The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-14

NOOHJtHUe0 from rage
fingerprint system, to Hsuptmann's
defense counsel to aid them find
f1ngerprints on the ransom notes
that will absolve Haupt1nann. Reilly
accepted the offer and failed to an
nounce who would pay for Faurot's
services Reilly admitted on Friday
that his handwriting experts, ten
Of whose names he has made public,
don't get less than 500 a day"
Hauptmann was penniless at the
time of his arrest.
For the second time in three days
Hearst's New York Journal, which
is playing the Shrewd game of try
ing to build up sentiment in favor
of the Nazi defendant, while avoid
ing the direction towards itself of
the hatred that is generally felt
about Hauptmann, yesterday pub
Hshed the results Of poll which
attempts to show that the ma ority
OF observers here believe Haupt-
mann innocent. The first poll. taken
among Pennington residents by
members Of the Hearst staff. showed
that only five out OF twelve resi-
dents believed Hsuptmann guilty
Yesterdays poll purported to prove
that eight out of every twelve news
papern1en here believe Hauptmann
innocent Of the crime he is charged
with. On Friday, a member of the
Journal staff broadcast what was
intended to be a heaft-rending de-
scription Of the trials and tribula-
tons of being married to a Nazi
criminal charged with murder.
AS predicted by the Daily Worker,
the defense attorneys Of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann have begun
to drag the red herring of anti
Semitism across the trail of guilt
leading to the Nazi adherent.
Led by Edward J. Reilly, former
chief defense attorney of Art Smith,
Khaki Shirt leader. they declared
yesterday they would prove that the
murder and kidnapping of the Lind
berg baby was committed by Isidor
Fisch. a Jewish furrier who died
penniless in Leipzig. Germany last
year. Reilly also stated he would
prove that it was Ffsch. and not
Hsuptmann, who received the ram
som money from DR.. (Jafsie) Con-
don at the Bronx Cemetery last
April.
Reilly announced further that the
two handwriting experts he I'm
ported" from NAH Germany both
contend that the ransom notes al
legedly written by Hauptnann were
in fact written by Ffsch.
It will be remembered that Fisch
was accused by Hsuptmann at the
time Of the latter's arrest on Sep
TENDER 20. District Attorney Samuel
J. Foley of the Bronx, declared. at
that time, that it was impossible
for the Jewish furrier to have COM
mitted the crime. Yesterday, At
tofney General Wilentz of New Jer-
sey, who is prosecuting Hauptmann,
admitted that when Hauptmann
was extradited to New Jersey from
the Bronx, he offered Hauptinann
break" at the trial if the Nazi
would implicate Ffsch or anyone
else In the crime, but that Haupt-
mann told him that Fisch was COM
pletely innocent.
Reilly telephoned to Berlin again
Yesterday afternoon for another
Nazi handwriting expert.
The parade Of the handwriting
experts, which began with the ad-
mission by a Federal agent that
handwriting experts assert that the
signature of J. J. Faulkner, who
deposited $29lo Of the Landberg
ransom money land then commit
ted suicide, 1t is believed when the
Federal Reserve Banks called in all
the gold certificates, couldn't be
Hauptmaf1n's, continued on Friday
with the aged Osborn, the States
chief expert. testifying that Haupt-
man wrote all the ransom notes and
Reilly declaring that the majority
Of his experts are just as certain
that Fisch wrote the notes.
Among Reiliy's experts are two
who have bested Osborn in several
trials and one who has proved Os-
born wrong on every occasion he