The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-09
GRANDMOTHER
OF SLAIN BABY
TO AID STATE
Defends Violet Sharpe, Her
Maid, Linked to Crime
by Defense.
CLAIM FlSCH ABS0LVED
Accused Furrier'S Sister
Denies Brother Was
Kidnaper.
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE

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9. - The state hammered
away at the alibi of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann today.
announcing it would summon
Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow,
grandmother of the slain
Lindbergh baby and one of the
country's wealthiest women, TO as
sist it in sending the taclturn Ger
man carpenter to the electric chair.
Holding the first Saturday ses-
sion since the trial began more
than a month ago, Justice Thomas
Trenchard pressed for early con-
cluSion. The SITE will complete It's
rebuttal and the defense may COM
plete it's Sur-rebuttal today. Mon
day and Tuesday the lawyers will
sum up, and late Tuesday, Haupt-
manns fate may be placed in the
hands of the jury.
In rebuttal yesterday the state
disproved to its own satisfaction a
large part of Hauptmann's al1bl.
Today, according to Atty. Gen.
David IT. Wilentz, it will undermine
the last vestige of the defense.
Concentrate on Clearing Fisch
Yesterday, the state concentrated
on clearing the name Of Isidor
Fisch, dead German furrier, whom
Hauptmann claims gave him Lind
bergh ransom money. Today.
through Mrs. Morrow and others, il
will clear the name of Violet
Sharpe. servant in Mrs. Morrow's
household, who committed suicide
Just before she was to be ques-
toned by police in connection with
the kidnapping.
The state will show that Miss
Sharpe had been engaged to the
Morrow butler. She accepted an
other date" the night of the kid
mapping and had been emotionany
overweight at the possibility of her
fiance discovering her fickleness.
The defense insinuated that she and
Fisch belonged to a gang that kid
mapped the baby and collected $4,000
ransom from Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh.
Arch w. LOney, a government en-
ploye, was en- route here from Wash
ington to testify for the defense in
Sur-rebuttal. He was subject of a
bitter accusation by Hauptmann's
chief counsel, Edward j. Reilly, that
Harold L. Ickes. secretary Of interior,
had told Loney not to testify for
the defense.
Mr.. Reilly was reprimanded by
the court and in Washington Mr..
Ickes said Mr.. Reilly was liar"
He had told Loney to testify if he
wanted to. After Mr.. Reilly's ref-
erences, Loney decided to come here.
Hauptmann Is Glum
Mr.. Reilly announced today that
Loney would completely refute the
evidence of Arthur Koehler, gov
eminent wood expert. who testified
that Hauptmann built the kidnap
ladder. Loney however, said he
would testify about the blades of
carpenters planes and would show
that Hauptmann's plane was not
necessarily the plane used on the
ladder.
Hauptmann himself was glum az
the end Of his long trial ap-
preached. He was shaken vest -day
by the testimony of Hannah sch,
who, speaking through a Gel4nan
Interpreter, testified to her brother
ISidor's poverty when he returned
to Germany to die.
He also was made unhappy by
the testimony Of other Witnesses
who said they were with Fisch the
night Of April 2, when the ransom
was paid
Mr.. Wilentz said he would con-
clude his rebuttal at moon or
o'clock" The defense probably will
have not more than two or three
witnesses, including
Loney.
The nerves Of opposing counsel
we're worn to the breaking point to-
day. Mr.. Reilly and Mr.. Wilentz
have snapped at each other during
the last few days, forgetting their
usual courtroom courtesy. Friends
outside Of the court, there is little
Of this friendship showing as they
duel over the testimony Of the few
witnesses.
One Of the rebuttal witnesses was
Leo Singer, a Bronx resident to
whom Louis Kiss was delivering two
pints Of homemade rum on the
night he says he saw Bruno Hsupt-
mann in Christian Fredericksen's
bakery.
Singer will say the delivery was
not March l, 1882, the evening of
the kidnapping, but at least 10 DAYS
later.
Stories that Mr.. Reilly refused to
visit his client in the Hunterdon
County jail last night were ex-
planned by the fact that Mr.. Reilly
was too busy chasing up Loney and
other witnesses" to spend any time
with him.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will not
be called as rebuttal witness, the
prosecution said. ~