Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1935, Page 4

A4 wx¥ Police Who Seized Hauptmann' Give Details of Bronx Arrest Dependant “Gave Away” Garage as His Hiding Place by Constantly Watch- ing It While Being Questioned. By the Assoctated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, Januray 18.— The accusing dollar signs of the Lind- bergh ransom money studded the court record today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann was led into Hunterdon County Court House for the thirteenth day of his murder trial. An air of expectancy permeated the chill, crowded room. The one topic of conversation among the spectators seerfied to be Hauptmann's heated out- burst of yesterday when he shouted angrily “Mister, mister, you stop ly- ing,” at a Federal agent who sat in the witness chair. ‘There were many hushed little con- ferences of speculation in the audience on whether the Bronx ex-convict's nerve was snapping under the strain, or whether he might again shatter court decorum by yelling at a wit- ness, Tight-lipped, pale, but composed, Hauptmann looked annoyed when he faced the regular barrage of flashing camera bulbs as he was led into court. Prisoner Held Firmly by Guards. His guards kept a firm grip on his wrists and arms until he was seated. His eyes looked tired and there were several small cuts on his face as if from a razor. One of his guards sat sideways so he faced Hauptmann and not, as heretofore, the judge's bench directly ahead. When Justice Thomas W. Trenchard | arrived the prisoner displayed his first flash of interest, watching the jurist as he slowly walked to his chambers. Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, then came in. He did not speak to Hauptmann and the Lind- bergh suspect glanced at him once and looked way. When Reilly came back to the table Hauptmann leaned over and talked seriously to the defense chief. Justice Trenchard took the bench at 10:02 am. and court convened, Hauptmann's wife Anna arrived at her seat near the defense table a few minutes before court convened. She talked animatedly to Hauptmann, | smiling in cheerful fashion. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Col H. Norman Schwarzkopf arrived to- | gether and took their usual seats| behind the State’s table. | Bronx Engineer Cross-Examined. Henry Eichin, the Bronx engineer, returned to the stand for cross- examination by Reilly. Reilly, a long pointer in hand, be- gan a discussion with the witness of the map of the Bronx area on which Eichin indicated yesterday various places associated with the crime. As Reilly questioned the engineer on details of the big map, Hauptmann leaned forward and watched with at- tention. Occasionally he seemed to be chewing or biting his under lip thoughtfully. The attorney had Eichin point out the various spots which figured in the ransom contacts of Dr. John F. Con- don with the kidnaper “John.” Q. Where do you say your map in- dicates Dr. Condon’s residence? A. On the east side of Decatur ave- nue. Reilly directed the witness to write “C” on the location of the ransom in- termediary’s residence *“so the jury will know weeks from now.” Dr. Condon's residence was about 4'; miles from St. Raymond’s Ceme- tery, Eichin said, responding to Reilly’s questioning. Outlines Routes To Cemetery. Reilly asked him what routes could be used to go from the Hauptmann house to Woodlawn or St. Raymond's Cemeteries. Q. There are a half a dozen differ- ent streets could be used? A. Yes. Eichin placed a “J” on the map to indicate the last station on the Jerome avenue branch of the New York sub- way system. That line runs near Woodlawn Cemetry, in which Dr. Con- don and “John” talked for an hour and a quarter, shortly before the ran- som was paid. On redirect Attorney General David 'T. Wilentz asked a few brief questions. Q. With particular reference to Woodlawn Cemetery, the territory sur- rounding it, is it thickly populated and dense, or is*it quiet, sort of country appearing? A. It is quiet, sort of country ap- pearing. Q. Are there any residences north, south, east or west in the vicinity? A. Not in the immediate vicinity. The query referred specifically to the cemetry gate where John and Jafsie talked. Q. How many hundred feet away would the first house be? A. Approximately 1,000 feet. Wilentz drew the witness' atten- tion to St. Raymond's