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A—4 xiw Lindbergh Cool and Steady As He Describes Tragedy Of His Baby Son’s Kidnaping (Continued From First Page.) the kidnaper after the “Hey, doctor!” hail “He returned in 10 minutes,” Lind- bergh said. “Did you give him the money?” “I gave him part of it.” said the colonel, expiaining that Jafsie sug- gested only $50,000 be paid. He was asked to describe the box containing the ransom. The colonel described how he made futile air trips over the sea in the vicinity of Gay Head, Mass., where the kidnapers’ notes given to Condon when the ransom was paid in the cemetery that night said the baby would be found. The actual payment of the ransom required “10 or 15 minutes,” he said. Fruitless Search Told. Reviewing Lindbergh's fruitless search for the baby following the ransom payment, Wilentz asked: “How many were in the plane that searched?” *“——1I don't recall.” “Were you in the plane?” *“I piloted it." Lindbergh then retold how he last | gaw the child the Sunday night two days before the kidnaping Then came the story of that identi- | fication at midnight in a Trenton morgue. “You saw that body?" Yes.” “It was your child?” -¥e." “So you did not get your money back and you didn’t get your child back?” No,” he said quietly. Wilentz then offered the witness to the defense for cross-examination. Reilly opened his cross-examination with a query that electrified the court. *“Colonel, are you armed?" Wilentz leaped to his feet in vigor- ous objection. *‘Object, your honor,” shouted. “I'll answer, your honor,” Lindbergh tnterrupted. Judge Trenchard nodded. “I am not.” the flyer asserted in a low, firm voice. Questioned on Servants. Reilly promptly launched into a se- vere interrogation of the colonel with regard to the character of his house- hold help. “Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley were in your house the day the baby was kid- naped, were they not?” “Yes.” “What investigation did you make into the reputation of Wheatley?"” “I talked to him.” “Beyond that?” Nothing.” “You didn't look into his back- ground?” “I don't recall.” “He was one of two present the day ©f the kidnaping who has since died.” “Yes, he died in the Winter of 1933.” “You took Mrs. Wheatley the same way—without recommendation?” “Yes." “Now, how did you get Gow?" “She came recommended by the Morrow household.” “ ou know she had any “No.” X B “You didn't know she had one brother in Canada and another who has been in trouble ir New Jersey?” “No.» Again the court buzzed. It was a morning of repeated sensations. Reilly questioned Lindbergh closely with regard to household knowledge of *his goings and comings. “The knowledge of your movements, you might say, were known to your butler, the butler's wife and nurse- maid?” “Well, perhaps.” Relied on Police. “Didn’t you as a father make every effort to find out the background of the people in the house the night your child was snatched away,” de- manded Reilly sharply. The State objected vigorously, but Justice Trenchard ruled Lindbergh could answer. +“I placed my confidence in police,” ne replied. “As a man of the world,” boomed Reilly, “you know police are not in- fallible.” the The aviator looked at Reilly and | said with a grin® “I thought we had police.” A wave of hand clapping swept the court, and the justice rapped arply for order, and warned the spectators. “Isn't it a fact that no Federal ue:t ever saw the ransom notes?” “No. bergh retorted quickly. “Isn’t it a fact that this investiga- tion since the day it started has been in the hands of the State police?” very good “That was the authority,” he said, | but explained there was perfect har- mony among the police. Traces Way to Kitchen, At Reilly’s direction, nursery to the kitchen wing, ‘The defense counsel sought to bring out that only the servants knew the family movement, but Lindbergh said it was not the custom to tell the servants. .'Did the outside world know you were coming home Monday or going ::cok to New York Tuesday?” Reilly t. ‘The colonel turned slightly pink. “No. Very few know it even now.” Reilly asked whether Lindbergh had & dog. “Why, yes, my mother gave us a dog.” *In Hopewell?” ¥'Yes.” *At the time of the kidnaping?” *“Why yes.” “A good watch dog?” asked Reilly, referring to the fox terrior at the Lindbergh home. “I wouldn't say so,” said the colonel. Dog Gave no Alarm. Reilly then asked if the dog had given any sign there was a prowler about the house the night of the kidnaping. “No, I wouldn’t expect any from that dog,” was the smiling reply. Rellly asked the last part of the answer be stricken out and justice granted his motion. Reilly then had Lindbergh describe how he arrived home the kidnap night about 8 o'clock and went upstairs to. wash