The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-29

1auptmann was involved in a
,hich he was seeking to eXtri-
cate himself by repeating,
over and over, the words, Il
don't know can't remem-
ber."
The attorney general pressed his
inquisition with the same relentless
vigor that marked yesterdays ses-
sion, but the fruit of his attack was
little more than a new series of de-
mails or an admission that Haupt-
manns previous stories we're mis-
takes"
Mr.. Wilentz demanded to know if
Hauptmann had not told the police
that he didn't take the ransom bills
to the Federal Reserve bank be
cause 1 was afraid they would lock
me up and later said 1T was be-
cause I didn't know where the bank
was"
The man charged with numbering
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. couldn't
remember about that" but said if he
had, it was another mistake"
$500 Long Gone"
The state had shown that Haupt-
mann already knew where the Fed
eral Reserve bank was because he
had caShed gold notes there long
before his arrest.
One of the most dramatic in
cidentS of the examination was
Hauptmann's declaration that he
had planned to go to Germany for
year already"
Mr.. Wilentz leaped at him with
the coincidence that two of the ram
som notes informed the Lindberghs
that the kidnapping plot had been
prepared for a year already"
Hauptmann also said that while
he had in May, 1882 from $500 to
$4,000 in a trunk at home, there was
none of it left when police arrested
him.
1T was long gone," he declared.
Lied Over Money Matters
Through his own words, too, Il. i,
Encouragement showed the
prisoner to have lied over money
matters to the family of Isidor
FiSch, his ur-cutter friend, after
Isidor died in Germany last March,
claiming he had put $4,000 into
business with Fisch, whereas his
own reckoning of the vague business
was that he had advanced less than
$4,000
Hauptmann said, rather weakly,
that he had intended to spend only
$1,000 of the ransom money he in
sists he found in Isidor Fischs shoe
box, and to turn the remainder over
to F'isch's brother.
Mr.. Wilentz forced the prisoner to
admit to another contradiction.
Hauptmann mad blandly told the
jury that ffsch put in most of the
money with which we operated On
the stock exchange"
Today, Hauptmann admitted,
when confronted with another of
the books taken from his home and
in his own handwriting, that the
most Fisch ever could have put into
the account was $1,000.
Quit Job on Ransom Day
The attorney general showed,
through his slashing cross-question-
ing. that Hauptmann, who had only
a little money at the beginning Of
1882, quit his carpenters job the
day the ransom was paid, bought
s40O radio and a s126 pair of field
glasses, sent his wife on a trip to
Germany, went on hunting trips,
took an automobile trip to Cali
fornia, and planned to go to Eu-
rope himself-and that all this pros
perity came to him after the kid
naping.
He also drew from him the dec
laration that he didn't know Violet
Sharpe, the maid at the home of
Dwight w. Morrow, who committed
suicide, or any member of the Lind
bergh or Morrow establishments.
one OF the most damaging pieces
Of evidence introduced we're de-
post slips showing that Hauptmann
continually put silver deposits in his
bank. Hauptmann denied they we're
silver deposits.
They were in bills" he declared,
but I made mistake in making
out the slips
Needed Money. He Says
1t is the states contention that
this silver came to Hauptmann as
change, for small purchases made
with large ransom bills.
Mr.. Wilentz challenged him to
/ tell why, when he had brokerage
account he could dip into, he used
the money taken from its hiding
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