Hildecarde Alexander. 26, New York clothes model, who testified she saw Hauptmann "shadowing “Jafsie” in the Bronx in March. 1932. A second handwriting expert corroborating Mr. Osborn's testimony. TUESDAY. JAN. 15 Two more handwriting experts testify Hauptmann wrote all the ransom notes. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 16 Four more handwriting experts brand Hauptmann as the writer of the ransom notes. THURSDAY. JAN. 17 Thomas H. Sisk. Department of Justice agent in charge of the squad which arrested Hauptmann, tells of the raid on Hauptmann's garage, the finding of ransom money and how Hauptmann lied about It. Hauptmann shouts "liar” at him. Twentyfive witnesses establish the fact of the finding of the ransom money on Hauptmann's premises.

FRIDAY, JAN’. 18 Mrs. Ella Achenbach, Bronx neighbor of the 'tauptmanns. testi- ! lies that the ca.penter was limping shortly after the kidnaping and Mrs. Hauptmann explained he had sprained his ankle. Mrs. Hauptmann told her that she and Haupt- : n’.ar.n had been away on a tnp. she ! says. Mrs. Hauptmann cries • liar" at her. A board taken from a closet in Hauptmann’s home, with Dr. Condon's telephone number and address penciled on it. is introduced. Police testify Hauptmann had admitted writing It. but only because he was "interested in the case." MONDAY. JAN. 21 A New York movie cashier identifies Hauptmann as the man who passed her $3 of the ransom money. Hauptmann's employer on a New York building project, where the prisoner said lie worked at the time of the kidraping. testifies Hauptmann did not work on March 1. date of the kidnaping, nor on April 2. day of the ransom payment. An accountant of the JJnited States Internal Revenue Bureau, testifies in detail about $44,486 of "sudden wealth" which Hauptmann possessed after April 2. 1932. TUESDAY. JAN. 22 The Udder used in the kidnaping is Introduced In evidence, also a chisel found nearby which the prosecution contended was one missing from Hauptmann's tool chest and fitted chisel marks on the ladder. Tr.o more witnesses testify they saw Hauptmann near the Lindbergh homo at about the

