Show J BRONO THREATENS Alien Flares Up tt As Prosecution Hammers Story Yells Stop That Stop That When Then Attorney Z ney General Shouts Lies Lies During Dur- Dur Durt t L L Ling ing Examination Cross-Examination p t Copyright 1935 Associated Press FLEMINGTON N. N J. J Jan 28 Bruno 28 Bruno Richard Hauptmann's Hauptmann's Hauptmann's Haupt Haupt- manns mann's smoldering resentment at merciless examina cross tion flared into open anger today as a prosecutor badgered him in into to damaging admissions Stop that Stop that he cried at Attorney General David T. T Worn down by a day of sharp questions the German carpenter accused of and murdering Baby Charles A. A Lindbergh Jr was confused and muddled as hurled at him his recorded answers in a previous examInation examination examination exam exam- which were at variance with his answers in his trial w I The previous examination was in the Bronx made by District Attorney Foley after Hauptmann's arrest In it Hauptmann had admitted writing the telephone number and address of Dr John F. F Condon on a board which he kept in a closet of his his home BRUNO ADMITS LYING 1 i Hauptmann said he did not tell ten the truth in the Broz Bronx He insisted he did not write on the board You are smiling at me you are are- ar having a go good d time time time- shouted the prosecutor V l No UNo No said Hauptmann you lie in the Bronx didn't you u lie He here Stop that Lies Lies Lies cried About the Lindbergh Lindbergh- money Hauptmann shouted back You lied to me too in this court Well VeIl let the jury decide that said the prosecutor HURLS QUESTIONS Then one after the other hurled You think you are bigger than everything You think will power is everything No uNo but I am m innocent cried I know A recess was declared and H Hauptmann joined his wife in the middle of the courtroom He was hot withered They talked but no smile was exchanged between them When he mounted the stand again he was waxen white He ran trembling fingers across his mouth as he waited for to pounce again Previously Ha Hauptmann was confronted with sketches of a window window window win win- dow and a ladder in his own notebook He denied the drawings and then made admissions which virtually virtually virtually vir vir- absolved the dead Isador Fisch from one of the chief implications implications implications of his namely defense defense namely that he might have copied Hauptmann's Hauptmann's Haupt Haupt- manns mann's handwriting in the Lindbergh ransom notes Responding to a withering cross cross- examination Hauptmann admitted he did not riot know Fisch before the time that Baby Charles A. A Lindbergh Jr was and murdered He denied writing the telephone number and address of Dr John F. F Condon Lindbergh ransom intermediary on a wood panel in his home and on this his testimony was was in direct variance with answers he is alleged to have made to Bronx authorities authorities au au- au following his arrest Baby Lindbergh was on March 1 1932 The state charges he was carried out of the window of his nursery and down a ladder which broke and caused his death While n not t explaining how a window and a ladder ladder ladder lad lad- der came to be represented in his not Hauptmann asserted that that other other drawings in the book were done by a achild achild achild child playing in his home Assistant Attorney General Robert Peacock declared the ladder and wi window wInS win dow drawings were perfect and could by no stretch of the imagination be attributed to a child During the states state's case the defense defense defense- hinted that Hauptmann's handwriting ing had been Imitated in the ransom notes and this hint was almost invariably invariably in in- variably coupled with the name of Fisch from whom Hauptmann said he g got t the thc ransom mone money found in his his' rge Cites Sh Similarity Does Docs it look as if it somebody copied your our handwriting asked Attorney General David T. T That is the way it looks c doesn't te nt it That is the way 1 U looks Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt- Haupt mann said So Isad Isador r Fisch didn't write the ransom notes noles did he I 1 never said that I know you ou didn't but you know Isador Fisch didn't copy cOPT your band band- writing dont don't you I 1 dont don't know You Vou dont don't u say now that Fisch i wrote these no notes s do you I II dont I dout dont know anything about them notes Dotes He admitted he met Fisch March MarchI 1932 and admitted also that he had hald previously told police h he met F Fisca 1932 the first firs time in July He admitted that he had seen seen in Germany the three interlocking C circles cir dr- r cles des used as a symbol by the Crupp Crupp- company Three inte inter inter- circles were used a as symbols m itt all ail the Lindbergh ransom ansom notes note Continued on Pin Pail TM nil c 5 c I I. I 4 v c i. i i. i A I ar J. J hr t j BRUNO BRONO CRACKS I IN QUIZ CROSS Continued horn from rite rat One Ont I i I even didn't know the Lindbergh Lindberg which handwriting experts have sai said Ha Hauptmann wrote Hint o of marital discord w was ws s twice brought into the questioning by th the prosecutor Once he asked Haupt Haup Hauptmann mann when and nd how he met a Mrs Greta Henckle and another time you say when Mrs tIll came from Germany that you couldn't live