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A4 xx HAUPTMANN TRIAL| TURNS TO RANSOM Defense to Fight Charge Accused Spent Cash at Once. (Continued From First Page.) than $5,000 and when he was seized the authorities recovered $14,600, bringing the general total to $49,960. The defense will try to offset the damaging effects of this evidence by showing that none of the ransom money turned up in Hauptmann's bank accounts or bokerage transac- tions. Reilly also has pointed out the carpenter and his wife were frugal in their habits and had sizable bank accounts before the kidnaping. ‘The State will contend that Haupt- mann changed ransom bills in small transactions and deposited numerous amounts of silver in the bank. The so-called kidnap ladder, one of the most important pieces of evidence in the State's case, is still unaccepted | as evidence, though it has been| marked for identification. The de- | fense has objected to its admissibility on the grounds that its custody has, not been clearly traced. | The State will call Arthur Koehler, | Federal forestry products expert, to trace the wood and to attempt to prove that Hauptmann made thei ladder. The tools, found in his Bronx garage, including a plane, have been accepted as evidence, and the State will try to show the plane was used in the ladder’s construction. One of the State's witnesses, Octo- genarian Amandus Hochmuth, testi- fled last week he saw Hauptmann in the vicinity of the Lindbergh estate near Hopewell on the day of the kid- naping, and that a ladder was in his car. Neighbor to Testify. The full list of the State's witnesses who will be called to place Haupt- mann in New Jersey on the day of the kidnaping or shortly before has not been announced. Millard Whited, Sourlands Mountain lumberjack and neighbor of the Lindberghs at that time, will testify he saw Hauptmann prowling around the woods in that dis- trict a few days before the kidnaping. The defense, it is known, will try to impeach Whited's credibility. Other State witnesses will be Ben Lupica, Princeton University student, and Frank Rossiter, theatrical booking agent, who will identify Hauptmann as the man they saw near the Sour- land Mountain estate. Of greater worry to the defense is the evidence of the wood trim panel, found in a closet of Hauptmann's home, and bearing the Bronx address of Dr. Condon, and Condon's tele- phone number. Condon, one of the State's principal witnesses, identified Hauptmann in court last week as the man “John” to whom he paid the ransom in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx. 4 The State has still another con- vincing piece of evidence—the board on which had been written the serial numbers of two of the ransom cer- tificates, numbers which were not on the list published by the Govemment.l Hauptmann admitted at the time of his arrest that he had written Condon’s telephone number and ad- dress on the panel because he was “interested in the case.” Fisch Name Introduced. The name of Fisch, who, the defense has hinted, was involved in the kid- naping, and who, according to Haupt- mann’s story, was the man who gave him the ransom money found in his possession, was put into the record of testimony’ twice yesterday. C. Lloyd Fisher, associate defense counsel, got from State Police Sergt. John Wallace the admission that Hauptmann had told the authorities the money was left in a shoe box with him when Fisch sailed for Ger- many, where he died in 1933. And Reilly, questioning William Mulligan, Steiner & RBouse custo- mer’s man, elicted the fact that Fisch had accompanied Hauptmann to the brokerage office five or six times in the late Spring or Summer of 1933. Mulligan identified a photograph, of Fisch. Fisher said today the defense would produce witnesses to testify that Fisch offered to them for safekeep- ing the shoe box. The prisoner claims that he was unaware of the box’s contents when Fisch gave it to him. If the defense follows the line of attack it has suggested in its vari- ous references to Fisch, the State will call as rebuttal witnesses three rela- tives of Fisch and the German nurse who attended him in the last stages of tuberculosis. | ‘The four were brought to America | last Tuesday by Detective Arthur| Johnson of New York and are now in New York. There is the likelihood also that the State will present medical testi- mony to show that Hauptmann was treated for a leg injury shortly after the kidnaping. It has already pro- duced, in the person of Mrs. Ella Achenbach, elderly Bronx matron, evidence that Hauptmann limped a few days after the kidnaping. Leg Injury Claimed. ‘The State contends that Hauptmann hurt his