Evening star., 1935-02-09

top and from butt wood comes the
best, clearest wood.
De BiSSchop, whose defense teSti-
mony Koehler was SO vigorously as
sailing, twisted nervOuSly in his seat
in the witness row near the Haupt-
mann table Several times he half
rose and made Intellectual gestures to
attract the attention of Chief Defense
Counsel Reilly.
The frequency of defense objections
indicated how determined the Haupt-
mann counsel was to fight Koehler
every inch of the way. The objections
were futile.
@. Do you still say that the attic
board and the rail were once of the
same board?
A. Yes.
Nails Identified
BY Federal Forestry Expert.
Koehler testified that the attic
board nails were in his possession after
removal. He identified them.
Koehler said the nail holes in the
attic board upright of the ladder were
the same size as those found in the
attic floor board from which it was
allegedly cut.
He identified photograph of forest
pine and said that was the type of
tree that yielded North Carolina pine
lumber. The picture was accepted in
evidence.
Wilentz showed Koehler a defense
photograph of piece of wood, identi-
fed by defense witness as yellow"
pine.
That piece he called yellow pine"
said the expert, was white pine"
Defense counsel sat silent while
Koehler continued his assault on their
case.
The rebuttal turned to Koehler's
indentification of the grain in the rail
and the attic board. He used his
chart to demonstrate, with Pope,
Reilly and Wilentz gathered about
him.
Wilentz returned to the topic of
nail holes.
@. There has been some testimony
here, Mr.. Koehler, about nail holes.
Prior to the arrest of Hauptmann did
you examine the ladder?
A. did.
@. Did you make any observation
as to nail holes on rail 16?
A. 7 did.
@. When did you make those OBJ
servations on rail 16 and what did you
see?
Measured Nail Holes
Before Hauptmann's Arrest.
A. In 1894 before Hauptmann's ar
rtst, I measured the nail holes.
Koehler said he examined them in
1888 also.
@. Do the nail holes you examined
correspond with holes in the joists il
Hauptmann's attic?
A. They do.
Wilentz ended his questioning and
Pope began the cross.
Pope inquired:
Q. You are not a practical car
penter?
A. I've done carpentry work, but I'm
not a carpenter by trade.
@. Built bird houses and such
things, suppose?
A. helped my father build houses
and barns and with cabinet work.
@. Have you any experience in wood
craft?
A. Yes, I've been out in the woods,
numbering and so forth.
@. But your knowledge Of millwork
is only from observation and study?
A. Oh, I've had a little practical
experience.
Q. Is it possible by machinery to
divide an inch into thousands? A. Yes.
Expert Believes
Measurement Impossible.
The technical discussion went on,
Pope attempting to raise doubt of the
experts fine measurements Of tool
and planer marks on wood connected
with the case.
Pope then went off into an extend
ed interrogation of the witness
knowledge of Vernier Calpers and
their graduations in thousands of an
inch.
Pope asked If the markings Of the
plane on the ladder might not be
measured.
A. It would be exceedingly i'm
possible, practically impossible be-
cause Of the variability Of the wood
itself?
@. But you made no attempt to
measure those marks.
A. did not. measured their dis