Evening star., 1935-01-28
RANSOM WORDS
SPELLED ON STAND
Bruno Quizzed on Accounts
in Notebook and Boat
Trip.
BY the Associated Press.

fronted Attorney General David T.
wilentz today and waited for the State
to take up anew its pounding cross
examination.
The court room was tense with eX-
pectancy, for every one looked to the
Hauptmann Wilentz duel for the dra-
matte high-water mark of the four
week-old trial.
Rigid admission rules were clamped
down by Sheriff John H. CurtiSs for
the court session. The court room,
however, with its frost scribbled win
dows, presented its usual packed ap-
pearance, despite efforts to reduce the
number of spectators.
Attorney General WilentZ, dark and
trim in a gray double-breasted suit,
was at the prosecution table early. He
talked animatedly with State aids.
always moving about restlessly as If
in nervous impatience to get on with
his cross-eXamination of the pale,
dark-eyed German accused OF the
Lindbergh murder.
AS the court filled up, Clifton Webb,
Broadway dancing star, and Ozzie
Nelson, orchestra leader. took reserved
seats in the front row of the audience.
Half Smile Seen
on Hauptmann Lips.
Hauptmanh. his wrists firmly Sc
cured by his guards, was guided to
his seat 20 minutes before court was
called to order. Pale but seemingly
unconcerned about the throng of spec
tators, he wore the same stoical ex-
preston that has so frequently char
acterized his court entrances and exits.
There was faint half smile lurking
about his lips
Members of the defense staff, c.
Lloyd Fisher and Egbert Rosecrans,
arrived at their table in the court
room a moment before the defendant
took his seat.
He was no sooner seated than he
was engaged in a sober conference
with Fisher A few minutes later he
was speaking to Rosecrans. He spoke
with deliberation and there was a
smile on his face, as if he were con-
fldent.
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard ar
rived at court at Gas.
Mrs. Hauptmann, her face wreathed
in smiles, came in as the jury filed
into the box She held her regular
morning chat with the defendant.
Reilly Arrives,
Talks With Aides.
Edward j. Reilly, chief defense
counsel, came to the court room in
his customary immaculate attire. and
Immediately conferred with Haupt-
mann and Fisher.
Large handwriting charts of the
States experts were brought to court
by State police officer and placed,
with the kidnap ladder, behind the
witness stand. Other State exhibits
lined up against the front wall i'll
cluded the Hauptmann closet panel
bearing the address and telephone
number of DR.. John F. Condor ami
the attic floor board, part of which
the State charges was used in max
ing the ladder.
Court convened at 1901 am, when
Justice Trenchard mounted the bench
and raped for order.
The jury was polled, after Justice
Trenchard rebuked the audience for
the loud buzz of conversation. With
q 1.-THE, firm step, Hauptmann went
back to the witness stand.
Inspector Lewis j. Bruckman of the
Bronx police and William E. Frank,
Federal investigator, who traced
Hauptmann'S accounts, were present
near the State table to check the de-
fendant's testimony as the cross ex-
animation developed.
Bruno Questioned
On Airplane Ride.
Wilentz started cross-examination
@. Mr.. Defendant, have you ever
been up in an airplane?
A. Yes, in Los Angeles.
Hauptmann locked swiftly around
the room. His face was set as he look
ed at Wilentz. His voice was colorless
as he made answer to the first ques-
tions in sing-song tones.
Wilentz's voice was low, encourag-
ing.
@. That was a pleasure trip?
A. Yes.
@. On that trip West your wife and
Gloeppenburg (Hans Kloeppenburg, a
1rlenOD were Will yOu!
A. Yes.
@. Were you on a boat anywhere
on that trip?
A. I can't remember. CHe shook his
head)
Q. Do you remember paying rs
cents piece for ride on a boat,
for yourself, Mrs. Hauptmann and
Kloeppenburg, altogether $2.25?
A. can't remember.
@. But you won't say you didn't?
A. can't remember.
@. You kept an account of your
expenses on this trip to California.
A. Yes.
@. Groceries, and everything?
A. Yes
O. You kept accounts every day
since you arrived in this country?
A. Not the first day. In year
or two.
Says He Kept
All Accounts.
@. Once you started keeping ac-
counts, you kept every item?
A. Not every item.
@. You kept the money your wife
earned, the money you earned, the
money people owed you?
A. Yes.
@. And at the end of the year you
figured up what you and your wife
were worth?
A. Yes.
O. You've always been very careful
about figures?
A. Well, I'd say so.
@. You've always been very careful
about money?
A. Yes.
@. You were trying to accumulate
money for your family right up to
1881?
A. Yes.
@. When you put the figures in the
book. they were correct-truthfu
figures?
A. Them figures are true but left
some Of them out Of 1t.
@. Whatever the figures are In the
book. that is honest and true?