The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-26
BELIEVES L|NDY
CAN BREAK HIS
TAC|TURN|TY
Dr.. ShoenfeId Proposes Visit
BY Colonel to Suspects Cell
Just to Sit and Wait
Copyright, 1884. by International
News Service)
BY LEIGH MATTESON
Nv International News Service

NEW YORK, Sept. Z6.-CpI.
Charles A. Lindbergh may be
instrumental in breaking through
the amazing, almost nonchalant
air of indifference which Bruno
Richard Hauptmann has main
tanned to date with police author
1ties, If he follows out a sugges-
ton made today by DR.. Dudley D.
Shoenfeld, noted psychiatrist.
DR.. Shoenfeld spent two hours
with Colonel Lindbergh at the
Morrow home in Englewood in
November, 1882. During this time
he outlined the international
News Service theory that the kid
naper-killer of his son was lone
man, very probably insane; that
the man was an alien who was
born near the Schleswig- HolStein
border in Germany; that he spoke
German but probably had q
Scandinavian appearance; and
that he lived in the Bronx and
was paying himself a small salary
out of the ransom hoard which he
had obtained from the colonel.
Proposes Indy Call
It is DR.. Shoenfeld's belief that
Colonel Lindbergh could destroy
Hauptmann'S unnatural indiffer-
ence to discriminating evidence by
making a special visit to his cell
in Bronx county Jail before he
appears today as a witness in the
grand jury room. DR.. Shoenfeld
said:
"The call on Rauptmann
should be made in q special
manner. Hauptmann should be
placed in q cell or room alone
and Colonel Lindbergh should
walk into that cell Or room
alone. Colonel Lindbergh then
should sit down and be abSO-
lutely silent. He should stay in
the room, not talking, nor even
seeming to note Hauptmann'S
presence. If this were done, I
predict that within fifteen or
twenty minutes Hauptmann
would begin babbIing about the
case, stating the whole truth
and nothing but the truth"
The psychiatrist stated that his
study of the ransom notes in the
fall of 1882 clearly indicated that
the writer was abnormal and ex-
tremely secretive. He predicted
that the writer Of the notes, if
captured, would react exactly as
Hauptmann has been reacting-
If ordinary police questioning
methods were employed on him.
He stated that Hauptmann could
be broken down best by officers
who "babied" him and pretended
to be his intellectual interiors.
This interview was not published
in New York. It appeared, how
ever, in the afternoon Hearst
newspaper, The w Washington
Times. The authorities promptly
quit questioning Hauptmann in
their usual manner. DR.. Sheen
field said in further explanation:
"Hauptmann has been acting
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since they arrested him. He
does not get angry or tough with
his uuestiOnerS, although he was
subjected to a terrific ordeal.
When DIR. Condor tried to per-
Suade the mysterious John to
give more details about the
baby's condition during his
second interview with the ran
som collector, John replied to
the statement that the parents
were dreadfully worried:
"'I know. know. But 1 can
mot tell. They will kill me-
GUARDS OTHER SELF
During the questioning Of
Hauptman, it is reported that
the prisoner replied to the state
ment that he should think of his
wife and child:
"'I do. I do. But what can
/ say