Evening star., 1935-01-06
perts. The third will be made up Of
fingerprint experts.

| fingerprint experts.
II have felt all along that Haupt-
mann would get Off From the be-
ginning 7 have believed that there
was more than one person in this
crime, yet the indictment names
Hauptmann exclusively.
"All the surrounding circumstances
indicate that Col. Lindbergh and his
wife were imposed upon by some one
in the household Yesterday, for
example, it was brought out in the
testimony that the baby was un-
accustomed to strangers and that no
one had access to the child except
those connected with the household"
Reilly Is Satisfied.
Reilly expressed satisfaction with
the results of his long croSs-examina-
ton yesterday of Lindbergh. He said
the flyer was "a perfect witness for
our side"
Hauptmann himself will be the first
witness when the defense gets its
chance, Reilly said. The prisoner,
pale as ghost now and lean-faced
almost to the point of emaciation,
has been studying at odd moments to
improve his English diction. While
he has been in America more than
10 years, he speaks with pronounced
accent and is sometimes difficult to
understand
Hauptmann, who has been tight
Tipped during all the weeks he has
been in custody-first of New York
police and later of New Jersey
authorities-had one comment to
make after listening for hours to the
examination and cross-examination of
Lindbergh.
1T is terrible to kill a baby"
told Reilly. whoever did
it is a terrible person"
Reilly said Hauptmann was "ter-
ribly moved" by the recital OF the
sorrow that visited the Sourland Hills
home of the Lindberghs the night Of
March l. 1882.
HE is cheerful, though" Reilly
added, because he knows he is
Ladder Is Important. i
One of the important pieces Of evi-
dence in the States case is the ladder
found outside the Lindbergh home
the night of the KIDNAPPING. 1t has
bolstered the theory that a kidnaper
climbed to a nursery window, took the
baby from his crib, and descended.
Asked about the ladder today, Reilly
said it was "just scenery" implying
that it may have been placed where
It was found to turn suspicion away |
from the actual means of kidnapping. !
1T was more or less plant" he |
added
Reilly was asked to elaborate on his |
plans for fingerprint testimony. He
said he will introduce six experts, all
of whom will testify that the ransom
notes were not written by Hauptmann.
One Of the six experts is a specialist
in Teutonic handwriting.
Hauptmann was not advised today
of his mothers comments on the trial
as given to an Associated Press writer
in Kamenz, Germany. Reasserting her
conviction that her son Is innocent,
Frau Hauptmann said she thought |
his arrest was the work of enemies |
who want to destroy his life because |
they envy his happy marriage"
Theories of Kidnapping.
Two theories, one already sharply
outlined by evidence, and the other
still vague and hastily sketched-give
he Hauptmann jury totally different
pictures of how the child was kid
laped.
In the States hypothesis Haupt-
mann is the arch-criminal who, single
handed, abducted and murdered the
,aby, taking the child from its nursery
rib down the kidnap ladder and away
20 the spot. near Mount Rose, where
ne buried the little body in a shallow
grave.
The German ex-convict plays an
entirely different role in the indicated
lefense reconstruction of the case. He
S the innocent victim of circum-
stances, being tried for a crime which
vas committed by two men and two
women who perpetrated the kidnap-
ng by carrying the baby down the
;tairs through the house and out a
,round-fioor door.
The State has already painstakingly
presented the initial evidence on
which it relies to prove its conten-
ion Hauptmann climbed up to the
nursery window. stole the baby, took
t down the ladder, and then fled.
Imprints of Ladder.
The expertly fashioned kidnap lad
Ter has not yet been produced in
'ourt for evidence, but undbergh, and !