Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1935, Page 4

T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C., FEBRUARY 10, 1935—PART O SA4 el T N R N e e e e Mrs. Morrow and Daughter at Trial TESTIMONY ENDS . INFIGHT ONALIBIS Mrs. Morrow Is Last Wit- ness—Case Goes to Jury Tuesday. (Continued From First Page.) the jury may thoroughly understand this procedure now, I understand that | your honor holds (in denying a mo- | tion for a directed verdict of acquit- tal) that it is a question of fact to | be determined by them.” Justice Trenchard: “That is it.” Just before court adjourned Justice Trenchard addressed the jury. and | for the first time requested them not to take their usual week end bus ride. He said “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I wish that you would not go out either today or tomorrow on a bus ride. I wish that you would not do | that, and please do not do it, nor un- dertake to do it. “Of course, there is no reason in the world why you should not take | appropriate exercise in the custody of your officers, either on the hotel ver- anda or on the pavements, if the pavements are fit to walk on. I haven't been out through the village myself, but if the pavements are nice to walk on, you may very well like to walk, and I would think it might be rather a good thing for you, so with that admonition I will say to you that you may now retire and come in at 10 o'clock on Monday morning.” Mrs. Morrow, pale and sedate, was dressed in modified mourning for her eldest daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth Mor- row Morgan, who died last December. | Attorney General Wilentz questioned Mrs. Morrow in a quiet voice Q. Will you tell us about what time you saw Miss Sharpe that evening? A. She served dinner, which was at about 7 o'clock. and I did not see her after quarter before 8, about, un- til I saw her much later in the eve- ning Q. Did you see her at about a quar- ter of 8 that evening? | A.1 saw her at quarter of 8. Q And then you didn't see her again, you say, until quite some time later that evening? A. I didn't see her again until after 11 o'clock that night I see. And did you after 11 o'clock that night? A. I did see her, yes. Q. Would you say before midnight? A. It was much earlier than that. Q I see. And when you say you Miss Sharpe at the times that you have indicated, I take it you mean n the Morrow home? A. Yes, she served dinner that night | approximately see her | | it was before 12 Butler in House. Q. Was the butler'’s off. March 1? A. He was in the house that night, but not serving. Q. How many other maids did you have at that time? A. We had a cook and housemaid and seamstress, five, there were stx‘ other maids in the house. | Q. Six other maids in the house? A. In the house. | In addition to Mrs. Morrow, there| were witnesses to tell that Violet| Sharpe was in their company the! night of the crime; that she accom- | panied two men and another young woman to a speakeasy: that she| drank coffee; and that she returned | home about 11 p.m | One of her companions of that | night, Ernest Miller, said he met the girl on the rcad about a week before the murder, and the defense counsel wanted to know from him if that wasn't what is known as “picking up” | night Miller said it wasn't exactly “pick- | ing up.” “She was walking along the road and she asked me for a ride,” Miller said. “She waved her hand and I stopped. She must have mistaken me | for some one else.” Miller didn’t remember what time | it was when he gave Miss Sharpe a | lift to Englewood. which moved De- fense Counsel Reilly to inquire: “Do you pick up 50 many girls in the afternoon on the roads around Englewood that you don't remember what time it was or what day it was?” And Miller’s answer was: “I am not in the habit of picking up girls.” Question on Coffee. Another member of the March 1, 1932, party at the “Peanut Grill” speakeasy where Miller said he and the others went with’Miss Sharpe, was Catherine Minners. It was she who | said that Violet had ordered coffee, | which smoved the defense counsel to remark “Coffee. She had left the Morrow | estate to come over to a speakeasy to drink coffee. Her condition was sucn that she required coffee, was that ite2” The defense cross-examination of this witness concerned itself for tne most part with seeking to snow that Miss Minners could not recall events on any other day or night of 1932 except this particular March 1. “That’s the only night you can remember in your life, isn't it?" Reilly asked, and the witness replied: “Yes, sir, distinctly.” Elmer Johnson, the fourth member of the speakeasy party, told a simi- lar story to back the State's conten- tion that Miss Sharpe was nnt near the Lindbergh home in Hopewell on the kidnap night During the testimony of this wit- ness there was a wrangle when de- fense counsel sought to indicate to the jury that Johnson, among others, had been living at Trenton at the ex- | whose earlier testimony Large photo shows Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, right: Mrs. Ann Lindbergh, and Col. H New Jersey police, at Flemington, N. J., yesterday mother of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, was pho her daughter, kop!, chief of Mrs. Morrow, gra aphed after she I Norman Schwar testified in an effort to clear Ier former maid, Violet Sharpe, of com- plicity in the kidnaping. Smaller photos, reading from Yonkers, N. Y refute the testimony of