Evening star., 1935-02-01
.HAUPTMANN NEWS
SADDENS MOTHER
Frau PauIina Sits Before
Picture and Sobs SOlici-
tude for Prisoner.

KAMENZ, Germany, February
(NAN.A).-TheSe are anxious days
In the household of Frau Paulina
Hauptmann, mother of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, as the trial of the man
accused of numbering Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr., moves toward its conclu-
sion in Pennington, N. j.
Frau Hauptmann lives in small
two-story house in side street OF this
Saxon country town. She wept ire
uuently as she told her interviewer OF
her sons early life in Germany and
of the mental strain she has expert
enced during the Pennington trial.
Every day has brought me new
troubles, ;" she said. Every day I have
searched for any hopeful bits of news
about the trial that appeared in the
newspapers. Often I have been angry
at the newspapers that bring only bad
things about my son.
Near 10th Birthday Anniversary.
ION the 9Th of July had planned
to celebrate by 10th birthday anniver-
sary with my son and his wife," she
went on. "They had promised we
would be together here in Germany.
Now everything is changed. I know,
though, that everything will come out
all right. I wait every day for some
word from my daughter in-law."
II would like to go to live with my
other son in Dresden. I lived there
two weeks when the news first came
of Richards arrest. But cannot
leave this house alone. Every day my
friends come and comfort me. Some
day everything will be different"
For a moment she was unable to
60 ON. She put her hands over her
eyes as she bent over and wept.
She said it was easy to explain why
he and his companions tried their
hands at robbery almost as soon as
they had returned to Kamenz from the
war.
THE boys were hungry, that's all, u
she said. They found no work and
their families. My husband died in
1917. He worked in one of the quar-
ries here. The money he earned
served to educate the children. Then,
after he died, Richard had no strong
hand to control him. was often too
weak and let him have his own way"
Night had fallen and Frau Haupt-
mann stood up to turn on the light.
with a certain hesitancy, as if she
were not accustomed to have light
so early on Winter afternoons. 1t
was cold in the room. Evidently
Frau Hauptmann does not burn much
cha rQraiypS from
the Government as a pension for the
loss of two sons in the war and for
the rent of three rooms in the little
house is just enough to support her
Bruno's Picture on Wall.
The living room was furnished
with few chairs, a round table, a
red plush sofa and two cupboardS
There were three pictures on the
walls-two, side by side, of the sons
who fell in the war, and across the
room, facing them, picture OF
Bruno. The mother sits facing the
picture of this son upon whom all her
thoughts have been centered for the
last several months.
Asked whether she receives mail
from America, Frau Hauptmann re-
piled: IT have seldom had letters from
America, but follow the trial day by
day in the papers here. ! have not
even kept any of my sons letters"
She rose again and brought small
leather album, saying, This is all
have. My son made it himself. See
how artistically he has bound it in
leather"
The album contained about 20
photographs of Hauptmann's trip to
Florida to visit his sister.