time of the kidnaping. The landlord of Hauptmann's Bronx home identifies a board taken from the attic of the house, which the state says formed part of the ladder, the remainder having come from a lumber yard where Hauptmann once worked. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 23 Four more witnesses link the ladder with the attic board and the lumber yard where Hauptmann worked. Arthur Koehler, lumber expert of Madison, Wis., makes the identification positive. THURSDAY, JAN. 24 The state rests and the stolid German carpenter goes on the stand in his own defense. He presents alibis, claiming to have been at home on the night of the kidnaping and the night the ransom money was paid. A neighboring bakery owner and his wife support the aiibi, but are not positive. FRIDAY. JAN. 25 Haptmarn, still on stand, appears upset and uncertain under merciless cross-examination. He cffzrs more alibis and says his sudden wealth came from previous savings and money given to him by the late Isidor Fisch. a business associ?.e. who subsesquently died in Germany. He admits writing “boad” for "boat” in his diary, which corresponds to the spelling In the ransom notes. MONDAY. JAN. 28 Hauptmann wavers and grows confused and angry under five hours of cross-examination by Mr. Wilentz. He admits he had told many lies since his arrest, including statements in the Bronx court under oath. TUESDAY, JAN. 29 Letters from Hauptmann to Fisch’s brother are introduced, in which Hauptmann wrote that he had begun business dealings with Fisch in the spring of 1933, although he had testified previously that the profitable association began in 1932. Hauptmann's own books are introduced to show that he had received only $3737 from Fisch not $15,000 as he had testified. Hauptmann insists the account book> Vers incomplete. Bank deposit slips are introduced to show Hauptmann had made unusually large deposits of silver, indicating he had gotten rid of ransom notes and banked the proceeds in silver. Although he had made out the slips, Hauptmann declared he merely must have written on the wrong line, showing silver deposits when he meant checks or currency. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30 Mrs. Hauptmann supports her husband's alibis about his whereabouts on the night of the kidnaping and the payment of the ransom. She admits under crossexamination, however, that she testified at the Bronx extradition hearing she did not know where Hauptmann was on March 1. Elbert Caristrom, a Swede acquaintance of Mrs. Hauptman, testifies he saw Hauptmann in a Bronx bakery on the night of March 1. He is vague and evasive under crossexamination, a fact commented on by the bench. THURSDAY. JAN. 31 Two more witnesses positively identify Hauptmann as having been in the Bronx on the night of March 1. State brings out that one was a bootlegger and the other the operator of a speakeasy. A former convict testifies he encountered two men in an automobile with a ladder on March 1 who asked the way to the Lindbergh home, and neither was Hauptmann. John M. Trendley, defense handwriting expert, is admitted as an expert despite the state's efforts to discredit his qualifications. FRIDAY, FEB. 1 Trendley testifies that in his opinion Hauptmann wrote none of the ransom notes. He throws discredit on the methods of Mr. Osborn. Peter H. Sommer Identifies pictures of the late Violet Sharpe and the late Isidor Fisch and says he saw them with a “blond baby about two years old” coming over from New Jersey to Manhattan on the Weehawken Ferry at midnight March 1, 1932. On cross-examination, Sommers becomes badly confused and makes almost no positive statements. MONDAY. FEB. 4 Five alibi witnesses called by the defense fail to answer their subpenas. Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf. superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, testified that a duplicate ladder like the one used in the kidnaping broke in tests under a weight of 180 pounds, which was the combined weight at that time of Hauptmann and the child. Nin e other witnesses support Hauptmann's case. TUESDAY. FEB. 5 Five more defense witnesses fail to appear. Twelve testify, most in support of Hauptmann's claim that the late Isador Fisch gave him the ransom money. A Brooklyn restaurant cashier testifies he saw Fisch jump over the Bronx cemetery wall on the night of the ransom payment. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6 Dr. Erastus Mead Hudson, New York physician and student of fingerprinting. says his methods would disclose finger prints on the ladder for six months after the kidnaping, but that tests showed none made by Hauptmann, although plenty by other handlers THURSDAY. FEB. 7 Eleven defense witnesses appear, three of them supporting Haupt-

