Evening star., 1934-09-30
MYSTERY WOMAN
GIVES NEW LEAD IN
HAUPTMANN CASE
Foley Questions Witness
Being Guarded for
Trial Surprise.
LADDER RUNGS FOUND
IN HOME OF SUSPECT
q. S. Detective Obtains Key to
Fisch's Deposit Box in Probe
in Germany.

(Copyrsht. 1894, by the Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, September ga mys-
terry woman witness entered the Lind
bergh kidnapping investigation to-
night with the disclosure by District
Attorney Samuel j. Foley that she
had given him very important" in
formation in the case of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann, accused Of extorting
the $50,000 ransom.
Foley said he had questioned the
woman privately and she had not ap-
peared before the grand jury.
"She came and went as quickly as
Lindbergh and nobody knew anything
about her." he said at a press con-
ference.
The woman is supposed to have
knowledge of the disposition Of ransom
money by Hauptmann.
She has told Foley, the Daily News
says, of another important figure in
the case, a former Bronx policeman
and intimate of Hauptmann's, who is
now being sought by police.
Withholds Woman's Name.
The prosecutor declined to reveal
the woman's name, where she came
from. or when he had conducted the
examination.
To a suggestion that he might be
withholding this information to make
her testimony at Hauptmann's trial a
surprise, Foley replied:
That is true, but it is not the prin-
cipal reason. This is one thing that
will not leak out"
Foleys announcement started con-
lecture as to whether the woman
might be the mysterious Mary"
whose picture the Daily News said
was in Hauptmann's album of snap
shots. The Department of Justice
was said by the paper to be seeking
the girl for questioning.
Ladder Rungs Found.
What was described as a clue link
Ing Hauptmann more tightly with the
ladder down which the Lindbersh
baby was carried by his kidnapers
came to light from sources outside
the prosecutors office, the News said.
Two ladder rungs, made of the same
wood used in the ladder, constructed
in identical fashion and cut down to
fit in a ladder of that size, If needed,
were discovered in Hauptmann's base
ment underneath a pile of debris.
The ladder rungs were discovered
Friday night by a Department of
Justice operative and two policemen
and Immediately taken for an analysis.
Meanwhile, from Leipzig, Germany,
came reports that a key, presumably
for safe deposit box. used here by
1sidor Fisch, the man who Haupt-
mann said gave him the Lindbergh
ransom money, was obtained tonight
by Defective Arthur johnson OF New
York.
The key was surrendered to the de-
tective by Ham Fisch, sister of the
late Isidor.
The officer also discovered a con-
tract note belonging to Isidor and
involving a transaction in Long
Island real estate.
johnson also was given Isidor's
bank book. which showed that at the
time of his death here, Hauptmann's
friend had less than 500 on deposit.
Among other objects taken by the
New York officer were some letters
written by Isidor when he was in
the United States to his brother,
Pinkus
Three to Examine Suspect.
Announcing he was permitting two
physicians to visit Hauptmann in his
cell in the Bronx County Jail, Foley
IL H.
prisoner a mental examination next
week
II cannot report on that" he said
In reply to question as to whether
doctors had discovered any physical
disability in Hauptmann.
DR.. Thurstown H. Dexter, family
physician to Hauptmann's attorney,
examined the prisoner late in the
day.
James M. Fawcett, Hauptmann's
counsel, declared the physician made
only a physical examination and that
no mental test was involved. He dis
closed also that DR.. Dexter previously
had examined Hauptmann last Tues
day.
Our Investigators have located
number of material witnesses in New
York State" Fawcett said in discuss
ing the case. land they have made
afidavits extremely helpful to the
defendant"
Defense Lines Yelled.
He declined to answer questions re-
garding the proposed defense for
uau,tnann although he had indi-
Gated previously that he would chal-
lenge Federal handwriting experts
identification of the ransom notes as
having been written by Hauptmann.
Discussing the sanity tests proposed
for Hauptmann, District Attorney
Foley said one psychiatrist would be
chosen by him, a second by New Jer-
sey authorities, and the third by
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