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A4 sxy THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. BRUNO’S TESTIMONY UNDER DIRECT EXAMINATION BY REILLY Hauptmann Te As He Takes Stand Again Questions Concern-| ing Kidnaping Flatly Denied in Rapidfire Answer of “No.” Defense Attorney’s (Continued From First Page.) your possession when you were ar- rested? A. 1 did. Hauptmann said the New York police, as for all he knew, had pos- session of the skins. Q. What kind of a little box was it? Pasteboard or wood? A. 1 found out it was a shoe box later Hauptmann told how he got the box from Fisch. “He had a little package. He asked me to keep it in a dry place. I put it in the broom closet on an upper shelf.” Q. Whereabouts in the closet? A. On the upper shelf Accident Revealed Box Contained Money. Q. How long did that box remain in the broom closet? A. Middle of August, '34 Q. What caused you to disturb it? A. 1 hit the box with a broom handle. I damaged it and saw it had money in it? Q. Was there any moisture there? A. It was all soaking wet. I took the box down. Q. Did you take the box down? A. 1 put it in the garage. Q. How much money was there? A. I didn't count it. Q. Is that the money you afterward ed to spend? A. Yes. lls His Version. Q. Did you address this letter to Col. Lindbergh? A. No. sir. Q. Did you write that? not write anything like that. Q. When was the first time you saw that letter? A. I saw some letters in the courtroom in the Bronx. I don't know which ones. Q. You didn't’ mark them? A. No. Q. When did you first learn that Col. Lindbergh lived at Hopewell? A. I read it in the paper. Q. The morning after the kidnap- ing? Wilentz objected again. Q. When did you read of the kid- naping? A. March second. Q. You didn't know Col. Lindbergh? A. No. Q. You didn't know Hopewell? A. No. Q. You were never in Hopewell? A. No. Q. When did you first read he lved in Hopewell? A. March 2, 1932, the paper. Q. Do 1 understand you—every day you went the usual route looking for | work? | A. March 2 I took my tools— Reilly interrupted Q. Are these your tools? A. Yes. Tells of Working At Millwork Company. Hauptmann squatted down and ex- amined the tool box, checking over A I did he lived in when I read it in S A. To Webster avenue, I figure, would be 40 to 50 blocks. Q. Were you there in that ceme- tery on the night of March 12, 1832? A. 1 can’t remember I ever was there. Q. But on that night were you there and did you meet Dr. Condon there? A. No. Q. Have you any independent recol- lection where you were the night of March 12? A. What day of the week was it? Q. Saturday. A. I really don't know, it's hard to remeriber. Q But were you at Woodlawn | Cemetery? A. I was not. Q. Did you climb over any gate and run away from Dr. Condon? A. Certainly not. Reilly showed him a picture of the frankfurter stand near the cemetery where Jafsie found a kidnap note. Q. Were you ever in that frank- | furter stand? | A. No, I was not. i Q. Did you ever sit on a bench there and talk to Dr. Condon. A. No. Q. Did you ever see this shack (in- | dicating the place where Dr. Condon and the kidnaper talked, seated on a bench) ? A. No. Q. Did you ever sit there coughing | with Dr. Condon? A. No. His answers were given naturally | and frankly. Reilly turned from the witness. “Bring out the ladder,” he directed. | Hauptmann looked speculatively at it. Hauptmann Grins as He Denies Building Ladder. | Reilly, reaching for the kidnap lad- | der, asked, “Now how many years, | Bruno, have you been a carpenter?” “About 10 years,” Hauptmann re- plied Q. Did you build that ladder?” A. I am a carpenter. He grinned and the court room tit- tered. “Quiet,” shouted fhe ushers. Q. Did you build that ladder? A. No. | stock market. my wife went to Germany the first time. Q. I show you a deposit of $728. A. This time I was working very hard, mostly evenings, Sundays and Saturdays. 1 opened an account at White Plains avenue. In a couple of months I closed the account about $728. The account, Reilly brought out, was opened in September, 1927, with $250. Hauptmann studied the bank record with a slight frown, as Reilly went from item to item, deposits and with- drawals. Q. Now, there were withdrawals in the account of Richard and Anna in 1928, 30th of November, 29th of De- cember and 3lst of December. You made three withdrawals totaling $485. Can you explain the withdrawals. A. I really can't explain. They were probably loans to friends. Another withdrawal of $328, he said, was used in stock trading with Carle- ton & Mott. Q. And in 1929 you were doing business