Evening star., 1935-01-26

request you to write? A. can't re-
call how many times.
@. Many times? A. Many times. I
fell asleep on chair when they poked
me in the ribs and said, "You write, "
O. What poked you in the ribs. A.
can't recall.
@. What with? A. With the hand.
O. While you we're in that room or
in the station house, were you hit with
anything else besides the hand? A.
No.
Q. Were you hit during the writing
during the different periods that you
wrote? A. got couple Of knocks in
them the ribs, when I refused to
write.
@. After the writing, before you
went to the Bronx, did you get any
knocks Of any kind? A. Well, that is
I got the treatment. it wasn't home
at all
@. Well, tell us about it and when
was it. A. It was in the evening, the
next day.
@. Where? A. The goth.
@. What station house? A. New
York police station-at the Greenwich
street
Q. Before you went to the Bronx?
A. Yes.
@. Now, what was the treatment?
Wilentz again objected, but Reilly
argued he would relate the treatment
Hauptmann received with the state
ment he made to District Attorney
Samuel j. Foley of the Bronx, in
which he said he had been well treat
ed. Frederick A. Pope, associate de-
fense counsel, said the defense will ask
the jury to consider the police treat
ment.
Told Truth ITO Certain Extent"
Wilentz opened his cross-examtna-
ton by asking Hauptmann If he had
told the truth. Hauptmann said
he had.
@. You stand on the story that you
gave in the Bronx, in the court house?
A. To a certain extent.
Wilentz asked him whether ne told
the truth to District Attorney Foley
regarding his treatment by police.
Hauptmann said he meant he was
treated fairly in the Bronx.
@. About this case, not about the
treatment, about the Lindbergh case.
the murder, did you tell him the
truth about that? A. To certain
extent.
Aod r. a cartaip evtept Vol
didn't tell him the truth, Is that
it? A. I was
@. Did you tell him the truth only
to a certain extent and lie to an
other extent?
Pope objected and Wilentz with
drew his question. The attorney
general then began questioning
Hauptmann about his German police
record and his illegal entry into the
United States, stressing the word
"sneaked" as he talked and repeating
it half dozen times.
Hauptmann admitted he had plan
ned to return to Germany soon and
was trying to make arrangements to
do so without fear Of arrest.
Wilentz came forward to the wit
ness stand and stood close to Haupt-
mann. In his hand he held little
red note book.
@. Now 1 want to show you little
book and ask you if it is yours. Is
that your handwriting? Take you-
time about it. Look at it. A. Yes,
that's my handwriting.
@. That Is your handwriting? A.
Yes.
Q. Take look at this word par
ticularly. Tell me If that Is your
handwriting, that one word there
mo answer)
@. Or did some policeman write it?
A. II can't remember every word
I put in here.
Unable to Remember.
@. Just the one word, that's all
There are only few words on the
whole page. That one word; tell me
if that is in your handwriting? A.
1t looks like my handwriting, but I
can't remember I ever put it in.
@. You can't remember what? A.
No, no.
@. Don't mix it up now. Just stay
with that word there for a minute;
two dollars and fifty cents. You see
that word? A. Yes.
@. Alongside of it? A. Yes.
@. Are they your figures? A. They
must be my figures.
Q. They must be your figures. Now
let's get to this word that you use.
A. Yes.
Q. Yes. That is your word then,
isn't it? A. I can't remember if I
ever put it in.
@. Well now, this isn't Joke.
You know either it is your handwrit-
ing or it isn't. Is it your handwriting?
A. 1t looks like my handwriting.
@. It looks like your handwriting?
A. Yes.
@. Now, tell me, how do you spell
boat? A. B-o-a-t.
@. Yes. Why did you spell it
b-o-a-d? A. You wouldn't mind to
tell me how old this book Is?
@. don't know how old it is. You
know I don't know A. Let me see it.
Q. Why did you spell boat"
b-o-a-d? A. This book is probably
eight years old.
@. All right. Why did you spell
b-o-a-d2 A. Well, after you make
improvements in your writing.
Q. All right. So that at one time
you used to spell boat" b-o-a-d? A.
Probably eight or ten years ago. and
am not quite sure If I put it in.
@. All right. At one time you
used to spell boat" b-o-a-d, didn't
you. Isn't that right? A. No, don't
think so.
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