The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08


senger boys. They added as much
color and life TO the trial as the
principals themselves. The number
IS arbitrary, much to the concern Of
hundreds who daily wait in the
streets below complaining they are
taxpayers and entitled tc seats, even
to the exclusion Of visitors. But
Sheriff Curtiss, with all the patience
at his command, always explains
that the courtroom and the ada
cent wire rooms are peopled by 200
spectatOrS-half of them standing
14l newspaper reporters and pho
tographers. rs telegraph men. 40
messenger boys, II members of the
Ury and seven guards for the mem
bers, 25 plainclOthes men to main
tain order, and Is State Police.
Aisles Crowded
Add to this those necessary func-
tionar1es-one justice, one sheriff,
one court crier and one clerk. The
members of the prosecution staff,
the defense counsel. and court
stenogTaphers are included in the
total number of passes issued.
Today's session was just as crowd
ed as the others with every seat
seat filed when the clerk called for
order So were the aisles. Part of
the crowd milled back of the rail-
ing where a few chairs had been
placed. Men and women, some with
thermoS bottles and lunch baskets.
stood against the walls.
Only the justice and the jury re-
main in comparative comfort. Each
juror has his own windsor chair at
the right side of the courtroom.
There is plenty of leg and arm
room. There are two empty chairs
behind the bench for visiting judges.
Hauptman, Lindbergh Near
Today's arrangement as at previ-
Gus sessions:
The pale-faced defendant, thanked
by two blue uniformed state police
men and a deputy sheriff, sits fac
ing the bench. In front of him at a
long table sit an imposing array of
defense counsel. To Hauptmann's
right-only 10 feet away-SitS a
lean. smOoth-shaven man. who sell
dom turns his head. It is Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Hauptmann gaZeS steadily at the
witness. He betrays less emotion
than the audience or the jury, and
far less concern over the trial than
his own attorneys. In front of the
famous flier are members of the
observation-disclosures Atty. Gen.
David T. Wilentz, who has carried
the onus of the questioning, and his
assistants.
On a rear wall and to the right
OF the jury are maps of the Lind
bergh estate and the interior of the
house. Against it, grotesquely leans
the ladder which the state contends
Hauptman built, took to Hopewell
and leaned against the Lindbergh
home to carry down the child to its
death.
Audience Cheers.
Two rows of reporters, working on
improviSed benches against the rail,
scribble furiouSly as question after
question is fired at each witness. In
the rear a small overhanging bal
cony accommodates a score or more
other working reporters. They too
listen intently to the testimony,
taking many notes.
Every few moments messenger
boys squeeze and weave through the
crowd with copy for the wire rooms
upstairs that carry almost a million
words of the trial day to the
worlds newspapers
The atmosphere is tense, broken
by the testimony, the questions. The
scratch of pencils on paper. The au-
dience is told to remain quiet. But
frequently, when some one scores a
point that pleases the crowd it for
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