Mrs. Bertha Hoff, a defense witness. —Copy the top down hi, A. P. Wirephoto. ed Budreau of one of the first rebuttal witnesses called by the State to Mrs. Hoff testified Budreau and Isidor Fisch, the man the defense maintains left the ransom money with Hauptmann, visited her house and that Fisch had a bundle that resembled a shoe box. W. B. Bolner of Princeton, Center: Lower: Ewald Mielke. —Wide World Photo. N. J, called in rebuttal a mill worker of Lindenhurst, testified for the defense concerning the construction of the kidn: -—W e World Photo. pense of the State of New Jersey awaiting his turn to testify, Reilly asked Johnson if he didn't know the German nurse of the late Isador Fisch who, with some of Fisch's relatives, has been brought from Ger- many to testify. Johnson said he had seen the nurse Reilly: And her expenses are being paid for by the State of New Jersey, do you know that? A. I do not. Attorneys Clash. Wilentz: Yes. And the expenses for this trial and this jury are being paid for by the State of New Jersey for good cause. Reilly: That's what the attorney general thinks. We think it is a waste of money Justice Trenchard told the lawyers to “refrain from these irrelevant speeches,” and the. incident was ended. The expert in wood, Arthur Koehler, linked Woo! from the kidnap ladder to Haupt- mann’s home, was recalled at the morning session to rebutt testimony of defense kitnesses which had con- tradicted his. Koehler, an efficient and matter-of-fact witness, reiterated his previous testimony, amplifying it | in places. | As a result of Koehler's reappear- ance there remains little change in the “lumber” evidence. The State, through | the scientific investigations of Koehler, contends that a board in the kidnap ladder came from the attic of Haupt- mann's Bronx home. The defense. through the testimony of “a practical lumber man,” contradicted this. The same contradictory status pre- vailed concerning Violet Sharpe, and Fisch, with some defense witnesses having placed them under suspicion and State witnesses having testified to alibis for both. Sharpe Attack Answered. The thoroughness of the State's ef- fort to fix Violet Sharpe's presence on the kidnap night was in answer to defense testimony earlier in the week. Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, a restau- rant owner of Yonkers, N. Y., testified that she had seen Miss Sharpe the night of the kidnaping waiting in her restaurant, a blanket on her arm, waiting for two men who finally drove up in an automobile and took her away. Another defense witness, Peter Som- mer of New York, testified several days A Bank for the INDIVIDUAL The Morris Plan Bank offers the Amt. of Nofe $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1.200 $6,000 BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make loans on a practical basis, which enables the borrower to liquidate his obli- 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. Loans are passea within a day or two after filing application—with few exceptions. 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Rosecrans said Hauptmann felt re- , Says He Has to Be Acquitted lieved at the conclusion of all the testimony in his trial “He asked me what I thought of his possibilities of acquittal, and when I told him I thought they were good he said, “They are better than that, Herr Lawyer, they are fine,'"” Rbse- crans said. “Hauptmann told me he had not expected that the defense would ac- tually: show who committed the crime,” Rosecrans observed. “He said that he was content with our efforts to show that he did not do it.” | ago to having seen a woman strongly | resembling Miss Sharpe boarding a crosstown street car at the Forty-sec- ond street (New York) ferry, a 2- year-old baby in her arms The name of “Red” Johnson, who was a friend of Betty Gow, nurse to the Lindbergh baby, was brought back | again into the testimony in the | waning minutes of the case George Marshall, night watchman at the Morrow estate, testified that he knew Johnson, and that Johnson— who at one time was questioned in | connection with the kidnap case—was acquainted with Violet Sharpe “He was there (at the Morrow es- tate) several times,” Marshall said “I met him there.” Through Marshall also the defense introduced testimony that the dead Violet Sharpe had a sister working in | Englewood at the time of the Hopewell | kidnaping. The purpose of this e\i-‘ dence was not clear, unless the defense intends to point in summation to a possibility that the identities of the Sharpe sisters may have been confused by witnesses. Rebuts Ladder Story. Trooper Lewis J. Bornmann of the New Jersey State Police force, was called as the first witness to rebut the testimony of Charles De Bisschop, Waterbury, Conn., lumber man and contractor, who testified for the de- fense he did not think the State’s ex- hibit 226, a board, had ever been nailed to the joists in the attic of Hauptmann's home. Bornmann, in whose name the State leased Hauptmann's home after the carpenter’'s arrest, identified eight nails which, he said, had held the board in place before he removed it on September 26, 1934, seven days after Hauptmann's arrest. 