Evening star., 1935-02-05
Bundles Cited
in Story Told
by Woman.
FURRIER NEAR
SCENE, CHARGE
Taxi Driver Says
He Saw Four Near
Cemetery.
Running account OF today's
teStimony-Page A.

(Copyrlght, 1895, by the Associated Press
PENNINGTON. N. j.. February S.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense
lost three legal skirmishes today and
openly accused the dead Isador Fisch
of collecting the $50,000 Lindbergh
ransom.
The court ruled out an effort by the
defense to show that Fisch visited a
woman late in 1888 at Bayside. Long
Island, bearing certain packages.
The court also suppressed, tempo
rarily at least. defense subpoena
which would have required Col. H.
Norman SchWarzkopf to produce the
releases he gave to newspapers during
the Lindbergh kidnap investigation
and ruled out the testimony of a
theater patron with which the defense
intended to attack the memory OF a
State witness who said Hauptmann
spent ransom bill on November 26,
1893.
To Attack Condor.
The defense hinted. through ques-
tionS to a Department of Justice
agent, John E. Seykora, that it might
attack the mental condition of DR..
John F. (Jafsie) Condor. Lindbergh
Intermediary, who testified he paid
Hauptmann the ransom money n q
Bronx graveyard on the night of
April 2. 1882
Through Phillip Moses, a Bronx
taxi driver. the defense sought to show
the presence of four mysterious men
near the graveyard on the night of
the payment.
Among many other witnesses who
took the stand was Mrs. Maria Muel-
Ter, Mrs. Hauptmann's niece, who said
Hauptmann was at his own birthday
party on the night of November 26,
1888 when he was alleged. to nave
spent a ransom bill in a theater. The
date was prior to the day on which
Hauptmann claimed Fisch gave nm
part of the ransom money in an un-
opened shoe box.
Edward J. Reilly, defense chief
counsel. asked the agent Seykora if
he knew of any report in existence
which showed that DR.. Condor had
been examined by alienists.
Il have never heard of any such
report" the agent said.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
denied that there was any such fact
Quiz on Eccentric" Rumor.
did your investigation disclose that
In the Bronx he was looked upon as
eccentric?" Reilly asked.
Il wouldn't say so. generally" said
Seykora. LAS a general term, no.
am not qualified to say whether he is
looked upon as being eccentric or not +"
Did your investigation disclose the
fact that he sometimes dressed as a
woman and masqueraded around the
neighborhood?"
mo, sir, it disclosed no such fact"
Did anybody in official life, in
Washington. from the President-not
this present President, but the Presi-
dent then, stay your hand toward Dr.
Condon?"
Never in the slightest way that I
know of, no sir"
Leader in Civics.
Ill SIOoS-chdlillIldtlOIl WlltIlIZ dSkeU
Seykora:
rs it not a fact that DR.. Condor
was known throughout the Bronx as
a leader in Boy Scout, Girl Scout
and other civic movements and as
patriotic citizen?"
"Yes, sir"
With view to showing that Fisch
was the collector of the ransom, the
defense put on the stand Mrs. Bertha
Hoff, who testified that she was Wis
tied about November, 1888. by Fisch
and farmer named Budreau, who
lived at Lebanon, N. j., 20 miles from
the Lindbergh estate.
The visit, she said. was at her home
at Bayside, Long Island.
Reilly, fighting to get into the
record testimony that Fisch carried
bundles at the time, declared hotly:
During the day if I can get my
witnesses here from New York, I hope
to prove Isador Fisch was the man
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