Evening star., 1934-10-05
One From Suspects Brother
Said to Question Assets
of Fisch.
NEW YORK PREPARING
TO SURRENDER PRISONER
Grand Jury to Meet Monday in
New Jersey to Consider
Indictments.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 5.-Possession
by Bronx County authorities of 13
letters, written in German, which DR..
Samuel Lubliner, Interpreter for the
Bronx Supreme Court. declared refute
alibi dates and places given by Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, was disclosed to-
day.
One of the letters written by Fritz
Hauptmann, brother of the prisoner
and tailor in Dresden, Germany, was
addressed to Max Halleck, a Seventh
avenue furrier. and asked whether the
late ISador Fisch, who died in Ger
many last March, had any assets.
The prisoner has maintained that
Fisch gave him package which. three
weeks before his arrest, he discovered
contained the money which authori-
ties later found was part of the Lind
bergh ransom payment.
Other Clues withheld.
The contents OF the other letters
we're not disclosed.
A delay III the scheduled trial of
Hauptmann On an indictment charg-
ing extortion in the ransom payment
will be asked by the prosecution should
the State of New Jersey request ad-
ditional time to consider kidnap and
murder indictments. District Attorney
Samuel j. Foley said today
Meantime, Attorney General David
T. WilentZ OF New Jersey announced
today that the Hunterdon County
grand jury will convene Monday to
consider charges against Hauptmann.
Demands Quick Action.
The Bronx County prosecutor made
it plain. however. that he did not in
tend to surrender his prisoner held
in the Bronx County Jail in default
Of 100000 bail, unless New Jersey
authorities act before the actual trial
in the extortion case begins.
The trial in the Bronx has been
set for Thursday. October IL. Al
ready a special panel of $50 men has
been drawn.
Foley reiterated previous statements
that he was willing to turn Haupt-
mann over to New Jersey authorities
If they had 4 good case against the
prisoner
The prosecutor opened his morning
interview today by branding as false
any inference that Bronx County and
New Jersey authorities were not in
the utmost harmony" in their inves-
tigation Of the kidnap case.
The Bronx prosecutor gave no fur
ther reason for his reiteration that
the two agencies were in accord in
their investigation. In some quar-
tiers, however, it was believed he was
prompted by mferences drawn from
his announcement yesterday Of the
finding of road maps and German
English dictionaries in Hauptmann's S
trunk. and a comment from Col. H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the
New Jersey State Police, that Haupt-
mann's possession of the maps was
not considered significant"
Hauptmann's mental examination is
to be resumed this afternoon. Six
psychiatrists began it yesterday.
The prisoner was described as of
average intelligence and normal reac-
tions after the first session by DR..
James B. Spradley, New Jersey psy-
chiatrist.
He isn't a vicious type" said DR..
Spradley, "and he certainly gave no
outward indication that he is try
ing to fake insanity"
Named in Escape.
Hauptmann was named in Boston
last night as the man who helped
a man escape from the Westchester
County Penitentiary in New York four
years ago.
United States Marshal John j.
MurShy said that James Bruce Rus
sell, a Federal prisoner, gave him
the information Russell, however, de-
clined to go into details.
If I talk about Hauptmann and
the Lindbergh case" Murphy quoted
him as saying. Il will be a marked
man and some day will be put on the
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