Evening star., 1935-01-28

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companied by his guards.
An enigmatic smile curled on his.
lips as he pushed through the favored
spectators in the front of the court
room. He Immediately engaged in
conversation with Egbert Rosecrans
Of defense counsel After a brief talk.
he sat gazing about at the activity
| among the crowd.
Audience Packed
Into Court Room.
The court room for the afternoon
session presented an appearance such
as it never had during the past month
Of the trial. The audience was packed
in impossibly, like so much cattle
jammed in railroad car.
There were people everywhere. COM
pressed, unbelievably in the shallow
pewlike court room benches. People
packed in the inadequate aisles. Peo-
pie were stacked crafty on a perpen-
dicular tier along the court room walls.
AS court was about to resume Rob-
ert Peacock told newspaper men that
the cross-eXamination of Hauptmann
would continue until about tomor-
row noon" -.
George K. Large of the prosecution
staff also joined the conference in
chambers.
Arthur J. Koehler, the States star
witness, in alleging linking Haupt-
mann to the construction Of the kid
nap ladder, was lost in the throng of
spectators. squeezed into a front seat
with his knees jammed against the
second row of press seats. He looked
very uncomfortable.
by no stretch of the imagination. 4"
said Peacock during the delay, could
the drawings in Hauptmann's note
book be said TO be the work of a child.
They were perfect"
Troopers and deputy sheriffs started
to clear the aisles. Sheriff John H.
Curtiss said he had been told to re-
move 80 to rs" Of those standing.
The conference of attorneys and
the justice continued.
| Friends Accompany.
Responding to Wilentz's questions
at the morning session, the defendant
professed not to know the origin Of
the drawings in the book
When Wilentz suggested they were
children's drawings Hauptmann
agreed. They included a diagram Of
a ladder and a window.
The Attorney General asked Haupt-
mann if he had ever built a window
or door. Hauptmann said he had
not; that he was house builder"
/ The word was passed around that
the conference in the judges cham
bers concerned itself with a partial
clearing of the court ROOM.
Two woman friends appeared in
court with Mrs Hauptmann, but were
unable to obtain seats with her near
the defense table. They were turned
back from the front section of the
room. They declined to give their
names.
Court resumed at 2:08.
The opening of the afternoon ses-
sion was very late, later than at any
time since the trial started.
The jury was polled Hauptmann,
seriouS-faced, threaded his way back
to the stand, and Wilentz, dark and
intent, asked the court If he might
proceed.
Before you proceed, wish to notify
the officers, people will not be all
lowed to stand in the rear of the
court room as they are now standing"
Justice Trenchard announced.
After the seating capacity Is well
filled the doors will have to be locked.
Because it is very undesirable from
more than one point of view that this
overcrowding of the court room should
not be permitted.
/ Changed Accounts
: After Accident.
G. Now, Mr.. Defendant. you chaneed
! the brokerage accounts because of the
automobile accident in October II,
1882. You thought there might be. a
claim? A. Yes.
@. And you settled it actually for
$500? A. Yes. $500 or $3.50.
@. Well, $500 or $3.50? A. Yes.
Q. And you settled it in December,
1882? A. don't know.
Q. Well. I show you your book, your
account bank. In December, 1892,
| you settled that accident for $500.
Isn't that right? A. Yes.
Q. So that you had actually settled
that claim for $500? A. Yes.
O. You had no fear in March. 1e33.
OF that claim? A. Something was
coming up.
G. So in March. 1893, you changed
your brokerage accounts to your wife's
name? A. don't remember.
Pope objected to introduction of an
address book of Hauptmann's as i'm
material.
Wllentz explained it was offered to
refresh his memory on the change in
| the account name.
| All the While the eX-machine gunner
OF the German wing, testified the law
yers and experts at the States desk
were induStriously busy taking notes
cnecklng every word Hauptmann spoke
from the witness chair.
Hauptmann looked paler. more
Waxen as the session got under way.
and he seemed noticeably more tired
than in the morning session.
Marks Pages He
Denies Are His.
Hauptmann examined the book for
several minutes.
@. Is there anything in there that
you think is in your handwriting2
Put an 'x" with a circle around Il
to indicate any page not in your hand
writing CHauptmann marked two)
@. With exception of those two
pages, the book is in your hand
writing?
| A. Yes.
Wilentz went back again to the
little back book in which Hauptmann
kept the annual statements of his
financial accounts and his worth.
The crisp attorney general offered
the book in evidence after the Bronx
alien had crossed out the pages on
which appeared writing which he did
not consider his own.
All the time Hauptmann inspected
the book, crossing out items, Lindbergh
regarded him, frowning, as If i'm