Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 5

LADDER IS TRACE ‘T0 BRUNO'S HOME Expert Says Wood Came From Accused Man’s Bronx Attic. By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 24— Bruno Hauptmann’s carpenter tools, a piece of his Bronx attic floor and | the baby Lindbergh kidnap ladder were joined yesterday before a Jersey | jury to seal the State’s murder charge. Anxious to close their direct case, prosecutors put Authur J. Koehler, Fed ood expert, on the witness stand—a witness who even worked with Hauptmann's own plane to show the jury that its faulty blade scarred the grim and broken ladder. The State still was drawing upon the expert’s direct testimony when court .adjourned, and he had yet to face a cross-examination that prom- ised to be long Hauptmann's eves, usually cold and indifferent, snapped in annoyance as his tool chest was thrown open to the aze of a crowd that braved a driving | snowstorm to jam the tiny Hunterdon County court room { He hunched his shoulders and| braced himself in his ch; as Koehler calmly improvised a little work table on a corner of the judge’s bench and sent crisp pine shavings curling to the court room floor with Haupt- mann's well-worn plane, Pieces of Wood Matched. Carefully, he explained to the jury how an upright of the ladder from which the famous baby allegedly fell to his death matched perfectly a piece of flooring taken from the attic of the Bronx house in which Hauptmann lived at the time of the kidnaping— March 1, 1932 “As a res! the two,” the expert testified. come to the conclusion that those two pieces at one time were one piece. They have been cut in two.” Koehler recited his painstaking | tracing of the ladder lumber from a | South Carolina mill to a Bronx lum- | ber yard and thence to Hauptmann's garage. He recounted how he had matched nail marks in an upright of the ladder | with the nail m: in two beams {n Hauptmann's attic, using enlarged | photographs to make his statements more vivid He testified, too, that a wood chisel, found on the Lindbergh estate near the ladder on the night of March 1, 1932, of the same size and make as one missing from Hauptmann's tool chest. had been used cutting out | the recesses for the ladder rungs. | He told how a saw and wood in Hauptmann's kit were r to those used in constructing of a careful study of “I have | Missing from Attic. ree early witnesses, De- J. Bornmann, of the ; State police, and two police department car- | Charles F. W. Enkler and | Anselm Cramer, the prosecution had established not only that a board was missing from the attic, but that the attic itself could be reached with difficulty only through Hauptmann's spartment after taking down the helves of a linen closet. A detailed examination and cross- examination left the State prepared to call Koehler, an expert stationed at the United States Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. His qualifications were impressive— he has testified in numerous civil and criminal suits the country over and he has written books on the subject of wood identification. But the defense fought his entrance to the case vigorously, though there was little doubt from the start that Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard would qualify him. Once qualified, Koehler set to work 8t once to show the relation of the piece of wood in the ladder and the piece taken from the attic by the State after Bornmann discovered a section had been removed. Nails Fit Into Wood. With the State-removed plece Koehler demonstrated. “These two pieces of wood at one time were one piece. A little gap has been cut out. That was about theit relative position in the original piece,” he said, illustrating his words. He then showed how four nails, taken from the piece of board in the attic, fitted perfectly the holes in the ladder upright. “There were nail holes in. these. joists along the south side of the floor and the west half of the floor and I found that these protruding nails stuck into this rail, fit exactly in the four nail holes which were in those joists.” A moment later he said: “In my opinion that rail had a% one time been nailed down there on those joists, becmuse it would be in- conceivable to th.ak—" Frederick A. Pope, associate de- fense cougsel, interrupted with an objection, but Justice Trenchard per- mitted Koehler to finish. | “There are four nail holes a cer- tain distance apart and a ceitain di- rection from each other and in my opinion it wouldn't be possible that there would have been another board somewhere with cut nail holes in them, spaced exactly like those nail tective Lew New Jel New Y penters, Before Selling Investigate the Prices We Pay for OLD GOLD Jewelry of every description, bridge- work, silver. No matter how old or dilapidated ‘any of foregoing ar- ticles might be. you will be greatly surprised at the cash prices paid y us (Licensed by U. S. Govt.) SHAH & SHAH 921 F St. N.W. Phone NA. 5543—We Will Call Try a Plate of ELLIS’ OYSTERS Ellis’ Toms Cove Oysters are the finest you can buy. They are extra larse selects right from famous oyster beds in the Atlantic Ocean. They ‘have a fiaver you i enjoy. i l'-ke home a quart for "Gpen Until 12 Midnioht G. C. ELLIS CO. No. 7 Municipal Fish Market NATL. 4968 Prescott Launches Move to Restrain Fusion Patronage Enters Bill to Permit Montgomery Treasurer to Name Aides. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, January 24—Efforts of Montgomery County Democrats to keep some patronage from the Fusion party were inaugurated in the State | Senate yesterday. The movement took the form of a bill by Senator Stedman Prescott, who heads the County Democratic Organi- zation, to permit the treasurer to ap- point part of his office force. At pres- ent the appointments are in the hands of the Fusion-controlled Board of County Commissioners, recommendations of the treasurer. Under the Prescott bill, two assist- ant treasurers and six clerks are te be appointed by the treasurer. Additional clerks would be named by the commis- sioners. In the House, Delegate Joseph A. Cantrel, Montgomery Fusionist, pre- sented a non-controversial bill to re- move the present limit of $4,300 on the amount of money which can be col- lected under the Silver Spring fire tax. Prince Georges Representatives had no bills to offer yesterday. IL DUCE’S EDITOR DIES Friend of Pope Bequeaths $2,- 550,000 Fortune. MILAN, January 24 Hoepli, 88, the exclusive editor and publisher in Italy of the writings of Premier Mussolini, died today. Al- though a Protestant, Hoepli was a warm friend of Pope Pius. He left a fortune estimated at 30,000,000 lire 0,000), chiefly in public bequests. holes are in the joists, the same dis- tance apart, the same direction from | each other.” Reasons for Belief. In direction and spacing and slant, | the fit was perfect, Koehler said. Attorney General David T. Wilentz asked him if he had any other reason for making his statement. “Because these nails were inserted in the joist, with that rail, the edge was perfectly parallel to the adjoining board. Now, if that had been an accident, that those four nail holes were the same distance apart and the same direction it would not be ex- pected that that board would neces- sarily be parallel to the boards in that floor,” he said. Koehler took the witness stand shortly before the noon recess and remained there the rest of the day. FREE 64 PAGE COOK BOOK DRUG STORES MAIL ORDERS FILLED—Add 107 extra for Postage and Packing. No C. O. D. Orders Filled. Address, Liggett's, 801 14th St. N.W. Phillips’ MILK OF MAGNESIA g W 3 4e Wampole’s @ererrin | 63e JAD SALTS Crdensed | 49¢ For Coughs & Colds 35¢ Grove'’s LB.Q. 35c Piso Remedy. . Va-tro-nol 35c Pape’s 1.50 Petrolagar. . .. Water proof cover 65c Mistol 30c Hill’s Cascara Quinine 100’s Bayer Aspirin 59¢€ 35¢ Vick’s Vapo-Rub . 60c Pertussin Large Listerine ... 60c Rem A Regular who act on| (#) —Ulric | THE EVENING. STAR, EXTENSION PLANS OF CAPITOL BRIGHT President Displays Interest After Conference With Senator Walsh. 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