Show HAUPTMANN TAKES STAND DEFENSE Defendant Claims Alibi for Night Ransom Was Vias Paid By W. W C C. C WEBBER rj LEMINGTON U N. N J. J The J. The state rests its case easel David T. T attorney general of New v e Jersey turns to his seat scat The court recesses for lunch When It reconvenes defense attorneys s 's Indulge In the customary legal maneuvers Then dapp dapper clapper r florid Edward J. J Reilly chief defense defense defense de de- counsel turns and antl cries loudly Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the stand Hauptmann appears nervous Behas He Be has lost weight during his ordeal in court and his bis clothes hang from his big frame He ne sits slightly hunched over In the witness chair his hands clasped He Be Is wearn wearing the time same dark suit he be has worn orn er e every day of the trial a light faded blue shirt and a polka-dotted polka tie Less than twenty feet away awny sits Colonel Lindbergh father of the child Hauptmann Is Iff accused cf having killed to satisfy his desire for case ease without working and to Indulge Indulge indulge In In- In stock market speculation When the ex-carpenter ex takes the stand It Is the first time Lindbergh bergh has looked at him for more than thana a few seconds Once when he lIe was wason wason wason on the time stand stan 1 he glanced at Hauptmann Haupt mann as fiS ho he Identified him as the theman moan man whom he believed guilty of oC the the crime and again when Hauptmann cried cred out at testimony presented present present- ed by the time state the time colonel looked at him for a second or two Now he lie stares at nt him as if f fascinated as Attorney Reilly begins his exam exam- Carefully step by bJ step the famous fa fa- New l York criminal lawyer er leads Hauptmann through a recital of his life up to the time the Id kid II nailing naping occurred anI answers answers an an- I slowly in a thick guttural voice pausing before making replies as ns though he has difficulty In n choosing choos choos- lug ing ng the right rl ht words His ils English is none too fluent and his and hIs accent accents Is s very ery marked Finally Reilly asks If tr he lie left home on the tho night of April 2 1932 1032 the lie night the lie ransom ransom ran ran- som money was paid by Dr J. J F. F Condon to a man In n St. St nn Raymonds Raymond's monds cemetery The crowd strains forward forward for for- ward to catch neza nega five reply The business business of an alibi all has begun beun What surprises the defense will spring can only be e conjectured conjecturer Reilly Is s noted for his ability to turn seemingly hopeless cases Into victories for his clients It Is admitted admitted admitted ad ad- that the state has built up upa a n stron strong circumstantial case against Almost every ery type of evidence with the exception of e eyewitnesses eye witnesses fingerprints and footprints foot fout footprints prints has keen boon presented Amon j the most dramatic blows the time state l has as struck were those presented by Arthur KOlhler Koehler federal wood wOld expert expert expert ex ex- pert who testified that Hauptmann's tools were used to mn make e the ladder left on the Lindbergh ber h estate out of off wood purchased at a n lumber yard where often worked and part of It with wood taken from I the attic of Hauptmann's own homp in the lie Bronx Kochler Koehler told toM of an nn amazing piece of detective work work the the tracing of the lumber used usell In c connection with construction of or the time adder Ills HIs investigation In In- showed showe 1 that one of the thi knives es of the machine used In finishing th the wood had a n nick In It Other calculations he said Indicated In In- n that the machine had eight blades trimming the top JoP of ot the time board and six blades trimming the time bottom when the board went through the machines and that one of the blades was slightly out of line This led to Investigation of eastern eastern east enst- ern mills using this type of or machine Samples were secured I from all nIl of them by Koehler and finally a mill was located whose lumber had marking similar to those on the pieces used In the time lad lad- der A search of 25 lumber yards to which lumber of this kind bad been shipped eventually brought him to the time Bronx yard and It developed developed devel devel- that Hauptmann had hind worked at periods In the time yard and In December De- De December DeF F cember 1931 two months before the he purchased a quantity quantity quan quan- tHy of this lumber The piece of wood Koehler Kochler asserted had d been taken from the attic of the Hauptmann home was originally one board which was sawed In half to make the uprights of ot the ladder Nail holes In the the- ladder board correspond with the nail nall holes In Joists In the attic he said and he added that It was inconceivable in- in In Inconceivable n- n conceivable that this was a coin coin- Other testimony presented by tho the state charges that Hauptmann was author authur of the series of ransom letters letters letters let let- admitting possession of the baby that he left one of ot the time setters letters In the nursery at the time time the LIndbergh Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind LInd- bergh baby disappeared that he hOe possessed the childs child's sleeping suit sult and that lint he visited the Lindbergh's estate The prosecution has also attempted attempt attempt- ed to show that Hauptmann collected collect collect- e ed the time ransom money and that his wealth Increased approximately rox- rox b by that amount Personal Iden Identifications have e been made by Dr John F F. F JaCsIe Condon Col Charles A. A Lindbergh and Cecile M M. M J. J Barr as accepting and passing th lie tho ransom money and by Millard Whited Charles Chades Rossiter and Amandus Amandus Aman- Aman dus Hochmuth putting him near the Lindbergh h estate The latter is not expected to have much weight because because be be- cause couse of the time time Intervening between between between be be- tween when they are said to ha have n seen Hauptmann and the time of I Identification I The ph physical evidence e will undoubtedly un un- carry much weight The I testimony that Hauptmann penned the time ransom notes and the address on the package containing the the- Y childs child's sleeping suit as well as the note left In the nursery must be bc refuted refitted by the defense Observers at the lie trial seem to feel that only one practical defense exists for Hauptmann That would be one offering proof that a master mastermind mastermind mind committed the time crime and that Hauptmann was only the unwitting un- un unA unwitting unwitting A witting tool If such Is the case th the leader would 1 be one without his his- parallel because of his success success success suc suc- cess in covering leis Ills own tracks and his ability to provide pro such Infinite physical proof of guilt This Ibis would lead back in all aU probability probability ability to contention b by the defense defenso that the lie mysterious Isador FIsch who died In Germany was lIS the tile man who planned the and aud who used Hauptmann us as a n front for Cor his Inter later financial I dealings Reilly has stated that FIsch was the man who furnished the money for the stock market marl manipulations carried on In n name A witness has testified that Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann and FIsch were seen together In the brokers broker's office where whore the time former former for for- mer Iner had an nn account although J there was no way for the firm to know whether FIsch really ha had control of the time speculations How flow far Car Reilly can go In lishing this Is s not known The fact Cart that lint FIsch Is dead will make maie It dif dif- lf- lf Thus far time the relatives cs of tho the dead furrier have hare not been Introduced Introduced Intro Intro- 1 In court A detective recently recent recent- I ly returned from Crom Germany with several several sev sev- eral elal persons connected with the family who It Is said sad are ready to testify that their brother had bad no part in the crime and that Hint ho tiled lied practically penniless ft |