The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-30


the night of the KIDNAPPING.
That he was home with
her on the night Of April 2,
when DR.. John F. (Jafsie)
Condor threw $4,000 in ran
som money over the hedge of
st. Raymond's cemetery.
That he was at home with her on
the night of Nov. 26, 1888. when a
theater cashier says Hauptmann
paid for a ticket with a ransom
bill.
Anna Hauptmann sat, a little
nervously, in the witness chair, and
twisted her thin hands in her lap
as she gave testimony she hopes will
clear the father of her son, Mann
fried.
She was carried through the tale
of her marriage to the defendant,
her honeymoon, her frugal at
tempts to save money, her humble
work as a waitress in Christian
Frederiksen's bakeshop.
And she was given an opportunity
to settle an old score with Mrs. Ella
Achenbach, the neighbor who testi-
fed the Hauptmanns visited her two
days after the Lindbergh kidnapping
and told of having been away on 3
little trip.
PrOclaims Belief in Mate
In a firm voice she declared that
visit took place after her trip to
California, and not after the kid
naping And she intimated that
Mrs Achenbach held an ancient
grudge against her because of the
n-payment of debt.
When Mrs. Hauptmann concluded
her direct examination at noon, she
had related how she purchase a pair
of field glasses for her husband-but
the purchase was made after the
kidnapping. And that proved that
Hauptmann did not watch the Lind
bergh home through those glasses
as the state once assumed he did.
She had tossed her head in the
all and proclaimed her belief in her
husbands faithfulnesS, and had in
sisted there was no romance in his
friendship for her friend, Mrs. Ge- "a
Henkel
But her most important testimony
had been reserved for the last. It
related to the broom closet in which
Hauptmann says he kept the shoe
box full of money left him by Isl
dor Fisch.
Bruno Breaks Into Tears
She declared with positiveness and
f1nality, that she never knew it
was there, and demonstrated how
she would have had to stand on
tiptoes to reach the shelf in the
closet where it was kept.
Bruno Hauptmann watched his
wife on the stand and suddenly
tears came to his eyes when she
told of a trip to Germany where
she visited his mother Fie raised
his hand to his eyes ard wiped
them.
Atty Gen. David T. Wilentz, in
softer voice than that he used when
he vas prodding Hauptmann with
questions, insistently directed her
attention to the fact that she kept
other material on that closet shelf
soap, coupons, rags-and tried to
force her to say she would have
noticed the shoe box if it were
there.
She admitted, willingly, that those
things we're there, ito be kept
there" but insisted that in reaching
for them, she never caught sight
Of the Fisch shoe box.
Discrepancies Are Cited
When the noon recess was called,
Mr.. Wilentz was questioning her
with a somewhat kindly severity up
on some discrepancies between the
stories she told Bronx police offic-
ials and her story OF today.
Throughout her testimony, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh sat quietly,
gazing steadily at her, apparently
deeply interested in her testimony.
Mrs. Hauptmann was to return
for further cross examination in
the afternoon session.
Hauptmann concluded his last
cross examination this morning after
four days Of almost continuous tes-
timony. He left the stand I'M
shaken in his denials Of any associa-
ton with the kidnapping or murder.
Bruno Sticks to Story
He had scored on two minor
issues during the morning-first,
when he said he had never used
the plane, with which the state il
sists the kidnap ladder was made,
since 1928, and again when he said
that letters from Isidor Fisch would
prove details of their joint trans
actions in stocks. securities and furs.
His final examination under the
vigorous. rapid-fire questions of the
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