Evening star., 1935-01-22
Kidnap Ladder
Admitted as
Evidence.
STATE NEARS
END OF CASE
Cast of Cemetery
Footprint Is
Revealed.
(copyrisht, 1885, by the Associated Pressh

(Copyrisht, 1885. by the Associated Pressl
FLEMINGTON. N. j.. January 22.-
Bruno Richard Hauptmann today was
identified for the second time as man
seen lurking near the Lindbergh home
before the kidnapping and murder of
Baby Charles A Lindbergh, jr.
Millard Whited. logger of the
Sourland country surrounding the
Iindbergh estate, testified he saw
Hauptmann in the vicinity on Febru-
AIRY 18. 1882, and again between the
25th and 9th of February, the same
year
The Lindbergh baby was stolen on
March l, 1892.
Ladder Is Admitted.
Before Whited's Identification. the
State succeeded finally in its fight to
get the kidnap ladder into evidence
and the defense brought out the fact
that plaster cast had been made of
q footprint which it claimed would
Show Hauptman was not the man who
collected the $4,000 Lindbergh ran
som in st. Raymond's Cemetery, the
Bronx. on April 2. 1892
Edward j. Reilly, chief of the de-
1cnSe staff. said he hoped to get the
plaster cast into court for comparison
with Hauptmann's foot, and hoped as
well to play a phonograph record
which witness said DR.. John F. (Jaf-
Sle) Condor made of his conversation
with the man to whom he paid the
ransom A Department of Justice
agent, Thomas H. Sisk, said both were
in Washington
Whited testified he knew every per-
son of the vicinity around his farm,
which was separated from the Lind
bergh estate by 10-foot strip.
Tells of Seeing Hauptmann.
Did you see any strangers?" the
attorney general asked him.
Yes"
Did you see Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann?"
I did"
Relating the first time he saw the
man he said was Hauptmann, Whited
said:
Il was coming home for dinner
with my car and he came out nearly
on my ground or, would say, within
or 3 feet, one way or the other
I could show you the very spot if I
were there-and he stepped out 10
the side of the road when 1 came face
to him, with the car, and I saw him
when I was coming to him, and when
passed through my window I look
ed at it and wondered why and where
he came from"
The second time:
He was on the cross road that
leads to Zion and I was coming up
the road with the truck and trailer
and I saw him on the cross road
standing"
Whited said he saw his face both
times. being the first time only
feet from him, and the second time
only feet. He asserted he was
positive in his identification, that
there could be no mistake
Identification Attacked.
Whited still was undergoing a Wig
orous cross examination when
luncheon recess was declared. The
defense sought to show his identifi-
cation was faulty, that he had per-
Sonal motive for publicity, and that
he first reported seeing the stranger
near the Lindbergh home in order to
avert suspicion from himself. He held
fast to direct testimony.
Reilly elected the information about
the cast in renewed croSS-examination
of SlSk just after the State had won
a major victory in gaining admittance
OF the Lindbergh kidnap ladder into
the evidence.
The State objected to Reilly's ques-
ton as to whether a footprint had
been taken at the cemetery.
L submit" the defense chief de-
clared, that it was not Hauptmann's
and under the rules of evidence we
should be entitled to ask this witness
what he knows about it."
Admits Cast Made.
Justice Thomas w. Trenchard
agreed.
I learned that a cast of a foot
print was taken" SiSk said but
added:
There is no positive connection be-
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