with her any more What Hauptmann demanded I you tell that to Mr Brent enot not otherwise identified that you yon cant can't a get d along with Annie An An- nie- nie any more Well you did or you ou didn't didn't- Do you know what you lOU are talking bIking about the prisoner asked Yes I know what Im I'm talking bikinI about You answer the question You were talking about my wife ICe and me mc I l am talking talking- about you ou and your our wife yes U Did you ou sa say that thatto thatto to 10 Mr Brent No Leading up to the sketches Attorney Attorney ney nay General David T. T asked Hauptmann y you u stop top keeping accounts within two weeks of at the birth o of the Lindbergh child and didn't start again until a couple of months after the ransom money was vas paid child was born Hauptmann re re- re- re plied lied But this Is the fact about the dates isn't it July it-July July 1030 to August 1932 1032 you kept no accounts that's true Isn't it I cant can't remember the day when I stopped brought up Hauptmann's notebook There are some drawings there he be said Are they yours No the they arnot mine How now about the tho picture of that window window that that isn't yours the drawing draw draw- lag ing of that window That should be a a window asked looking Well VelI what Is it I 1 dont don't know that a ledge there I IT 1 even cant can't make out what it Is But you ou can make out the ladder lad I der there with the dowel pin What Is that Hauptmann queried that look like a ladder Docs Does it the prisoner parried It II doesn't look like like Uke- What i Is it st a book boole a a. picture a bookshelf or what I dont don't know kno what it Is 15 Hauptmann haG had previously admitted admitted admit ted ownership a of the book and despite de dc spite his denials of the sketches they were admitted to the record to join the states state's long chain of circumstantial evidence Against him turned the page and showed I him another picture What is is' that I You arc are asking me Hauptmann shrugged I dont don't know what it itis s. s Well doesn't that look like a drawing draw ing of af a window with some sort of af dots or marks on it C something r You Yau dont don't know what it is I dont don't know what it Is Ha Hauptmann pointed out aut other draw ings in the book and told the pro prosecutor prose e the they were executed b by a a. little littlechild littlechild child who used to come In our house and play inside Hauptmann testified he did not tell his wife about hk his discovery of ot 14 of Lindbergh ransom ranson money in ina ina ina a which he said the late Isador isador Isa- Isa dor Fosch Fisch had given him for safekeeping safe safe- keeping When you found or more In Ingold Ingold gold old how did id you feel Attorney General David id T. T asked him Did you OU cry Did you lau laugh h Were you happy or were you sad I was excited said the German carpenter Did you ou tell your wife I did not Were you earnest with your wife Ife when you ou found the That has got rot nothing to do with wife my ray she work and slave in a bakery and bring to you when you OU and she got rot married her earnings and her savings That has got ot nothing to do with them at all al But when you found in told raid no more partnership with the wife Inquired Absolutely not Why should I make my wife excited about it Why Thy did you hide that I Should it be a pe pleasant sant surprise lor for her ner some time Because my at attention was to pay her house build bund her a house sometimes got Hauptmann to affirm that all of ot his financial transactions save certain savings which he did not want his wife to know about were recorded in a book in his hi own awn handwriting After pointedly inquiring i if it were not true that Hauptmann hid a anum number number num num- ber of af other things from his wife and receiving a negative answer asked aked When was the first time you met Mrs Greta Henckle Summer 32 Hauptmann answered an an- calmly He was bathing at Hunters Hunter's Island when his wife was vas away when he hemet hemet met suet Mrs Mm Henckle he said Who Introduced you ou to Mrs I nobody Well WeB Vel it doesn't need much introdUcing introducing intro- intro out there Mrs Hauptmann sat sal silently in fri the courtroom through this Her expression sion on never changed The prosecutor brought up the word ord for far signature signatures as s used wed in the ransom notes That is a habit o of yours ours Isn't it putting jutting the ns n's where the they dont don't belon belong elong No declared the witness shoved shaved forward a check Hauptmann admitted it il was his The check was for 74 asked him to read his manner a of writing seventh The court record on the point Is Isas Isas isas as follows Hauptmann S c Se S Loud now S-e S what Hauptmann S n S n 1 Hauptmann Yes Hentz S y Hauptmann y v ell es you place the n In just like you placed the then theIn then n In In signature went wenton on and for the same reason No Nn questioned him similarly on the he transposition of g and h In right Spell wright just as you have it here in m this book the pro prosecutor instructed as he handed Hauptmann f Continued on Pace Pae Seven Benn BRUNO CRACKS IN QUIZ CROSS-QUIZ Continued from Item Page Two a ledger in which was re recorded orde-d orde the purchase of f aviation i tock stock W I W r-i-h r t g-t the