Evening star., 1934-10-15
KgbPtMAN GOES
,TO|STANDF|GHHNG
Follows Wife in Court in Ef-
fort to Prove Abb IN
kidnapping.
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directed attention to shoe box In
which Hauptmann was alleged to have
kept the ransom money In q closet In
his home.
Mrs. Hauptmann said that she had
not seen the box. Responding TO
FaWcett's questioning, she said that
the top shelf of the closet. on which
the box was said to have been lodged.
was several feet higher than / am"
She said that when the money
finally was called to her attention by
police 1t had been wrapped in news
papers. She said she did not know
her husband had the money, and that
she did not know anything about the
package until after Hauptmann had
been arrested.
Mrs. Hauptmann was the third wit
ness called by the defense. The first
was Christian Fredericksen, proprietor
of q bakery and lunch counter where
Mrs. Hauptmann was employed as q
counter girl and waitress" for three
years from about June, 1923, to
June, 1892.
He was sure that Mrs. Hauptmann
worked on Tuesday and Friday nights,
and that her husband called to take
her home on Tuesday nights.
Wilents Is Upheld.
But when it came to the night Of
March /, 1892. he could only testify
that as it was "a Tuesday, she must
have worked there. When 1t was
q Tuesday she must have worked. be-
cause my wife always was OUT Tues
day night"
Each time Wilents objected to the
answers as drawing conclusions" and
being ''rmresponsive," he was upheld
by the court.
Finally, Fawcett was told by the
court to reframe the question, and the
witness answered ito the best Of my
knowledge, ! cannot swear"
Even this was stricken out.
Finally, asked If 1t was the practice
OF the defendant to take his wife
home during 1882 when she worked
in the store, the witness replied:
HE used to call for her every Tues
day night"
That reply was permitted to stand.
The bakers wife was the second
witness.
Crowd Gathers Early.
Long before the scheduled hour for
the hearing, before Supreme Court
Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer. about
200 spectators flocked to the court
room on the seventh floor Of the
building.
The court room had been roped of
by a Gordon Of police and no spectators
were allowed in excepting those inter-
eSted in the regular motion calendar
which was called before the Haupt-
mann case was reached
Detectives were stationed in vari-
Gus parts of the court room to watch
Hauptmann and prevent any. possible
disturbance. AL doors and windows
of the court room were under guard.
Warden Martin Dunn Of the Bronx
County Jail, said that Sheriff John
Hanley had provided for q heavy police
guard for Hauptmann. Asked whether
Hauptmann appeared nervous this
morning, Warden Dunn replied:
mo, he's okay."---
The clerk announced that no mo-
tions would be heard by Justice Ham
mer this morning. and then read the
court calendar. As he droned on he
came to the Hauptmann habeas cor
pus writ hearing which was No. So
on the calendar, and he sang out
marked ready"
Entrances Kept Clear.
Police then made the crowd gath
cred outside the court room doors
move to the north and south sides
of the corridor. This left the entrance
to the elevators clear.
On his arrival at the building
Hauptinann was taken to a detention
pen on the ground floor. He was
taken up q private elevator to the
seventh floor and through q private
corridor to a room off the court room
to remain until he was taken into
court shortly after II o'clock.
A possibility that Hauptmann, If
his fight by testifying in his native
German loomed before the hearing
began. Solomon Lubliner, court In
terpreter. was in court prepared to
act. It was said that the prisoners
wife, Anna, and other German
speaking witnesses also might require
the interpreters services.
Court Room Is Crowded.
Justice Hammer ascended to the
bench at 10:55 am. and disposed of
several pending motions before reach
ing the Hauptmann case. The court
room was crowded.
Foley entered the court room shortly
after II O'Clock and was followed few
minutes later by Fawcett.
Justice Hammer interrupted the
hearing Of the motions to converse
with Foley.
Inspector Henry Bruckman, in
charge OF Bronx detectives, entered
the court room carrying a long pack
age. 1t was believed to contain q
panel ripped from closet in Haupt-
mann's home upon which were pen.
ciled notations of the 1882 telephone
number and street address of DR.. John
r. Condor, the "Jafsie" who negotf-
ated the ransom payment for Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Osborne in Court.
Albert s. Osborne, a handwriting
expert who has said the Handwriting
on the Lindbergh ransom notes and
that on Hauptmann's automobile IL
cense applications were similar, ac-
companied Bruckman into the court
room.
The prisoner was ushered into the
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