Evening star., 1935-01-02
Continued From First Page.)

the benefit of news photographers ane
motion picture men.
The State attorneys were the flrSt
| to appear. County Prosecutor Anthony
NJ. Hauck, Special Assistant Attorney
General George K. Large, Assistant
Attorney General Joseph Lanigan anc
others of the State staff filed II
shortly before 10 am. They tool
their places at the prosecution table
directly in front of the witness stanc
and near the jury box.
Associate Defense Counsel c. Lloyc
Fisher was the next to appear.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
jaunty and dapper, and big, broad Ed.
ward Reilly, the defense chief, en-
tered court almost together and Their
arrival was the signal for a fresh
barrage from the flash bulbs of the
Photographic contingent.
Stares Into Space.
From where he sat Lindbergh could
not see the man accused of the alb.
duction and killing of his f1rSt-borr
son. Between the two chief figures
in the trial sat members Of the
defense staff.
Hauptmann, his face set. stared
fixedly into space.
If Lindbergh saw the Stolid Bronx
alien when he was led manacleo
into the court he gave no sign
Neither did the German defendant
show any indication he had seen thu
man whose child he Is accused ci
numbering.
Lindbergh never glanced in Haupt-
mann's direction, although the men
we're only about a dozen feet apart.
The reading of the jury list ended
and Justice Trenchard asked If both
sides were ready.
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck. jr
of Hunterdon County arose and
moved for the trial to start.
Justice Trenchard then directed
the impaneling of the Hauptmanr
jury to proceed. The buzz in the
court room died down and there was
brief quiet interlude.
Flyer Faces Accused.
The start of the trial, carrying Il
a climax the crime of the century,
the infants kidnapping and Staying
brought Hauptmann face to face
openly for the first time with tht
father of the victim.
The famous flyer was the only on,
of the States principal witnesses tt
come for the selection of a jury tC
decide whether Hauptmann should be
acquitted or convicted-and die ir
the electric chair
This peaceful colonial hamlet, swol-
len suddenly from its normal pro-
portions of 2,700 persons to a boom
town of $500, heralded the trial busily
but without excitement.
The hundreds of strangers, come tc
record and to take part in the judg-
ment, and the approximate $4,000 q
week they will spend, were received
as a matter of course.
The States legal forces closed theil
months of preparation with pains
taking review of all phases of the
case and final questioning of Betty
Cow, who was nurse to the Lind
bergh baby.
The defense counsel had conferred
at length in New York.
Hauptmann Restless.
Hauptmann, nervous and restless
spent the final hours pacing the foo
of his county Jail cell abstractedly. try.
ing to read and resting f1tfully on hi!
cot.
The story of the crime will be un.
folded chronologically. After pre-.
liminary witnesses describe the geo.
graphy of the scene of the crime or
Sourland Mountain and the layout OF
the white Lindbergh residence, Lind
bergh, his wife, the former Anne Nor.
row; Betty Cow and Mrs Ollie Wheat
ley, widow of the Lindbergh butler
will tell what happened the night OF
the kidnapping.
The Hauptmann, manacled an6
guarded closely, who hears that story
day by day is a different man from
the artisan who was arrested in Sep
tember. He is leaner, the sharpness
of his features is more pronounced and
the prison pallor shows on his face
But he is as inScrutable as ever, and
he wears the familiar gray flannel
double breasted suit in which he has
appeared in pretrial proceedings.
OF a piece and fabric with the mar
rative of the Lindbergh kidnapping and
killing Is the chain of evidence CO.
ordinated carefully for the trial, both
by prosecution and defense.
States Charges.
The State charges Hauptmann, the
prosaic, phlegmatic carpenter, single
handedly perpetrated the most shock
ing crime of modern criminal history
On an intricate web of circumstantial
evidence the State relies for conviction
Seven witnesses will be called by
the State in an attempt to establish
the all-important point that Haupt-
name was in the vicinity of the
Lindhergh estate at or before the time
of the kidnapping, March l, 1892
Then come the evidence exhibits.
First is the ransom note left in the
nursery, demanding $4,000 for the
return of the baby, and with this
will be the other letters of the ransom
negotiations. State experts will tell
the jury that Hauptmann wrote those
notes with their cryptic symbols, and
they will compare them with speci-
mems of his handwriting to establish
their claims.
The kidnap ladder, another impor-
tant clue left at the scene of the
crime bulks Importantly in the States
case. A lumber expert Is to testify
the wood of that ladder came from
lumber yard where Hauptmann
was employed and that one piece Of
it matches piece found in the car
penter's Bronx home.
Then the "hot" money-the $50,000
paid for the safe return of a baby,
already dead. Witnesses by the dozens
will tell of the $14,590 found in
Haunt nanO'c ooccnccinn of othnr 70 n