The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-12

story of pr Condon. Instead, pr Condon positively Identified Haupt- mann as the ransom collector and by inference, as the man who climbed into the nursery window and stole the baby.
 The state produced one witness who placed Hauptmann at the scene of the crime only 6 few hours before it was committed the first of a series of witnesses who will testify similarly, 1t was promised--and two witnesses cor rOborating Dr Condon's story.
 Meanwhile chance circumstances revealed two pieces of what on the face second new evidence-one fay orable to the prosecution, the other to the defense. The new prosecution evidence stood up--the new defense evidence was partly dlscredited even before 1t was presented.
 Mrs Anna Bonesteel, lunch room operator in Yonkers, volunteered the statement that Violet Sharpe, servant in the Dwight Morrow household who Committed suicidc just before she was to be question: ed about the Kidnapping, waited in her restaurant for over an hour the night of the kidnapping. She carried two blankets and was pick ed up by two men in a car, Mrs Bonesteel said.
 Death Stops Evidence
 This story might have proved a powerful aid to the defense in sub- stantiating inuendos that the kid- naping was an inside" job, but for the fact that New Jersey has state- ments from three persons who were with Miss Sharpe the same night and from employees of a New Jersey dance hall they visited. N
 The new evidence favorable to the prosecution was volunteered by a Bronx garage man who said he painted Hauptmann's car black a few weeks after the Kidnapping. He produced ledgers to substantiate his story. Before 1t was painted, the car was a dirty green A state wit ness testified this week that he saw Hauptmann in dirty green" car near the Lindbergh Hopewell estate the day of the Kidnapping
 The states blaze of hand writing experts will back up the expert testimony of Albert S. Os- born, the highest paid handwriting expert In the world, who testified yesterday that the script of the crudely phrased ransom notes was identical with that of Hauptmann's acknowledged handwriting. The state will present six or more ex- perts who will dissect the writing and add their convictions to the masters decision.
 Death Bomb Harmless
 The defense appeared yesterday to have exploded death bomb in the states contention that 1t had traced $49,000 of the $5O,O0O ran- som money to Hauptmann.
 The prosecution, after a confer ence last night: decided the bomb was harmless. It said the testi- mony of Frank J. Wilson, 6 special investigator for the internal rev enue department, in which he ad- mitted that to his knowledge only $1a,O00 of the ransom money had beOn turned in to the United States treasury department, would be off set by other testimony, using Hauptmann's bank accounts to show where the money went.
 It was known that Hauptmann has claimed, since his arrest, that he was earning living through playing the stock market. It is also hHUWH IHdL HG actually lOSL dD- proximately $7.000 in stock deals from March 1892 to the time of his arrest. He had several thousand dollars in stocks, securities and bank deposits when he was arrest- ed. And he had two mortgages, with a face value of $7500. which have ben turned over to his var ious defense counsel. and which are even now the subject of litiga- tion in New York courts.
 Tn addition to that. he says he gave Isidor Fisch, consumptive friend with whom he was asso- ciated in the fur business, $7,500 in cash as loan-the loan which Fisch returned, according to Hauptmann's story by leaving with him a shoe-box full of Lind bergh ransom currency.
 Boston Kidnap Threat
 Boston, Jan. 12 = (UP) = The Boston Post says today that kid napers have demanded $25,000 in cash from Thomas P. Beal, presi- dent of the Second National Bank of Boston and that unless this sum is turned over to them, Beal's six year-old son, Junior, will be des- troyed "like the Lindbergh kid."
 Demand for the money has been made by letter and telephone, acc cording to the Post, and, as a re-