Cemetery on the map. Q. Northeast of the cemetery, how many_residences? A. In that particular block, one Tesidence. Q. It that also a country area? A. Yes, sir. Q. Is it a quiet place at night? A. Yes, sir. Q. What I'm trying to find out, is it a densely populated area in the vicinity of St. Raymond's Cemetery? A. It is not. Q. Now tell me how far it is from Mr. Hauptmann's to Woodlawn Ceme- tery, and to St. Raymond’s Cemetery &s a man would go by auto? A. From Hauptmanns home to| Woodlawn Cemtery is 2.7 miles. To 8t. Raymond’s, 4.3. Wilentz concluded - and Reilly brought to the witness aetial photo- graph of the area about St. Ray- mond’s Cemetery. Eichin identified the picture lnd[ Reilly began a discussion of the gate- way, which the witness said he had not included in his map. Hauptmann Arrest Related to Court. After being held on the stand for more than a half hour giving geo- graphical details of the .Bronx to Reilly and Wilentz, Eichin was excused. Wilentz then called Sergt. John ‘Wallace of the State police, who par- ticipated in the arrest of Hauptmann last September. Q. On September 18, 1934, tell us what you did? A. With New York police and De- partment of Justice agents, we went to the vicinity of Hauptmann’s home in the Bronx and remained there until 2 am., when we were relieved. We returned at 7 a.m. on the 19th. The officers split into three groups. ‘Q. What happened about 9 o'clock with reference to Hauptmann? A. The defendant left the residence et 1279 East 222d street about 9 o'clock. Q. Did he leave to take his wife to work? A. Not a. far as I know. As Wallace described, from photo- graphs, the Hauptmann home and the defendant’s appeg sance the morn- ing of the 19th, Justice Trenchard | bill.” stepped down from the bench to peer over the witness' shoulder. Q. What did you do next? A. We saw the defendant again. He came out of the driveway in a Dodge. ‘The detective told how the police | followed Hauptmann as he drove | along. “We continued the trail of the Hauptmann car until we reached Park avenue in the vicinity of 178th street.” Arrest Is Made As Car Is Blocked. At Tremont avenue, Wallace sald, | Hauptmann's car was blocked by a street sprinkler. He had driven, the witness said, at “a fairly good rate of | speed, 40-45 miles an hour.” Q. What happened then? A. 1 shouted to Hauptmann to pull over to the curb. I got out of the back seat and slid into the front seat of the defendant’s car beside him. A few minutes later Hauptmann was asked to step out on the sidewalk, Wallace stated. “I held him by one wrist.” He was searched, Wallace con- tinued, and a wallet was found in his left hip pocket. There was $29 in it, including a $20 bill, which when checked, the witness added, was found to be a ‘“Lindbergh rensom “We continued back to the Haupt- mann home,” the trooper said after he told how Inspector John A. Lyons, commanding the undercover squad of the New York police, joined the party of officers and their prisoner. Q. Did he make any explanation af the $20 gold certificate? A. He stated the bill was the last of $300 in gold certificates he had had in his possession during the past few years. Strong Box Found Containing Gold. Q. Now, when you got back to the Hauptmann home, what happened then? A. Hauptmann was brought into the Hauptmann bed room and & search was made of the room and a strong box was found containing the gold coins. A search was made of the entire house by the investigators. I was handcuffed to Hauptmann all during the stay at the house when he was being questioned about gold certificates he might have. Hauptmann and the officers, Wal- lace said, went to the Central Saviogs Bank in the Bronx, where his safe deposit box was opened. The witness said no gold certificates were found there. Q. Did the papers in the box occupy all the space? A. It was pretty well crowded. The party then went to the second precinct police station and a state- ment was written by Hauptmann, Wallace said. Wilentz in his next questions hit at defense hints Hauptmann was forced to misspell the ransom notes in the writing he did at police request after his arrest. Q. Do you know whether words were dictated or spelled? A. I never heard any words spelled to the defendant. Q. Well what did you hear? A. I heard the words dictated and Hauptmann wrote them on & piece of paper. Hauptmann's Wife