The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-02
STATE SAYS BRUNO'S
DEFENSE SMASHED
Continued from mage onel

night he got on the Weehawken
ferry, bound for New York.
There were two men on the
boat he said. Zone was five feet
four inches tall; one was five feet
nine inches tall. They were smok-
ing cigarettes"
Reilly walked over to the wit
ness chair, carrying a picture of
Isidor Fisch, a skinny-faced man
with his hair slicked straight back
from his forehead.
Il show you this picture" Rel.
lv said, land ask you if you ever
saw this man."
' Yes, on the ferryboat that
might" the witness replied.
go on"
1.-The boat landed and the two
men assisted woman and a baby
on street car"
Reilly went back to the defense
table and picked up another pic
ture.
/ 81 show you this picture and
ask you if it was the woman you
saw"
81 think it was"
1t was a picture of Violet
Sharpe.
"The woman seemed very nerv-
ous," Sommers said. "She held
the baby and was nervous"
did you see the baby?"
eyes"
"Was it blond or brunette?"
ut was blond"
Glow old was it?"
about two years."
The Lindbergh baby was Fl
months old when it was kidnapped
and had curly, golden hair.
Piece by piece the defense was
building up it's contention that
two men-neither of whom was
Hauptmann-kidnaped the baby.
Thursday, Lou Harding, a labor
er, swore he saw two men on a
New Jersey road in an automo-
bile that contained the ladder
found on the Lindbergh estate af-
ter the kidnapping. These two
men, he said, asked him to direct
them to the Lindbergh home on
the day of the kidnapping.
Then Wilents got up for cross
examination and led Sommers into
a maze of contradictions until at
last the witness sat back sullenly
in his chair and kept repeating:
81 won't say yes and l won't
say no." .. ....-.
sto Mh9 ast the hobt6bdiEyd k@6 sWas dERls
attempted to trap the witness
into identifying a picture of a
convict, whose name was not re-
vealed, as that of the companion
of Fisch and Miss Sharpe. Som
mers peered at the photograph
his glasses and said:
81 won't say that is the man
! saw and l won't say 1t isn't.
You're trying to mix me UP;
"Did you ever see the short
man again."
"No." ~
Wilentz strolled around the
courtroom asking trivial ques-
tons and then shot this one in:
"Did you ever see the two men
on a street car or on a ferry
again."
"Yes."
Wilentz leaped at him:
"You just told me you never
did see the short man again.
81 may have been mixed up a
minute ago."
Describe the woman you saw
getting on the street car"
"She was 5 feet, 6 or IN
ches of medium build with dark
hair and brown coat"
"You know that because you
saw her on the street carr
eyes"
"A moment ago you told me
you didn't see her after she got
on the street car" :,
The witness brushed his hand
across his mouth and did not
answer.
"Where did the men meet the
woman and the baby?"
Sommers evaded the questi0n
and Justice Thomas w. french
ard ordered him to answer IT.
"They met her beside the ferry
house." IT,
Wilentz then picked up the
same picture of Violet Sharpe
that Reilly had shown to the
witness and asked:
"You never saw this womans
picture before, did vou?" 81
81 might have" Sommers sald
cautiously.
Didn't you say on direct ex-
animation that woman you sa"
with the baby resembled this PIC
ture?"
eyes"
"But now you wouldn't say
definitely that this was the w.
MANI" .Io5u
at might have been somebody
else" H.. tho
So now-one week after the
state rested it's case and the oe-
tense begun calling Witnesses 90
it becomes clear what line Oh
strategy Hauptmann's lawyers
will pursue. ,uo +bat q
gang kidnapped the baby ana 'il of
thar that gang. That will explain pRan
how how Fiscb got the ransom money