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" FISCH AND SHARPE GIRL ARE LINKED Defense Attempts to Place Kidnaping Blame on Two Deceased. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 2.— Bruno Richard Hauptmann's counsel attempted yesterday to transfer the dreadful burden of the Lindbergh kid- naping suspicion to two dead persons, Violet Sharpe and Isador Fisch. Violet Sharpe was the maid in the household of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Mrs. Anne Lindbergh. Miss Sharpe committed suicide as police prepared to question her a fourth time after the kidnaping of the Lind- bergh baby March 1, 1932 Isador Fisch was the stock market and fur trade partner of Hauptmann. He died last year in Germany of tu- berculosis. Hauptmann claims Fisch left with him the ransom cash which was found in the Hauptmann garage. Two Seen Aiding Woman. Peter H. Sommer, a New York fin- gerprint expert, testified toward the end of the twenty-third day’s session that he saw two men assist a woman with a blond baby board a street car in New York the night of the kid- naping. He identified photographs displayed to him by Edward J. Reilly, chief of the defense counsel, which Reilly said were those of Miss Sharpe and Fisch. Reilly said afterward he hoped to produce three witnesses to testify they saw Fisch in Montreal with a baby after the kidnaping. Attorney General David J. Wilentz professed to be unimpressed by Som- mer’s testimony. He said the prosecution had “abso- lute proof” Violet Sharpe was some- where else that night. Previously he had said any suspicion of Fisch's com- plicity would be cleared by his rela- tives and a nurse, brought from Ger- many. Uncertainty Displayed. Wilentz also showed Sommer a pho- tograph of Violet Sharpe and the wit- ness displayed uncertainty as to whether she was the woman he saw ‘with the baby. “I wouldn’t swear it was her,” Som- mers said The attorney general then displayed & photograph of a man and Sommers was uncertain whether he was the man Sommers said he saw. Later Wilentz said the photograph was that of a convict whose name he did not know. Another defense witness waited to tell a similar story, that she saw Vio- let Sharpe the night of the kidnaping at Yonkers Ferry with two men. The witness was Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, mid- dle-aged lunch room proprietor of Yonkers, N. Y. ‘The sudden turn in the trial was taken just before a week end recess and after a dull day of chirography testimony, which Assistant Attorney General Joseph A. Lanigan battered at in cross-examination. Sommers was still on the stand when court ad- Journed. Volunteer Is Examined. Most of the day was given over to the examination of John M. Trendley of East St. Louis, Ill, a volunteer wnn‘us, who said he was an expert copyist and student of handwriting. He clung to his assertions Haupt- mann’s handwriting and that of the Tansom notes were not the same and asserted the ace of the State's eight experts, Albert S. Osborn, had based his conclusion on only one word, “is.” In a whip-lash cross-examination by Joseph Lanigan, Trendley admitted his study of the kidnap case writings was short and “highly cursory.” Reilly sald during a recess earlier in the day that the defense would not attempt to prove the handwriting in the ransom notes was that of Fisch, from whom Hauptmann said he received the ransom money and who died in Germany. “We are not here to say who wrote the ransom notes, but we are here :msay Hauptmann did not,” Reilly Court was recessed tonight until Monday morning on Reilly’s plea he must bring witnesses to Flemington, despite Wilentz' objections, 36 More Witnesses. Reilly said he would have some 36 more witnesses and counsel on both sides agreed that the latter pait of next week should see the end of the trial. Sommer said he was employed in the public welfare department of the City of New York and had been in Fairview, N. J., giving fingerprint in- struction the night of the kidnaping. He was still on the stand when court adjourned. ggl&ydquestioned him, ) you notice an; ferry boat? A. Yes. e Q. Describe them? A. There were two men, one 5-foot-9 and the other ———————— " | Sommer could not recall whether the Of any other business that may be prop- il broueht before he meeting. Wi’ = o Pitteentn St N.W. Washington.D. C- on Thursday. March hours of 12 o'clock n c. 4 S Secretary-Treasurer. (OSE WH WITNESS] ‘THE ;:‘r‘:enllfl‘fi J‘Q:LE nnld) P]s{: n.WV.n?)ecem- ikh ‘Onllimifl‘ 535;’7‘" Please communicate WILL Ng'{edflg RESPONSIB‘Y;E FOR JAMES Mb BgRll;’l?lEN‘ob'UeJ Oh:{f . 