The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1935, Page 7

Wilentz Guides Prosecution of Hauptmann Over Intricate Trail THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | | | | David T. wilenfi’, New Jerscy Attorney General (center), and his staff drew on science, fact and circumstance to amass the moun- ® tain of evidencc whieh was the State's case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann. | made. | Hauptman Lt | attic. 7 THURSDAY, F vent the the operator of red out the tim- the ladder was wed to a Bronx Jumber i wh Hauptmann Dbought | and finally to the itzelf. ehler, state to produ | the mill which ber. from federal wood Madison, Wis,, ex- 1d hunted through vards and mills for mill markings ex- with that on expert plained h thousands the wood wh actly corrc but. one piece, the arrest of arch yealed This| aid, was the upright in the kmm > ladder Sy fethodicalls and painstakingly, he linked v.u~ marks on the wood- €n pieces to the tell-tale marks- left | by Hauptmann's own tools; and fitted the chisel found near'the Lindbergh te to the vacant spot in Ha ann’s tool kit. With microscope and camera, he repeated for the jury the pains- taking hunt that led him from the | South Carolina mill to the Bronx lumber yard and the Hauptmann “Apparently ‘placed (he Hauvptmann’s cation rested.” e, satisfied it had | ladder around neck,’ the prose- APPEAL T0 BE | TAKEN:DEFENSE MAKING PLANS Attorneys Are Pleparlng | to Take Case to Higher Courts ICentificaticns in the early part of the prosccution’s case gave way to a welter cf scientific data including the handwriting ¢f the ransom notes, cne of which Wilentz is shown holding in his hand, and the construction cf the filling staticn attendant, said he saw Hauptmann near Hopswell; Cceile Barr, movie theatre cashier, who said she received one of the $5 notes from Hauptmann; mony: Walter Lyle, Amandus Hochmuth, who kidnap ladder. Reading clockwis tc whom, he testified, D e from the top center are witnesses who contributed important testi- Haupimann gave the $10 rancom note that precipitated the arrest; r. Jochn F. “Jafsie” Condon, one of the State’s star witnesses; Mrs. Hildegrade Olga Alexander, who claimed the saw Hauptmann shadewing Condon; Joseph Perrone, the taxi driver, who delivered a ransom note to Condon; and Arthur Koehler, . Scwnce. Clrcumstance Made the Case Against Hauptmann (Contmuca from Page One) Then came Betty Gow, the dark haired nursemaid who was the last member of the household to see the baby alive that March night of 1032, She had returned from her l\hative Glasgow, Scotland, to tes- tify to the events leading up to her tragic discovery that c';md's crib was empty. The Crib Was Empty Faltering, she identified a soiled little garment as a shirt cut from her flannel petticoat for t. baby because it had suffered from a chest cold. Near tears, she related how she ad gone to the nursery around 10 Ipm. for a last look into the crib, land how she had found it empty. [Bapefully, she asked Mrs. Lind- Mjbergh and Colonel Lindbergh if [jthey had taken him out. Then, she testified, a month later . e picked up from the mud of hé road a tiny metal thumbguard hich she herself had tied careful- y to the baby's wrist. In quick order rollowed New Jer- ey state troopers; Mrs. Ollie What- jey, widow of the Lindbergh but- leg; and Milton Gaglio and Max [Rosenbain, who accompanied Jaf- kie. to the Lindbergh home when e went to act as intermediary. ith these the state concluded the first phase of its case dealing with pvents leading up to and surround- ling the night of the kidnaping. ' The second phase raked the de- ense with the releniless fire of a hine gus ammunition was that of “Jaf- himself, two definite identi- Mications of Hauptmann, and the jleadly and implacable testimony of corps of handwriting experts ho figuratively placed in Haupt- ann’s hand the pen which rawled the ransom demands. i ‘Jafsie’s” Story Colorful Wtands unequalled. The retired Bronx educator, word y word, laid the amazing tale of he ransom payment before the Hauptmann to the stock market| the nursery window Lroke under | ry, and climaxed the full story by eclaring firmly: “‘John’ is Bruno Richard Haupt- | |after the date of the ransom pay-| ann.” With Hauptmann's deep-sunken ves fastened on him, and while parried with defense attorneys i his obvious enjoyment, Dr. Con- Mon told of driviag to Van Cort- ndt park, March 12, 1932, and iscussing the ith the mystericus “John.” “Will I burn if the baby is lead?” This, Jafsie testified, he as asked by “John.” The kidnap- spoke with a market Teutonic fccent, he assured the jury. BliAlways full of surprises, Dr. jondon testified he saw. Haupt- ann—the “John” of the case— om a bus a month before Haupt- ¢ ann was arrested September 19,|blame to Hauptmann's dead friend,’ b34, but that he was unable to ’ the get off the bus in time to catch him Fulsomely, golng to St he testified finally to Raymond's cemetery the night of April 2, 1932, and there passing over the cemeteiy hedge the package which containcd the $50,000 in ransom bills, Other: Name Hasiptmann To this testimony was added the further identification of Haupt- mann by Amandus Hochmuth, 