Nearby at Time. Q. Was Mrs. Hauptmann in and about the premises at the time of the arrest? A. Yes sir. Q. Did you find a wooden plane? A. Yes in the garage. ‘Wilentz brought out that the plane had been initialed by the police officers, but otherwise was in the con- dition as found. It was offered in evidence. Frederick A. Pope of defense coun- sel, objected to the introduction of the plane as evidence, arguing it was not material, but Justice Trenchard admitted the exhibit when the State promised to link it later with the kidnap ladder. Wallace said this initial “h” on the plane when found. Q. What else did you find at the house? A. With Mrs. Hauptmann and the police officers, I found two packages in the south wall of the garage. Q. What was in the two packages? A. In the two packages there was 100 gold certificates in one package, and 83 gold certificates in the other. Q. Ten dollar certificates? A. Yes $10 certificates. Sheaf Bills those was | Shown to Jury. Q. What did you do? A. The money was counted in the presence of Mrs. Hauptmann. We took one of the bills and checked with the ransom money serial num- bers. “I offer the newspaper and 83 ten- dollar gold certificates in evidence as one exhibit,” Wilentz announced with a flourish. The defense fought the introduc- tion of the ransom package, but again Justice Trenchard’s decision went against Hauptmann, and the “hot” money was admitted. Wilentz opened the package and displayed a thick sheaf of bills to the jury. As he unwrappea the newspaper and spread the bills in his hand Wilentz remarked, “Would defense counsel like to look at the bills, too?” The attorney general advanced to- ward the jury and spread the bills fan-like on the rail. Mrs. Ethel Stockton, juror No. 5, opened her mouth in surprise and turned, laughing, to wink at a juror in the back row. Wilentz had the witness identify a second package of ransom currency found in Hauptmann’s garage. Again the defense objected. “Will you let me see that money?” Justice Trenchard asked. Wilentz passed up a thick handful of currency—$1,000 in $10 bills. The justice returned them after a brief examination, and ruled the evi- dence was admissible, Wilentz gravely spread it beside the first package on the jury-box rail. Hauptmann sat expressionless through the “money, money, money” testimony. Garage Discovery Told by Witness. The questioning turned to the dis- covery of the “compartment” in the Hauptmann garage wall in which Wallace said the two packages of money were found. Wallace, holding a photograph of the section of the garage, pointed out to the jury the compartment found by a board nailed across two beams. Q. Now the New York police officers ) continued to search in and about the garage after that? A. They did. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935. Some of the Actors in Dramatic Session of Hauptmann Trial Q. What did they find? A. A gallon shellac can buried under a work bench. Wilentz offered the shellac can in evidence subject to connection with the case. “We're going to show now that it was loaded with ransom notes,” he said. Pope objected to the introduction in evidence of the varnish can as having no “materiality” unless shown to have a connection with the case. Q. What was found in the can? A. Two cloths were in the top of the can and two packages wrapped in newspaper. Q. There are the two (Wilentz displayed the cloths)? A. Yes. Q. I understand you found some money in the shellac can. A. Yes. Q. How much money? A. $11,930. Q. What kind of money? A. Lindbergh ransom money gold certificates. Wilentz thrust a heavy portfolio full of money into the troopers lap. “Pick it out for me he directed and the trooper started to take out package after package. Position of Bills Is Stressed. Q. Are these bills in the packages just as they were found? A. Yes. Q. So that there in that can were the bills as found? A. Yes, sir. The bills were produced by Wilentz, as the State sought to develop they were in the same order as listed by the Morgan banking employes. The jury box rail was completely lined with money now. The ransom bills, the newspapers in which they were wrapped, the two towels which covered the money in the shellac can —all these exhibits were there for the eight men and four women in the jury to stare at. Wilentz turned to add these bills to those already on the jury