The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-03
LINDBERCH TO
TESTIFY TODAY
IN DEATH TRIAL
Filler to Identity H%auptmann
as Ransom Taker,
Is Report.
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adjournment Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh and his wife. Ann Morrow
Lindbergh. will have told their
stories to the jury.
Col. Lindbergh's testimony will be
one of the highlights Of the trial.
Then, according to a part OF the
states evidence which it permitted
to get out previously, he will lden-
tify the taciturn German carpenter
as the man he saw IN the shadows
the night the ransom was paid who
called out to DR.. Condor: This
way. doctOr-this wayl"
After Col. Lindbergh finishes
his story, Mrs. Lindbergh, then the
nurse, Miss Gov, will testify. They
will su"Dstantiate his description Of
events in the Hopewell home that
March night.
Col. Lindbergh, still Of boyish
appearance, always hatless. but al
WAYS intense. has been for the last
% hours. from the moment ne en-
tered the courtroom escorted by two
state troopers. one Of the most in
terested figures in the jammed
Courthouse.
He seems to have-and this is
pronounced-a decided penchant for
studying the prisoner, who comes
into court, his head down, his eyes
downcast, and who never looks to
the right or left. There have been
times when Col. Lindbergh, stand
ing towering above Hauptmann,
within six feet Of him, has appeared
to be boring through his skull with
his intense eyes.
$50 May Testify
After the Lindberghs and their
nurse maid will follow a long sue
cession of witnesses, perhaps $50 in
all. who will attempt to show that
it was Bruno Hauptmann, the man
with the fiat cheeks and pointed
chin" who abducted the sleeping
child. killed him, and collected $780,
900 for the eturn of a baby he knew
never could return.
A deputy sheriff brought Haupt-
mann in and state troopers sat on
either side of him behind the de-
Tense lawyers table. Hauptmann
was wearing the same gray-brown
suit he had on yesterday, brown
Shoes and a dark necktie. He was
not handcUffed today.
Col. Lindbergh brought a stack OF
legal documents to court and studied
them. His hair was rumpled and he
smiled family. Once he looked over
at Hauptmann sitting seven feet
away, and the line of his lips
frightened.
Mrs. Hauptmann. wearing a black
hat with a veil that drops to her
nose and a black coat, sat against
the rear wall.
Defense attorneys passed an envel-
ope to Hauptmann and he studied
a letter written on a letterhead that
read:
"Success-scientihc sales psychol-
ogy."
on the letter Hauptmann was
reading was a pencil-drawn sketch
that looked like a crude map of the
Sourland mountain house from
which the Lindbergh baby was kid
mapped.
Anne Lindbergh Enters
The court hustled with excitement
as Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a
slender figure in black, entered the
courtroom a half hour after the SeS-
sion began. She was escorted to a
seat close by the occupied by
Mrs. Hauptmann. 1t was Mrs. Lind
bergh's first appearance in court.
The jury "a completed IS hours
after the trial opened, and after
les Sthan five hours of actual court
procedure.
AS additional deputies were sworn
in to guard the jury, Hauptmann
turned and gazed at them. His face
was impaSsive-not a muscle of it
moved-aS he looked at the men
and women who hold his life in
their hands.
His gaze was direct, and he did
not again face the bench until the
fve-minute recess was ordered.
WiIentz Tegins Opening
Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz. then
began the opening statement for
the state.
"A jury of this county" he said,
has returned an indictment charg-