Evening star., 1934-09-24

a lonely Sunday in the Bronx County
Jail.
In self-imposed solitary confine-
ment. Hauptmann spent the day
brooding on his cell cot, disdaining to
ask for the prison barber or reading
matter, shunting speech with his
guards or other prisoners.
Throngs Visit Home.
His home in the Bronx attracted
more than 10000 curiosity seekers,
who blocked the streets to stare at
the simple frame and stucco house.
Among the visitors to the house
was the housewife herself. Mrs. Anna
Hauptmann, who has been staying
with friends. She came carrying her
lo-month-old son and left weeping.
Mrs. Hauptmann, waitress before
her marriage five years ago, was
broken and bewildered at first. but
has rallied now to her husbands de-
fense, providing an alibi for him
that he was with her the night OF
the kidnapping.
But Foley said: 1--WE have taken
statements from Hauptmann and his
wife concerning their activities that
night. We have lots of evidence TO
disprove their alibi. Mrs. Haupt-
mann's tactics are obvious"
Working with Mrs. Hauptmann in
the defense of her husband Is their
attorney. Fawcett, who has sent IN
vestigators into the field, persisting
in his belief that Hauptmann is not
"the real culprit."
Case Tempo Increases.
The pace of the case, increasing
with every development. swept toward
a climax-Col. Lindbergh's antici-
pated meeting with the man accused
of perpetrating the cruel hoax against
him.
Col. Lindbergh is expected to appear
before the grand jury Wednesday to
tell of the kidnapping from his home
in Hopewell, N. j.; of the ransom
note pinned to the crib, of the ex-
tortion notes in the same handwrit-
ing. of the hopes aroused by the
ransom payment-and dashed by the
finding of the baby dead near the
house. Whether Mrs. Lindbergh will
testify remains problematical.
DR. Otto Meyer informed Agent L.
G. Turrou of the Lindbergh squad
that he treated Hauptmann from
January 3, 1888. until April II Of
that year for leg ailment, caused
apparently by a fracture or sprain
within the previous year.
Agent Turrou said footprints out
side the Lindbergh nursery window
indicated that the kidnaper nmpeo
away heavily.
DR.. Meyer. expressing belief that
the original injury must have required
immediate attention. advised the au-
thorities to seek another physician
on whom Hauptmann might have
called
S1S,S50 Ransom Found.
A recapitulation by the Department
of Justice. New York police and New
Jersey State police showed that sl6,-
$50 of the S50000 ransom money has
been recovered, including S2.980
turned in May l. 1888, at the Fed
eral Reserve Bank by an unknown
u. J. Faulkner"
A furry of excitement was stirred
up when Jerome K. Faulkner, an ad-
vertising copy writer, leaped to death
yesterday from the eighth floor of
the Chrysler Building.
Hugh H. Clegg of the Department
of Justice, however, said: so far We
have no reason to think that there is
anything significant in his death in
relation to the Lindbergh kidnapping or
ransom money"
Faulkner, who was IS years old,
leaves his widow, a brother in New
York and another brother and two
sisters in San Francisco
Mrs Hauptmann offered a rebuttal
today to the dispatches from Ger
many, quoting Fisch's relatives as say
ing he was destitute at death.
She said she had obtained evidence
that Fisch had roll of gold notes
when he left for Germany The in
formation, she said, came from Mrs.
Kathe Friederichsen, in whose bakery
she once was waitress.
Mrs. FriederichSen said she had
been visited by Fisch the day before
he left for Germany" Mrs. Haupt-
mann said. He had showed her
many gold notes in his possession, she
said. She is willing to testify to that.