| Show TAKES STD STAND UJ DEFENSE Defendant Claims Alibi for Night Ransom Vi Was Vias as Paid By W C WEBBER REMINGTON N J The J The Thc state LEMINGTON rests Its case David id T attorney general of ot New Jersey Jerse turns this to his sent seuL The Tire court recesses for lunch When It reconvenes defense attorneys s 's Indulge In the customary legal maneuvers Then dapper florid Edward Ellward J chief de de- de- de defense defense tense counsel turns and cries loudly Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the stan stand 1 Hauptmann appears nervous ous Ue lle has lost weight during durin his lala ordeal In court and his clothes ban hang liang from his big frame ll He Id site slightly hunched over In the witness chair iris hlf hands clasped lIe He is the same dark suit he has worn every ery day of ot the fire trial a light lIht faded blue shirt shirr and a polka-dotted polka tic tie Less than twenty feet away sits Colonel Lindbergh father of ot the child Is accused c saving laving killed to satisfy his desir desire e for ease without working and to indulge In- In Indulge Ir In stock market speculation When the ex-carpenter ex takes the stand It Is s the time first time Lindbergh has looked at him Jim for more than thann thana a n few seconds Once when he was wason on the stand he glanced at Haupt- Haupt Hauptmann mann as ho he identified l him as the p man wan whom be he belle believed belled d guilty of or the crime and again when Hauptmann cried out at testimony present present- presented cd ell by the state the colonel looked at him for a second or two Now ow be he stares at him as is If fascinated I as Attorney Reilly begins his iris exam exam- examination nation Carefully step by step the fa famous New r York criminal law lawyer er r leads Hauptmann through a n recital of ot his life up to the time the kid occurred Hauptmann nn- nn savers slowly In to a thick guttural voice pausing b before fore making replies as though ho be has difficulty In choo choos choos- choos choosing Ing tag the right words Ills lIIs is none too fluent and his accent Is very marked markell Finally Reilly asks If 1 he left home on the night of April AprI April 2 2 1932 the night the ran som mon money y was paid by Dr J F F Condon to a man In St SL Raymonds Raymond's cemetery The crowd strains for for- forward ward to catch ne nega- nega negative a tl tive reply The business of ot an alibi has begun What t surprises the defense will wl spring can only be conjectured H Reilly Is noted for his ability to p turn seemingly hopeless cases Into victorIes for his clients It Is all ad- that the state has hns built up upa a n strong circumstantial case ca e against a Hauptmann Almost every t type pe of evidence with the exception of or eye eye- eyewitnesses ey witnesses fin fingerprints and root foot prInts has been presented Amon Among Amo the most dramatic blows the state sinh- sta tons has struck were vere those thoe presented t hy by Arthur Koehler federal wood e ex ex- expert pert who testified ell that tools were used to make the ladder left on the Lindbergh h estate out or of orwood i wood purchased at nt a lumber yard yai where often orten worked and part of or It with wood taken talEn from fro the attic of Hauptmann's own o home homp hon In the tine Bronx Koehler told of or an nn amazing piece 0 of ot detective work work the tracing i ithe or of orthe the lumber used In connection with construction of ot the time adder Ills HIs In In- In showed that one of or thE knives of or the machine rn used us In finishing the wood had a nick In IL it Other calculations he said In- In that the machine had eight elg blades trl trimming the top of ot the board boa and six blades trimming the botto bottom m when the tho board went through the th e machines and that one of ot the blades blade s was slightly out of ot line This Tins led lell to Investigation of eastern east eastern ern mills using this tills type of o f machine Samples were secured secure d from all aU of at them by Koehler Kochler and an d finally a mill was located whose lumber had marking similar to t those on the pieces used In the ladder lad lad- ladder lad ladder der A search of ot 25 Z lumber yard s to which lumber of this kind had had 1 been shipped eventually brough t him to the Bronx yard ard and It devel des developed that Hauptmann had worked at periods In the yard Jard and In Do Do- Do comber r 1931 1031 two months before th the e he purchased a quan quan- quantity quantity of ot tints tills lumber The piece of ot wood Koehler r asserted had been taken from the th e i attIc of ot the Hauptmann home wag wa s originally one board which was wa s sawed In half halt to make the s ot of the ladder Nail Nall holes boles In the th e ladder board correspond with the th e nail holes In joists In the attic he h e said and he added that It was In conceivable In-conceivable conceivable that this was a coincidence coin coincidence Other testimony presented by the th e state charges that Hauptmann was war author of ot time the serIes of or ransom let letters le tern admitting possession of ot tin the e i bally baby that he left loft one of or the letters letter In n the nursery nt at the time the Lindbergh Lind Lindbergh bergh baby disappeared that he h e possessed the childs child's sleeping suit and that he be visited the Lindbergh's Lindbergh s r The prosecution has bas also attempt attempted n cd ed to show that collect collected cd ed e tire the OOOO ransom money an and d that his wealth increased by that amount Persona I Identifications have ha rave been made b y Dr John JJohn F Condon Col Co Charles A Lindbergh and Cecile M 11 S Barr urr as accepting and passing the ransom money and by Millard WhIted Charles and Aman Amar dus dims Hochmuth putting him near the Lindbergh estate The latter Is not expected to have much weight be- be because b cause calise of ot the time Intervening he- he between i- i ie tween when they are said to have hav e seen Hauptmann and the time ot of c identification The Tire ph physical evidence will ur un un- un undoubtedly carry much weight The testimony that Hauptmann penned the ransom notes and the address addres on the package e containing the I childs child's sleep sleeping Ins suit suit as well as the note left In the nursery must be refuted by the defense Observers at the trial seem to t feel that only one practical defense exists for That would woul be one offering proof that a master masto mind committed the crime and that was only the time un- un unwitting ur un witting tool If It such Is the case the leader would be one without his his his- parallel because of ot his success suc- suc success sue cess In erIn cO covering his own tracks and an his ability to provide such Infinite ph physical proof of ot lIa guilt This would lead back In all aU probability ability to contention by the defense defenso that the time mysterious m Isador Fisch who died In Germany was the man who planned the and am who wino used Hauptmann as a front for his later financial dealings lies has stated that Fisch was the man who furnished the money mom for the time stock market carried on In name A witness has testified that Haur Haupt mann and Fisch were seen to together ether In the brokers broker's office where the fo for foE mgr mor had an nn account although althou there was no way for the firm to know know- whether Fisch really hr had ball j control of ot the speculations now nov far Reilly can go In estal esta tits thIs Is not known The rite fa fact that Fisch Is dead will make It dit dl Thus far the relatives of ot the tho thod tl dead d ad furrier Mare have not been Intro intro- introduced I In n court A detective recent recent- recently recently ly returned from Germany with sev sev- eral persons connected with the tare tt family who It Is said are arc ready rendy to to testify that their brother hadr a part In the tho crime and that ho dIed practically penniless fl |
