The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-05


He refused to reveal the
exact nature of his first line
of defense, but indicated that
the attack will center on the
credibility of DR.. John f.
Condor, the grand old man
of the Bronx" who conducted
the negotiations in which Col
Lindbergh was swindled out OF
$4,000 under the delusion that the
ransom payment would bring his
son back to him.
1t was reported that the defense
would bring witnesses who would
show that DR.. Condor (Jatsie) &C
tually had been in New Jersey be-
fore the kidnapping. and who would
say that Jafsie was an intimate OF
members of the Lindbergh house.
hold long before his negotiations.
Assistant Atty. Gen. Joseph A.
Lanizan laughed at these reports,
and described them as fantastic
dreams"
The entire strategy OF the de-
tense seems to be to try to confuse
the issue" he said. "A thousand
witnesses could prove that Bruno
Hauptmann didn't have the ransom
money"
The script expert who will try TO
show Hauptmann couldn't nave
written the notes has examined
them a number of times, and will
contradict Albert S. Osborn the
states key witness, point by point.
Betty Cow Is Next
Mr.. Osborn will say that the char
acteristics of the ransom notes ana
of documents known to have been
written bv Hauptmann are identical.
Mondays session of court is likely
to be taken up entirely with the
story of Betty Cow, Scottish nurse.
who was last to see the Lindbergh
baby alive. She undoubtedly Will
animation by the defense.
Reports that the defense would
undertake to show that the body
found near the Lindbergh estate
was not that of the Lindbergh baby
we're discounted here. One source.
however, said that such line of at
tack might be adopted as "a last
resort"
Counsel for Hauptmann clarified
their strategy today by aEnounc-
ing:
l. That two men and two women
will be named in Hunterdon County
Court next Thursday as the persons
Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly
believes kidnapped and killed the
infant.
,. That Hauptmann will be the
first witness in his own defense, 60
ing on the stand TO deny again any
connection with the crime and to re-
assert that the ransom money came
into his hands through ISidor FiSch,
a friend. who later died in Ger
many.
Declines to Reveal Four
Defense counsel declined to reveal
the four whom Reilly said he would
name as the plotters. AT the trial,
the defense has concentrated on
casting indirect suspicion on the
motives of .FiSch. DR.. J. F. Condor,
the ransom Intermediary: Miss Bet
ty Cow. the stolen child's nurse;
Oliver Whately, butler now dead:
Violet Sharpe, maid, now dead;
Arthur (Red) johnson. friend Of
Miss Cow: ard others. Mr.. Reilly
emphasized his belief that it was an
Inside Job" ana that the kidnap
ladder found outside the house was
a plant"
HauptmannS defense Will main
tain that any one of six agencies
wholly unconnected with him might
have plotted and executed the kid
naping and murder Of the Lind
bergh baby.
In contradiction of the cohesive
story told by Col Charles A. Lind
bergh in two court sessions that
teemed with sensation. and in con-
tradiction of Col. Lindbergh's dec
laration that it was Hauptmann'S
voice he heard during the ransom
payment in St. Raymond'S cemetery,
the defense will present the follow
ing alternate theories, the United
Press learned today.
l. That members of the Lindbegh
household IN the great white manor
at Hopewell. servants whom the
Lindberghs trusted. might have
participated in the crime.
2. That John Hughes Curtis of
Norfolk who was convicted of OBJ
structing justice by committing his
celebrated hoax, actually was l.
touch with the real kidnapers and
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