before looking into the nursery where the baby was asleep. “pid you see Betty Gow when you went upstairs to the wash room a little after 82" “No.” “Then you went -downstairs to dinner?” “Ye&." “Did you sit in the dining room facing the doorway?” “No." “So the way you sat in the dining room you could not see the hallway?” “Colonel, if you were in the dining room some one could have gone up fihl‘& stairway, after having passed " the prosecutor | I know it's not a fact,” Lind- | Lindbergh | traced on the map the way from the | through the hallway and entered the door?” “No.” Admits Theory “Possible.” Lindbergh also said it would have been impossible for any one in the house to have taken the child down the main stair case and out the front door without attracting the attention of himself or Mrs. Lindbergh, who were having supper in the dmmg’ Toom “Let's take the other course, Colonel, then if there was disturbance in the house, some one in the house, it is pos- sible, might have taken the baby out of the crib and out of the house?” Lindbergh was slightly flustered. “It is possible.” Wilentz arose when Reilly urged the aviator to answer his questions. | Justice Trenchard intervened, up- | holding Reilly's questions as legitimate, and ended a pirited controversy be- | tween counsel. “You did not enter the nursery at the time? You heard nothing suspl- clous?” asked Rellly after Lindbergh told how at 9 o'clock he and Anne were in their bed room adjoining the child’s. Startles Court Room. “No,” said the colonel. Then Reflly electrified the court room by inquiring: “In the course of the investigation, | colonel, have you ever heard it sald you were the one to be kidnaped?” Wilentz jumped to his feet. “Just a minute, just a minute,” he said, and made an objection to th Justice Trenchard sustained the ob- jection and answered. Wilentz said: “I want it understood that the! State will object to questions involving the colonel’s hearing rumors.” “Did you ever have any indication that your wires were being tapped?” “No. “Were any fingerprints ever found around the casement window?” “No. that's my informatio Reilly then directed the aviator to take the pointer and indicate to the jury on the charts the window out of which the baby was taken “Were there any fingerprints on the outside of that window “I was informed at the time they did not locate any fingerprint smudges there.” “Who first approached the window | after the baby was kidnaped?” “Why. T di “Was it locked?” “No, no one ever locked it.” “Was any stranger ever in your | nursery?” “Not as far as I know Retells Story of Noise. Reilly then directed the witness to retell the story of the noise he and Mrs. Lindbergh heard after hav- ing_ dinner. He asked him if it might be the sound of a book falling. “No,” said the witness, “It had | the sound of wood on wood.” | “Do you recall if there was a piece ! of Jumber in your library about 12 or 14 inches long?” “I don’t remember.” the question was un- “Do you remember any shavings or 10 pm. March 1, 1932, and 3 am.| Lindbergh on the stand about an hour | nails or refuse being dumped near the | house after they built it?” “Well, yes, there was for & w P Reilly, as he questioned Lind| with clear enunciation, so precise as to sound almost mechanical, faced the Jury. He talked to tLe jury, but Lindbergh | answered. He noted with care the expression of each of the 12. “It didn’t come from that direction,” said Reilly, referring to the nursery. Heard Once Only. “It didn’t seem to come from any direction,” Lindbergh said. “You only heard .ne sound?” “You couldn't call it one sound, I| heard it only once.” the boyish-look- ing flyer sald, correcting the defense | | counsel. | He said he subsequently investigated in the kitchen and found nothing had | crashed there. Reilly brought out that the Lind- | bergh child had not been exposed to | strangers, although Lindbergh pointed out the 20-month-old child went to school “with other children” at the little school in Englewood. “You heard no cry from the nur- sery?” asked Reilly, after finishing his queries on the crash of wood the | Lindberghs heard. “No.” Reilly suddenly developed a sym- pathetic turn. | “The little fellow had a cold, and you rubbed his tiny chest with oint- | ment and put him to bed?” “¥es.” “You petted him, when he cried or whined a little?” “No.” Did Not Fear Accident. Reilly asked if the colonel ever feared his son might roll over on his face and smother in his crib. “No, nor did I think it probable,” Lindbergh answered. Reilly then directed Lindbergh to review his testimony on how the kid- naping was discovered. “I see, you were trying to train him | to sleep when you put him to bed?” Reilly asked, while questioning about Dicl;lnl the child up. yes” Reilly shifted