Evening star., 1935-01-01
Jersey Calls All Members of
Legal Staff to Go Over
Evidence.
COUNTY ENGINEER WILL
Be FIRST TO TESTIFY
Betty Cow and Col. Lindbergh
Will Be Among First Witnesses
Called by State.
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK, January l R.-
c. Lloyd Fisher, associate counsel
for Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
said today he would invite John
Hughes Curtiss, Norfolk, Va, boat
builder, to testify for the defense
in Hauptmann's trial on a charge
of numbering the Lindbergh baby.
BY the Associated Press.
PENNINGTON, N. j., January L.
The State called a dress rehearsal
today of the court room drama in
which it will attempt to send Bruno
Richard Hauptmann to the electric
chair for the Staying of the kidnapped
Lindoergh baby.
All members of the States legal staff
went to Trenton to review their mass
of evidence in conference that is, as
far as is known, the last preliminary
to the opening tomorrow of the trial
of Americas most celebrated criminal
case
An official source said the program
for the conference included a final
questioning of witnesses regarding
evidence they will place before the
Hauptmann jury.
Hauptmann himself sat stoically in
his cell, seemingly apathetic to the
fate that awaits him, whether it be
acquittal or conviction of the most
widely-storied kidnapping and Staying
of the century.
Roberts to Be Witness.
The first witness, it has been indi-
Gated authoritatively. will be Walter
Roberts. Hunterdon County engineer,
who will place before the jury word
picture of the terrain involved.
Roberts is expected first to describe
the home of Col and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh in the Sourland Mountains,
near Hopewell, whence their infant
son was taken the night of March /,
1892.
The engineer also will tell of the
roads in the vicinity Of the Lindbergh
estate, to show how the kidnaper could
have reached the scene, seized the
child and made his getaway.
Betty Cow, the comely Scotch nurse
maid Of the child, who crossed the
ocean to testify, will recount how she
put the child to bed in his crib in
the second-floor nursery, and how she
looked at the crib a short time later
to find the child gone.
The alarm she gave, first apprising
him of the loss of his son, and the
initial steps he took to notify police,
will be described by Col. Lindbergh.
Mountaineers to Testify.
Then will follow other vital testi-
mony. telling of the arrival of the
first policeman on the scene, the find
ing OF the ladder. with one rung bro
ken, leaning against the wall, and
reaching to the nursery window, dis
covery of footprints in the mud
around the base of the ladder and the
finding of fresh automobile tracks on
the road.
The State will introduce Sourland
mountaineers, who have alleged they
saw Hauptmann, or man closely re-
sembling him, in the vicinity, prior
to the kidnapping.
Through the several weeks, from the
time the child was kidnapped, to the
time its body was found a few miles
away. in the underbrush by a roadside
the State will carry the story, telling
of the futile ransom negotiations and
the payment of s50,000 by the Lind
bergh intermediary, DR.. ]. F. "Jafsie'
Condor, to the supposed kidnaper.
The story will reach a climax in the
arrest of Hauptmann, for possession
of part Of the Lindbergh ransom
money.