box rail, with the announcement in formal to towels ne: “Fifty $20 bills—50 $20 gold certifi- cates.” He turned to Justice Trenchard and said: “We are showing all of these bills bore the serial numbers listed.” Juror Rosie Pill roved her eyes along the money-jammed rail and shook her head. Q. As you walked into the garage was the can concealed? A. Yes. It was underneath the work bench near the south wall of the garage. There were two uprights, which concealed the can from view. Q. So it was under the bench, be- tween the uprights, in a compart- ment concealed by a wide board? A. Yes. Bruno Told Police He Had No More Cash. The detective then recounted how | he returned to the police station and confronted Hauptmann with the money found. Q. Did you ask if he had any more money? A. 1 did. He said no. Q. Any more gold certificates? A. He said no. Q. Any more of Col. Lindbergh’s money? A. He said no. Hauptmann said the money had been in a shee box and was wet, Wallace related. “He stated he had it in a basket out in the yard to dry,” the witness continued. Then, Wallace added, Hauptmann told of putting it in the garage. Court recessed for 5 minutes at 11:40 am. Ransom Money Gathered Up Quickly at Recess. Robert Peacock, assistant attorney general, gathered the ransom money up quickly from the jury box rail s Justice Trenchard announced the re- cess. Wallace returned to the stand to face the cross-examination of C. Llovd Fisher as court resumed at 11:48 am. PFisher asked Wallace to “relate your conversations with the de- fendant Hauptmann at the time of the arrest, just as it happened.” Wal- lace did so. Q. Did he say he had any more money? A. He said he had no more gold certificates, only some gold coins. Wallace told Fisher he had not heard testimony that Hauptmann told the police he had “a hundred left.” Fisher turned to the preparation of specimen writings by Hauptmann at the request of the police. Wallace, pointing to an exhibit held by Fisher, said it had been written “some time after midnight September 20.” From the time of arrest in the morning until he began to write Hauptmann was handcuffed to Wal- lace, Fisher brought out. Witness Tells of Returning | To Search for Money. The court room tensed & bit in anticipation Fisher would attempt to elicit testimony that Hauptmann was forced by police to use the ransom note spellings so he would further link himself to the kidnaping case. Wallace told how he returned to search the Hauptmann house and garage the day of the arrest. Q. As a matter of fact, didn't you go back to the house and look for the money exactly where Bruno Richard Hauptmann told Inspector Lyons he put it? A. No one ever gave me any such information. Q. Where did he say he got the money? A. He stated he got the shoe box— the money—from Isador Fisch. Wilentz objected to Fisher's ques- tion on the connection of the money with the extortion indictment pending against Hauptmann. Justice Trench- ard sustained the objection. Wallace was excused after a brief redirect ex- amination. Hauptmann’s Neighbor Tells of Conversation. Mrs. Ella Achenbach, heavy middle- aged woman, followed Wallace to the stand. She said she lived six or seven blocks from Hauptmann'’s home in the Bronx. Q. Did you see Mr. Bruno Richard Hauptmann after the kidnaping? A. One or two days after the kid- naping I saw Mrs. Hauptmanf and she said they had just come back from a trip. Then came Mrs. Hauptmann’s out- burst. Taking up her story she said Haupt- There’s No Better or Fresher Coffee Than Kenny’s Famous NORWOOD COFFEE AT ALL INDEPENDENT GROCERS mann joined them as they were talk- ing on her front porch that motning. Q Did you observe Hauptmann that morning? A. When he went down my front steps he kind of supported himself on the side of the stoop. Mrs. Achenbach said Mrs. Haupt- smann explained “Richard hurt his leg during the trip.” The wife, she said, touched Haupt- mann’s left leg with a “sort of massage motion” while the couple were on her porch. Evidence Tends to Show Bruno's Leg Injured. Wilentz released the witness without further development of the implica- tion that Hauptmann, in his alleged | fall from the kidnap ladder, had re- ceived the leg injury. Mrs. Achenbach sat quiety on the witness stand, her face toward the | jury. Hauptmann stared hard at her. Reilly took the witness and asked: | Q. After Anna