The Artists Take a Peek at Fiemington

_ 4, I ill nlUtfl IiLI V I ! } tis the 6V crime. P Lindbergh app U 8 if IrJpSfcKV calm, weighed his words and se< M If , to make every effort to be h 1 4 ■> Mrs. Lindbergh Tearfully, The fury is polled ...The defendant flicks not an eyelash sSdskc suit in which the LINDBERGH CASE vsfisr COST ESTIMATE |Hp, £h ft SSSPjI TOPS $600,000 iiiipS Flier Spent $25,000 in Ad- |T SN 'gC* s ® r '. /pN V* ' dition to Ransom, Fig- 1 &7f\ f iITTj her with the ut- 1 Mre . Lindb ;; ures Show. |! 'MO uwette tetu* // I Sid afterh™"testimony, she did Bt United Press |l IS Wimt A ffiS WSTAK'S • 1 /& J l\V II? appear at the trial again. From the night of March 1. 1932, 4 / \ / j,'j *!'m \\ f. ([ Betty Gow’s Story Unshakei until the present day, the Lindbergh | \ A ’ r/)l if 8 case has cost the government and ,1* Us < / j i\ •') .. |\ J j 'll * j$ Betty Gow —The comely, 30-y the various agencies engaged in r VN? / \ tl / l Mjj ll old Scottish nursemaid, suppo tracking down the perpetrator, more (V / Pr jit j \ Itii |j the story of Col. and Mrs. Lindb than $600,000. V. f lO(LJ / /] \: in every detail. She wept with Including the $50,000 ransom he A ATOi.])) If lls / l | 1/I \ 'jnf \ mistakable grief in telling a 1 paid—of which he will receive back jfiCHjjffVvO.) jvvw fl / \ I .Ijj t | the baby. Her testimony she nearly $15,000 found in Bruno Rich- S ; 1 /£. I * j 1 a . fjj :\ U that the clothing the baby wore ard Hauptmann's garage—Col. \L \ 'R J . / ll T \ *■ J\ ji fore the kidnaping and when he Charles A. Lindbergh has spent at Ji I 1; j //VJI found dead was identical —evid least $75,000. His friend, Col. Henry pftxiwl * rnilWft vV > -■* .\| j If designed to prove that the sarr C. Breckinridge, has spent another P& H i l 111 i / I submitted by the ransom taker c SIO,OOO. The efforts to run down FW >J‘ f 0 w \ V 7 I) ' \ from the kidnaper and murd false clews, suen as those presented iWi \UKjjjfEfJ 'r-vVV S } l * s j\. Miss Gow was calm under <p in the John Hughes Curtis hoax, im f //// J U/i a l \ examination, parrying deftly e cost at least $15,000. , h / / j f i \ ) effort of Defense Counsel Reill A conservative estimate of the ml y ( I \ ( shake her testimony. various costs would show approxi- WnT V\? |\ - ) School S CUT W Dr. John F. Condon—The J: mately the following figures: / I* i l\ | \ \ TW6 TCCATCH A who conducted the ransom negc cot. i,in' , brgh $ 75,00n C / I | 1 =a_-X\ \ ! \ OF LMVY tions —the state’s most impor Col. Brrrkenri Ige IO.ftOO fit I ■ 1 Vlk V 1 . . TO itnpt;<i The benian 74-Veai rolice and detectives 28t,m H / + T A V I Witness. ine uexngii, it yya Telephones, telegrams and cables.. 20,000 w I /fesr'i / ll lU \ ' Bronx educator Was dramatic SSrifKSJWSSiW.- M “ \ IIZS JLh V ‘ torcelin joming off far Jrom charts so.ooo 1 v l ond-best in the sarcastic, badge exhibiU :: M • efforts of the defense to disc: cost of trial loo.oeo w Ns. x him. “John—(the name used Total 5 929 000 the ransom taker) — is Bruno E ' ard Hauptmann,” Dr. Condon s' 1 decisively. He identified Ha TF • 1 T\/T*l i jSTZZZJ- "SgPTTH mannas the man he encount Kidnap Milestones and^ nB thd rac Bv United Press ~ VS&L; fl] Joseph Perrone Young Bi Milestone dates in the shocking Lindbergh crime, from its inception \ji taxicab driver. He ident to today’s dramatic climax in court at Fiemington: _ A | Hauptmann as the man who f March 1. 