with Steiner Rouse, weren't you? A. No, it was— Q. Or with Carleton & Mott, was it? A. Yes. Q. Now here is a withdrawal in 1930 of $500 on June 14 and $900 June 25. Can you tell what they were for? A. I guess I put the money in the I can't remember. Reilly Seeks to Explain Hauptmann Prosperity. Reilly was slowly leading up to his announced intention of explaining | away the Hauptmann 1932-1934 pros- | perity, which the State contends came from the ransom money. Q. After these two withdrawals there was a deposit of $302.50 in July? A. T guess so. Hauptmann told of withdrawals to pay for his car in July, 1931. Q. Here is a withdrawal of $450 July 32 A. I guess that was the trip to California Reilly finally reached 1932 and he questioned Hauptmann on the de- Vas it the meney found in your its contents. Q. Have you noticed its construc- | posits and withdrawals, Some of the tion? | withdrawals the witness said were for A. I have been noticing it. | the fur business which he conducted A. He was. Q. What did you do with the two satchels he left? A. I opened the big satchel and searched it. I found nothing. it out and left it in the garage. Q. While Fisch was in Germany did he write to you A. Yes. Hauptmann Denies Visit to Estate March 1. Reilly switched his questions to the map of the crime area near Hopewell. Q. I'm pointing now to the estate of Col. Lindbergh. Hauptmann, were you ever in Hopewell in your ufe? A. I was not. Q. On the night of March 1, 1932, ou on the grounds of Col. Lind- s estate at Hopewell, N. J.? A. I was not. He snapped that “not” like a whip. Q. On the night of March 1, 1932, did you leave on the window seat of the 1 a note? A. 1 wasn't there at all Q. On the night of March 1, 1932, did you enter the Lindbergh nursery and ? A. I did not. Q. And steal young Charles A. Lind: bergh, jr.? A. 1 was never there. Q. You never saw Baby Lindbergh in your life? A. I never saw him. Reilly handed him the ransom note left in the nursery. Q. Did you see that note before? A. Isaw it in the Bronx court room. Q Did you write it? A. I did not. Q. Did you leave it in the Lind- 2 tm smiled. Lindbergh studied the ex-convict's face. Testifies He Was With Wife on Night of Kidnaping. Q. Will you again tell the jury where you were March 1, 19322 A. I took my wife to the bakery, be- tween half past six and quarter to seven (am.) in the car. Q. How many miles was it from your home to the bakery? A. A good mile. Q. After Anna entered the bakery at 7 o'clock, what did you do? A. I went right home, put the car in the garage. I left my house later and went to the subway. I took the subway to Seventy- second street to the Majestic Apart- ments. My tools were in the carpenter shop. 1 told the superintendent I can't starve. “So I left the tools at the Majestic and I went back to the employment agency where I got the job. I tried to get the $10 back. I couldn't get it back. They said, ‘Come around to- morrow. There may be something doing then."” He told how he visited another agency and Radio City seeking a job, but had no success. “I went home about 5 o’clock. Hauptmann continued. “There was nobody there. I went to the bakery for Anna I would say around 7 o'clock (pm.). My wife was alone there.” Q. Did you do anything with the Fredericksen's police dog? A. I usually tock him out for a walk. Q. While waiting for Anna? A. Yes. Q. Did you take him out that night? Wilentz objected to the question as “leading” and Reilly rephrased it. Q. Tell us what you did that night. A. T usually had my supper, then I took the dog out for a walk— Q. Never mind what you usually did, did you take the dog out that night? Tells of Meeting Man And Talking About the Dog. A. 1 did. . Q. Did you meet anybody? A. A man at a gasoline station was asking about the dog. Q. You remember meeting a man on the night of March 1, who talked about the dog? A. Yes. Q. At about what time of night? A. Between 8 and 8:30. Q. Did you bring the dog back to | the restaurant? a quarter after 9 o'clock. member. Q. In the neighborhood of 9 o’clock, anyhow. A. Yes. Q. Did you drive your wife home? A. Yes. Wilentz again objected to the ques- tions as leading. Q. What did you do? A. We went home and I put the car in the garage. Q. So on March 1, 1932, I ask you again were you in Hopewell, N. J.? A. No. Reilly had him describe his move- ments on March 2, how he went down- town and bought a newspaper. Learned of Kidnaping Through Newspaper, He says. “Then for the first time I read about the Lindbergh kidnaping.” Lindbergh’s eyes still were focused searchingly on the prisoner. Reilly produced