The Washington times., 1934-09-24
FRIENDS WRECK
STORY IN MAZE
Of CONFLICTS
Ami Hauptmann's Nerves on
End, CIings to Baby, SobS
When Memory Is Fogged
By MARGARET GARRAHAN
Copyright. 1894 by international
News Service)

. Hauptmann's alibi by which she
. hopes to save her husband, Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, accused
. Lindbergh extortionist, is totter'
= ing before the onslaught Of check
ing and double-checking.
Desperately the frail. haggard
blonde has tried to remember the
events which occurred in the lives
of the Bruno Richard Haupt-
. manns the night of March /, 1882.
when baby Charles Lindbergh was
spirited from his nursery only to
j." be returned lifeless to his frantic
parents. And suddenly the other
: morning she recalled that every
Tuesday and Friday night I
. worked late-and Richard always
: came and took me home"
Stories In Conflict
But neither Christ Frederick
sen, nor his wife, Kath, AnnPs
employers at the time, can re-
member such an arrangement. In
fact, upon close, individual ques-
tioning by International News
Service yesterday, their stories
were directly contradictory to
each other, and to Mrs. Haupt-
mann's statement.
Asked hoy often Ami, whose
working hours were o. m, until
p. M, worked late (until 8 p. m,
closing time), Mrs. Fredericksen
said:
"Oh, now and then. Just &C.
cOrding to hOv' needed her."
Later she amended this to-:
every Tue day night
took those afternoons and eve
ningS off,"
Her husband, questioned at his
place of business, declared en-
phati ;ally that his wife took no
particular night off. though she
averaged one free night a week.
Asked which night, he said:
'cNot any one night. But
when she was off it was usually
Wednesday or Thursday"
More Disagreement
Even the couples recollections
of each others free nights did
not coincide. In addition to dis
agreeing on Mrs. Fredericksen's
might off, they apparently could
not recall Mr.. FrederickSen's.
Mrs. Fredericksen stated with
positiveness:
"He was off both Monday
and thursday nights. Yes.
I'm sure"
Mr.. Fredericksen declared with
equal positiveness:
mo. NO-never on Thurs
day nights. Only Monday
night. Never any other night"
Previously he had said that
Ami worked late very infre-
quently, and that she usually
went home at or $50.
In addition. Mrs. Freder1cksen
revealed that Ami, who had been
employed continuously a I'm o S t
eight years as \ waitress, told her
in June, 1882. that she was 60
ing to stop working because her
husband didn't want his wife to
work." She added:
"NO, Ami never had said
anything about her husband
not wanting her to work be-
fore.
d.w do set the time?
Why, she told me that just q
few weeks before she left for
Eur -"
FRIENDS FAIL SUPPORT
Mrs. Fredericksen also contra
dicted Mrs. Hauptmann's state
ment that she never returned to
work at the bakery following her
return. According to her former
employer, Ami did return and
continued to work several months,
filling in until she found a girl
to replace her.
Thus, even here friendS-the
two principals of the score Of per
sons who Attorney James W. Faw.
cett claims will attest to the alibi
Ami has offered her tall, grimly.
silent husband-fail to support
the little woman who sits day by
day, frantically raking the past
for a shaft of hope.
Reiterating her frenZied cry,
half plea. half definitely certain
statement, that
81 know my husband has
nothing to do with it,"
Mrs. Hauptmann yesterday
broke down as she again recounted
her story to international News
Service, story, some aspects OF
which had changed considerably
since her first interview.
Chief was her declaration. after
previously stating that she first
heard of the Lindbergh kidnapping
from a customer in the Frederick
sen bakery, the Bronx, the morning
of March 2, that she and her hus-
band had read of the tragery at
home that morning.
Read Market Pages
And, after persiSting that her
husband had not worked in New
Jersey at any time subsequent to
1924, she suddenly recalled during
the interview that he had worked
ir Freehold. N. j.. in 1888 on a
Cl ken farm owned by friend
n addition. she revealed that
he discarded carpentry entirely In
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