his glance toward the | jury box for a moment, and then boomed forth. “Don’t you think it strange, colonel, that the little fellow was put to bed with a cold at 7 o'clock, and no one looked at him until 102" Wilentz leaped up and objected. Lindbergh again described how Betty Gow broke the news, “She came down the stairs and asked me if I had the baby. I asked her if he wasn't in the crib, and I immediately went up to the nursery.” Questions on Window. Reilly suddenly shifted the ques- tioning to the window out of which; the baby was taken. Lindbergh said it was not the cus- tom to lock the windows at the Sour- land Mountain house. His questioner demanded if any one auulde the family knew of this prac- ce. “No. I don't think so.” Speaking of the kidnap window, the colonel told the court, “The shutter was warped and we couldn't lock it.” Reilly asked if the shutters were closed, and Lindbergh replied: “My wife, I believe, closed all but the east nursery shutter.” “Supposing that is so, one would have to throw the shutter outward to go through the window?” “Yes.” “Now there were other servants who had access to your estate—servants from the Morrow house?” “At the moment I don’t recall. They may have been there.” Reilly referred to the Morrow house and asked, “Did they have a Danish chauffeur named Ellison?" Morrow Chauffeur. “Yes,” sald Lindbergh. He added Ellison was still employed at the Mor- row home. “Do you know where he was between . question as irrelevant. ‘ i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. High Lights of Hauptmann Kidnaping Trial March 22" “No."” | “Do you know he drove from the, son to the Hopewell Jocality?” | “I believe he escorted Betty Gow.” Reilly asked about Violet Sharpe, | the Morrow maid who committed | suicide. “Did other Morrow servants visit your home?"” Yes.” “Violet Sharpe?” S Nes” “Did she visit your Hopewell home?” “I don't think so.” “Did you know she had the habit of going out with Wheatley?" | “Did you have any extra help there, colonel, that came by the day?” “No. I think not.” Reilly showed the flyer photographs of the nursery and asked questions about the size of the room. Lindbergh left the witness stand and measured the distances along the jury rail. | “Can you recall, colonel, that you | said there was a yellow smudge on the | radiator top?” “Not so much there as on the suit- case beside it.” Rellly asked about the texture of | the suitcase, and Lindbergh said it was some kind of ply wood. “It would break, wouldn't it, if some one stepped on it from the window.” “I don’t think so.” Reilly asked Lindbergh again how far it was between the window and crib, . Betty Gow's Reactions. “It was” Lindbergh estimated, “about 12-feet.” “What was Betty Gow's condition? | How did she act in the room?” Reilly | asked. Lindbergh hesitated. “Hysterical?” Reilly pressed. “No," the flyer said. “Yet she was closest to tye child,” Reilly said. “Yes, she was with the child most,” Lindbergh said. Reilly turned to the first ransom note. - Reilly took up “State exhibit 17,” the ransom note found at the nursery window. He handed it to Lindbergh. | “I understand you to say you did not pick up this note?” Lindbergh removed it from the wrapper and examined it. “With a desire to preserve finger prints you allowed this note to remain on the nursery window?” asked Reilly. Lindbergh sail yes. He said Wolfe removed it. (Wolfe is the Hopewell chief of police.) Reilly turned to the finding of the | ladder, the impressions its feet made in the soft ground and other details. He asked about the weight of the ladder. Lindbergh hesitated and finally said he thought the three sections would weigh 35 pounds. “It could be carried under one arm?” “You'd have to disconnect it, fold it up, wouldn't you?” “I suppose 0.” First Ransom Note, Reilly then returned to the matter of the first ransom note. “Did Trooper Kelly keep it and the fingerprints in his office?” “I don’t know for certain.” “Did you tell State police you didn’t want them to investigate the case, that you wanted to do it your- self?” | “No,” Lindbergh reglied. He denied also he had asked to have Pederal agents removed and said, on the contrary, he had sought their aid. Reilly asked about the people who came to the Hopewell estate after the kidnaping. Lindbergh, speaking of the “first night,” said there was no exact co-ordination until -.the New Jersey State police took over the case the day after the kidnaping. Court recessed at 12:29 p.m. Reilly said he expected to keep p ) iing an adjournment until morning at 10, and that will be the | order.” during the afternoon. “We are going ahead very rapidly.” he declared, “and will probably have colonel after other angles have been developed.” Back After Lunch. you tell ue briefly from there