Show KIDNAPERS TO BE NAMED BY DEFENSE Hauptmann Attorney Promises Promises Prom Prom- to Charge Quartet With I Crime Thursday By Associated Pre Press FLEMINGTON N. N J J. Jan 5 The 5 The promise of fresh sensations in the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann cropped up during the week end recess toda today The defense announced it would name four lour persons per sons as the actual kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby Strategically timed the defense statement followed closely upon the I testimony of Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh h the states state's star witness to date who identified Hauptmann's voice as that of the ransom money collector and then quietly expressed his conviction the German ex-convict ex was the man who his baby bab- son Edward J J. Rem Reilly chief defense counsel revealed the defense plan in New York saying he hc would name th the real kidnapers kidnapers they they are two men and two women women probably probably next Thursday He explained he thought testimony would be sufficiently advanced ad ad- by that time to introduce this portion of the defense theory theof into the record Identities Withheld The identities of the Uie four ur an ge d kidnapers he would not disclose Reilly also DIso set at rest reports that Hauptmann would not be placed on Picture on Page Pae 14 the witness stand by announcing that the enigmatic alien from the Bronx would be the first to testify when the defense e opens open its case Meanwhile some confusion arose over divergent statements by Reilly and Associate Defense Counsel C. C Lloyd Fisher over evidence reputedly placing Dr John F. F Condon the elderly Bronx educator who was was- the Jasi of the ra ransom om negotiations near the scene of oC the Rem Reilly said flatly We have no witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses to prove that while Fisher confirmed reports that the defense had two witnesses who would say iy that was in Hopewell about the time of the crime all I can say Fisher said State attorneys were inclined to discount this purported development of the defense case as as- unimportant tant Await Awalt Press Conference No formal statements were forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming from Irom the prosecution staff and Attorney General David T. T said there would be none Jonel until the regular press conference tomorrow night at Tr Trenton Hauptmann spent a restless S day in his cell in the jail bad backs of the court- court Continued on PAste Two DEFENSE SET FOR STRATEGY Hauptmann Attorney Promises Promises Promises Prom Prom- to Name Four Fou FourS S Kidnapers Kidnapers' I Continued from frem Pato Pau One house howe He apparently was not Informed informed In in- formed that in Kamenz Germany his aged mother Frau Pauline Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann wept as she reaffirmed her her faith in his innocence of the Lindbergh Lind bergh berch murder Both legal staffs withdrew from Flemington for the llie week week end nd recess rece in Hauptmann's trial for tor life the prosecution to Trenton and the defense de de- de- de tense ense to New York City to match wit wits in a game centering on the Lindbergh Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh ransom The state summoned several federal agents the crack operatives who tracked down the Lindbergh ransom money and who will be major witnesses twit twit- wit wit- nesses esses for examination Calling Attorney Edward J J. J Reilly chic chief of Cf defense said I 1 am calling a conference conference con con- ference of 1 my handwriting experts I in my office in Brooklyn e fe are going to prepare our case cae with th re regard retard re- re e eard tard gard ard to the ransom notes These strategic moves followed three days of swiftly moving drama arama set let et in the eighteenth century Hunterdon Hunterdon Hunterdon Hunter- Hunter don county count courtroom during which Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh testified tests lied fled firmly to his belief that Haupt Haupt- mann his child and took his ransom Hauptmann aroused b by the boyish aviators aviator's identification of his voice VOIce as that of the ransom reaper but strangely unmoved by the accusation of the settled back in in his cell to his old stoic calm Discloses Angle AnKle The state meanwhile disclosed the angle of attack it will pursue Monday Monday Mon Mon- day when it resumes its chronological t presentation of the story of the Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh and slaying Miss Betty Gow skinned olive-skinned Scotch nurse of the slain infant was listed as the first witness the state will call when Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. W Trenchard reconvenes court for the second week of or the trial Once before she was wa called but so shaken haken was she by Anne Lindbergh's own story of her last day with her baby that she was spared tempo rarity The Hopewell police chief Harry Wolf who arrived at the Lindbergh mountain estate soon after alter the was discovered probably probably probably ably will follow her The first state trooper troop r to reach the estate after alter the k kidnap alarm Corporal Harry Wolfe WoH has also been ordered