87- year-old Prussian army veteran. With trembling forefinger, he pointed out Hauptmann as the man he saw driving, with a ladder in his car, toward the Lindbergh | estate a few hours before the fly- er's son was kidnaped Joseph Anthony FPerrone, Bronx taxi driver, mann lustily on the shoulder to identify him as the man who paid him the $1 to deliver a ransom note to “Jafsie.” Then came the handwriting ex- perts—a corps of them, to say that in their opinions, Hauptmann penned the crude notes which de- manded $50,000 for the return of the baby. Albert 8. Osborn, the dean of the corps, based his opinion on his comparison of the 14 ransom notes with many specimens of Haupt- mann's admitted handwriting, which he described as 'mghly in- dividual, as “awkw: culiar.” Strange mispellings — “b-0-a-d” for boat, “singnatu for signa- ture—were quickly seized upon by the men who studied the penman- ship of the notewriter and that of Hauptmann. “Hauptmann Wrote Notes” “My opinion,” said Osborn to a hushed courtroom, “is that the | ransom notes were all written by the writer of the various papers| signed ‘Richard Hauptmann'.” Through Frank J. Wilson, govern- ment agent, the state traced $14,-| the For pure drama, for the detail- | 600 in ransom bills to Hauptmann’s|returned home from a “trip” of of a breath-taking story, the garage, and brought out testimony|some sort and that Hauptmann ligorous and colorful testimony of |to the effect that following Haupt- lwas limping. he white haired “Jafsie” probably, mann’s arrest none of the ran- | {som bills had been passed. Another agent, and some two, dozen minor witnesses, traced| where his purchases mounted to large sums. Most of his specula-| tions, witnesses testified, took place ment. To the stand, also, came Hilde-| garde Olga Alexander, attractive clothes model, who pointed the rm-‘ ger of identification at Hauptmann, again. The defendant, she testi-| ransom payment fied, was the man who stared at, Sometimes worked. Morton testi- | Dr. Condon—*“spying” on him—in| the Fordham station of the New, York Central railroad in March during the period when the ran- som negotiations were in progress.' Fisch’s Writing Compared Before leaving this phase of its case, the attorney general took pre- cautions to thwart the defense’s announced intention of shifting the Isador Fisch, slapped Haupt- | and “pe-| the Gevernment woed expert, shown holding the ladder in his right hand and, in the left, a portion of flaorlng of the lhulplmum attic. was Fisch, Hauptmann's at- | were claiming, who con- and penned It torneys ucted the kidnaping ransom notes. Two more handwriting were called to the stand to throw cold water on this contention by testifying that comparisons of the |parked on the handwriting of Fisch and that on |road a few nights before the ransom notes showed no simi- | naping larity. | Carefully, a After this came the testimon worl surrounding the tragic discovery of | case—the linking of the hotly dis- the body of Charles Augustus Lind- | puted ladder found at the Lind- bergh, Jr, in a thicket in the | bergh home, with Hauptmann. Sourland hills. | The testimony pertaining to it William J. Allen, Negro, related | constituted one of the most re- how along the ger of the Sourland region, testified it was Hauptmann | saw prowling around the | bergh estate prior to the tion, and of Charles B of Cloucester, J., who identified Hauptmann as a motorist he saw who he d abdu experts the kid- this point, the state the climax of Mount Rose road and discovered the baby's form, May 12, nearly a month and a half after the kidnaping and a month | after the ransom money was paid. An examination of the baby’s skull revealed a fracture, testified iDr. Charles H. Mitchell, county wood from which the crude affair physician at the time. | was fashioned to the hands and “The child died of a fractured |to0ls of the defendant. The search skull,” he said. in itself was one of fascinating Hauptmann’s calm broke on this| ‘m"‘“ day of the trial, as he rose to| shout passionate denial of the tes- timony of Thomas H. Sisk, a gov-| ernment agent, concerning Haupt- mann's arrest and the search of Hauptmann's house and garage {that led to the discovery of the ransom bills so carefully hidden ‘away. | tific crime detection efforts in the history of the case. It was a story of the hunt for another needle in a haystack. Ladder Climaxes Case It dealt with the tracing of the Hauptmann Breaks Down | As Sisk impersonally told of al-| leged falsehoods by the defendant | when agents questioned him before finding the money, Hauptmann's face burned red. Leaping fo his feet, Hauptmann cried in an agon- ized voice: “Mister, stop your ly- ing.” It was the next day that Mrs. Hauptmann, listening to a neigh- | bor woman testify, herself shatter- ed the calm of the courtroom by | leaping to her feet with the cry of: ‘“You are lying.” The woman was Mrs. Ella Achen- | bach, who involved Mrs. Haupt- mann in the case by testifying that a ‘day or two after the kid-| ‘nflplng Mrs. Hauptmann told her {she and her husband had just The state’s contention was, . in | this connection, that the baby was killed and the kidnaper’s leg in- | jured when the flimsy ladder at their combined weigtt during the| = descent. Strikes av Alibi | Attorney General Wilentz struck{ et Hauptmann's alibi that he| worked on the day of the kid-| naping by producing Edward F.