until about 10 o'clock what happened? A. I came by car, arriving about 8:25. Q. By the way, did you drive your- car in the garage at the west end of our house. From there I went in through the kitchen and joined my wife at supper in the dining room on | room. At that time I heard a sound which seemed to me. at the time— the impression that entered my mind | |at the time vaguely was that it h | Morrow estate with an unknown per- | the opportunity to cross-examine the self? A. Yes, came-alone. I put the was like the top of—well, say. an | orange box, the top slats of an orange box falling off & chair. which I as- | sumed to be in the kitchen. | Q. That is, sort of like the falling The court room was as packed as !the west end of the main section of | of & crate, a wooden crate? A. The ever at 1:49 when Col. Lindbergh came back to the witness stand at the start of the afternoon session to face further cross-examination at the hands of the plump, florid Reflly. Before court reconvened Lindbergh ferred earnestly with State attorneys. The flyer frowned in annoyance when a newspaper photographer's flash light bulb went off near his face. The flyer's hair was mussed, | lending an ingenuous air to his ap- pearance. Samuel J. Foley, Bronx County dis- trict attorney, was seated at the State’s table as the cross-examination resumed. Betore Lindbergh took the stand C. Lloyd Fisher, defense attorney, asked that when court adjourned today it be until Monday morning. Fisher pleaded that he had been at- tending the court sessions this week, although he was physically ill and hoped to recuperate over a long week- end recess. Adjournment Discussed. Attorney General Wilentz an- nounced the State had no objections. “The court,” said Justice Trenchard, “had expected to sit every Saturday, but under the circumstances stated perhaps the court is justified in tak- Monday Reilly resumed questioning Lind- bergh as the court was called to order. He referred to the first note: “It was first moved by Inspector Wolfe,” the fiyer related. “What else did you do on the day following the kidnaping?” “I had several conferences.” “As a result, on these conferences, didn’t you express the opinion that the crime was committed by a num- | ber of men?” “Well, yes. But since then I have thought it over carefully and found no facts to show that more than one man was involved. “Didn’t you believe that bootleggers did it? Didn’t you think the Purple Gang of Detroit did it?” Bitz and Spitale. After he answered in the negative, Reilly continued: “Then why did you get in contact with Bitz and Spitale if you did not think the Purple Gang of Detroit took your child?” “I did not know there was a Purple Gang, and at that time I wanted to exhaust every effort for the child’s return,” the colonel said. Rellly then asked how he had come to contact these underworld figures, and the witness replied it had been suggested to him that underworld channels might be used to learn some- thing of the baby’s fate “if the under- world knew anything about it.” Referring to one of the underworld contacts, Reilly asked: “If he did make the offer—if it was not saccepted you couldn't say posi- tively he did, could you?” “No, Col. Breckinridge acted in this s any attorney.” Lindbergh Testimony At Yesterday’s Session (Copyright,1935, by the Associated Press,) FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 4.— Charles A. LindBergh, sworn as & wit- ness on behalf of the State, after pre- liminary questions and answers tes- tified at yesterday's session: Q. On, March”1, 1932, what time did you return to your Sourland Mountain home? A. I arrived about 8:25 in the evening. the house on the lower floor. We left | supper, approximately 9 o'clock. went | from there into the room adjoining the dining room, which we call the | living room of the house, on the lower | floor. We sat on a sofa there for about | looked extremely boyish as he con- |5 or 10 minutes, approximately. From there we went upstairs to our room | and continued our conversation there. | Went to Library. | I then went into the bath room, took a bath, came dowustairs, went | into the library, which is on the east end of the main part lower floor of the house, sat down at a desk next to | the southeast window in that library and began reading. Q. All right. Now, just one mo- ment, please there. colonel. Would you mind standing up, please, colonel? (Witness steps before the map on the | wall.) Q. The library that you refer to, therefore, is the library shown on E: hibit S-4, the eastern corner of it— that is, the southeastern corner of the house? A. That is correct. which this writing table was placed is the window immediately under the sash window, I think they call it, of the nursery? A. Under the south sash