The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-16
AS
CONFESSION.
Home ENTERED
Notes Say Writer Had
Been in the Lindbergh
Nursery 4
EXPERT SAYS BRUNO
IS THEIR AUTHOR

sion and confession" that Bruno
R. Hauptmann entered the Lind
mergh home and kidnapped the
baby was entered in supreme
court evidence today at the re-
sumption of Hauptmann's extra
dition hearing.
Attorney General David /.
Wilentz Of New Jersey, seeking
Hauptmann's extradition for trial
on q murder charge, introduced
testimony of Albert S. Osborne,
handwriting expert, to prove that
Hauptmann wrote the ransom
notes to Colonel Lindbergh.
The notes said the writer had
been in the Lindbergh nursery.
4 Hauptmann's counsel attacked
the credibility of Osborne's testi-
mony.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-(UP).
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his
sharp chin thrust forward ag-
gressively, sat in Bronx supreme
court yesterday and fought with
all the tenacity at his command
against the efforts of New Jer-
sey authorities to extradite him
in the murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr.
Trapped time and again into
damaging admissions, Hauptmann
nonetheles retrained the impas-
sive attitude that has been his
since arrest.
Didn't you build the ladder
and climb the ladder and 60 up
into the room and murder that
Lindbergh child?" shouted Attor-
ney-General David T. Dilentz Of
New Jersey at the German car
penter.
mop
That was the last question and
the last answer after three hours
Of questioning before a packed
courtroom, and as Hauptmann
stepped down, he seemed even to
have gained strength and conf
dence from it.
Yet during those three hours
he was forced to admit that he
had lied at least twice to police:
Once when he had named the
amount of money he had hidden
at his home in the Bronx, and,
again. when he told where he got
the money.
He denied that he had ever in
his life built a ladder. He in
sisted that on the night of March
1, 1882, when the Lindbergh
baby was kidnapped, he had din
ner with his wife in the Bronx
and then went home with her. He
said he had hidden the gold GER
| tificates in his garage because he
I feared he would be arrested for
boarding. And he explained that
he concealed a pistol in the gar
age because he didn't have a IL
cense to possess it.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann and two
other witnesses sought to corbo-
rate the alibi, but they were
vague.
James M. Fawcett, counsel for
Hauptmann, ended his case with
the close Of Hauptmann's testi-
mony. Today New Jersey will
begin presenting witnesses in an
effort to show that Hauptmann
was in the vicinity Of the Lind
bergh home on the night the
| crime occurred.
Both Fawcett and the quick
witted Encouragement question
ed Hauptmann at great length.
They began with the prisoners
whereabouts on the night of
March 1. He said that it had
been customary for him to meet
his wife on Tuesdays and Fridays
during that period, when she was
employed in a bakery. On the
night in question, he testified, he
had dinner with her at the bak-
cry, then took her home and
spent the night at home.
Hauptmann, wearing a freshly
pressed gray suit, a tan shirt and
a blue polka-dot necktie - the
first tie he had been permitted
to wear for many days-was sur
rounded at the witness stand by
four plainclothesmen, who seldom
let their eyes leave him. He an
swered questions slowly. and with
q slight German accent. :.
| At one point Wilentz brought
| forward a section of beam taken
from Hauptmann's. garage. in
which holes had been bored to
conceal part of the Lindbergh
money and the pistol. Haupt-
mann said he bored the holes
Ilong before the kidnapping, for
the purpose Of hanging tools. The
Acknowledgement then trapped
him him into the admission that
since the board had been nailed
to the wall with the holes inward,
it could not have been used for
hanging tools. ..,... -c,r:
| When asked where he got the
gold certificates he had Deposited
in a New York bank, .Hauptmapp
replied that they were giyeny;to
him BY Isidor Fisch, q friend who
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