Evening star., 1935-01-12
Handwriting Experts for
Hauptmann Work on Mis-.
Sives to Lay Blame at
Door of Dead Friend.
STATE SAYS TYPES ARE
ENTIRELY Different
Prosecution to Attempt to Prove
Defendant Was Spending Lind.
bergh Cash Before He Met For.
mer Partner, Whom He Claims
Left Money at His Home.
BY the Associated Press.

FLEMINGTON, N. j., January 12.
"A contest of German handwriting
experts was drawn up today for the
trial OF Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
both prosecution and defense an
nouncing they have engaged such
authorities to determine the author of
the Lindbergh ransom notes.
The defense said it would attempt
to prove through its expert that the
writer of the ransom notes was Isador
Fisch, the German furrier from New
York City who died early last year
in Leipzig.
The prosecution announced that it
has engaged Joseph Schulfhofer: a
German expert now residing in
Birmingham. Ala. in an attempt to
prove that the script was written by
Hauptmann.
Edward J. Reilly, chief counsel for
Hauptmann, said his expert, Augustus
Streicher of Stuttgart, Germany. will
arrive Tuesday aboard the lie de
France to match Schulfhofer's testi-
mony.
Reilly also said he will have on
hand a wood technologist during the
coming week.
The wood expert was not identified.
but Reilly said that he would be
ready to testify in the event that the
prosecution again strives to introduce
as evidence the ladder which the
State AYERS was used in the commits
sion of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Taking advantage of a week end
recess in the trial, the defense author
tiles also sought flaws in evidence
presented by the State that the notes
we're written by Hauptmann himself.
Reilly said:
I'VE will prove that Ffsch not only
collected the ransom but also wrote
the ransom notes"
Ever since his arrest. the Bronx
carpenter has insisted that the
s14,600 in ransom money found In his
possession was given to him by Fisch.
his former business partner, who died
obscurely in Germany
THE State produced evidence Of
extortion against Hauptmann," Reilly
said, but so far there is no evidence
of murder"
Denies EXt0rtl0n.
The burly attorney said the defense
expects Ito prove Hauptmann inno-
cent of extortion as well as murder.
He merely received, unwittingly, some
of the ransom money from Isador
Fisch."
Anthony M. Hauck, jr., Hunterdon
County prosecutor, said, "the State is
ready to refute any charge that Fisch
had anything to do with this case.
We are prepared to break down COM
pletely Hauptmann'S alibi involving
Fisch as the man from whom he OBJ
tanned the ransom money"
States attorneys, discounting the in
lection of Fisch 10 the fore of the case.
said handwriting authorities have pro-
nounced his script dissimilar to that
of the ransom miSSiveS.
Hauck asserted witnesses could be
produced to show Hauptmann was
spending the ransom money before he
met Fisch. Federal agent Frank
Wilson testified yesterday that the
first bill turned up five or six days
after the ransom was paid April 2,
1882, and Hauck said the State
could prove that Hauptmann and
Fisch did not become acquainted until
August of that year.
After Agent Wilson testified that
he had no knowledge of any ransom
money being located since Haupt-
mann's arrest, another of the Lind
bergh bills was located in Gettys-
burg, Pa.
It was paid by Mervin E. Upton,
proprietor Of a shoe repair shop, to
his landlord, and after both men
noticed it was drawn on the Hunter
don County National Bank, it was
found that the serial number.
A001005, tailed with that Of one of
the ransom notes.
Unable to Trace Bill.
Upton was unable to shed any light
on the source of the $40 bill, and the
Department of Justice was notified.
While defense experts pored over
the ransom notes and samples of
Hauptmann's hand in the writing ex-
hibits, under the watchful eye of a
member of the prosecution at Tren-
ton, the old Hunterdon County Court
scene of the trial-was virtually
empty.
Sheriff John H. CurtiSs ruled that
his men had enough to do during
the week, handling the capacity
crowds, without showing sightseers
about during the recess. Still the
visitors came, to see the town-and
perhaps the eight men and four
women of the jury, out for a consti-
tutional or going for bus ride.
Wood experts planned to examine
the kidnap ladder to develop a refu-
tation of State testimony tracing the
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