1932—Lindbergh baby snatched from cradle at Hopewell, 11V Q ! ' ' !l im rinrinp a the & ran K. J. Note*demanding 550.000 ransom left behind. J&F * if \ S & JS? March 2—Nation rocked by indignation and grief. Police from '■.■>' ; t declared, placing his hand on Ha' coast to coast on alert. mann’s shoulder. “You are a li March 4—Henry (Red) Johnson, friend of baby’s nursemaid, Betty 1 !-/_; growled Hauptmann. Gow. arrested. Later exonerated. Miss Gow and other servants M ' y 7v / •[ i Amandus Hockmuth—The 87-y absolved. '3l fy •>? old resident of Hopewell, g: March 22—John H. Curtis of Norfolk, Va., perpetrates cruel hoax, j|"/Hi sending the agonized Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase by pretend- > \\■: /i:H | ing to have clew to baby's whereabouts. (Curtis later fined and sen- ,U• _ ! ’ 1 !-I • y * tenced to jail, although jail sentence was remitted.) April 2—John F. Condon (Jafsie) pays $50,000 ransom in Bronx j A '• I *> ? 1 t j Cemetery. Trip to Massachusetts waters, as directed by ransom recip- 7 |y J i ’ j |' I May s—Gaston B. Means obtains $104,000 from Mrs. E. B. McLean l • j J 1 in Lindbergh baby hoax. (Convicted and imprisoned) | '!, feaMßP r " 1 •'" % * 1 I May 12—Baby’s body found near home. I[j \ | 1 June 10—Violet Sharpe, maid in Dwight W. Morrow home, com- 1 i . "ffilp ! ; 0; /tg&p • ||lisk\. > mits suicide, hysterical over police questioning. \ j : AESftW 1; Feb. 10. 1933—Federal authorities take charge of investigation, 1 I AWak'\ ifEL i< j starting patient laying of net for ransom notes. *i l \W\ fej*. ; It U !■ J Sept, 18. 1934—Hauptmann arrested in the Bronx. Ransom bills 4 • !j i i and other evidence found as garage is torn to pieces. ; [jjj*? t /''' Sept. 27—Hauptmann pleads not guilty in Bronx County court and Oct.^8 —Indicted on charge of murder by Hunterdon County grand ~~ if Oct. 19—Hauptmann extradited to Flem.ngton. y / e\, ** /\m MmU' Oct. 24—Hauptmann arraigned in Fiemington. Pleads not guilty. r'^ credibility of Millard Whit.ed \! 1 iJ logger, who testified for the state V>OULnSOI V. : f j .l i&M \ that he saw Hauptmann lurking j /if. #****¥■ \ near the Lindbergh estate at about . JP&Sm /. j(\\ f 1 f~/\ KW ~J \ Thunderer Reilly Faces • 'fW te”kL Alf - the Calm, the Cold, the Jj 13/ from the match. Logical Wilentz. // j\ Ku gg pßp : Wfl' f. ' more testimony experts to pDWARD J. REILLY, chief of * ijf Hauptmann’s attic and after calling counsel which defended f-rS^ a vntness who testifies he saw a Bruno Richard Hauptmann, is "'-y -gii ••. man other than Hauptmann with popularly known as the "Bull of \\ Wf, the ladder in a car near Princeton, I Brooklyn > N. J., March 1, 1932. The state be- . , , , . .i, gan rebuttal, calling witnesses— There is no nickname for his v/oi-’l'k* 4V ' V£are.;" including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jung opponent, Atty. Gen. David T. —to show Fisch could not have been Wilentz. the dark and fiery “polit-

