Evening star., 1935-02-04
Played Guitar
With Friend,
He SWears.
STUDENT TELLS
LADDER STORY
Admits Carpenter
"LOOks Like" Man
He Noticed.
tcopyright 1885. by the Associated Press.)

(Copyright. 1885, by the Associated Press)
PENNINGTON, N. J., February A.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann'S defense
today produced support for one of
his important alibis. but lost an at
tempt to establish definitely that he
was not a man seen in an automobile
with ladder near the Lindbergh home
on the day baby Charles A Lindbergh,
jr.. was kidnapped and slain.
Hans Kloppenburg, a friend of
Hauptmann, testified he and the ac-
cuSed man were at Hauptmann's home
playing music the whole evening of
April 2, 1882, when DR.. John F. (Jaf-
sie) Condor says he paid to Haupt-
mann in Bronx graveyard the futile
S50000 Lindbergh ransom.
Sebastian Benjamin Lupica, a
Princeton preparatory student in 1882,
testified he saw man in dark blue
or black sedan with Mercer County,
N j., license plates, near the Lind
bergh estate on March /. 1882. He
said the car had a ladder in it and
that it was the same ladder which
police exhibited later as the kidnap
ladder
"Resembled" Bruno.
He could not, he said identify the
man as Hauptmann. On cross-eX-
animation he testified the man had a
resemblance to Hauptmann.
CrosS-examination of Kloppenburg,
who also testified that Isador Fisch
brought package to the Hauptmann
home during farewell party, was di-
rected toward showing that his memory
was hazy. Kloppenburg was made
tc admit that he had told police after
Hauptmann's arrest he could not re-
member when he saw him in either
March or April of 1882.
The defense contends the package
which Kloppenburg saw under the arm
of Isador Fisch, who died in Germany,
was a shoe box containing the block
of Lindbergh ransom money which
was found in Hauptmann's garage.
Peter II. Sommer left the stand early
in the day after the State accused
him of being a professional witness
and vigorously attacked his story that
he had seen two men and a woman
with blond baby on the night of
the kidnapping Sommer had identi-
fed a picture of Fisch as one of the
men he saw. and said a picture of
the maid Violet Sharpe closely re-
sembled the woman.
Didn't See Fisch Leave.
Kloppenburg had to acknowledge on
crosS-eXamination that he could not
say whether or not Fisch had taken
away with him the package he brought
to the farewell party. His testimony
ended at the noon recess.
Lupica had been subpoened, but
not called by the State He was
chided about newspaper articles
written under his name, in which he
was supposed to have said Hauptmann
was the man he saw. He said he
was paid for the articles, but never
wrote them
You told everybody in the world
that the man you saw on March l in
an automobile with a ladder in it
looked like Hauptmann. Isn't that
right?" prosecutor asked Lupica on
oSs-eXamination.
He has resemblance, yes" Lu-
plea said.
"Resembled" Accused.
"And you have always said that he
resembled Hauptmann, haven't you?"
Eyes, it is the truth"
"And you. say so today, don't you,
Benz"
Yes"
Have you at any time said to any,
body that you can definitely recognize
the defendant Hauptmann as the man
you saw in that car?" defense counsel
asked Lupica.
mo" he testified.
Can you identify Bruno Richard
Hauptmann as the man you saw in
the car that night?"
II cannot" he said.
Saw Thin Man of 40.
Lupica said the man he saw was
thin, about 40 years old. In the rear
of his car, he testified, he saw two
sections of ladder, and said the
sections were the same as those shown
to him later by police.
He also testified he was at the trial
under subpoena by the State, which
did not call him.
He said on the afternoon of March
!, he stopped at letter box at the
gate of the Lindbergh estate to get
his mail.
"I had my mail and was interested
In reading my mail" he said, 80 I
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