Hauptmann came back from Europe in 1928 with your children, did she present you with a bill? A. Yes. Q. And you refused to pay it? A. I guess that's right. Mrs. Hauptmann listened intently to Mrs. Achenbach’s testimony, mani- festing interest. She laughed when the witness insisted the cost of a trip to Europe for one of her children with Mrs. Hauptmann had been repaid. Reilly brought out that Mrs. Achen- No. 1—Dr. Charles H. Mitchell, Mercer County physician, who per- formed the autopsy on the kid- naped son of Charles A. Lindbergh. He is shown on the witness stand describing how the child died “practically instantaneously from a very, extensive fracture of the skull.” No. 2—Thomas H. Sisk, left, and H. F. Seery, special agents of the Department of Justice, who testi- fled against Hauptmann. While Sisk was discussing discovery of ransom money in Hauptmann's home, Hauptmann arose and screamed: “Mister, mister, you stop lying; you are telling a story.” No. 3—Edward J. Reilly, chief of defense counsel, stooping over a snowbank on his way out of the court house. The photographer did not wait to see whether Reilly was about to throw a snow ball. No. 4—Hauptmann looking over evidence with a member of his counsel, C. Lloyd Fisher. No. 5—Jimmy Foxx, the base ball star, presenting his pass to State Trooper R. Wirth as he at- tended the trial. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. bach had seen no bandage on Haupt- mann’s leg, no cane or crutch, no “smell of arnica.” “It could have been rheumatism?” | Reilly remarked. Mrs. Achenbach grinned. Court recessed for lunch at 12:35 with the witness still on the stand. The court was jammed for the| afternoon session. Window sills were again a much sought point of vantage and the steps leading up to the judges’ dais were pre-empted by early comers. Attorney General Wilentz sald he hoped to reach Hauptmann's stock market transactions before the day's | session ended. These Wall street op- ‘ernllon.s, the prosecution contends, were financed by the $50,000 ransom paid for the Lindbergh baby. | Stock Market Deals | Will Be Aired. | Great bundles of exhibits, showing records of Hauptmann's career as a dabbler in the stock market, were spread out on the prosecution table as attorneys waited for court to re- convene. Hauptmann, brought back into | court, smiled nervously as he con- 'Itrred at length with Associate De- ’Xense Counsel Fisher. He talked volubly. Mrs. Hauptmann, looking self- conscious but pleased, took her seat near her husband and held her usual conversation with him after he fin- ished his talk with Pisher. Court resumed at 1:51. The jury was poiled and Mrs, Achenbach came ponderously back to the witness stand. ‘Wilentz announced to the court that the State proposed to introduce Haupt- mann’s bank and brokerage accounts from the time of the kidnaping to his arrest. A great number of witnesses and exhibits would be required, he said but the testimony could be very greatly shortened by presentation of one or two accountants who would examine the records over the week end. Defense joined with Wilentz in ask- ing that court adjourn after today until Monday. Justice Trenchard said he was “very well satisfied” that time could be saved by an adjournment | He granted the motion for suspen- sion. Jury Will Take Bus Ride Again. The gray-haired justice turned to the jury and advised that he had heard how they enjoyed their bus ride last Saturday and gave the permission to take the same ride this Saturday. “My suggestion,” he said in the pa- ternal manner of an old family phy- | sician, “is that you do not go if the weather is inclement. “Even if the weather is fine, be sure to get wraps enough to protect yourselves.” Then Reilly took up the cross- | examination of the German housewife on the witness stand Reilly rechecked the visit of Mrs. Achenbach’s daughter to Germany, taxing the witness' memory for many details on the cost and amount re- funded to Mrs. Hauptmann The girl, she said, had enough money for all expenses except the re- turn ship fare. “About $32. PO “HONEYMOON CRUISE” SAVED FROM DISASTER Couple in Seagoing Canoe Almost Starved in Gulf of California, Yachtsman Reveals. By the Assoclated Press. LAGUNA BEACH, Calif, January 18.—The perilous “honeymoon cruise” of Dana U. Lamb of Boston. 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