to be in court to tell his story Fingerprint Issue There are indications too that the Monday session may bring out definitely definitely deli deli- whether r any fingerprints were found in n the Lindbergh nursery after the 0 or oi whether the ransom ran ran- som zorn notes note carried any tell-tale tell marks Despite official denials that fingerprints fingerprints finger prints were ever found reports to the contrary have persisted Corporal Frank A A. Kelly the state police poUce fingerprint expert is the man who examined the nursery and Sand the ransom notes for fingerprints and the state lc hop hopes to reach him some time Monday unless the defense examination examination examination examina examina- tion of Betty Gow is too lengthy Ins Inspector Harry Walsh Jersey City detective who worked on the kidnap kidnap- ing investigation is the fourth police poUt officer on the tentative witness list Prosecution sources hinted strongly that the enigma of the Lindbergh case Dr John F Condon who played the role of J tsie in the ransom negotiations will take the witness stand some rome lime time early in the week Bizarre Narrative JasIe will tell ten the Hauptmann jury it it was understood understood not not only the bizarre bizarre bi bi- bi zarre are narrative of his contacts with the kidnaper but also alo identify Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann a all as the m mysterious John h he hemet hemet met on those nocturnal rendezvous The defense case as sketched in cross croS examinations of state witnesses so EO far is Js apparently that Miss Gow Cow Dr Condon Ollie OUie Whately the Lindbergh butler who died since the Henry Red Johnson a friend of Miss Gow and Violet Sharpe the maid at Next Day Hill the Morrow estate in Englewood Englewood all all allor or any of them them might might have had a apart apart apart part in the Chief Defense Counsel Reilly tried repeatedly to thrust this theor theory forcefUlly force force- fully sully before the jury in his penetrating ing cross eroS examina examination tion of Colonel Lindbergh and Mrs Elsie Whately widow of ot the dead butler in yesterdays yester days day's session The colonel turned aside all Reillys Reillys Reil lys ly's questions with replies that he had implicit faith in n the servants and andin in Dr Condon and expressed his dis dis' belief that someone within the house stole the baby that black windy March 1 night in 1932 Mrs Whately also proved a witness the state thought who gave no t testimony test test- tl mony to bolster Reillys Reilly's hypothesis of the crime Indignant Denial She made an indignant denial of ot a defense insinuation that her husband had been attentive e to the suicide violet Sharpe and was equally de de- de in her No to R Reillys Reilly's I charge that her husband had become acquainted with Dr Condon in New Rochelle years before the The questioning about Dr Condon was waa in line with the announced plan pIan i of or the defense t to have witnesses place near I ar the Lindbergh estate on the day of the Reillys Reilly's attempt to develop his develop his case was overshadowed by Colonel Lindbergh's Lindbergh's Lind Lind- berghs bergh's confident identification of Hauptmann's voice as that of ot the John to whom paid the ran ransom m in a Bronx cemetery 2 The portly Reilly never neve challenged chal chal- it Lindbergh followed up this important tant evidence by asserting bluntly he was satisfied that the German ex- ex convict was the man who his first born son ron Reilly asked ked him if he believed Hauptmann was guilty o of the kidnap- kidnap ing ingI ng I do the aviator responded Faith In Condon The ing flying colonel was equally equall straightforward in fri reaffirming his in ia Dr Condon when Reilly b pressed him with queries on the unusual unusual un un- un- un usual aspect of ot the elderly educators educator's interest and activities in the case We rC realized Lindbergh h said patiently patiently pa pa- that after this circumstance had originally happened the sequence of ot events would probably be peculiar not according to the ordinary logic loic of life By this circumstance the colonel apparently meant the designation of Condon as the ransom Intermediary by the kidnaper Lindbergh h was the star itar witness of the thc day He spent three and a half I I hours on the stand two stand two and a half hail hours of it under Reillys Reilly's searching cross crOES examination He Mrs Whately and Charles Williamson deputy chief of or the Hopewell police were the only witnesses of the day Express Satisfaction Both prose prosecution ution and defense e expressed ex ex- pressed th their ir satisfaction with the trial developments when the day ended ended ended end end- ed but the prosecution appeared apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap more pleased with the testimony test test- mony than the defense Court was adjourned until Monda Monday at atri 10 a a. a m. m m- m eastern standard time lime with Justice Trenchard warning the eight men and four women of the jury to refrain retrain from outside contacts but advising them them perhaps perhaps i in realization reali reali- ration of the tedious two days das to come cometo to to get exercise Copyright 1935 by Associated Pr Press ess |