Evening star., 1934-09-23

This came after - hours OF Cruel
ing terror.
LAS l sat in the Greenwich street
police station. while they questioned
my husband IN separate room, l was
utterly numb 1t seemed like a hor-
rible nightmare.
Brushed Aside by Officer.
"As they led my husband from the
room I leaped up to embrace him.
One of the officers brushed me aside.
Earlier in the afternoon one Of
the detectives had come up to me
and demanded: You tell the truth.
Your husband has already said that
you know all about the money. He
told me that you know Mr.. Fisch had
given him the money.
Il answered: That is lie. My
husband would never say such a
thing. He knows that know nothing
about the money
Since then the entire world seems
to have gone crazy. Some newspaper
headlines have called my husband kid
naper' and inferred that he is a
murderer
There has been comparison between
nv husbands handwriting and the
handwriting OF the so-called Lind
bergh kidnap notes Even a blind
person could see that there is no
similarity.
Guilt Taken for Granted.
"Gradually it seems the world is
taking fer granted the guilt of my
husband in this horrible affair, with
out having been given the opportunity
to hear a coherent statement from
either him or myself.
Thank God 1 can at last explain.
AS conviction that my husband Is
guilty seems to deepen. people fail
to look back for proof of some of the
horrible statements made by sensa-
tionallStS throughout the world.
New names have been introduced,
| some as 'accompliceS' of my husband.
names with which for the most part l
am utterly unfamiliar.
This is my explanation of develop
| ments as I see it:
"On Wednesday morning had just
finished bathing our little baby. Man
fried, IL months old, and l had taken
him out in the yard for the sunshine
1 saw a man standing on the corner
looking queerly at me. His arrogance
made me angry.
He came over and said gruffly:
What is your name?
l thought what business is it OF
| YOURS but l told him: i am Mrs.
| Hauptmann'
He asked me: Where is your hus-
band?'
Il said: Why. he went to work
Found Men in Apartment.
Then he took me upstairs and
went into our apartment to find great
number of men-I don't know how
Notwithstanding around. and on the
/ bed sat my husband as though he
were terribly upset. He had been
arrested on his way to work.
Il asked: Richard what is this?'
He did not answer. but one OF the
men said Never mind, you'll find out
pretty soon
| L went over and held my husband
and asked him: Did you do anything
wrong?'
TIC Sdlu iiO
Il said: Tell me if you did any
thing wrong
That remark caused one of the
men to say: Take that woman out
side
They took Richard away and, as
I saw him enter the car, he looked
like an utterly broken man. His spirit
seemed crushed. 1t looked as if the
entire world were aligned against
him. That was about l o'clock in the
afternoon.
Il asked permission to go down into
the yard to see my baby who needed
me. The police let me 90 down.
found my neighbor. Mrs. Schuesler,
had taken my baby.
Went to Police Station.
Il went back upstairs and got
dressed. and sent for woman rela-
tive. and at about o'clock Thursday
I. too, was on my way to the Green
wich street police station.
Il do not wish to remember, much
less speak. about the horrible ex-
perience in that dismal, gloomy place.
II saw Richard. He looked as
though he were going to be crucified.
L have already told about my
leaving Greenwich street police sta
ton, and the crowd screaming, SO it
seemed. Cruelty him.
After 1 had had a bite to eat,
I was taken to the Bronx County
Court House. l was questioned there,
in the district attorneys Office, by four
men, including Mr.. Foley, the district
attorney, who was very nice to me.
Il was taken from room to room,
and questioned over and over again
as to what I knew about the money.
| And over and over again, I repeated
Nothing! nothing! nothing!'
Il had not heard about the money
| until just before I had left for the
! police station that morning, when the
officers took me down to our garage
and there. behind and under the
rk-bench. where my husband so
frequently made little things for our
home, they scooped out package after
package of bills. They later found a
varnish can and produced more
| money.
hanSdckeO nome.
Meanwhile they had ransacked
every nook and Granny of my home
even the baby's room was not left
untouched-a closet which Richard
had made for the baby had been gone
through and all the tiny belongings
f, were Strewn over the floor
'Toget back to the district attorneys S
office, l had only few minutes to
talk with Richard. I said: Richard.
tell me the truth. What is it all
about? How did that money get into
our garage?'
Richard replied: You remember
| Isadore? Isadore Fisch. who left for
Germany last December? Just before
he left, Isadore came to me and said
keep that box Put it somewhere for
me until I come back from Germany
Later on he brought bundles of
clothing to my husband, at our home
to keep for him until he, Fisch, re-
turned from Germany.