leg when the ladder broke as he was carrying the Lindbergh baby from the nursery. Mrs. Achenbach, whose appearance and story caused Mrs. Hauptmann to rise and call her a liar, testified Mrs. Hauptmann and Hauptmann called at her home in March, 1932, and on that occasion Mrs. Hauptmann said they had just returned from “a trip” on which Bruno had sprained his leg. ‘With the decision in the Hauptmann case still many days distant, Haupt- mann’s counsel won a victory today in another court when the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court signed an order commanding James Fawcett, who was Hauptmann'’s original lawyer, to turn over to Haupt- mann’s present counsel certain docu. ments deemed necessary to Haupt- mann’s defense. ‘The nature of the papers in question was not disclosed, but the decision of the court was taken as indicating that in the court’s opinion the papers are valuable to the carpenter’s defense. e GAMING CHARGE FILED Three Colored Persons Booked Following Raid. Three colored persons were charged with permitting gaming following a raid yesterday on a cigar store in the 1400 block of Eleventh street. They are: Luther Bryant, 19, 1401 Twelfth street, ahd John and Antoinette Howard, both 26, of 1113 O street. Second precinct Detectives C. E. Cannon and Henry Rinke, who staged the raid, seized several numbers slip pads, police said. A similar raid was said to have been staged there several weeks ago. 4 September 21, two days after arrest. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 19.—Prison life begins to agree with Bruno Richard Hauptmann, whose health remains unimpaired and whose weight is increasing as his trial for the Lindbergh kidnap- murder progresses. The silent German carpenter stepped out of his automobile in the Bronx September 19, when police officers directed him to “pull over,” weighing nearly 170 pounds. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY: 20, 1935—PART ONE. In the weeks following, first con- tacts in many years with confine- ment, the nervousness induced by his predicament and a change of fare to prison diet brought his weight down 20 pounds. Recent checks by the Hunter- don County Jail authorities dis- close that he has regained 4 of those 20. He came to Hunterdon County, a month after his arrest, looking tired, wan and highly nervous. Hauptmann Jurors Have Birthday Party For Member, 33 By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 19.—The Hauptmann jury had a birthday party tonight for Mrs. Ethel Stockton, the youngest jury woman. She was 33 years old. The jury did not come down to dinner in the Union Hotel din- ing room, but had chicken, ham and cheese sandwiches, fruit and coffee in their rooms. There was a big angel food cake for Mrs. Stockton. In the afternoon the jury was taken for its second bus ride since the trial began. LAWYERS PREPARE FOR BUSY WEE Defense Attorneys Confer During Recess—Wilentz Rests. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 19.— As the State’s case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, neared its close, prosecution attorneys relaxed for a quiet week end and the defense counsel conducted a general conference, preparatory to beginning their story. Attorney General David 1. Wilentz left the Trenton headquarters of the prosecution for his home in Perth Amboy, indicating he was seeking rest, with perhaps a few games of pinochle on the side. George K. Large, Flemington mem- ber of the prosecution staff, was to be treated for a left arm troubled with arthritis. Others of the State's staff returned to their homes in Trenton. Of the group, only Anthony M. Hauck, jr, was busy. His task at the end of the defense’s case is to make a statement to the jury, setting forth the principal points the State contends it has made against Haupt- mann. This is mandatory if requested by the defense and Edward J. Reilly. Hauptmann’s chief counsel, indicated it would be asked. Hauck’s statement will be followed by the defense which was expected to consist primarily of &n extended oration by Reilly. The defense, in its summation, is privileged to attack the statements made in Hauck’s address. Reilly, C. Lloyd Pisher and Egbert Rosecrans of the defense staff arrang- ed a conference at a New York hotel o ALABAMA POWER SUIT DELAY ASKED BY U. S. T. V. A. Unable to Prepare Case by January 28 and Several Attorneys Tied Up. By the Assostated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 19.