The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-30

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 Ehe~Was carried through the tale tt her marriage to the defendant, her honeymoon. her frugal at- tenapts 10 save money, her humble Wofk as Q waitress in Christian FFederiksen's bakeshop.
 And she was given an Oppor. tuuiiy to settle an old score-with Mr4 Ella Achenbach, the neighbor zshQ testified the Hauptmanns wis., tied her two days after the Lind nereh Kidnapping and told of hav- ing been away on a little trip.
 1r a firm voice she declared that visit took place after her trip to California, and not after the kid. uaplng, and she intimated that Mrs Achenbach held an ancient grudge against her because of the non. payment of Q debt.
 When Mrs Hauptmann conclud- cd her direct examination at noon, she had related how she purchased q pair of field glasses for her hus. band--but the purchase was made after the kidnaping. And tha. proved that Hauptmann did not watch the Lindbergh home through those glasses, as the state once aE6ufned he did.
 Believed Husband Faithful
 She had tossed her head in the air and proclaimed her belief in hershusEand's faithfulnes, and had tfIsisted there was no romance in his friendship for her friend. Mrs Greta Henkel.
 But her most important testi- mony had been reserved for the last. It related to the broom closet in which Hauptmann says he kept the. shoe-box full of money left him by Isldor Fisch.
 She declared with positiveness and finahty, that she never knew it was there, and demonstrated how she would have to stand on fiptoes to reach the shelf in the closet where it was kept.
 Bruno Hauptmann watched his wife on the stand and suddenly tears came to his eyes when she told of a trip to Germany where she. visited his mother. He raised his hand to his eyes and wiped them.
 Attorney General David T. Wilentz, In softer voice than that 7 he used when he was prodding Hauptmann with questions, insis- tently directed her attention to the fact that she kept other material on that closet shelf-soap coupons, raga---nnd tried to force her to gay she would have noticed the shoe-box if 1t had been there.
 she admitted, willingly. that those things were there. Ito be kept there" but insisted that In reach- Ing. for them, she never caught sight of the Fisch shoe-box.
 When the noon recess was called, WiIentz was questioning her with a somewhat kindly severity upon some discrepancies between the stories she told Bronx police offl- cialE, and her story of today.
 Cpl Charles A. Lindbergh sat duietly. gazing steadily at her, ap. Darently deeply interested in her testimony.
 Mrs IIauptmann has to return . Tor further cross examination in the afternoon session.
 Left Stand Unsllaken
 Bennington, N. J., Jan. 30 = (UR)-Bruno Richard Hauptmann left the witness stand today un- shaken in his denials that he par ficipated in the Kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.l
 His Wife, Anna Schoeffler Haupt- mann followed him as the second witness in his defense.
 During four days of testimony, the Bronx carpenter beat back against one of the most biting ex- amiratiops in the history of Ameri- cafls criminal trials. Sometimes brought to raging outbursts by the maddening questions thrown at him by the fiery attorney general, nevertheless he had resisted every attempt of the prosecutor to con. derln him out of his own mouth
 For four days he had told of those vague business relationships with his one-time friend, lsidor Fisch. through which he claims he eventually came into possession of tho ransom money found in h s garage
 He had gone through his own books, with furrowed brow, and tried to recollect the source of thousands of dollars that passed through his hands during the 90 months after the Lindbergh kid naping.
 He had denied, with shouts, every insinuation of the state that he. was associated either in the Kidnapping, the murder. or the Lndbergh extortion, and clung desperately to his story that 1sidor Fisch left the ransom money with him in shoe box-and that he