Evening star., 1935-01-15
BRUNO IDENTIFIED
BY THIRD EXPERT
Writing in Ransom Notes Is
Identical, Says Mil
Waukee Man.
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recess that he intended 10 SNOW III
further cross s-eXamination OF Tyrreu
that the IA ransom notes were written
by an educated man, and not by his
client.
State Gets Witnesses.
The prosecution was ready today to
combat the Fisch inferences with the
arrival of Detective Arthur johnson
and four mystery witnesses from
abroad. Whether or not any are rela-
tives of Fisch has not been disclosed.
Also among State witnesses ready
to testify is Louis Bitter, New York
attorney, who told police that Haupt-
mann came to him shortly before his
arrest and sought the number Of
Fisch's safety deposit box, asserting
Fisch owed him $4,000 Prosecutors
have said they believed the call was
an attempt upon Hauptmann'S part
to arrange an alibi in event of arrest.
C. Lloyd Fisher of the defense staff
has declared himself convinced that
Fisch was implicated" in the kidnap-
ing.
The defense gave no indication that
its term educated man. had any
reference to DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Con-
don, the retired Bronx educator who
identified Hauptmann as the receiver
of the S50,000 Lindbergh ransom. 1t
hinted. though, that it would try to
show that police forced Hauptmann 10
include in his specimen writings the
peculiar characters and mispellings
found in the ransom notes.
Tyrrell added his opinion to that
already given by two other experts,
Albert S. Osborn. ST.. and Elbridge W..
Stein. he said he found that sections
of Hauptmann's dictated writings we're
pictorially dissimilar to other sections,
and added:
There is pictorially greater dif-
ference between specimens OF these
dictated writings than there is be-
tween the ransom writings and some
Of the dictated writings
Earlier in his testimony he told the
court that in disguised writing "one
cannot always duplicate his own
figures"
"Tripped by Disguise"
He intimated Hauptmann tripped
himself by attempting to maintain a
disguised hand throughout the many
times detectives dictated to him after
his arrest.
Many characteristics of the notes
and of the specimens were detailed
by Tyrrell in long recital in which
he explained his reasons for conclud-
ing that Hauptmann wrote every one
OF the ransom notes.
The recital appeared to bore the
defendant and many in the court, but
not the bereaved father. Col. Lind
bergh. The latter was alert, listening
intently to every detail.
The State wound up its direct ex-
animation of Tyrrell with Assistant
Attorney General Joseph A. Lanigan
asking:
Can you say positively who wrote
the ransom notes?"
Il think So" Tyrrell replied.
"Then state it."
THE writing is identical. If Bruno
Richard Hauptmann wrote the Haupt-
mann writings he also wrote the ran
som notes"
Hinges on First Note.
One of the notes included In the
Tyrrell identification is the first one
which was left on the window sill of
the Lindbergh nursery the night of
March /, 1882, when the baby was
stolen from its crib and the State
charges, carried down a breaking lad
der to its death
Upon this note, the State bases its
major claim that Hauptmann was the
man who plucked the child from its
crib. He has already been identified
by Dr. Condor as the receiver of the
$4,000 futile ransom paid by Lind
bergh.
Tyrrell said he had examined the
ransom notes and specimen writings
OF Hauptmann.
LAS a result of your examination
and comparison, did you reach any
opinion?" Assistant Attorney General
Joseph A. Lanigan questioned him.
"I did"
what is your opinion of the ran
som writing and the Hauptmann
writings?"
THAT the writing is IDENTICAL" he
replied without mentioning Haupt-
mann's name. "They were all writ
ten by the same person."
Other Experts Ready.
Other handwriting experts are on
the States list: Herbert j. Walters
Of Chicago, H. E. Cassidy of Richmond,
Va; Wilmer Souders of the United
States Treasury Department, and
Clark Sellers of San Francisco.
The prosecution said it would en-
deavor to establish that all IA ran
som notes were written on the same
5-and-10-cent store stationery, de-
veloping this point toward the end of
the handwriting testimony.
Stationery of the same sort was
found in Hauptmann's Bronx home,
State attorneys said, and Importance
was attached to the fact that two of
the ransom notes were written on
single sheet of letter paper which had
been torn in two.
There Is great significance"
State authority said, lin the ques-
ton of two notes being written on the
same sheet of paper"
The prosecution took occasion to
point out the nicely with which 1t
said its murder case against Haupt-
mann hangs together in discussing
the testimony of its chic surprise wit
ness, Miss Hildegarde Olga Alexander,
blond dress model
Miss Alexander testified yesterday
she watched Hauptmann shadow DR..
Condor, when the venerable Jafsie
was standing at telegraph window in
the Fordham New York Central Sta
tion before the ransom was paid.
Models Story Stands.
"A few days later, she said, she saw
the imperturbable Bronx carpenter
lurking in the vicinity of the Condor
home.
Reilly's cross-examination failed to
shake her story in any important par
ticular, State attorneys declared, and
when she left the stand they dubbed
her an excellent witness"
They disclosed, at the same time,
they were ready to corroborate her
testimony in an attempt to defeat
any defense attempt to show the in