The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-05
Theories Cited By
 Defense Attorneys
tcontinusd from Page D

(Continued manor at Hopewell, servants whom the Lindberghs trusted, might have participated in the crime.
 2-That John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, who was convicted of ob- structing justice by committing his celebrated hoax, actually was in touch with the real kidnapers and that Colonel Lindbergh had proof he was in contact with them.
 3-That envy and enmity for the Lindberghs among the Sourlands hill people may have inspired the Kidnapping.
 4-That the crime was plotted by underworld characters, well known to such New York bootleg ging circles as those in which Sal vatore Spitale and Irving Bitz were minor chieftains.
 5-That the purple gang of De- troit, Mich, a mob then disinte- grating through death and capture, had an interest.
 6-That Isidor Fisch, the de- ceased fur cutter who had some vague business association with Hauptmann, was a participant and the instrument through which Hauptmann became innocently in- volved.
 Pictures of Both Sides
 Today, three days after the Ger man spinx strode vigorously into the Huntderden county courtroom to sit silently and hear himself branded the murderer both prose- cution and defense had presented a clear and startling picture of what each hopes to convince the jury of common-sense men and women is the truth.
 On the one hand there were the clear-cut words of Colonel Lind- bergh, a serious but boyish figure as he sat, cross-legged but with intense mien, on the witness stand and gave the dramatic sequence of events as they occurred from the evening of March 1. 1892, when he came home to find his child i'll and later to discover the empty crib.
 Lindbergh, in answers to two di- rect questions, had declared his be- lief that Bruno Hauptmann is the killer of his child. He said, first, that the voice of the ransom snatcher in the Bronx, was that of the prisoner. He said, again. that 1t is his belief that Hauptmann kidnapped the child.
 Bitter Defense Attack
 Against those declarations, the defense has attacked, more heat edly than had been expected, and with insinuations that brought gasps of astonishment from specta- tors within the ancient courtroom every point of the Lindbergh tes- timony. It sought to throw doubt on the efficiency and truthfulness of the New Jersey state police. II insinuated that Betty Cow, the Scottish nursemaid who watched over the baby from its birth, knew more than has been exposed. Il sought to portray Lindbergh as a deluded father, badly fooled by the police and other crime hunters who Is mistaken in all his conclu- sions. The photographic home picture presented to the jury by the states witnesses, from Anne Morrow Lindbergh down to Mrs Elsie Whately, widow of the late butler in the Lndbergh menage--the but. Ter who received the police and newspapermen at Hopewell on the night of the tragedy with grave and solemn expressions of pity and concern--was one of peace and contentment.
 Internal Intrigue The one presented by the. defense is one of internal intrigue. of un. dercurrents of illicit love-making and of something ever more sinis. ter, perhaps Wllainous plotting that had it's tragic end in the Hope. well tragedy.
 Thus far, in the startling story as 1t has been unfolded, first by the courageous Anne Lindbergt and thereafter by her husband and some of the minor characters IT the drama, the prosecution stoutlJ has resisted all the defenses eff. forts to force ingle witness either to change his story or to ad. init that different Interpretation could be placed upon 1t.
 Lindbergh has flashed back in dignant answers to Edward J Reiily's red-faced suggestion, that he had, within his menage, a sin gle disloyal servant.
 Over Head of Prisoner The play of passion that Is evi. dent in the clash of testimony has gone completely over the head Oi the thin-lipped prisoner, who sits blankly facing his accusers, be- tween two stalwart state troopers and a deputy sheriff.
 The eyes of the entire audience | in the rapidly moving drama con stantly move from the witnessei | in the antique chair beside Justice Thomas w. Trenchard's bench. tt Hauptmann, whose well-knit frame appears almost lost in the crowt of councillors, witnesses and news paper correspondents surroundini him.
 Then their eyes turn back. foi after all there Is little to see. H. is a perpetual enigma, staring staring, staring into--what?
 Study of Hauptmann
 It happens, sunder the circum stances that brought about dis tributlon of seats in this absorbini drama, that this correspondence chair Ia within 12 inches of Haupt mann's broad back. 1 could reacl out and touch him. Sitting so clos ts~ Ats. swG4t. q wfm9u N4 MIm DFOUIe