| Morton, 'timekeeper at the apart- ‘ | ment building where Hauptmmn\ i fied that he was not working the| 'day of the kidnaping and did noti work the day the ransom was| paid. From a Greenwich Village the-l ater the state produced Mrs. Ceeile | M. “Barr, ticket seller, who told the jury that Hauptmann passed a ransom bill to her in payment Ior a ticket. ‘The final - identifications wm ‘those of Millard Whited, lanky log- Lind- | Rossiter, | Hopewell-Princeton | its | he stepped into the Wwoods markable phases of modern scien-| (Continued from Page One) { | | | S | | ply to the Court of Par | next ;meets in October. If* commutation is denied, the | county- prosecutor will ask Justice | Trenchard to fix new date for | execution. | | ons which | a | WIFE HOPES FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb, 14 Mrs. Bruno R. Hauptmann said: am nbt afraid. I still have hopes This was after defense counsel Lloyd" Fisher told her “well seed | this Bhing through.” Last nig when the verdict was returned, the jury polled, and the ase WaS at mani shook her filled with tears, drop at once. Soon the tears rolled down her cheeks and it was then that Fisher| /went to her and said: “Now you be brave. Don't show any emotion ere; we'll see this thing through.” Her expression was not changed | but tears stopped. Hauptmann, as 'he was led from | the court room last night, with a| look of affection turned to his | faithful wife and said: “It is all right, Annie.” head, her eyes but they did not MASK BALL Sponsored by the Women of the Moose, Moose Hall, Saturday, Feb- | ruary 16 Good Prizes. adv, an end, Mrs, Haupt-| DEATH PENALTY | JURY'S VERDICT Bruno Must Die in: Electric Chair During Week of March 22 (Continued trom P-ge One) missed by Justice Treénchard and state troopers opened the way for them through the throng to the quarters they have occupied during the trial They went to,their homm this morning. Hauptmann tottered S“ghtly when Judge Trenchard announced the decree but otherwise appeared unmoved, as he was taken back to | his cell. Death In Chair BN AF e P IS DEGREED IN. Fg The verdict means death in the, | electric chair for Hauptmann un- less he wins either a reversal or a| |new trial on appeal. The jury deliberated eleven hours and six minutes. When it was announced a ver- lict was reached, the streets in front of the court house suddenlyJ became more packed than they| had before as a crowd had milled around from early evening. Flares of photographers llgmed’ the ctrcezs BRIJNU TO.BE ; TAKEN FRIDAY, | STATE PRISON \ Prisoner’s Wife Not Allow-| ed too See Him While in Flemington | FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb, 14— | Bruno R. Hauptmann, condemned to death for the slaying of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., will be kept herz until tomorrow night at least, then whisked away to the| State Capital and the prison death cell Bruno’s wife must wait until he is in the state prison before she will be permitted to see her hus-| band again. Visiting here is ban- ned. | Guards may now, however, con- yerse with Hauptmann. They have previously been prevented from talking with him by court order. RNt S P, WILLIAM L. BASHAN IS RETURNING NORTH ON VIC AFTER VACATION William L. Bashan, of the Hiyu Mining Company in the Fairbanks district, is a passenger aboard the Victoria returning from a three months vacation trip. Mr. Bashan visited Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle while he was |away on his first trip outside in| | scveral years. | TR | J ury of F our Women, Eight Men Decule His Fate After listening fo: weeks to testimony in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, charged ‘with nmrdering the Lindbergh baby, the jury has retwrned its verdict, bringing to an end ome of the most cclebrated (+fals in history. Charles Augustes Lindbergh, Jr, was kidnaped from his room in the Lind- bergh heme near Hopewell, N. J., on March 1,"1932. On April 2 the $50,000 ransom demanded in & nete from the kidnaper was paid. The baby's body was.f bergh home. Police and Federal agents 00k up’ the trial of the ransom bills and on September 20, 1934, Hauptmann. was: arvested. ~His trinluiitichubesan. on Janusry 2 in the old courthouse at Flem- ington, N. J., has attracted international attention. .nMaylZabonflvemunfimfi.!h‘ Your Cancelled Check Says. “It’s Paid!” There can, be no argument as to whether a bill has or has not been paid when you have a Checking Account at the First Nationdl and pay by check! Your can- celled checks endorsed by the payees are legal proof of payment. In addition to tmis protection, a Check= ing Account provides @n acturate record of your finances on your check stubs, makes the handling of everyday finanees convenient and businesslike, and gives your funds the protection of this bank. Why not open a Checking Account here this week — you will find it exceptionally useful every day of the year! ° The First National Bank .. 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