— The Tennessee Valley Authority today moved for a continuance of the suit filed by preferred stockholders of the Alabama Power Co. to halt the T. V. A’s “yardstick” power program in North Alabama. Judge W. I. Grubb of United States District Court here set the motion for hearing Friday. The suit had been set for hearing January 28. In its motion asking a continuance of the case the T. V. A. sald it could not properly prepare its case by Janu- ary 28, and also that several of its attorneys could not be here on that date, The stockholders’ suit contends the power program of the Tennessee Val- ley Authority exceeds the rights granted it by Congress, and that Con- gress exceeded the rights granted it by the Constitution in delegating some of its powers to the T. V. A. HELD MEANEST MAN NEW YORK, January 19 (#).—A candidate for the world’s ."meanest man” was offered today by Magis- trate Overton Harris when faced by Gernaro Pescia, charged with refill- ing genuine liquor bottles with alco- hol and coloring matter. “After the American people have fought so hard for the liberty to drink,” observed the magistrate, “such & man would rob a poorhouse.” Pescia was held og three counts. WEISS DEATH LAID 0 TRI-STATE GANG One of Prisoners Claims Night Life Figure Was Thrown Into River. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January Detective Capt. James (Shooey) Ma- lone, who aided in the capture of Robert Mais and his “tri-State gang” in New York, said today one of those arrested has implicated the band in the kidnaping and suspected slaying of Willlam Weiss, night life figure. “We tied a rope around his (Weiss') neck and kicked him into the Dela- ware River,” Malone quoted one mem- ber of the gang as telling authorities. The captain refused to reveal which of the four men captured had made the statement. Weiss was “snatched” last October by three men as he drove his car up to his suburban home. He has not been seen since. “A member of the mob has come clean and told us definitely that they muredered Weiss,” Malone said. “I believe the murder was committed after Weiss’ friend, Albert (Buck) Mayer, paid them $8,000, on account, of the ransom they demanded. “The member of the gang who con- fessed said they threw Weiss into the Delaware River above Torresdale Manor (just north of Philadelphia), where they had held him prisoner in a little cottage near the river during the ransom negotiations. “The $8,000 which Mayer paid was split four ways.” PAIR ADMITS ROBBERIES. Mais and Legenza Crack Under Grilling. NEW YORK, January 19 (A).— Cracking under rigorous questioning by Federal Department of Justice agents, members of the notorious Tri- State gang tonight had confessed to robberies in Pennsylvania and Mary- land and to plans for an extensive and systematic criminal regime in the New York area. Robert Mais, the gang leader, and his chief lieutenant, Walter Legenza, condemned murderers, were reported by Frank X. Fay of the New York office of the Department of Justice, to have given complete details of their break for freedom in Richmond, Va. “They admitted,” Fay said, “that they paid a guard named George Duke, who since has killed himself, $200 to smuggle guns to them. He furnished the guns, leaving them in a paper sack at the end of a cell cor- ridor. Pistol Smuggled to Him. “The pistol Mais had when he was trapped by Department of Justice agents was the one smuggled to him in the Richmond jail. “We definitely believe the gang was responsible for the Weiss kidnaping in Philadelphia, although we haven't obtained a confession from any of them yet.” Fay said that Mals and Legenza had confessed to robbing the Hyatts- ville, Md,, armory to obtain weapons for a planned series of crimes that includes bank stick-ups, pay-roll raids and other such jobs. Martin Farrell, another prisoner, and Legenza, he said, have admitted robbing the Norristown, Pa., armory for the same purpose. Edwin Gale, also under arrest, has been identified from fingerprints as Benjamin Bistretsky, who escaped from a Georgia chain gang. Woman Is Fifth Held. The fifth person held is Mary Mc- Keever, 34, who was said by Depart- ment of Justice men to be a fugitive from justice in Pennsylvania. “Legenza admitted the Philadelphia Rapid Transit hold-up also,” Fay said. Four thousand dollars was obtained in that robbery. “We are subjecting the prisoners to a thorough questioning in connec- tion with a Washington, D. C., mur- der in which a niwspaper route agent was killed by mistake. They haven't made any admission of guilt, however. (The murder referred to is the kill- ing of Allan Wilson, a route agent for the Washington Herald, who was shot to death at Takoma Park, Md, by gangsters believed lying in wait for Mickey McDonald.) Fay sald Legenzs and Mais talked [} 19—j September 27, at hearing in Bronz. His first hours in his new