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The witness said the ferryboat reached the New York side about 12:40 am. and he went to the cross- town Forty-second street troliey car. The man he noticed also left the ferry. Pair Helped Woman. Q. What did you see this man do? A. Him and the other man assisted a woman holding a baby on to a trolley car. He described the woman as very nervous, as though “ready to jump out.” She was dressed in a brown coat with brown fur cuffs and wore a pearl necklace. “The baby was a blond about 2 years old,” he added. Q. When you went home that night | did you report the incident to the police? No, I told my folks— An objection interrupted him. Q. Well, when did you learn the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped? A. At 10:45 the next morning, March 2, 1932, when it came over the radio. Q. Did you report it eventually to police? A. Yes, that very day, to De- tective Mullaney at the Eighty-first 1 precinct station, Fulton street, Brook- lyn. Q. Ever do anything else? A. Yes, | I wrote to the State Police at Trenton, 'Q.A Did the police ever investigate you and your story? A. No, never. No Effort to Reach Police. Wilentz, cross-examining, brought out that Sommer made no effort to reach the police immediately after Hauptmann'’s arrest. ‘The police, he added, once at head- quarters, took his story but told him that there were hundreds of reports of “men with babies” that night. Then Wilentz showed Sommer the pictures of Violet Sharpe and of the man, receiving his “I wouldn't say yes, I wouldn’t say no” answers. His uncertainty continued as Wilentz prodded him on whether he had seen before the picture of the man Reilly showed him. “I wouldn't say I did, I wouldn't say I didn’t,” he answered. He testified the men went to an automobile after assisting the woman on the trolley, that the child’s blanket slipped and that he was able to see the baby. Sommer protested Wilentz was try- ing to mix him up when he pressed him for a better explanation of the whereabouts of the short and tall men. short man with the tall one at the trolley was the same he had observed on the boat. He declined to identify a small photograph Wilentz displayed of “the short man.” Writing Expert Attacked. He sald the men met the woman outside the New, York ferry house. The volunteer handwriting witness, Trendley, asserted Osborn had based his conclusion on only one word, “is.” A State objection met Reilly’s ques- tion, “And do you consider that suffi- cient to send a man to the electric chair?” Justice Trenchard sustained the ob- Jection. ‘The moot points of the handwriting testimony were canvassed by Reilly in his direct examination—the “x’s,” the “a’s,” the hyphenated *“New-York” which appeared on the envelopes. Trendley said the unusual which appeared in both the ransom and the Hauptmann writings was a d | common form among writers from countries “under Teutonic influence.” Hyphenated proper names, he said, ‘were common among foreign writers, The testimony proved dreary listen- restlessly. Reilly's recess pronouncements on the Pisch angle of the case and & skirmish between Reilly and Lanigan provided breaks in the monotony. Envelopes Offered. ' As Lanigan prepared to cross- examine Trendley, Reilly offered in evidence envelopes bearing hyphenat- ed addresses. Lanigan objected, ques- ¢ | tioning the custody of the envelopes. “If you are going to stand on tech- nicalities, I don’t want them,” he said. “If you want me to bring here every man and woman who received those letters, I'll do it.” “Is that a threat?” Lanigan asked, Reilly said something which could not be distinguished and left the court room for several minutes. Trendley told Lanigan he was un- able to prepare charts of the hand- L3 Vacillating Uncertainty Held Theme of Hauptmann Defense |First Handwriting Expert Seen Aiding‘ : Case Little—Defendant Is Moved by Testimony. BY ANNE GORDON SUYDAM. Special Dispatch to The Star. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 2.