one of the ransom notes, addressed to Col. Lindbergh March 4, 1932, A. A quarter to 9, $ I took I don't re-! Resuming his story, he recounted how he worked at the National Lu ber & Millwor 0. lumber yard doing “contract work” between the 1st and 15th of March, 1932 It was this yard to which the State traced the kidnap ladder lumber. | On March 15, the defendant said, he started work at the Majestic Apart- | ments, after calling at the employ- ment agency where he was registered. Q. The best of your recollection is that you went to work on the 15th | | or 16th? | ‘ A. Either one of the two days. | Q And you worked right through, | as vou testified yesterday? | A. Until the 2d of April. Reilly brought forward more ran- | som notes. Q. 1 ask you if you mailed this en- velope and these two letters to Col | Henry L. Breckinridge? Hauptmann looked curiously at the | | ransom notes. A. I did not. Q. Is that your Again he made tion. | A 1t is not. Denies Knowing Either Breckinridge or “Jafsie.” Q A Q A handwriting? the calm inspec- | | Did you know a Dr. Condon? I did not. Did you know a “Jafsie?” No. Q. I show you exhibits S-22 and | ask if that's your handwriting? | A. It is not. | Q Did you ever know of a Col.| Henry L. Breckinridge in March, 1932? ! A I did not Did you mail this letter to Dr. John Condon March 92 A. No. Q. Did you have any one mail that | letter for you? A. 1 did not. | Q. Is that your handwriting? [ A. It is not. Q. I ask you if you wrote that letter? A. Idid not. Q. When for the first time did you | see Dr. Condon who testified here? | | A . In a New York police station. ! | The downtown district. | Q. That was after your arrest? Yes, Reilly brought forward another ran- | som note. Hauptmann said the letter and the envelope were not written in his handwriting. | One by one, Hauptmann inspected the notes of the correspondence be- | tween the kidnaper and “Jafste,” | | who denied he wrote any of them. | Finally Reilly produced the wrap- | ping paper in which the kidnaper | mailed the baby's sleeping suit to Dr. Condon. | | Q. I ask you if any part of this| | paper—if the first or second addresses | | on it—were written by you? A. It's not written by me. | Hauptmann Gazes | At Little Sleeping Garment. | _Reilly produced the sleeping sui.. | Hauptmann gazed at it as if fasci- nated. Q. Did you ever take that off baby Lindbergh? A. I never saw that baby, alive or dead. | Q. Did you ever have that suit in your possession? A. Idid not. Q. Did you ever mail it to Dr. Con- don? A. I did not. Hauptmann's face was deadly seri- ous and pale. He shifted uneasily in his chair as he answered. Q. You saw the thumbguard here in court? A. Well, T saw it only at a distance. Q. I ask you, did you ever see that thumbguard? A. I never saw that. what it is for. Another ransom note was thrust before Hauptmann—and another—and another. “Did you write that letter,” Reilly asked. “No, I did not.” Picture of Ransom Negotiation Scene Introduced. After a brief recess Hauptmann re- turned to his chair. 3 Reilly showed the witness a picture of the scene of the ransom contacts “John” had with Dr. Condon. It showed the entrance of Woodlawn Cemetery, when John and Jafsie met for the first time. It was admitted as evidence. Q. How far away from your house would you say the main entrance of Woodlawn Cemetery is from your house? A. I don't know where the main entrance of Woodlawn Cemetery are. The map of the Bronx area was again traced to the exhibit board. Reilly designated Woodlawn Ceme- tery with the long pointer. Wilentz aided in pointing out the gate at ‘Two Hundred and Thirty-Third street. Q. Were you at that gate, or inside that gate, the night of March 12? A. T was not. Reilly pointed out on the map the Hauptmann house and the cemetery gates to the defendant. Q. How far would you say now it was? A. I really can't say. Q. How far is it to Webster avenue? I don’t know | Reilly called Hauptmann from the stand to examine the ladder. Q. In your opinion does it look like a well-made ladder? A. It doesn’t look like a ladder at all. I don't know how a man can | step up. Almost Growls in Denying He Transported Ladder. Q. Did you ever take that ladder from the Bronx to Hopewell in your car? A. I never transported a ladder Q. Did you take this ladder? A. No (Hauptmann almost growled that negative.) Q. Did you at any time have that ladder on Col. Lindbergh's estate? A. No. Q. Did you put it against his wall | or climb it or come down it? | No. | Q. Did you leave it 70 feet away in the bushes? A. No. Hauptmann was then led into a re- cital of his life