LINDBERGH CASE COST ESTIMATE TOPSSGOO.OOO Flier Spent $25,000 in Addition to Ransom, Figures Show. Bv United Press From the night of March 1. 1932, until the present day, the Lindbergh case has cost the government and the various agencies engaged in tracking down the perpetrator, more than $600,0C0. Including the $50,000 ransom he paid—of which he will receive back nearly $15,000 found in Bruno Richard Hauptmann's garage—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has spent at least $75,000. His friend, Col. Henry C. Breckinridge, has spent another SIO,OOO. The efforts to run down false clef s, suen as those presented in the John Hughes Curtis hoax, cost at least $15,000. _ A conservative estimate of the various costs would show approximately the following figures: Col. I.inrfbvrKh $ 75,000 Col. BrerkenrUee 10,000 Police and detective, 284,000 Telephones, trlrrrams and cable,.. 20.000 Trips to Europe by officers 5,000 Cost of handwriting expert, and chart, 50,000 Cost of wood expert and exhibits.. 10,000 Federal expenditures <5.000 Cost of trial 100,000 Total $839,000

Kidnap Milestones

B -f United Frees Milestone dates in the shocking Lindbergh crime, from its inception to today's dramatic climax in court at Flemington: March 1, 1932—Lindbergh baby snatched from cradle at Hopewell, N. J. Note*demanding $50,000 ransom left behind. March 2—Nation rocked by indignation and grief. Police from coast to coast on alert. March 4—Henry (Red) Johnson, friend of baby’s nursemaid, Betty Gow. arrested. Later exonerated. Miss Gow and other servants absolved. March 22—John H. Curtis of Norfolk, Va., perpetrates cruel hoax, sending the agonized Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase by pretending to have clew to baby’s whereabouts. (Curtis later fined and sentenced to jail, although jail sentence was remitted.) April 2—John F. Condon (Jafsie) pays $50,000 ransom in Bronx Cemetery. Trip to Massachusetts waters, as directed by ransom recipient, proves fruitless. May s—Gaston B. Means obtains $104,000 from Mrs. E. B. McLean in Lindbergh baby hoax. (Convicted and imprisoned) May 12—Baby’s body found near home. June 10—Violet Sharpe, maid in Dwight W. Morrow home, commits suicide, hysterical over police questioning. Feb. 10, 1933—Federal authorities take charge of investigation, starting patient laying of net for ransom notes. Sept. 18. 1934—Hauptmann arrested in the Bronx. Hansom bills and other evidence found as garage is torn to pieces. Sept. 27—Hauptmann pleads not guilty in Bronx County court and is held in SIOO,OOO bail. Oct. B—lndicted on charge of murder by Hunterdon County grand Jury' at Flemington. Oct. 19—Hauptmann extradited to Flem.ngton. Oct. 24—Hauptmann arraigned in Flemington. Pleads not guilty. Jan. 2, 1935—Trial opens.

mann’s Fisch explanation. Three New Jersey residents dispute the credibility of Millard Whit.ed logger, who testified for the state that he saw Hauptmann lurking near the Lindbergh estate at about the time of the kidnaping. Charles J. De Bisschop, lumber man. testified that the board found in Hauptmaann's attic and a similar piece from the ladder did not match. FRIDAY, FEB. 8 The defense rests after presenting more testimony of wood experts to show the ladder did not come from Hauptmann's attic and after calling a witness who testifies he saw a man other than Hauptmann with the ladder in a car near Princeton, N. J., March 1, 1932. The state began rebuttal, calling witnesses—including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jung —to show Fisch could not have been involved in the kidnaping. Jung said Fisch spent the kidnap evening at his home. Miss Hannah Fisch, sister of Isidor. who came here from Germany, testified her brother arrived home shortly before his death with only SSOO. SATURDAY, FEB. 9 Testimony of both prosecution and defense was concluded on the first Saturday session of the trial. Chief among the state's rebuttal w itnesses w as Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. who testified that the late Violet Sharpe, a maid in her home, was at the Morrow estate except from 8 p m. to 11 p. m. on the night of the crime. Defense witnesses had claimed she w T as seen on a Hudson river ferry at a later hour. Arthur Koehler returned to the stand to reiterate his testimony concerning the kidnap ladder. A defense motion for directed verdict of acquittal was denied-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES

Counsel Thunderer Reilly Faces the Calm, the Cold, the Logical Wilentz.

nr United Press FDtVARD J. REILLY, chief of ■*-' counsel which defended Bruno Richard Hauptmann, is popularly known as the "Bull of Brooklyn.” There is no nickname for his opponent, Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz, the dark and fiery ‘‘political lawyer” who undertook to press the most sensational prosecution in the history of the nation. The two men are opposite as the forces they represented—the one force determined to send Hauptmann to- the electric chair on charges of murdering ColCharles A. Lindbergh’s son, and the other determined by every manner and every means, by every technicality and every triviality, to keep him from walking that last mile. Reilly's entrance into the Flemington scene was always spectacular from the day he first appeared, in his striped pants and molded sack coat, with a white carnation in the lapel, to the final day when he stood before the jury of commonplace Hunterdon citizens and exhorted them to spare the defendant’s life. Reilly i* a big man, a towering man. He has represented the

‘tops” in the underworld, and he has done well by them, nun HIS greatest success is as w’hat his profession knows as a “cop baiter.” When he has a minor figure in the police world on the stand he goes to work with the joy of battle in hi' eyes. His face is suffused with an even deeper glow than usual. His voice rises. “You were derelict in your deeyouty, wurrent you?” he thunders, and often the police official squirms uneasily, swallows hard, and looks as though he were about to break down and confess the crime himself.