prisoner spelled JUt Just like you have the t h-g-t here herc hereIn In light isn't that right Yes that is right t He denied Germ German English dictionary diction ary ary ry th that lt pr produced came fron froni his home said laid his was thicker Pronounces Lindbergh He said he first heard of Colonel Lindbergh Immediately after the lat lat- tor's tors rs r's flight to France asked him to say the name Hauptmann pro pro- flounced Say It Mr l Colonel Lindbergh Mister Colonel Lindborg Yes ru a little louder Mister Colonel I Lindborg Hauptmann corrected correct correct- ed himself Court Room Boom Packed Rigid admission rul rules s were clamped damped down by Sheriff John H. H Curtiss for forthe forthe forthe the court session The court room however with its us frost scribbled windows win win- dows clows presented its its usual packed appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap despite e efforts forts to reduce the number Dumber of spectators Prosecutor Anthony M. M Hauck of the states state's staff who was not present in court Friday because ot of a severe cold was on hand before court time lime apparently fully recovered t Members of the defense staff Fisher Fish er and end Rosecrans arrived at their t table ble In the court room a moment before belore be be- fore lore the defendant Reilly chief defense defense de de- counsel came to the court room in hi his customary immaculate attire black sack coat striped trousers and nd boutonniere He immediately conf con f erred with Hauptmann and Fisher Large handwriting charts charls of or the states state's experts were brought to court by a state police officer and placed with the kidnap ladder behind the witness stand Other state slate exhibits I lined up against the front wall included in in- eluded the Hauptmann closet panel blaring baring the address and telephone number o of Dr John F. F Condon and the attic floor b board rd part of which the state char charges es w was used in making the thet ladder j Court Convenes Court convened at 1001 a a. a m rn m. when Justice Trenchard mounted the bench and rapped for lor order With Wilh a lIthe firm step Hauptmann went back to the thc witness stand Inspector Lewis J J. J Bruckman of the Bronx police and William E. E Frank federal Investigator who traced Hauptmann's accounts were present near the s state tc table to check the defendants de de- testimony as the cross examination examination exam exam- developed started cross examination Q Mr Defendant have you ou ever been up In an airplane A. A Yes in Los Angeles Hauptmann looked swiftly around the room His face lace was set as he looked at Hi His Hi voice was wa colorless as he made answer to the first questions in song sing tones voice was low encourage ing Q That was a pleasure trip A. A Yes Q On that trip west your our wife and anti Kloc Hans burr burg a a. friend were with you ou A. A Yes Q Were ere you jou ou on a boat anywhere on en n that trip 4 A. A I cant can't remember lie He shook his head Q Do you ou remember paying 75 tents rents for a a. ride on a boat for lor yourself your jour our self felt tr 1 Mrs Hauptmann and Kloep Kloep- altogether 25 A. A I cant can't remember Q Q But you ou wont won't sa say you ou didn't I A. A I cant can't remember Q You kept an account of your ex pense on this trip to California 1 A. A Yes Q Groceries and everything A. A Yes y es Q You kept accounts every day since J you u arrived In this country A. A Not the first day In a year ear or two Q Once you OU started keeping ac counts you kept every item A. A Not every item Hem Q You kept the money your our wife wire earned d the money you OU earned the money people owed you A. A Yes Q And at the thc end of the thc year you ou figured up what you and your wife were worth A. A Yes Q You were trying to accumulate money for lor your our family right up to 1931 A. A Yes v Q Qu When you put the thc figures in he book book they were correct correct truthful truthful figures fig fig- ures Left Lett Some Out A. A Them figures are true but I left some rome of them out of ot it Q Whatever the e f figures gures are arc in the book K that is is honest and true A. A Yes Q Q You dont don't want to lo chan change e that Mr Ix r. r Hauptmann A. A Saved money besides and my wife ife should not know Q Oh you oU were hiding it U on wife your Fisher objected Lindbergh seated directly in front of at the witness behind the states stales table lable looked carefully at the accused man W voice had raised gradually during durig the qu questioning t ning until it reached the scornful insistent pitch that marked Fridays Friday's cross examina- examina tion Q You were hiding a lot of ol things from your wile wife A. A No Q When did you first meet Mrs I Henckel A A. A In 1932 Drives es On OnAs OnAs OnAs As drove e forward with will q queries on an the relationship with Mrs Henckel the defendant resorted more f frequently to his cant remember r reply Q Was Mr Henckel there the f first time A A. Her sister was was was- Q Im I'm asking you OU about Mr I Henckel A A. I cant can't remember Q Dont Don't you know that two weeks a after fter you met her she introduced you jOU t lo to o her husband A. A I guess that's correct Q That ThatUS was US as when your our wife Ife was in Europe ch eh A A. A Yes Yel Hentz clapped his hands and said |