— “I won't say it is and I won't say it isn’t” seems to be the new theme song of the defense as rendered particularly well by one Peter H. Sommer, de- fense witness, who yesterday took the stand to testify he had seen Violet Sharpe and Isador Fisch carrying a small baby in a trolley car from New Jersey to New York on the night of | March 1. ‘The amazing thing about so many of these defense witnesses is their uncanny ability for remembering after almost three years faces seen briefly on subways, on ferry boats, on trolley cars, on street corners and in bakeries, and their equal ability for forgetting such apparently unimportant items as the names of their friends, the amount of their debts, the record of their convictions and other trivia. One man remembers Hauptmann because he was walking a dog, another remembers him because he laughed at him, yet another remembers him because he addressed a few words in German to a waitress in a bake shop. And all of these men remember the date with equally remarkably ac- curacy. One had taken his child to the hospital exactly a week before, one had come into the world on that self same date some 30 years before, while others, logically enough, asso- clated the night with the news of the Lindbergh kidnaping, which was an- | nounced over the radio around mid- night. Trendley Poor Witness. John M. Trendley, first defense hand writing expert, did little to bolster their case although his collo- quial manner and his layman lan- guage which sometimes lapsed into the ungrammatical, may have been & relief to the jury after the long hours of technical terminology to which they have listened. But watching Haupt- mann, I felt that he for one realized the weakness of the witness, for what- ever Trendley’s qualifications as an expert, he made a poor Wwitness. Hauptmann's face was ghastly during and after the testimony. His lips were pinched and his face drawn to the bare bone. During recess he did not laugh and chat with his wife as usual, but rather seemed to draw himself agonizingly back from the reality of his danger to the pitiful artificiality of conversation, It is not a pleasant thing to sit so close to these two desperate creatures. The waves of terror and helpless long- ing which flow between them break against your own body until you are engulfed by these tides of human fail- ing and suffering and desolation. You try to say to yourself as so many witnesses have said, “I can’t say he did and I can’t say he didn’t.” You try to sift the evidence without prej- udice, you know that if this man com- mitted this crime, which revolts your soul, justice should lay her hand upon him, but all the while you are so profoundly aware of his degrada- tion that you are drained of all thirst for vengeance. 1 believe that Bruno Richard Haupt- —_— writing because “we couldn't get the documents from you.” Lanigan elicited the admission Trendley’s examination of the 50 Ppieces of writing in the case was done in two and a half hours and that it was “highly cursory.” Demonstrates Writing. At Lanigan’s direction, Trendley Wrote & few words on a sheet of paper with each hand to illustrate his con- tention the m note was written with the left in an attempt to dis- guise the handwriting. He revealed, too, that he had studied the handwriting of Fisch and of Henry Uhlig, another Hauptmann friend, “just looking for a clue.” Trendley, a thin, elderly man with none of the assertiveness which char- acterized the State’s eight handwriting experts, said it was his opinion a left- and disguised his handwriting. He ted to what he said were differ- accepted wrll 4, | pride and love of power. mann, if sentenced to death. would walk to the electric chair with the fanatical gleam of the supreme egoist in his eye and the swinging stride | of the overlord in his step. But I believe also that were he sent to prison for the rest of his life, he would be prey to terror and remorse and event- ual lunacy. He has never seemed to me a man of iron, incapable of feeling. But Hauptmann, become a number instead of & man, I thing would be- come a soul in bedlam, beating his fist against the bars, and crying out his weakness and shame. Thrived on Own Pride. ‘Whether he be guilty of this sin or not, here is a man who has thrived and fattened on his own inordinate His boasts of his transactions in the stock mar- ket, his conquests with women, his swaggering stride as he walked to the witness chair, his sneers, his misplaced attempts at facetiousness—all these mark him as a man who would rather be in the limelight of {ll-repute than in no limelight at all. His voluptuous pride is shrinking day by day as strong words, weak words, damning words pile relentlessly upon him. His lips tighten as the witness asked to identify the picture of Fisch as the man seen on the street car with the baby, say again, “I can't say it is and I can’t say it isn't.” As his control lapses, his wife's grows, she has never thought that her's was a master mind, she has never expected to be on top of the world, she has probably followed Richard unques- tioningly for all their married life, but I think she is leading him now. Within & few days the jury, who cannot quibble with words, will have to say of Bruno Richard Hauptmann whether he is or whether he isn't guilty. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Bingo party, benefit Catholic Medi- cal Mission, office Southern Dairies, 60 M street northeast, 2 p.m. “Mone Carlo” party, Dental Assist- ants’ Society of Washington, Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachusetts ave- nue, 9 pm. Card party, Sigma Epsilon Sorority, Hamilton Hotel, 2 p.m. Dinner, Women’s Relief Corps, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dance, Phi Gamma Alpha and Phi Theta Pi Fraternities, Hotel Lee House, 10 p.m. Dance, Riggs National Bank Club, ‘Willard Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner, Board of Trade, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dance, Law School of Columbus Uni- versity, Wardman Park Hotel, 10 p.m. Dinner dance, Federal Trade Com- mission, Carlton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dance, Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Lafayette Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance, procurement division, Treas- ury Department, Shoreham Hotel, 9 pm. Reception and buffet supper, Idaho State Soclety, Roosevelt Hotel, 9:30 pm. First meeting of newly orgenized Washington Story Tellers’ League, 1731 I street, 8 p.m. Banquet, District section, American Soclety of Civil Engineers, Washing- ton Hotel, 6:30 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Swimming party, Delta Lambda Sigma National Sorority, Ambassador Hotel, 8 p.m. Address by Mrs. Daisy E. Welch on “Super Mind Science,” St. Mark's Baptist Church, 1418 Q street, 4 pm. Outing, Red Triangle Outing Club, meet at Fifteenth street end Con- stitution avenue, 2 pm. Reception, Young Democratic Club, Carlton Hotel, 4 pm. Dance, Alegre Social Club, Lafayette Hotel, § pm. ’ No. 1. Defense Attorney Reilly escorting Mrs. Anna Bonesteel of Yonkers, N. one of the defense witnesses, into the court house at Flemington, N. J. She is expected to testify she saw Violet Sharpe at Yonkers the night of the kid- naping. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. No. 2. John M. Trendley of East St. Louis, Ill, handwriting expert, who testified the kidnap notes were not written by Hauptmann. —Wide World Photo. No. 3. Peter H. Sommer, who identified pictures of Violet Sharpe (No. 4) and Isador Fisch as couple he saw with a baby the night of the Lindbergh kidnaping. The Sharpe girl, a maid in the Morrow home, committed suicide soon after the kidnaping. Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. CONSPIRACY TO USE OLD DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXIN CHARGED TO TWO MEN (Continued From First Page.) Mr. Miller of the State Health De- partment. I can't understand the charges.” Deaths of a Wilkes-Barre infant and a Harrisburg man, both of whom received injections of the serum, led, the attorney general said, to the dis- closure that clerks in the Department of Health last year erased the expira- tion dates on 1,100 boxes containing the serum and stamped them with a date 16 months later. He added that four packages of the anti-toxin were shipped back to the laboratory, where they were tested, aécording to laboratory reports, and found of sufficient potency before the dates were changed. The anti- toxin is considered ineffective after two years, Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter, State Secretary of Health, said. She immediately sent out telegrams to 700 points in the State which handled it for charity cases, recalling the anti-toxin and ordering the pur- chase of serum made by other labora- tories at State expense, if necessary. Gov. Earle, in a statement late last night, said the public need not fear to use anti-toxin in the future because “this danger has been averted by quick and drastic action.” Margiotti declared he had sworn statements from both men admitting expiration dates on the serum had been altered. “Each man blames the other,” the attorney general said, “but they both admit the old serum was kept and that it was wrong. Tingely calls it ‘an_indiscretion.’ ” Margiotti quoted Tingely as saying that the firm also supplied State agencies in Maryland, Virginia, Ala- bama, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. He added that both Tingely and Miller say this was the only case in which dates on serum was changed. ENGLISH PRECEDENCE DELAYS MURDER TRIAL Attorney for Chase Cites King John Incident, Claiming Gov- ernment Lacks Jurisdiction. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 2.—John Paul Chase, indicted as George (Baby Face) Nelson’s companion in the murder of two Federal agents, won a 10-day trial delay yesterday after an argument about the legal powers of King John of England. Chase’s attorney declared the pris- oner’s trial for a part in the bloody “battle of Barrington,” which cost the lives of Federal Agents Samuel Cowley and Herman E. Hollis on No- vember 27, must be in State, and not Federal Court. ‘The agents’ legal status, the lawyer argued, was much the same as that of the “king’s messengers” of old make it a capital offense to inter- fere with them. He concluded the Pederal law which would try a Fed- 's slayer in courts of the ATTACK PLANNE ON “MAID" ALIB Implication of Violet Sharpe to Meet State’s Resistance. (Continued Prom: First Page.) dicated no inclination to go easy on future expected “surprise” witnesses. Sommer’s testimony was the high spot of the day, and indicated that the defense, to some extent at least, was desirous of keeping Fisch under the spotlight of suspicion in the case. The evidence apparently dove-tailed with the story of Lou Harding, Tren- ton laborer, told Thursday for the defense. Two Men Had Ladder. Harding swore he saw two men in a station wagon bearing ladder near Princeton on the day of the kid-| naping, and that they asked him di- rections to the Lindbergh estate near Hopewell. In the testimony of both men, Sommer and Harding, two men figured. At one point of Sommer's testi- mony under cross-examination, he said he saw a small man, resembling Fisch, in the company of a tall man on a Jersey trolley en route to the ferry. A few minutes later he was saying the first small man disappeared at the ferry, and a second small man joined the tall man for the trip across the river to New York. “Trendley, ace hand-writing author- ity of the defense, apparently failed | to make the impression expected on the stand, since one defense attorney | was frankly critical of the way he re- | sponded to the opportunities of direct examination. ‘The expert presented a marked con- trast to the authorities called by the State. Trendley seemed detached and disinterested as he answered questions in & voice which rarely took on posi- tive inflection. Where the State ex- perts directed most of their remarks directly to the jury box, Trendlev paid little attention to it and at times his voice sank to such a low whisper jury, but even to the court sten- ographer who sat at the foot of the stand. ‘Trendley's direct examination was restricted entirely to the ransom note found after the kidnaping in the Lindbergh nursery. He declared his study of the ransom correspondence and the Hauptmann writings had con- vinced him the Bronx carpenter never wrote the ransom letters. He used the original note to demonstrate his opinion. Osborn Testimony. He said Albert S. Osborn, dean of the eight State handwriting witnesses, had included only two words of the first ransom note in his photographic comparisons of the handwritings, wWhereas he considered the first note full of distinctive characteristics no expert could honestly disregard. It was his opinion, he said, that the ransom correspondence had been written by a left-handed man secking to disguise his handwriting, and cited technical reasons to back this con- clusion. Assistant Attorney General Joseph Lanigan, who has been handling the handwriting evidence for the prosecu- tion, harried the expert into telling original ransom notes were “highly casual"—something for which he blamed the prosecution’s lack of co- operation. He said he had spent only two and a half hours studying tne originals, but added he spent con- siderable time scrutinizing photostatic copies. Lanigan elicited admissions from Trendley that his examination had not been thorough on such points as ( misspelled words, undotted “i's,” un- | crossed “t's” and