window on the east side. Q. The south sash window on the east side? A. That is correct. At Desk Reading. Q. And that i where you were | writing? A. Yes. The desk was placed right here (indicating). Q. Right about in the southeast corner, 1s that it? A. Yes, facing south. Q. All right. Now, you were writing there at about what time would you say, and for how long? A. I was read- ing. Q. Reading? A. At that desk; read- ing. Q. About how long? A. I should say approximately half an hour. | Q. And about what time do you | believe it was when you first went to that desk or went to that room to sit down to read and started your half-hour reading? (No answer.) Q. I understood you to say that you finished dinner about 9 o'clock. A. It would be in the vicinity of 9:30. Q. And while you were there did you have a clear view of the window that was right alongside of the desk? A. I was sitting beside the window. The window was open, or, rather, the window was closed, but the shut- ters were open. Q. The shutters were open? A. The shutters were open and no curtain was drawn. Q. Was there a curtain on the window? A. There was no curtain on the window. Q. No curtain on the window? A. No curtain on the window. Q So that it was absolutely visible to you? A. Yes, of course. Q. The windowpanes were visible to you? A. Yes, of course. Tells of Hearing Crash. Q. You could see through them so far as the darkness would per- mit? A. As far as the darkness permitted, yes. Q. Prior to that time, remembering that that was about 9:30, you had been in the living room, had you not? A. Prior to that time[I had been upstairs, and prior to that time in the living room. Q. Well, some time dur that night did you hear 'some of a noise or crash? A. Yes, I did. Q. About what time was R and where were you? A. Sitting on the sofs in the living room during the 10 or 15 minutes after we had come Q. And the window alongside of | slats of a crate. Q. At any rate, what you felt was happening was that some piece of | wood, like the slats of a crate, had | fallen in the kitchen? A. That is | | correct. I did not pay very much | attention to it at the time, but | enough to remark to my wife, “What is that?” Q. And except for that it went un- noticed? A. Yes. | Q. About what time was that? | A. That would be about 9:10 or 9:15 Q. Was it the sort of a noise that would come with the falling of a lad- der? A. Yes, it was, if the ladder were outside. ‘ Notified by Betty Gow. | Q. Finally, at about 10 o'clock in the | evening, Miss Gow spoke to you about the child, did she not? A. About 10| | o'clock. | Q. Where were you then? A. I was reading in the library. Q. What happened, tell us, then? A. Miss Gow called to me in a rather excited volce and asked me if I had | | the baby. | Q. What happened from then on? A. I immediately went upstairs into the nursery and from the appearance | of the room and of the crib I realized | that something had gone wrong. | Q What was the apearance of the| | room that indicated to you that some- | thing had gone wrong, colonel? A.| As I entered the room, of course I at first and immediately looked at the crib. The bed clothing in the crib | was 1n such condition that I felt it was impossible for the baby to have gotten out himself. I knew that | neither my wife nor Miss Gow had | | taken him. because Miss Gow had | i asked me if I had him and my wife | | was upstairs. The clothing was stand- | ing—the bed clothing was standing | stiffly enough so that the opening| | where the baby had been was still | | there; the clothing had not collapsed. | affixed to the mattress by pins, if you know? A. As I recall, it was. | Q Isee. Did you see & note in the { room, a paper or what? A. Yes; I am not at the moment certain whether I saw that note at that time or the next time I entered the room. Q. Isee. A. But either the first or second time; I came back very shortly. Gone Short Time. Q. How much time intervened, would you say, between your first visit into the room and the second that you refer to? A. I should say not over five minutes. Q. At any rate, on one of those oc- casions you found the note there? A. I had found a note, unopened, on the window sill on the southeast corner of the room—on the window facing east. Q. Did you find it or was your at- tention attracted to it by any one? A. No, I found it. Q. I see. And I understood you to say on the window sill? A. On the ‘window sill. Q. Was the window open or closed? A. The window was closed. Q. And is this the window, shown in exhibit S-12, alongside of which or near which you found the note? A. It is, on which I found the note. Q. Will you describe, as you look at this exhibit, just the spot where you | found the note? A. The note was in an envelope on top of the grating which forms