He has a ponderous appearance. He likes display. And he likes

“This is a thankless job”

advertisement. No news reel photographer has ever had to beg for poses. a a a HIS opponent, Wilentz, Is as coldly cynical as Reilly is warmly enthusiastic. Wilentz is short, lean, ascetic in appearance. He clothes himself with attention to detail, and is perfectly groomed. But there are no striped pants in his makeup. His face is thin and of an olive hue. When he smiles, which he does occasionally when he is examining a recalcitrant witness, the smile has all the iciness of a man who knows he has another man trappedThere were occasions when WlA *

CHIEF WITNESSES’ TESTIMONY IN MOST REVOLTING ‘CRIME OF CENTURT IS REVIEWED Col. Lindbergh, Among First to Take Stand, Recalls Events of Night When Blond Child Is Stolen From Nursery. By United Pre,§ Col. Charles A. Lindbergh—lie told of the events on the night of the kidnaping, the empty crib, the ransom note and the ladder found outside. He heard a noise which might have been a falling ladder, at about 9:15 p. m. on March 1,

but thought nothing of it at the time. He identified the original ransom note and the second one which w is mailed to him. asking for $70,000 instead of $50,000. He identified the voice which he heard call "Hey, Doctor" outside the Bronx cemetery on the night the ransom was paid as the voice of Hauptmann. He said he believed Hauptmann to be guilty of the crime. Lindbergh appeared calm, weighed his words and seemed to make every effort to be fair. Mrs. Lindbergh Tearfully, but bravely, the mother identified the baby’s garments —the soiled sleeping

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suit in which the ba 11 er ed body was found. She told of events on the night of the kidnaping, of playing with the baby in the afternoon and of putting him to bed after he had been given medicine for his cold. Both state and and e sense treated her with the utmost deference

Mrs. Lindbergh

and after her testimony, she did not appear at the trial again. Betty Gow’s Story Unshaken Betty Gow—The comely, 30-year-old Scottish nursemaid, supported the story of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh in every detail. She wept with unmistakable grief in telling about the baby. Her testimony showed that the clothing the baby wore before the kidnaping and when he was found dead was identical—evidence designed ,to prove that the samples submitted by the ransom taker came from the kidnaper and murderer. Miss Gow was calm under crossexamination, parrying deftly every effort of Defense Counsel Reilly to shake her testimony. Dr. John F. Condon —The Jafsie who conducted the ransom negotiations—the state’s most important witness. The benign, 74-year-old Bronx educator was dramatic and forceful, coming off far from sec-ond-best in the sarcastic, badgering efforts of the defense to discredit him. “John—(the name used by the ransom taker)—is Bruno Richard Hauptmann,” Dr. Condon swore decisively. He identified Hauptmann as the man he encountered three times during the ransom negotiations. Bruno Interrupts Witness Joseph Perrone —Young Bronx taxicab driver. He identified Hauptmann as the man who gave him $1 one night to take a note to Dr. Condon during the ransom negotiations. “That’s the man,” he declared, placing his hand on Hauptmann’s shoulder. “You are a liar,” growled Hauptmann. Amandus Hockmuth—The 87-year-old resident of Hopewell, gray-

lentz appeared to go out of character in the Hauptmann triaL He tried to thunder, but his thunder was not backed by the stormcloud that Reilly raises out of a clear sky. There was no force back of it. It was merely a summer lightning storm. It is when he is cold, calculating, calm, logical, cynical, that he tears his witnesses to pieces and confuses them to the point where they are prone to shout: “You are mixing me up, you are mixing me up.” In court Reilly and Wilenti have been the bitterest of enemies. Out of court, they smile at each other,