at the Bronx house. He named the persons living in the small three-apartment frame build- ing. Denies Removing Board From Attic at House. Q. So there was a landlord and two tenants living in your house? A. That’s right. Q. Now there has been exhibited here a board out of the attic of your house. Did you take any board from the attic of your house? A. No. Q. Did you take any board and carve or cut it? A. I did not. Q. There was nothing in your attic when ydu moved in? | A. No, it was empty. Reilly brought to the witness the chisel found on the Lindbergh estate. Q. I ask you if you brought this chisel to the Lindbergh estate? Declared He Never Owned & Chisel Offered as Evidence. A. This chisel was never in my pos- [ session; I never owned it. | He examined the tool very minute- | ly, turning it over in his hands be- | fore he answered. | Q. Now carpenters can buy chisels from a supply house? A. Every hardware store. Q. Anybody can buy a chisel. doesn’t have to be a carpenter? A. No Q. Anybody can buy tools? A. If you can pay for it, that’s all right. Yes, A faint murmur of suppressed laughter arose. Lindbergh did not smile. He kept watching the witness. Reilly next turned his attention to St. Raymond’s Cemetery. Another de- | lay occurred while the kidnap ladder and attic board were removed from in front of the map. Q. How many miles, in your judg- ment, is St. Raymond’s Cemetery from your home? A. I can only figure on the scale. What is the scale? Q. Quite a number blocks, isn't it. A. Yes. Declares He Walked By Cemetery 6 Years Ago. Reilly pointed to the cemetery on the map. Q. Were you ever there? A. Yes. About six years ago, but not in the cemetery. I walked by. Q. Where were you going? A. To visit friends at Frogg's Neck. Q. Are you familiar with this por- tion of the Bronx (indicating St. Ray- mond’s Cemetery)? Hauptmann stepped down and with his arms outstretched indicated the center section of the map. His ges- ture did not include either cemetery connected with the crime. Q. Now on April 2, Saturday night, were you in St. Raymond’s Cemetery and did you receive $50,000 from Dr. Condon? A. I did not. A faint smile accom- panied the answer. Q. Is that the night you testified to concerning the musical, first Sat- urday of the month? A. Yes. Q. Did you go out? A. Yes, half past eleven. I took Kloeppenburg to the station at White Plains avenue, nine blocks from the house. Name of Fisch Again Is Brought Into Trial Q. Now you told us you were in business with Pisch, and— Reilly stopped in the middle of the question and went over to his table to thumb through some papers. Q. Can you give me your best recol- lection whether you did any dealings with Fisch through the market through Carleton Mott? A. No. Not Carleton Mott. Hauptmann thought a long time, gazing at the ceiling before answer- He il ing. Reilly switched to the Hauptmann bank accounts and asked him if it were correct the account of his wife, Anna Schoeffler, had a balance of $411 in 1928 when it was changed to a joint account under the name of “Richard and Anna Hauptmann.” Q. There is a withdrawal here, June 25, 1928, $456.22. Can you re- call the reason for the withdrawal? A. T guess it must have been when with Fisch. Questioned About $837 Withdrawal in June, 1932, Q. So that you were constantly making withdrawals and deposits. A. Yes. Reilly asked about a withdrawal of $837 in June, 1932, and a deposit a day or two later of $817. Haupt- mann could not recall the transaction, saying, “Mr. Fisher has the slip, my memorandum.” Reilly obtained per- mission to suspend the line of que: tions until after the recess. Q. When did you start your account with Steiner House? A. August. I think, 1932 Q. What was your first transaction? Hauptmann pored over the broker- age house statement and finally shook his head “Some belonged to Fisch. Some be- | longed to me.” He explained he had made a memo over last week end on his Wall Street operations and he could testify better with its aid Reilly said he would abandon that line temporarily until the afternoon session. Wilentz said the State had no objections to the witness testifying from notes. Says He Found Money In August of 1934. Q. Now getting back to Fisch's trip to Europe, you say he left a shoe box with you. When did you discover any money in that box? A. Middle of August, '34. Q. What did you do. Take it to the garage? A. Sgueezed it out first. Q. What do you mean? A. There was water in it. There was a leak in the roof. The water sometimes was standing in the closet this much (indicating about one inch with thumb and