cell quar- ters were spent in nervous pacing in the manner of a caged animal. Kindly treatment of the whole- hearted country people who became his keepers had its effect. The generous meals of the warden's wife appealed to the prisoner and, despite the stringency of the guarding regulations, his mental and physical condition improved. Three physicians visited him on November 21, the only time since January 4, on second day of trial. he came to Flemington that a de- tailed medical examination was made. They reported finding a healthy, normal man of 35, with well-formed body, suffering only from a varicose vein condition in the legs, “first degree flat-foot” and a slight intestinal disorder. Since then two visits have been made by the State's physicians, Dr. George Henry and Dr. Bare clay S. Fuhrmann, both of Flem- ington, and they have reported, willingly of their Richmond escape, with Mais insisting that Legenza fired the shot that killed a guard. Fay confirmed reports that the De- partment of Justice believed the gang contemplated a series of bold kidnap- ings in Philadelphia, with Simon S. Neuman and Sam Lazar as the first victims. “The gang left Philadelphia for New York, we believe, for safety after the kidnaping of Weiss,” he declared. Although declining to reveal the reason why the gang was suspected | in the Weiss case, Fay said nothing | belonging to the missing Philadelphia man was found on the persons or in the apartments of the persons ar- rested. The New York Times said that Mais made a partial confession solving the disappearance of Weiss, but not dis- posing of the doubt that he later was killed. GUARD IS DEFENDED. Richmond Officials Deny Gun- Smuggling Story. RICHMOND, Va. January 19 (®). —Richmond officials tonight were quick to defend the reputation of a guatd named by Robert Mais as hav- ing smuggled in the pistols with which Mais and Walter Legenza shot their way out of the Richmond jail. The quotation of Mais given out by Frank 8. Fay, head of the New York office of the Department of Justice, referred to a guard “named George Duke, who since has killed himself.” It was assumed here, however, that the reference was to Richard O. Duke, one of the deputies guarding the gangsters, who committed suicide shortly after their escape. — AIR CORPS’ FUTURE HAILED BY FOULOIS Prospects Brighter Than in Years, He Says, in Revived News Letter Issue. Prospects for success in attaining many of the objectives for which the Army Air Corps has fought for years “have never appeared brighter” than today, Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the Air Corps, declared yes- terday in a message to Air Corps personnel in the first issue of the Air Corps News Letter published since its suspension 14 months ago. With the organization of the Gen- eral Headquarters Air Force, Gen. Foulois said, “We may hope to se- cure a closely knit, uniformly trained fighting force capable of carrying out, under the direction of the command- ing general in the field, the strategi- cal mission of the Air Corps to meet and repel air attacks against the con- tinental United States, and to par- ticipate with other Army forces in meeting and repelling attacks of ground and naval surface forces against our coasts and borders, or within our territory.” Gen. Foulois said that, with the added funds included for the Air Corps in the 1936 budget recommen- dations of the Presidént, “more am- ple’ and suitable equipment can be :fcured for all our units and activi- es.” Another message to the officers and men of the General Headquarters Air Force, issued at the same time by Lieut. Col. Frank M. Andrews, Air Corps, commanding officer of the new force, explains that the six weeks be- tween now and March 1, the effec- tive date of organization of the Air Force, will be utilized in organizing a staff and preparing a general plan of operation. Explaining that he cannot say much at present as to his plans for the new Air Force, Col, Andrews ex- plained that one of the early objec- tives “will be to equip and train all Air Force units so that they may be able to be self-supporting for more or less extended periods of time sep- arated from their bases.” BISHOP COOPER DIES Was Well Known Here as Lec- turer and Writer. Right Rev. Irving Steiger Cooper, regionary bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in the United States, and author of “Theosophy Simpli- fied,” “Reincarnation, the Hope of the World” and “The Ceremonies of the Liberal Catholic Rite,” died Thurs- day in Los Angeles, after an opera- tion. He was well known to Wash- ington theosophists both as lecturer and writer. Bishop Cooper had studied under the late Dr. Annie Besant in India for several years, Guarded EMERSON WIDOW GETS KIDNAPING NOTE. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LONG SAYS RICH MUST BEAR COST Common People Havent's Any- thing to T-x for Relief, Ra- dio Audience Told. By the Associated Press. Senator Huey P. Long last night as- serted that the only “practical relief” which the Government can give must be financed by “taking the money with which to give such relief from the big fortunes at the top.” In a radio address, the Louisianan said: “The common people haven't any- thing worth having and when you put a tax on them for the purpose of unemployment relief or for old-age pensions, or for anything else, you are giving nobody any relief, because you are taxing the same people who have nothing on the pretense that you are going to give it back to them.” He went on to say that “as a mat- ter of fact it all never does get back, but much of it would remain in the hands of these Washington bureau- crats and politicians.” Preliminary to an attack upon the unemployment and old-age insurance proposals submitted to Congress this week by President Roosevelt, he said he and his associates had been “clam- oring for a number of relief measures,” including an old-age pension of $30 to $40 a month for all over 60. NON-STOP HOP PLANNED SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 19 (#). —The giant naval seaplane XP2H-1, which landed at Coco Solo, C. Z., Wednesday after a 2,000-mile non- stop flight from Norfolk, Va., will take off from the Bay of Panama March 1 on a continuous flight to San Diego, said reports received at fleet air headquarters at North Island today. The biplane will be piloted by Lieuts. J. 8. Thach and G. E. Giese and will carry a crew of six men. ‘without repeating tye extensive ex- amination, that Hauptmann's con- dition was generally unchanged. However, they noted the intestinal condition had been virtually cor- rected by treatment, the appetite had improved and the varicose veins were less apparent because the prisoner had spent much time off his feet. The stoical Germen has exhib- ited a remarkable recovery facility Yesterday Hauptmann Improves Physically Despite Increasing Strain of Trial | —A. P. Photos. after the grueling hours of court room appearances. His outbreak at the testimony of a Government agent on Thursday, rather than in- creasing his nervous excitement, resulted in an unusual emotional calm. The jail authorities reported he went to sleep at 10 o'clock, more *han two hours before his custom- ary time, and slept soundly throughout the night. RICH WIDOW GETS WARNING OF PLOT Baltimore Police Reveal Letter to Mrs. Emerson. Mansion Guarded. By the Associated Pr‘ BALTIMORE, January 19.—A let- ter, warning Mrs. Anne Preston Mc- Cormack Emerson, widow of Capt. Isaac E. Emerson, millionsire drug manufacturer, that she might be kid- naped, was made public tonight by Charles D. Gaither, police commis- sioner of Baltimore. Commissioner Gaither sald Mrs. Emerson received a strange letter early this week, causing him to start & secret investigation under his per- sonal supervision. The commissioner emphasized that the letter did not contain a kidnap or extortion threat. “The letter informed Mrs. Emer- son,” Gaither sald, “that she might be kidnaped and there might be men in Baltimore who would kidnap her. “There is no threat in this. Asks Cash for Information. “The writer also said that he might | be able to tell her about it if she would pay him a certain amount of money. This is not an extortion threat. “The purpose of our investigation has been to find the writer so that we might question him and learn what he knows—if anything.” Commissioner Gaither declined to comment upon the report here that the price asked by the writer was $5,000. First intimations that there was police activity at the Emerson estate, Brooklandwood, a show place of the Green Spring Valley, was on Wednes- day night when the mansion was bril- lantly illuminated inside and the grounds and outbuildings were lighted by flood lamps. Son Acting as Spokesman. Frederick C. McCormack, only son of Mrs. Emerson, said an arrange- ment had been made with Commis- sioner Gaither by which he only would be the spokesman for the family. Mrs. Emerson is considered one of the wealthiest women in Baltimore, having inherited a large portion of her husband’s estate, which was esti- mated at $20,000,000. She and Capt. Emerson were married in July, 1911, Before her marriage she lived at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. Mrs. Emerson in 1930 was one of the principal witnesses in a criminal trial in New York where a former employe of hers was charged with obtaining jewelry from stores in Philadelphia and New York under the supposed authorization of Mrs. Emer- ‘son. Hot Water for Trains. Britain’s highest railway trough from which express trains pick up water without stopping, 1,480 feet above sea level, near Inverness, Scot- land, has been equipped with hot-water pipes to prevent freezing. AMERICAN RADIATOR CO. 