The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-25

time about the Lindbergh kid naping.
 Q. When did you read for the first time that Col Lindbergh lived in Hopewell? A. When I read of the Kidnapping. -
 Hauptmann got off the witness stand at Reilly's request, opened his tool chest and identified the tools as the ones belonging to him.
 Q. On March 15 you went back to work at the Majestic apart mcnts? A. think 1t was the 18th, but there is possibility 1t might have been the 18th.
 Q. show you letters, (state ex- hibits 29, 22, 21) and ask if you mailed these letters to Col Henry Breckinridge? A. did not. Q. show you this letter and ask if 1t is your handwriting? A. it is not.
 0. Did you know a Col Henry Breckinridge in March 1852? A. l did not. .r. Reilly showed Hauptmann one ransom note after another. Haupt- mann denied writing any of them or mailing any of them. Q. Did you ever know Dr Con- don? A. No.
 o. Did you know anybody named Jafsieo A. No.
 o. Where did you first see pr Condon? A. In a police station in New York.
 Q. And that was after your ar- rest last year? A. Yes.
 Hauptmann, hands now crossed, shook his head vigorously to deny he had written the name of Dr Condon on the wrapping paper enclosing the baby's sleeping suit.
 Reilly took the Lindbergh baby's sleeping suit and held 1t out to Hauptmann.
 Q. Did you take this sleeping suit off of Baby Lindbergh? A.. I never saw Baby Lindbergh alive or dead.
 o. When for the first time did you see this suit? A. Right here in this courtroom.
 A. Did you ever have this suit? :? A. I did not.
 o. You saw the thumb guard here in court? A. Well, saw 1t but I didn't know what it was.
 After brief recess, Reilly said:
 "If your honor please. I have received a photograph ofp Wood- lawn cemetery from the defense. I offer it in evidence"
 'Tt is accepted" Justice Tren- chard said.
 Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel left the table and sat in Haupt- mann's chair. Q. How far away from your house Is the main entrance to
 Woodlawn cemetery? A. don't know.
 Reilly fastened a map of the Bronx to the wall behind the wit ness chair. Hauptmann turned around to look at it.
 Q. Were you inside the Wood- lawn cemetery gate on March 12. 1892? A. was not.
 o. Now with the position of your house in mind, how far would you say your house was from that gate? A. I really don't know.
 Justice Trenchard interrupted. :. If you have some idea you might give us your best judgment"
 Hauptmann turned around to face the jurist. ,,ls
 "I. would say 40 to 50."
 Forty to 50?"
 "Yes. blocks"
 o. Have you any recollection where you were on March 12? A.. playing cards.
 Q. Lid you meet Dr Condon in Woodlawn cemetery on March 12? A. did not. .,..
 o. Did you on March 12 speak to Dr Condon through a gate in the cemetery? O. Of course not.
 Q. Did you climb any gate and run away from pr Condon? A.. Certainly not.
 e., I show you picture of a frankfurter stand. Were you ever at that stand? A.. No. I was not.
 Q. Did you eyer sit in the door way of that frankfurter stand and talk to Dr Condon? A. No.
 c. Did you ever sit on bench outside this shack in the cemetery? ?
 Q. Did you ever sit there talk. ing to Dr Condon? A. No, l did not.
 Hauptmann turned and smiled as Reilly took the three sections of the ladder apart.
 Q. You've seen this ladder here in court? A. Oh, yes.
 Q. Did you build that ladder? Hauptmann smiled. A. am. a carpenter. t.l.f
 Hauptmann stepped from the stand and lifted each section of the ladder.
 Tt looks like, a music instru- ment," he told Reilly.
 Q. Did you take this ladder in