finger). Q. You were in the top floor apart- ment. This peaked roof was over you? A. Yes. Hauptmann then described the room arrangement of the apartment and entrance at the rear of the house. Q. How large a room was kitchen? A. Twelve by six I should say. the rear of the house. He said the broom closet was near the ice box. Q. How wide was the closet? A. About two feet. A little bit more. the There were plumbing pipes passing | through the closet to the roof. Q. Explain to the jury how the wa- ter got into that closet. A. It comes through the roof. The water. There must be a leak around the pipe. Q. You mean at the exit through the roof? A. Yes. The shingles may be loose. I never was up on the roof. Q. Did the rain always come in there? A. Sometimes none came in. Some- times we got plenty, I guess it was the side the rain fell on. Q. It did not leak from the pipes? A. No. The defendant told how curtains and other objects were wet by the water. Q. What was the condition of the box from the time you put it up there and when you took it down? A. It was practically falling apart. Says He Used a Pail To Take Money to Garage. Q. Describe the money? A. There were four bundles wrapped up in brown paper. It was thin wrapping paper. Q. What did you take it down to the garage with? A. A pail. Q. That was August, 1934? A. Yes. Hauptmann described the location of the garage at the side of the house with a narrow road between and a low concrete wall along the side of the yard. Q. So you took the money to the garage? A. I put it in a basket and covered it up. I put it up in the ceiling so no one could see it. Not up in the ceil- ing, but on a top shelf so the basket was at the ceiling. Q. What was the condition of your account with Fisch when he sailed? A. My market account was $12,000 and there was $5,500 in the Fisch ac- count. Q. Did you owe anything on your account? A. No, that was money. Q. How much of that $12,500 was Fisch's? A. Only $2000 was Fisch’s, rest was my money. Reilly then directed the witness to his fur business with Fisch. Q. Did Fischi owe you money? A. When he went to Europe. He said “if I'm willing to sell some of those furs.” I said “why not” and I said “I'll take $2,000 and give it to you.” Q. Did you give it to him? A. Yes about two weeks before he sailed. Says They Split Profits on 50-50 Basis, Hauptmann said that in both busi- nesses, fur and brokerage, he and Fischer split profits and losses “ffty- fifty.” e 5 The A In Q. You knew Fisch was dead when you found that money? A. Yes. Q. After drying this money, what did you do with it? A. I took it down and put two or three of them in circulation. Q. Were you down at the Sheridan Square Theater November 26, 1933, with a ransom bill, and did you toss it in, folded in eight parts, to the ticket seller, that young woman who testified here the other day? A. I have an idea about where the theater is. In Greenwich Village. Q. And you live how many miles away in the Bronx? A. About 12-15 miles. Q. Were you cver in that theater in your life? A. No, I was not. Hauptmann, answering the last question before the recess, denied he had tossed the bill to the ticket seller. Recess for lunch came at 12:23 p.m. Court convened at 1:42. If anything, the tiny court room was more crowded than ever for the afternoon session. This morning it seemed impossible that any more people could squirm their way into the tight-packed crush. But for the afternoon session the im- possible was accomplished. The crowd was compressed and condensed into an unbelievably small-room space. Hauptmann Returns With Guards at 1:39. Hauptmann returned to the court room at 1:39 with his guards. Mrs. H. Norman Schwarzkopf sat in one of the defense counsel seats| | and he stared at her in surprise. His| | face was expressionless as he looked | about at the crowd shoving about in | search of seats. | The opening of court before the | time the justice had set for con- | vening found half the press benches | | empty and the room in tumultuous | murmur of conversation. Trenchard had to rap vigorously a number of times to restore quiet. He people making the noise street.” He likewise ordered the court aisles | kept open. ¥ i Again and again the gavel rapped | sharply to keep order as Hauptmann | went back quickly to the stand. | Reilly said he wanted to ask about | November 26, 1933, when Hauptmann | was alleged to have tossed a “Lindy” bill to a theater ticket taker. Hauptmann said the date was his birthday and a party was held at his home. The defendant named several of his Bronx friends who attended. He did not know the