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bearded and alert, testified he saw Hauptmann drive past on March 1 in a "dirty green automobile" containing a ladder. Hauptmann turned to his wife and muttered in German, "The old man is crazy.” Albert S. Osborn—Famed handwriting expert, one of eight such called by the state, who gave decisive testimony that Hauptmann wrote the ransom notes. With graphic, enlarged charts, he compared for the jury Hauptmann's known handwriting on automobile license applications and samples taken after his arrest with the ransom notes, including the damning one found in the nursery. Thomas S. Sisk—Special Department of Justice agent in charge of the Federal men who arrested Hauptmann. Curly-headed and almost bo.vish-lookmg. Agent Sisk told quietly of the dramatic events of Sept. 18 which ended a relentless search of months. He testified how Hauptmann lied and contradicted himself about the money. "Mister, mister, you stop lying,” cried Hauptmann.

Mrs. Ella Achenbach Bronx neighbor of Mrs. Hauptmann who formerly employed the jobless carpenter’s wife in part-time work. Mrs. Achenbach testified that a day or two after March 1, Mrs. Hauptmann told her she had just returned from a trip with her husband. The latter limped, Mrs. Achenbach said, and Mrs. Hauptmann explained he had sprained his ankle—the state's implication being that it could have been sprained in a fall from a ladder. “You are lying,” Mrs. Hauptman shouted shrilly. Arthur Koehler —The tall, bald, middle-aged technologist of the United States Forestry Service proved a key witness for the state and told one of the most fascinating stories of dogged detective work heaid at the trial. Shown the ladder after the kidnaping, he spent 18 months patiently tracing its wood through lumber yards and mills all through the United States. He testified he. finally established to his expert satisfaction that part of the ladder came from lumber which was massing from the attic in Hauptmann’s home. The rest of it, he said, was brought in the Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann was once employed. He testified further that the plane mark3 on the ladder were made by the plane found missing from Hauptmann’s tool chest and later discovered in the garage.

Hauptmann Admits Lying

Bruno Richard Hauptmann—The accused was the first witness called by the defense. A stolid, stocky German immigrant of 35. deliberative in thought

and movement, but quick to flare in wrathful selfdefense. In guttural, Teutonic English, he laid the foundations of his alibi. No, he did not actually work at the Majestic Apartments construction job on March 1, but applied there at 8 a. m. of that day and was told to return later. He worked there

Hauptmann

April 2 (the day the ransom was paid) until b p. m. He reached home at 6, had dinner, and a friend came at 7 for a customary Hauptmann "musical evening,” leaving at 11. Hauptmann did not leave the house during that time to visit the nearby cemetery where the ransom was paid. Hauptmann further testified that he quit his job at the Majestio Apartments because he was getting only SBO a month instead of SIOO he had been promised, and not because the ransom money enabled him to retire. Explaining the large sums he deposited in banking and brokerage houses after the kidnaping, amounting to about $30,000 in addition to nearly $15,000 in ransom money found in his garage, he said it was obtained by hard work, frugal saving and careful investments, supplemented .by funds from the late Isidor Fisch, his business associate and friend. Hauptmann lost some of his calm under cross-examination. He admitted having lied at his extradition hearing in the Bronx; to previous criminal acts in Germany; that he hid his savings from his wife; that he was the author of the notebook found in his home in which boat was spelled “boad” iust as it was in the cruel ransom note in which he directed Col. Lindbergh to find his child on the nonexistent "boad” Nellie. Supports Mate’s Alibi Mrs. Hauptmann—Supporting her husband’s alibis, swore he spent the night of the kidnaping, the night of the ransom payment and the night when a ransom bill was passed before the time Hauptmann said he had received the money in a .hoe box from Isidor Fisch, with her at their Bronx home. She denied seeking Mrs. Achenbach a day or two after the kidnaping and telling her she had just returned from a- trip with her husband and that he had sprained hi* ankle. Under cross-examination she admitted she told police after the kidnaping that she did not remember where her husband was on March 1, and that she testified the same thing at the Bronx extradition hearing. She admitted ahe never saw the shoe box alleged to have been received from Fisch.