the window sill and | through which heat comes from the radiator. Q. Will you please step down and just show the jury on that exhibit, the point at which that note was found by you? A. (Witness steps down before the jury.) The note was i A. They were placed on, | envelope? can describe it, this red fire ball of blotch, and at these distances three holes. Singnature three holes. That is his signature—singnature, Obtained His Rifle. By Mr. Wilentz: Q. Now, colonel, of course you found your baby was missing and you found that—did somebody want to see it—the bed clothes in the room and the baby's room had been dis- turbed. Did you notify the police? A. I shall describe it, what happened to it? Q. Yes, please. A. I immediately went into the closet in our own room adjoining and got a Springfield rifle which I kept there and stood at the top of the stairs, called 0 Mr. Wheat- ley and asked him to call the sherift at Hopewell. That was the nearest officer of the law that I knew of. As soon as I found that his telephone call went through, so that the wires were not cut, which I had expected, as soon as he received an answer from the sheriff so that I knew that he was coming, I went outside on the road north of the house. Q. With the rifle? A. With the rifle. It was extremely dark that night, I could see a very little distance, and I walked on that road probably for a hundred yards. I then returned to the house. Before I went on the road—1 jumped— Q. All right. A. I went ahead & | little bit. After Mr. Wheatley had made contact with the sheriff at Hopewell, or with the chief of police, I then went downstairs—before I went out onto that road—and called the New Jersey State police and Col. Breckinridge in New York. Then I took the rifle and went out onto the road. Returned in Short Time. Q. And who is Col. Breckinridge? A. Col. Breckinridge is my friend and attorney in New York Q. Your friend and attorney? A. Yes. Q. You say you went out with this No. 1—Mrs. Anne Lindbergh leaving the Flemington, N. J, Court House after testifying yester- day at the trial of Bruno R. Hauptmann, accused of kidnaping and murdering her infant son. No. 2—Hauptmann jurors and bailiffs eating. No. 3—Hauptmann and Edgar Rosencrans, member of his de- fense staff, pictured in court. No. 4—Betty Gow (left) and Mrs. Ollie Wheatley, seated among witnesses. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. the east window, along the east win- dow? A. On this sill (indicating). Identifies Papers. I show you an envelope with the initials F. A. K. on the back of it and a note with the same initials on the back of it and ask you whether or not that note and that envelope were found by you in that room that night, and whether or not those are the papers you just referred to as being on that window sill?. A. These are the papers. The note was in the envelope. The initials F. A, K. were not on at that time. Q. Who placed thoce initials on? 1 believe, by Trooper Kelly: but this is the note and this 1s the envelope which con- tained the note on the window sill at that time. Mr. Wilentz—I offer them in evi- dence. Mr. Reilly—No objection. Mr. Fisher—May we look at it first? Mr. Wilentz—What is the request? Mr. Fisher—May we look at it while you go on with your examination, for a moment? Mr. Wilentz—Well, how about the Do you want to look at that, too? Mr. Fisher—Yes. Mr. Wilentz—I should prefer, if the court has no objection, to await the determination of counsel. Mr. Fisher—Oh, we will only be just a second. Mr. Reilly—No objection. Mr. Wilentz—Will you please mark first the envelope S-17. Mr. Fisher—Will it be marked as one exhibit? Mr. Wilentz—No, note— The reporter—Do you want to take it out? The court—If there is no objection they «will be admitted as S-17 and S-18. Is that the idea? Mr. Wilentz—Yes, if your honor please: the envelope is S-17 and the note S-18. Envelope in Evidence. (Envelope received in evidence and marked State exhibit S-17.) (Note referred to received in evi- dence and marked State exhibit S-18.) Mr. Wilentz—I desire to ask per- mission of the court to read the note. The court—You may read it. Mr. Wilentz—*Dear sir: Have—" Mr. Pope—Have you got a copy of the note for us, or anything that we can follow? Mr. Wilentz—If there is a copy 1 two. And the | would like to have counsel give it | to Mr. Pope. I did present a com- plete copy to former counsel for the defense and it was the only copy I had, but there must be some copy here and we will get it for you. “Have 50,0008 dollars ready, 25,0008 in 208 bills, 15,0008 in 10§ bills, and 10,0008 dollars in 58 dollar bills. After 2 - 4 days we will inform you where to deliver the money (m-o-n-y). warn you making anything (a-n-y- d-i-n-g) public or for notify the po- lice. The child is