last names of one or two. Reilly presented Hauptmann a thick sheaf of memoranda which the pallid Hauptmann made last week | after studying records of his finan- | cial transactions | Hauptmann took them and coined | them with the studious intent of a | schoolboy poring over multiplication | tables | Stock Transactions For Schedule First. Reilly was apparently going to de- vote the first part of his questioning to the young carpenter’s stock market transactions Mrs. Hauptmann was looking en- couragingly at her husband. Lind- bergh again fixed him with that un- wavering leok and the jury sat back to listen to what the defendant said. Q. Bruno. will you tell us what | number your sheet starts from so we can check here? Have you August 8?2 A. Yes. I got it in my hand. Q. Do you recall when you pur- chased that Warner Brothers? | A. There were 51 of Warner Pic- ! tures three-quarters of a year ago. Q. Do you mean before August 8? Hauptmann fumbled through the copies of his account for several min- utes without answering. Reilly rephrased his question and Hauptmann said it was while he was carrying another account Q. Now you traded in the market back and forth, is that right? A. Right | Q. You knew the customer’s man |in Steiner Rcuse. You sought his | advice on what to buy and what to | sell? | A. Yes, I did. Reilly referred to a deposit of cash Hauptmann made on his account on | September 15. It was $170. Q. Where did you get that $170? A. It was from the $4,700 I had | in my home at that time. For Hauptmann’s opening tes- timony yesterday afternoon see Page A-7. 'EXTENSION SOUGHT FOR BOUNDARY BODY Representative Smith Introduces Resolution for Another Year. A resolution extending the life of | | the District-Virginia Boundary Com- mission for another year was intro- | duced today by Representative Smith, | Democrat, of Virginia The commission was created near the close of the Seventy-third Con- gress to settle a century-old boundary | dispute. The act creating the com- | mission directed that its findings be | submitted to Congress not later than March 1 of this year. The commis- sion, however, told Smith it could not complete its work by that time and ;:}-ged him to seek an extension of its e. Smith's resolution also carries an appropriation of $10,000 for the com- mission’s continued activities. FIGHT FOR DEVALUATION OF FRANC FLARES AGAIN Flandin and Germain - Martin Plead for Gold Base, While Reynaud Hits Policy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 25.—France’s bat- tle over the devaluation of the franc flamed up again in the Chamber of Deputies today during a debate on the government’s plan to raise money by discounting treasury bonds. Premier Flandin and Louis Ger- main-Martin, a former minister of finance, spoke in favor of the mainte- nance of the franc on the gold stand- ard, while Paul Reynaud, another for- mer minister of finance, declared de- JUDGE IMPRESSES BRITISH NOVELIST informality of Hauptmann’s Trial Contrasted With That Abroad. (A noted British novelist and es- sayist, who has been attending the Hauptmann trial, has written for Associated Press his impressions of the real life dramg taking place in the court house at Flemington, N.J) BY FORD MADOX FORD. FBEMINGTON, N. J, January 25 (#)—The most impressive—as it was indeed the most satisfactory feature in Flemington—was the personality of the judge. His honor Supreme Court Jus- tice Thomas W. Trenchard is a heavy, graying, fresh-complexioned man— and deliberate. Above all, deliberate. To the verge of a slowness that is al- most insupportable. But when he speaks to an objection—when the | words reach you the sensation is one of supreme satisfaction. He speaks reasoningly, even a little tentatively, but what he says strikes you as the only thing that could be possibly said—by justice that is at once su- premely impartial. And benevolent. There is about the trial a lack of the formality to which one is accus- tomed in an English court of justice. The whole assembly has the air of a the snow-lit place. There is no dock. Prisoner, counsel, familiar figures, CRIME 1S DENIED FLATLY BY BRUNO Defendant Contradicts State Experts Who Said He Wrote Ransom Notes. (Continted Prom First Page.) said that is paper in it. I thought maybe they are bills.” He said he put the box on the upper shelf in the broom closet in the kitchen and did not disturb it until the middle of August, 1934. “And what caused you to disturb | 2" “I was looking for a broom, and | when I took the broom I must hit the | box with the broom handle, and I| look up, and that way I saw that