The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-12

ilt "dED | sBOtDB NO Dc tduBnS with a flock of them on him.
 What did he say? Why he said he had S3eO more of them at home.
 'So they took him back to his home because his description--5 feete 9. muddy blonde-all these indicatoins pointed to him as tine man they were looking for.
 Wilentz walked over to wall ex- hibits of photographs of ransom notes and Hauptmgnn writings.
 I'm going to prove to you con that when Hauptmann tes- tiied here that New York police made him spell "singnature" with an n, he committed downright perjury"
 Why did he say what he did? Because he wanted to escape from the electric chair"
 Not a muscle in the prisoners face moved.
 WiIentz brought out that Houpt- mann had testified that police made him write 'singnature,' spelling 1t out for him.
 There isn't the word "singna- ture' anywhere in anyone of these request writing eXhibits-in IA pages of request writings. Yet he swears on this stand that we made him write singnature'.
 What fake, what q fraud. What q phOney defense.
 Perjury is joke in this case. Do anything, anything to save Hauptmann."
 The attorney general held up a ransom note and q piece of paper found in the Hauptmann home.
 Hold these up to the light in your room and you'll see the same cheap paper, the same water mark on each.
 Speaking rapidly he related the finding of ransom money in the HauDtmann garage.
 And he blamed it on Fisch. Did you hear my delightful adversary Say here the other day I'm going to prove this and I'm going to prove that about Fisch' Did ne prove that t'isch wrote the ransom notes? Did he prove Isidor Fisch had tn eransOm money? Did he prove lsidor Fisch owned an auto mobile? No, he did not.
 TIT il is contended that Fisch, Hauptmann's best friend, was a party to this-and let them bring the grave in again--if 1t gives them any comfort--that, as l said this morning, doesn't excuse Haupt- mann.
 We found no ransom money on Fisch."
 Exhibit after exhibit of tho state was picked up by the wiry prose- cutor.
 Hauptmann's stroy of the Con- don telephone number and address on the closet board, Wilentz rfdi- culed with q biting irony.
 He held up the board.
 Compare that 1914 on the board with the writing on the ransom note envelopes" he told the jury.
 When Hauptmann came to New Jersey, someone sold him the story that he didn't write the num- bers on the board. Someone told him that If he admitted it-he was gone. finished!
 'Hauptmann, the powerful! HIuptinann the oinnipotent, Hauptmann the iron man; who thought when he was on the stand that he could order counsel and court around
 We've treated this fellow too well. I've never gone into that jail Tor confession
 'l hate to be in the same room with him, to breathe the air he contaminates.
 Why l wouldn't even be here if ] didn't have to. I think too much or my friends, my wife and kids" Wilentz. answering charges that the state refused defense access in- to the Hauptmann home in the Bronx, shouted:
 They wanted to see the house on Sunday-on q day when I was sick in bed. They said any other day wouldn't do."
 He turned to ladder rail 1G and the Hauptmann attic board, and directed his irony at Dr Erastus Hudson, the defense witness who said there were not four hoaes, but one in the rail.
 Now about pr Hudson. think the gentleman entered the case be- cause he wanted to attract public to his new solution for iinger-printing. And he knew that If he made you believe his story. that his testimony had freed Hauptmann-he was made.
 He held up the pine boards in- troduced by the defense the boards the defense said were once one piece.
 Smell these boards. Why they've been tempered with. The defense locked them up after their witnesses had testified. Now they don't even smell alike.
 And that is to upset the testi- mony of Mr koehler.
 "f you're going to let little poppycock like that destroy the testimony of government man who has devoted his life 10 hIs work, we've been unsuccessful
 He was Il carpentcr--a good carpenter: he was q good burglar; and he was q good bookkeeper."
 An airplane droned over the courtroom, almost drowning the words Of the speaker.
 Every item in this account book of this carpenter fits exactly with our accounts.
 Ut accounts for the entire $JO.- GOO.
 "Now to the handwriting. Heres tn" request writings. The HTSt leW mes are different from several of the last ones. He knew what ne was up against"
 Wllentz pointed to the slmilari- ties between the request writings and he ransom notes.-the si,nilari- ties pointed out earlier by the states battery of experts.
 re jury. with small charts of the writings was following care fully.
 You can take these charts home with you. Show them to the chil- dren. Show them the Hauptmann writings and the ransom notes. They'll need only one guess"
 lie was rattling off the compari- sons now.
 Wilentz devoted considerable time to the handwriting, pointing out similaritics with blackboard pointer. The jurors paid even more attention to him than they did when the handwriting experts were on the stand.
 "Eow," he said. "the 'P' in 'Po- lice in the ransom note Is Just like the 'P' in Police in the request