in gut (g-u-t) care. Instruction (or indication) (I don't Q. Was the clothing in that crib stlll | /o0 "ghich it is) for the letters are | singature (s-i-n-g, singnature, I want | you please to remember that). Then | you find these two circles and as in- | dicated therein somewhere within | them, as you see them better tI I A Bank for IND The Morris Plan Bank offers the INDIVIDUAL the facilities of a SAVINGS BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make loans on a practical b s, which ensbles the borrower to liquidate his obli- gation by means of weekly, semi- monthly or monthly deposits. “Character and Ea on this sill, Q. And wnen you got home, will [into the living room from the dining Q. Indicating the sill underneath \ [ We | $1.200 $100 $6,000 $500 rifle and then returned? A. Yes. Q. Then what did you do, if any- thing? Had police come? A. Very shortly after that Chief Wolfe ar- rived. Meanwhile we had touched nothing in the house, in the nursery room. I left instructions not to touch anything there. I, myself, had not | touched the note. And after Chief Wolfe arrived we began looking arcund the house outside. Q. You are talking of Chief Wolfe | of the Hopewell police A. Of the | Hopewell police, yes. We went around | to the side under the nursery wine | dow—that is, on the east side of the | house and as I recall now it was | Chief Wolfe who, with his flashlight, found, located the ladder lying quite a few feet in approximat a southeast | direction from the nursery window. | Q You mean that by the light of the flashlight vou could see the lad- | der? A. Could see the ladder, yes. Q. That was either Chief Wolfe or Williamson? A. Yes. I remember clearly seeing the ladder, but I am not certain he moment who hold- ing the light. We walked through there on the planks which had been laid over the mud on the east side of the house and we found both foot- prints and the imprints of the end of the ladder approximately under the southeast window of the nursery, but offset slightly to the north. So that the ladder was actually resting slightly to the north of the window itself Q. And you found the imprints of that ladder there? A. Yes Q. And you say footprints: did you find Mrs. Lindbergh's footprints there? A. The footprints that I saw at the time were of a man. Q. I see. Did you see any of her footprints? A. I don't recall seeing any of hers | Q. You don't recall. All right. Now | after that, sir. I take it that State police came and you snowed them the | note? Oh, pardon me, before that, when Officer Williamson, or Chief— Chief Wolfe, is it? A. Chief Wolfe. ‘ Q. Chief Wolfe? | A. And Officer Williamson. Q. And Officer Williamson; when they came did you take them up to the nursery? A. I believe so. Note Given to Troopers. | Q Well. at any rate, who were the officers, if you remember, Colonel, to whom vou first exhibited the note? A. I left instructions, after finding the nete, that no one was to touch it, and the note was not touched until Trooper Wolfe of the New Jersey State police arrived. He moved the note from the window sill to the man- tel over the fireplace with a pen- knife. Q. Yes, sir. A. And the note itself was not opened until Trooper Kelly arrived with suitable equipment for exam- ining it. Q. For examining it, you mean, for fingerprints? A. Yes, Q. Now I want to show you & pic- ture of what, I believe, purports to be the ground right underneath the window in the immediate vicinity cf that window, with some impressions or holes in the ground, and ask you | Whether you recognize those holes as being the place where the ladder stood, or the indentation or the impression made by the foot of the ladder that | you have just referred to? | A. Yes, they are. | Q. Do they correctly depict the im- | pressions that you saw there that nigl;!t made by the foot of that lad- er? A. By the ladder, yes, Q. By the ladder—— A. But there are other impressions | Q. There are other impressions, but particularly in reference to that; and that is what I am limiting it to? A. Yes. Q. And that walk—there seems to be a board there; is that the board- walk that Mrs. Lindbergh referred to | & while ago? | A. That either is or is similar to |the walk that was lying—that was there that night. | Mr. Wilentz—I offer it In evidence. | Mr. Reilly—We would like to admit (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) the =) It is mot meces- sary to have had an account at this Bank in order to borrow. Loans are passed within a day or two after filing application—with few exceptions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, though they may be given for amy period of from 3 to 12 months. MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N.W., Washington, D. C. ing Power Are the Basis of Credit”