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Koehler, who had followed closely the testimony of De Bisschop, was asked by Wilentz to express his opin- ion on the similarity or dissimilarity between the marks made by Haupt- mann's plane on the lumber planed by Stanley Seal and the plane marks he ladder rungs Marks Held Identical. “On the edge of the board that he | planed by holding the plane parallel | or straight with the edge of the board, the marks are identical with those on the ladder rungs,” Koehler | said. “On’the other edge, where he | held the plane diagonally across the | board. the marks are closer tcgether.” Q. But does that interfere with the identification of the plane marks themse ves? | A No Wilentz boards then turned to the two which De Bisschop brought | into court, and which he testified were | taken from different sources—one from a house 47 years old, the other from another house. He had matched | the grain, he swore, to demenstrate that grains are matched in woods which come from different trees Koehler, who had studied the two pieces after De Bisschop's testimony, said they came from the same piece of wood Q. Now you have heard the testi- | mony of the two gent emen that have | been here the last day or two with reference to the ladder rail and with | reference to the attic board. Do you | still say. sir, that they at one time | were the same board? A. I do. Made l:'rnln Washington Paper Hearts Half Made fresh today and every day by our own Fannie May Girls here in Washington MRS. LINDBERCH SEES END OF CASE Tears in Anne’s Eyes as| Mother Appears on Stand. By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 9.— Her mother’s appearance on the wit- ness stand brought tears to tie eyes of gentle Anne Lindbergh today as the case against Bruno Richard| Hauptmann ended. She blinked the tears back, as she | did on the witness stand when she told how she used to walk on the driveway and throw pebbles to the| nursery window so her baby's nurse | would hold him up to wave. | Her mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Mor- row, ended the prosecution’s case with the same dignity Mrs. Lindbergh brought to the court room. In her few sentences on the stand, accounting for the activities of Violet Sharpe, her servant who committed suicide, no reference was made to her kidnaped grandchild. If visitors had looked for a note of grief to sway the jury they were disappointed. Dressed in Black. Erect in her black crepe dress with its soft, white collar, she sat with folded hands and carefully told who was at home that night: “My daugh- ter Elizabeth and mvself Her tranquil face, framed by graying | hair under a high-crowned black hat | with a silver ornament, left with the court room the image of Anne Lindbergh on the stand. The fair skin, the smile and the slightly tilted | nose were the same | The V collar of her dress flared to a flat bow in front and showed her round white throat and a strand of | pearls. At her wrists were touches of white and one silver bracelet [ She did not heed the commotion that broke out when her name was | called. Rising from her chair in the Only 100! $2 Angorette Dresses $‘I.19 A scoop of the market brings woolly 1 or 2 piece angorettes to you at this extraordinarily low price! In wine, rust, brown, green, blue; 14 to 20. Second Floor Lindbergh Assists Hauptmam Lawyer When Car Is Mired By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, Febru- ary 9.—A defense attorney for Bruno Richard Hauptmann was helped out of a predicament to- day by Col. Charles A.Lindbergh. | | Frederick A. Pope, of the de- fense staff for the Lindbergh kid- | | nap-slaying suspect, ran his car | | off the road on his way to court | | today and became mired in a ditch. Col. 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Her delicately colored face had the same sad, pensive look, but several times she sat on the edge of her chair and tilted her chin to see. She looked at the jurors and at faces in the balcony. Her head did not droop as it did before, when she heard how her child’s body was found. One smiw crossed her face, when the Morrow's elderly night watchman, George Marshall, said “okay” on the witness stand Mrs. Morrow Absorbed. Mrs. Morrow, beside her, missed nothing Her black hat bobbed as she shifted to see all the jurors, the attorneys, the justice and Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, who sat motfonless in her navy blue dress and felt hat. She looked keenly at Defense At- torney Edward J. Reilly when he en- tered, with a resplendent white car- nation in his lapel. Reilly's voice, which had shouted at a previous wit- ness, Catherine Minners, was low and polite when Mrs. Morrow came to the stand . The alert Mrs. Morrow absorbed more details of the trial than any other woman principal. t'or 10 min- utes after she entered, she sat for- ward, viewing the scene, looking at gum-chewing visitors and apparently noting even the sounds outside. Her face was cheerful, and several times she smiled, her smooth cheek showing the trace of a dimple. Both women showed interest in the rebuttal testimony of Arthur Koehler, Wisconsin wood expert. who has de- clared that part of the kidnap ladder came from wood in Hauptmann's at- tic. Mrs. Morrow shifted to see him, and smiled when he lost patience with his cross-questioner, Frederick Pope. Mrs. Lindbergh glanced at her mother, and Mrs. Morrow shook her head when the opposing attorneys wrangled over a point, and Justice Trenchard said sharply, “I'll ask counsel to refrain from making these irrelevant speeches.” Mattresses § Remade The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. N.W. 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