The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-28
Anne Lindbergh Will
Take Stand in Trial
Mother Of Murdered Infant I'm.
portant State Witness
Authority DiscIoses
WILL APPEAR VOLUNTARILY
Betty Cow, Dr.. Condor, Wood
Expert Among Others on
Formidable List

AAVAAUOA4S 4Ns ~ ASGe 1SS0H0N0x0s
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1t was
learned from an authoritative source
Friday. win be called as q witness for
the prosecution In the trial Of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann which starts ct
Pennington next week. Hauptmann
Is charged with the murder Of Mrs.
Lndbergh's infant son.
This was one Of swift succession
Of surprise developments Friday In
the case Of the Bronx carpenter. The
state will assert, . prosecutor said In
Remington, that Hauptmann had in
his possession the past two years
~. 600 mre than his admitted sources
Of income provided.
This money, tho prosecution will
insist, comprised the bulk Of the
$4,000 ransom money paid by DR..
John =. "Jafsie" Condor.
In Norfolk, Va. m attorney for
John Hughes Curtis, the shipbuilder
convicted Of perpetrating . hoax
against the Nndberghs by represent
ing himself % having established
contact with the abductors Of the
child, said his client had notified
New Jersey officials he was prepared
to testify that Hauptmann showed
him some Of tho Lindbergh ransom
money after Dr.. Condor had paid It
to someone In . Bronx, N. Y. ceme-
terry.
The authority from which It was
learned Mrs. Lindbergh will testify
said she will be AN important state
witness"
Il was not revealed what the nature
q her testimony would be. She Is to
be . willing" witness. In the words
q tho source. and viii not be sub
poenaed.
Annoancement Withheld
The official, who made the an
nouncement. said 1T Is only natural
that Mrs. Lndbergh, her child having
been kidnapped, would like to take the
witness stand and tell what she
knows Of the case"
The fact that she would be called
% . witness was not announced earl
Ter. the source said, because the state
was disinclined to TRY the case be-
forehand.''
The state has . formidable list Of
witnesses: Colonel Lindbergh, the
nurse, Betty Cow, federal agents,
New Jersey state police and New York
city police: . woodsman, Willard
Whited, who has identified Haupt-
mann In New York ct the proceed
ings IN October when the carpenter
fought extradition to New Jersey:
Arthur Koehler, the wood expert who
examined the ladder; . bank clerk
who noted one Of the ransom bills;
. gas-station attendant who marked
down the number Of Hauptmann's
automobile license when the man
rendered him ransom note for pay
ment Of gasoline.
sJsfsie' Among Witnesses
Dr.. John T. Condor, the venerable
"Jafsie" Of the ransom negotiations,
i expected to b among the witness
e.: also handwriting experts, ready
to testify the ransom notes were writ
ten BY the prisoner.
The defense witnesses ore less nu.
merouS. Experts are among them,
Of course. Experts to contravert tes-
timony that the kldnap ladder was
made by Hauptmann, or that his
was the hand which wrote the ran
som notes.
The prosecutions exhibits are nu-
merous-the ladder, the recovered
ransom bills. the ransom notes them
selves: the steel ohisel found near
tho kidnap ladder ct Hopewell: .
panel from . door In the Hauptmann
home In the Bronx on which the tele-
phone number Of Dr.. Condor had
been written: the infants sleeping
suit: his thumb guard picked up near
the house.
There awaits to be told In Ill It's
detail the STORY OF al that happened
after the kidnapping. the steady pur-
suit Of clues, the worldwide search
that centered ct last In the Bronx,
tho arrest Of Hauptmann, the recov-
cry Of nearly $4,000 IN ransom
money. his explanation Of its source.