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It was written on | stationery, the letterhead of which gave an address at Fourteenth and F streets. Investigation, the bureau said, showed mail so addressed was re-| ceived in the office of a public stenog- rapher in the National Press Build- ing, who explained she had merely undertaken to receive such mail and forward it to a New York address. Tells of New York Attorney. The arrangement, she said, was made in response to a request she | DISCORDINN.R. A BOARD REPORTED Richberg Is Reported in Dis- agreement on Auto Code Renewal. By the Associated Press. Donald R. Richberg was disclosed yesterday to be in disagreement with officials of N. R. A’s Administrative Board. ‘This development followed persist- ent reports that there was sharp di- vergence of’opinion among members of the board itself. Richberg, head of the National Emergency Council, and also of the group named to draft N. R. A. policy, said at the White House it was “an unfortunate impression” that the auto- mobile code was to be renewed auto- matically on February 1. Members of the board had said they knew of no difficulties in the way of renewal. An indication that members of the board itself have opposite viewpoints followed a recent speech by S. Clay Williams, board chairman. He said that N. R. A. should be continued on a temporary basis, substantially with- out change. Other members of the board, questioned as to whether this speech represented the board, said “no” emphatically. Careful Study Promised. Blackwell Smith, N. R. A. acting counsel, said recently the board would make no recommendations on the question of legislation. Another of- ficial said any recommendations would be strictly informal in nature, and that more or less formal suggestions would be made on whatever legislation was shaped by Congress. Members of the board interpret the differences as the natural outgrowth of healthy argument between men of strong opinions. Richberg said the automobile code would be carefully studied before a decision was reached on its renewal. Discussing the work of an N. R. A. committee, which is studying the pos- sibility of smoothing out employment fluctuations in the industry, he said the committee was “named particu- larly to report on working conditions, and more specifically to study the possibility of regularizing employ- ment.” He said the automobile employers had shown an interest in the regu- larization of employment, “but the main question is the speed with which it is to be done.” Renewal Is Expected. A spokesman for the automobile industry said that so far as he knew the industry expected to remew the code without change on February 1. Whatever the result of the N. R. A. study, it was his opinion that pro- posed changes could not be made in time to include in the code, and that changing of the code presumably would necessitate hearings. Usually a 20-day notice is given for such hearings, more time than is available between now and February 1. Meanwhile, the N. R. A, was criti- cized by the Machinery and Allied Products Institute in a statement that “the policy of restricting production of machinery and other capital goods which was written into early N. R. A. codes still constitutes an important bar to economic recovery and re-em- ployment in the capital goods indus- tries.” N. R. A. recently has removed some production restrictions, and there is strong sentiment for further action along this line, although the Recovery Board has not enunciated a policy. . Birds’ Friend Honored. As a tribute to the memory of Lord Buckmaster, who piloted through Par- liament two important measures for the protection of wild birds, the Scot- tish Society for the Protection of Wild received last November in a letter signed by a New York attorney, who | asked for a “mailing address for a | client of his.” After several persons | had called at her office to make in- | quiries, she said, she addressed a let- | ter to the lawyer asking for details, but | failed to get them, and “determined to cancel the arrangement.” Herbert Putnam, chief librarian of | & Congress, when informed of the idea, said the Library did not “counte- nance” such plans. 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