it is money. I damaged the box.” | “And you saw money?” “yes Reviews March Ist. Hauptmann said that on March 1, 1932, the day of the kidnaping, he woke up at 6 am. “took the wife down to the bakery,” then went home, {then to the Majestic Apartments in- | tending to work. The superintendent | told him there were no jobs for that day, he said, so he went on to two em- | ployment agencies and to Radio City in a futile effort to get a job. He re- | turned home around 5 p.m | " "He called for his wife at the bakery, | her place of employment, at 7 p.m., he said, “Tell us what you did that night?"” “I took the police dog out. I went instructed attendants to “escort” the family gathering in 8 not extraordi- | to the corner of the Boston road, went “to the nary room. With a faint touch of the | 5 jittle farder up. I met a gentleman | Colonial in the simple proportions of | 1 guess he was put gas gassing in the | gasoline station and he was talking | about the—about the dog. Und he was stand, examined the ladder, and an- swered: “Looks like a music instrument.” “In your opinion does it look like a well-made ladder?” “To me it looks like a ladder at a]l. I don't know how a man can step up” Denies Transporting Ladder. He was asked if he has transported the ladder to Hopewell in an automo- bile. He replied: “I never transported a ladder in my car.” He denied also that he had taken a buard from his attic for an upright in the ladder. He was shown the board in evidence, which had been taken from his attic, and which State wit- nesses said matched the upright in the ladder. Reilly asked: “Did you take any board from the attic of your hcuse and carve or cut or manipulate or manufacture a side of this ladder from that board?” “I did not.” He said that the attic was empty when he rented his home in the Bronx. Reilly showed him the chisel in evi- dence which was found near the scene of the crime. He asked him if he had left it at the Lindbergh estate. “Dis chisel was never in my posses= sion!” he declared. SHIPMENT Galoshes Women’s & court officials, all sit together without | asking me where I get him.” any demarcation. Hauptmann said this was between 8 Children’s Politeness Before udge. The only trace of the almost divine reverence that is paid to the solemn figure of an English judge of assize appears to be in the peculiar crouch- ing walk of any stenographer or court attendant who passes in front of the judge’s small stage. That looks like a salaam of adoration until you realize | that it is an attempt not to get be- | tween the judge and the faces of learned counsel Compared with the judge no in- mate of the large room with the snow- lit ceiling is at all impressive with the | exception of the witness in the com- mon kitchen chair that is called the stand and of the shabby, black figure of the prisoner’s wife. For you have not been in Flem- ington 3 minutes before you realize that in all the figures of possible tragedy in that grim town she alone is tragedy made absolute. Upon that I do not need to enlarge. You have only to think of her—at one moment a.calm housewife in the Bronx, ex- | pecting nothing but an addition to her savings bank account, and at the next the appalled and tragic center of a spot on which are centered the eyes of the entire civilized world. For that Flemington court house had. queerly enough, the feeling that | Westminster Abbey had at the coro- nation of George V. You felt as you sat there that the thoughts of the entire world were coming toward you. Fantastic Evidence. The plane specialist, Arthur J. Koehler, Wisconsin wood technologist, was impressive—was overwhelming— for another reason. A littles baldish, shining implacable man with an amazingly clear vocal organ, he was like the instrument of a blind and atrociously menacing destiny. You shuddered at the thought of what might happen to you if such a mind jand such an inconceivable industry should get to work upon your own remote past . .. A man who searched 1900 factories for traces of the scratches of your plane on a piece of wood . .. It was fantastic and hor- rifying. I have never—and in my time I have seen some things—imagined that any moment could be so shockingly moving as when with the air of a conjurer producing a rabbit from a top hat he brought out from invisibil- | ity a common plane and proceeded, | utterly matter of fact: to plane a piece of plank. producing exactl, the grooves and scratches that are to be found on the ladder that is the prin- cipal item of the State’s evidence. You felt that if the motionless—and always motionless—prisoner sits