other particulars. Lanigan also read back to the wit- | ness the transcript of his direct testi- | mony in which he first said he did not regard the word “g-u-t,” in the nursery note, of any significance, and then a few minutes later he con- tradicted himself by declaring he did consider the word very significant. Trendley insisted he meant both answers, whereupon Lanigan excused him. The State subsequently ex- pressed the belief the expert's testi- mony had been attacked so success- fully it was valueless to the Haupt- mann defense, Student Offers Aid. Among the eye-witnesses the State previously called into the case was Ben Lupica, the Princeton College student who told of seeing a man in an automobile with a ladder in it near the Lindbergh estate the afternoon of the crime, Lupica never was called and sub- sequently, it was learned authorita- tively, became associated with the de- fense. The youth, a member of the prose- cution staff said today, was now pre- pared to testify for the defense that the driver of the ladder car was not Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Should the student take the stand, the prosecution was prepared to con- front him with his published state- ment that he was certain the driver of the car was the defendant. Lupica, the prosecution attorney said, had never been able to satisfy the police authorities that he had identified the man in the car. He had given a satisfactory story of the mct-l dent of seeing a ladder, resembling a painter’s extension ladder, in a green sedan, similar to that of Hauptmann, but his description of the man at the wheel was not conclusive. The defense, it was likewise dis- closed, has been seeking evidence to discredit the testimony of the State's wood expert, Arthur J. Koehler, who testified wood in the ladder came from Hauptmann'’s Bronx attic. Two lumber merchants of Fleming- ton, one of them the former mayor, Samuel Bodine, examined the ladder, but, it was learned, could not state with certainty that the floor board from the attic and a runner of the ladder were not once the same piece. | | The defense was reported prepared | to offer a statement on construction of the ladder by Squire Johnson, for- merly attached to the architectural division of the New Jersey department of institutions and agencies. John- son at present is serving as temporary relief director in Hunterdon County. Johnson’s report was said to set forth the opinion that the ladder was built by a left-handed, unskilled per- 'PROSECUTION FAILS | By the Assoclated Press. that it was inaudible not only to the | ithe men he saw. the jury his examinations of the | BAYONETS GUARD COURT AS FOES OF LONG FACE QuUIZ __(Continued From First Page) to go the rounds that the Legislature would be called into special session to flank the dictatorship with still laws and abolish the jobs of rival officials. Long,.asked aboui his plans, said, “I don’t know.” The Square Deal Association, like the Senator, kept its attack plans concealed. A blast of denunclatory criticism of Long's hearing was loosed last night in Port Allen, just across the Mississippi from Baton Rouge, at a mass meeting of citizens resentful because their sheriff had been named in connection with the reputed as- sassination plot. Ask United Front. Several hundred men and women met the West Baton Rouge Parish court house, but beyond the martial law zone, and adopted resolutions declar- ing Sheriff Sidney Dubroca innocent of complicity in any attempt to kill Long. They called upon “all fair-minded citizens” to join them. The citizens said the hearing was being conducted before a judge re- cently appointed by the Governor and by “biased and prejudiced prosecuting officers who have usurped the duties of the regularly constituted elected offi- cials of East Baton Rouge Parish and are supported by the armed militia.” T0 TRIP TRENDLEY Witness Who “Saw Woman andf Baby” Falls for Trick, However. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, February 2— Court room legerdemain of the prose- cution in the Hauptmann trial didn't | work on the star defense handwriting expert. While J. M. Trendley, East St. Louis expert, was testifying yesterday to the | belief Bruno Hauptmann did not write | the Lindbergh ransom notes, Assistans Attorney General Joseph A. Lanigan | | confronted him with a chart which at | first glance appeared to be an enlarge- | ment of the second kidnap message. Lanigan’s questions were directed at ransom note writings, but Trendley wasn't fooled. He quickly pointed out that the chart showed a specimen of Hauptmann's requested writing. Another witness was not so quick. Peter Sommer of New York was at- | tempting to identify from photographs three persons he asserted he had seen on the kidnap night in New York, one of them a woman in a highly excited state carrying a blond baby. Attorney | General David T. Wilentz suddenly displayed a photograph of a convict who could have had no connection with the alleged incident and Sommer | said there was a resemblance to one of | SPEEDY TRIAL SOUGHT Freed Dillinger Attorney Accused of Harboring Van Meter. CHICAGO, February 2 (#)—Attor- ney Louis Piquett, recently acquitted on charges of harboring his notorious | client, the late John Dillinger, yes- terday served notice on the United | States attorney’s office that he will | demand immediate trial of charges | that he conspired to harbor Homer | Van Meter. i Piquett was accused of arranging | DEFENDANT PLANS RESTIN COUNTRY' Convinced He Will Be Freed. To Teach Rosecrans German. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 2.— Affable Egbert Rosecrans, Bruno Hauptmann's resident counsel, is slated for a thorough-going German lesson after the trial. “When this mess is all over,” Bruno told Rosecrans today, “I am going to stay at your home in the country for a while, forget this terrible thing, and see that you igiprove your German.” There is no “if” in the mind of the defendant over the jury's ultimate verdict. “I have no doubt,” Hauptmann told Rosecrans, “that I shall go free. I | think my lawyers are proving not only that I could not have committed the horrible crime with which I am charged but also that some one else did it.” Pale and Drawn. The prisoner was pale and drawn today, more so than ever before. He had heard his alibi witnesses support his assertions that he was in the Bronx when the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped in Hopewell, N. J., and he has heard the State's attorneys wear them down with a relentless interro- gation that often perplexed and be- wildered them. “My witnesses told the truth” Hauptmann told Rosecrans, “some of them I did not remember until after they had told their stories. “I know how difficult it must be for our witness to recall all the incidents of that night. For weeks in jail I thought and dreamed nothing but the details of that night. The memory of the day was a long time in shaping itself, but eventually it came.” Hauptmann felt, he told Rosecrans, that the testimony of his alibi wit- nesses could not be broken down. He particularly liked that of his wife, Anna Hauptmann. “Annie’s Story Honest.” “Annie’s story was honest, and Mr. Wilentz couldn’t do anything about it,” Hauptmann said. “She knew just what had happened. She has always been telling me to tell the truth, and she told nothing but the truth. “I think that she was the first one to really convince the court of my innocence.” COMPENSATION ASKED FOR INJURED GOVERNOR Wisconsin Senate Gets Bill Af- fecting Schmedeman, Whose Leg Was Amputated. By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Wis,, February 2.—A bill to compensate former Gov. A. G. Schmedeman for the foot injury which resulted in the amputation of his left leg was introduced in the Senate yesterday. It provides that the industrial com- mission shall fix the amount of the award in accordance with the work- men's compensation law on the ground that the injury, which the Governor suffered while dedicating Rib Mountain State Park near Wau- sau last September 13, was a com- pensable accident. Senator W. B. Carroll said that based on the Governor's salary and face-lifting operations to disguise both gangsters. O™ U™F ax0 G Strmers Face P son. Hauptmann has asserted in court, “I am a carpenter,” and testi- fied, when asked by defense counsel, that he was right-handed. NAZIS LIMIT SALUTE Ban Hitler Hail as Too Holy for Munich’s Carnival. MUNICH, Germany, February 2 (P).—Because the Hitler salute is “too holy” to harmonize with the frivolity of Munich’s annual carnival, Her- mann Esser, Nazi leader, yesterday ordered Nazi merrymakers to greet one another by giving “a more or less stately bow, placing the right hand over the heart.” | his disability the amount might run between $8.000 and $10,000. WoobwARD & LOI.E&?" 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