The Washington times., 1935-01-19
HIDING PLACES.
Of RANSOM
SHOWN
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Copyright 1895, by International
News Service)

By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
! Copyright 1895, by International
News Service)
PENNINGTON, N. j., Jan. 18.
Money, money, money.
Thousands of dollars in United
States gold certificates, spread fan
wise in front Of us.
Envelopes full of money, bank
accounts, stock brokers, safe de-
poSit boxes.
Find the motive of a crime and
you know a great deal about it.
Today we know more and more
that this was crime for MONEY
and only for money.
Let me ask you something.
If man who was carpenter
took a heavy block of wood and
bored deep holes in it, if he stuffed
those holes full of bills, and then
nailed it up against the wall so
that it looked like part of the
building, wouldn't you think he
wanted to hide that money pretty
badly?
Shown in Court
Wouldn't you think he knew he
had to hide that money?
Would you believe for one mo-
ment it was money of which he
had no guilty knowledge?
They brought that block of wood
into court yesterday and showed
it to us. with the five holes care
fully bored.
And then, in calm and unhur-
ried accents, the New York detec-,
tives told us how they found that
block of wood nailed in Haupt-
mann's garage, and how they took
it down as they tore up the build
ing in their search, and in those
holes they found more money,
more and more and more of the
Lindbergh ransom money.
Maybe he just put it there to
keep it safe for Mr.. Fisch, who
was already dead in Germany. I
don't know-but there it was. And
the jury must draw it's own con-
clusionS, as we do. But it seemed
mighty odd to me.
Brings In Ladder
Suddenly in the midst of testi-
mony about money, about that
first search of the Hauptmann
home, he brought in a large quiet
young man who is a metallurgiSt,
and in order that he may testify
about the nails in the ladder, he
brought in the ladder.
Two minutes later, Detective
eastman, of the New York police
force, was identifying large chest
Of carpenters tools that he said
he found in Hauptmann's garage.
Your eyes went from the tool
chest, with its contents, to the
ladder, the well-built ladder that
some carpenter put together, and
there, not three feet away from it,
were Hauptmann's carpenter tools.
You dragged your eyes back from
one to the other. Yes, Haupt-
man was a carptenter. Yes, those
were his tools, found in his
garage. Yes, there was the ladder,
found near the Lindbergh nursery
window soon after the baby dis
appeared. No question but Haupt-
mann could have built it!
A nice piece of psychological
work it was.
Could Have Built 1t
Because all Of it was true. Co.
tainly with his knowledge and
tools, Hauptmann COULD have
built it. And the tools were in
the same garage where they found
thousands and thousands of .lol.
lars worth OF the Lindbergh ran"
som.
We think a great deal about
Mrs. Hauptmann now.
Throughout the trial she has
sat close to her husband, and her
eyes are adoring. When she looks
at him a strange look comes over
her face. It is congeSted and
suffused with a blind sort of pas
sion. At every piece of evidence,
she looks at him, quickly. After
her outbreak yesterday, during
the afternoon recess, they talked
together and they were both
laughing. They seem very close,
very tied together, very conscious
of each other.
Certainly she is madly in love
with him
No one can help feeling GER
tain deep sympathy for Anna
Hauptmann. She is a woman, a
mother, and the man she loves is
on trial not only for murder, not
only faced with the death pen
atty if he is convicted, but for
the most terrible crime of our
generation.
Loving him, she must be en-
during untold agony, as she sits
there day after day listening to
the evidence.