Evening star., 1935-01-19
Maze of Money Explored
During Court Recess to
Combat State Evidence
Account Was Small.
DEPOSITS WERE KNOWN
FOR QUANTITY OF SILVER
Reilly Says Accused Man Prob
ably Will Go on Stand Next
Observation-Disclosures Case
Near End-Money Phase Is
Last for Wilentz Forces.

1Copyright, 1885, by the Associated PressJ
PENNINGTON, N. j., January 49,
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense
explored today a maze of money,
drafting evidence from his financial
accounts to oppose the States testl-
mony that he had a mysterious in
come of $49,960-only $40 less than
the Lindbergh ransom figure.
Wading through Hauptmann's bank
and brokerage statements during the
week end trial recess, granted by JUS
tice Thomas w. Trenchard for this
purpose, defense attorneys said they
would show Lindbergh ransom notes
failed to appear in a single one OF the
accounts.
Edward ]. Reilly, the florid chief Of
defense, took pains to bring out that
before the kidnapping, the Hauptmann
bank accounts already showed sizeable
deposits, evidences of the frugal habits
of the Bronx carpenter and his pale.
care-worn wife.
The State took immediate steps for
a counter attack, Attorney General
David T. Wilentz asserting that on the
eve of the ransom payment, the
Hauptmann balance in one bank was
only $20390, and that year later,
the amount had swollen to $2,52835.
Silver Coin Deposits.
Basing its case further on a con-
tention that the money banked was
"a
prosecution established that in an
other account in Mount Vernon. N.
Y. bank, the Hauptmann deposits
were known for thei-' number of sill
Ner coins.
The prosecution drew into its the
ory of the Lindbergh case picture
of Hauptmann, cautiously passing
the ransom bills in minor purchases
and banking all the change.
The portrait fitted into the COM
posite picture 1t has tried to paint of
Hauptmann throughout the trial
that of a cool, calculating person,
plotting every step far in advance,
carrying out the kidnapping and work.
ing out way to enjoy the proceeds.
Hauptmann himself, after a week
of emotional climaXes during which
he exploded against the States ac-
cusations, relaxed in his cell, free for
two days from appearances in the
crowded court.
Smiling broadly in anticipation of
the brief period of seclusion, before
resuming his part in the judgment on
his life for the Staying of the kid
naped Lindbergh baby, he talked
cheerfully to his wife, Anna, through
the screen door of his bull pen.
Mrs. Hauptmann brought him word
of their son, Mannfried, who is with
relatives in the Bronx.
Proud of Wife.
The accused man was proud of her,
she said, for her outburst in court
yesterday against former friend and
neighbor, Mrs. Ella Achenbach, who
was testifying that Hauptmann and
his wife took trip on the day of the
Lindbergh kidnapping, March l, 1882,
and that Hauptmann had a leg injury
when he returned
Mrs. Achenbach," she cried, you
are lying!"
She insisted that the outcry, follow
ing by single day a similar denunci-
alton by her husband of another
State witness, was not contemplated
in advance.
How could I plan it?" she. said. "I
didn't know she was coming"
AS for Hauptmann's reaction to her
action, she said:
My husband is always proud of
me-"
This weekend recess in the trial
the third Saturday off, though Justice
Trenchard was still intent on pushing
it through quickly to a conclusion
gave the old Hunterdon County Court
House but one day of rest.
The first week end Sheriff John H.
Curtiss let visitors inspect the court
both off days; the second, deciding it
was too much for his men, he per-
mitted no visitors, but this week end
he struck happy medium, deciding
to permit sightseeing Sunday only.
The Pennington Rotary Club, want
sng the thousands to keep coming with
CONS jlngling in their pockets to be
thrown in local circulation, proffered
the services of its members as volun-
tary police and guides. The sheriff
acceded willingly.
For the jury, there was the prospect
OF repetition of their diversion of
last week end-a bus ride through the
countryside.
Dissension Denied.
Reilly has denied the defense is be-
ing undermined by internal dissension,
asserting:
There may have been differences
OF opinion among us, but we never
INDUCED in personalities.
Expressing qualification at the pro-
sress of the trial, Reilly said he be-
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