The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-25

'haker- sitting in the ,cnalf
speak words that might save 1,r
Iifel He handled him caqtiousliSS t
fYou were at work on the nigh'
of March 1, 1889, Mr.. Freaefte
SON." 20 .....
Anna Hauptmann worked III
your bakery on that date :!
"b ioS Won remember that her hus,
hand called for her at the DaNei'
that night" ,u Little
Mr. Frederickson decided 10 A
his time over that question: oosed
frown of concentration creased an,ed
u IiC OT forobead. Hauptmann seen h;a
to have stopped breathing
face was pale and frozen
= Then came PREDECESSORS ""-
swer: ,1 can't swear
to it." roc;no like a
dynamo. asked the question again
b bs f,~ the reply would have tune
o. orr i'm in. Again little Mr.. Fred
erickson. replied: -,
= 81. can't swear to It, "
t+iu.s shaky piece of testl-
monv for a man whose life hangs
ON What people say who SIT on
tho, naken chair beside the judges
b Snr A firm, clear-cut state
,mant from Frederickson that
Hauptmann was in his bakery the
n;obt of the kidnapping might be
the line that divides guilt and in
,,ocance in the minds of the jury.
Rnt an uncertain statement. such
as, Frederickson made yesterday,
can he, damaging. No one knew 1t
anv better than Attorney-General
David..T. Wilentz when he got out
of his chair and began to cross
examine Frederickson. He whee-
died him, had him repeat over and
over that he couldn't swear that
.Hauptmann was there that night.
The prisoner seemed to realize
himself that the case was not un-
would unroll. Hauptmann went
rolling like Fisher had said it
back to the witness chair, d grim
mer man, no smile on his lips
now. a 49,
There was talk on the street
corners of Pennington last night
that the defense considers Fred
erickson's testimony as unimpor-
tant-that, some day soon it will
produce another and better wit
ness who was in the bakery that
night and who will say that
too, was there.
Mrs. Katie Frederickson, wife
of the baker, cannot do it, be-
cause she tried yesterday and
failed. She testified she was off
duty on the night of March l.;
1882, and, therefore, is not a COM
petent witness. 80 ""
And so it was not Hauptmann
who made the news when the hour
finally came for him to start his
story. 1t was Christian Frederick
son who made it, and it was Lloyd
Fisher who helped him. !
For Fishers opening statement
revealed that the defense has a
who will swear that he
saw man carrying a ladder
along the road to the Lindbergh
home on the night of the kidnap-
ing. . .r. ..
."And that man." Fisher shout
ed, twas not Bruno Richard
Hauptmann." . E,..
Fisher said this witness had
with states attorneys
previously, and the best guess to
his identity is that he is Ben
a Princeton student, who
has told of seeing such "A
man. The state failed to call Lu-
plea as a witness and gave no
for not doing so.
After the Frederickson's had
come and gone, Reilly went back
to Hauptmann. He asked ques-
tons about things that happened
long ago and far away. . ,
Hauptman ntraced his arrival
in the United States. He told how
he went to work as a dishwasher,
progressed until he had a job as
a dyer and then became carpen-
ter in the days when men who
could use saws and hammers were
earning $40 a day.
Reilly kept threading one line