Evening star., 1935-01-21
Bruno Hauptmann Confident
He Can ''E*ploin Eperything''
PAGES Cell Rehearsing Story He Viii
Tell on Stand in Effort to Break
Damning Evidence of State.

Condor caught in the meSheS of this
amazing mystery were the featured
players. . = but now comes the head
liner, Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
He stands in the wings, going over
his lines. That damning ladder. those
ransom notes, the identification by the
Jehu, Perrone; the stacks of the
worlds hottest money in his garage,
the accusation in the bony finger of
old AmanduS Hockmuth, who said he
saw the Bronx carpenter near the
Lindbergh estate the day of the
crime. All Of these things
Hauptmann has promised to explain
in such a manner that the jury is
expected to believe him the victim of
more amazing chain of circum-
stances than any fiction writer ever
dared put into story plot.
Expected to Blame Fisch.
1t is reported that Hauptmann will
stick to the story implied all along by
his defenSe-viZ, that Isadore FiSch,
dead and buried these many months,
committed the crime and then tried to
throw the blame on his friend by i'm
itating his handwriting in the ransom
notes and leaving him in unwilling
custody of the hot money.
The defense is said to have three
witnesses in hiding who will come
forward this week and swear that
Fisch asked them to take charge of
the shoe box full of money, the same
shoe box which Hauptmann says he
eventually agreed to take charge of
and hide in a broom closet in his
home.
This is the shoe box which Haupt-
mann says became soaked with water
and fell apart, revealing the ransom
bills. which he subsequently secreted
in his garage in an attempt TO keep
faith with his friend, who had gone
to Germany in search of health. And
Bruno i'll possession of wealth. So
what, and incidentally, so why?
In addition, the defense promises to
produce witnesses to prove that Fisch
conducted a crooked fur business and
that he operated in HopeWell. near
the Linobergh home, and even in this
town, where Hauptmann now Is on
trial. Reilly indicates he can prove
by these witnesses that Fisch was
often in the vicinity of the Lindbergh
home and knew the ground thor
oughly And Hauptmann. he saws,
never was in this part of Jersey in his
life.
While the State is near the end of
its deadly recital. it has not yet told
all it has to tell The chiSel found
with the ladder on the ground under
the nursery window is a most i'm
portant link, if reports from the
prosecutions camp can be believed
Wilentz, it is rumored. Is prepared
to show that Hauptmann possessed
such chisel, graduated from fine
tool up to a road-bladed one There
was one missing from the set found
in his garage.
The chiSel found on the Lindbergh
estate fills that gap in the set.
The State also has Millard Whited,
a lumberjack neighbor of the Lind
berghS, who will swear he saw Haupt-
mann prowling in the vicinity of the
colonel's home a few days after the
kidnapping. 1t also has other wit
nesses. including Ben Lupica.
Princeton student, and Frank Rossiter,
theatrical booking agent. who will
testify they saw Hauptmann near the
Llndoergh home around March l,
1882. the date Of the crime.
And yet Hauptmann is almost cheer
ful as he prepares his answer TO all
this deadly evidence.