in the end motionless in the electric chair, that little sleuth, with the implacability of a weasel hunting by scent an invisible prey, will be the man who will have sent him there. | The complete immobility of the | prisoner—he only moved twice in the | whole course of the afternoon, once to | look at the jury when they were ex- | amining a photograph of the plane | scratches and once very unobservably | to scratch his head—that complete immobility was the only thing that was at all intriguing about him. | Prisoner Not Impressive. | He is so exactly like his press photo- | graph that at his appearance he | causes you no surprise and he excites neither aversion nor sympathy. Col. Lindbergh, too, is so familiar & sight that he also excites no emotion. At his first appearance, surveying the court room frém a little door with the light behind him, his carefully ar-| ranged hair makes him look a little | more definite than you had expected. But he is continually in motion, cran- ing from side to side, and very soon his hair assumes the ruffledness that you had expected. and 8:30 p.m. He returned the dog to the bakery and left with his wife after 9 o'clock. “What did you do?” “I went home. We went Took the car in the garage. right away to bed.’ Learn of Kidnaping. He said they arose on March 2 at 6 am. and he took his wife to the bakery, went home and then to & subway. “In entering the subway station,” he said, “I read the paper and that is the first time I read about the Lind- bergh case.” Col. Lindbergh, at the prosecution table, was sitting bolt upright and watching Hauptmann intently. Hauptmann denied categorically the writing of each of the 14 ransom notes. and declared the first time he ever saw Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, ran- som intermediary, was in a Bronx po- lice station after his arrest last Sep- tember 19. Dr. Condon testified for the State that he twice met Haupt- mann and paid him the $50,000 ran- som in a Bronx graveyard home. Went Contradicts Experts. Referring to an envelope addressed to Condon, Reilly asked him if he had mailed the letter on March 19, 1932 “I did not,” he said. “Did yvou have anybody letter for you?"” sir.” that your handwriting?™ “It is not These denials were in the face of testimony by eight handwriting ex- perts, one of whom had said that the handwriting evidence against mann was “i tible, unanss and overwhelming.” Reiily held uj sleeping svit “Did you take this sleeping suit Baby Lindbergh at any time,” asked ‘I never saw alive or dead.” “When for the first time did you see this suit?” “Right here in this court room.” “Did you ever have it in your pc session?” “1 never have." “Did you ever mail it to Dr. Con- mail the 2 p Baby Lindbergh's the Lindbergh baby “I did not.” Gazes at Thumbguard, Reilly showed him the metal thumb- guard which Betty Gow said the baby wore on its last found a hundred yards from th bergh home a month after the c “I ask you,” he queried, “if you ev saw this before you saw it in the court room?” “No, I never saw it. I really didn't know what it is for.” “How far aw: from your house would you say the main entrance of Woodlawn Cemetery was?" Reilly asked. “Well, I don't know where the main entrance are of Woodlawn Cemetery.” “Were you at that gate or inside that gate March 12 19322 “I was not.” “Have you any independent recol- lection now where you were on March 12, 1932.” Reilly asked. “March 12, Saturday night—TI really don't know. I guess we was playing cards, but I can’t hardly remember. Then Reilly referred to the ladder which a wood expert for the State traced to Hauptmann. “Did you build that ladder?” “I am a carpenter.” There was laughter in the court at this. “Did you build that ladder?” “Certainly not.” “You notice how it is constructed, do you?” Hauptmann stepped down from the A Bank for the INDIVIDUAL The Morris Plan Bank offers the INDI VIDUAL the facilities of a SAVINGS BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make foans on a practical basis, which enables the borrower to liquidate his obli- Amt, of $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 valuation would furnish the only re- lief from the depression, steadily | growing worse. BANDITS LOOT BANK Machine Gun Gang Holds Up New | | Jersey Institution. LYNDHURST, N. J., January 25 (®). —Five machine-gun bandits held up the Lyndhurst Trust Co. today and $1.200 $6.000 gation by means of weekly, semi- monthly or monthly deposits. It is wot meces- sary to have had an account at this Bank in order to borrow. 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