The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-25
Hauptmann Is Facing His Most Crucial Day
Spent Very Restless Night After His One Hour on the
 Stand-Must Prove His Aibis To-day

baby was stolen in HopeWell, he called for his wife at the Bronx bakery where she was employed and took her home. April 2 he called at the Majestic apartments, where he was employed as a carpenter, and was told to come back to work in two weeks. That night he had a social evening with friends in his home, he said. This was the night pr John F. Condon paid $50,000 ransom to a man he identified as Hauptmann.
 Pick Up Alibi Thread
 At this point court adjourned, and to-day he must pick up the thread of his alibi and testify that the night some months later when according to the testimony of Mrs Ceceile Barr, theater cashier, he bought ticket with a $5 bill from the ransom money. He will say that he was attending his own birthday party that night.
 To-day he will introduce the ghost of Isidior Fisch, little Ger man furrier who returned to Ger many and died, whom Hauptmann says gave him the ransom money found in his possession when he was arrested. He must strive to convince the jury that Fisch, not he, committed the crime.
 Hauptmann will be under the sympathetic direct question of his counsel, Reilly, all day. Then he must weather cross-e examination which will be forceful if not bru- tai.
 Must Back Alibis
 But of all the things he must account for, most important were the thre pillars of his alibi, the night the ransom was paid, the night Miss Barr received ransom bill through her wicket. He will try to bulwark them all, make them indisputably true in the minds of the jurors.
 One of them particularly needs bulwarking. That one is the con- tention of the defense that Haupt- mann could not have committed the Kidnapping because on the night of March 1, 1882, he was escortz ing his wife home from the Bronx bakery where she worked.
 Reilly tried to prove that yes terday, a brief half hour after Hauptmann went on the stand. He called Christian Frederickson, own- CT of the bakery, to the witness stand. interrupting Hauptmann's testimony to do it.
 Unfortunate Witness From Hauptmann's standpoint he proved to be an unfortunate witness. Frederickson said he thought Hauptmann was in the bakery that night, but was not prepared to say so under oath. To-day Reilly, unsatisfied by the shaky testimony Frederickson gave said he would summon another witness who would say beyond all doubt that Hauptmann could not have been climbing ladder in New Jersey, because he saw him that night in the Frederickson bakery. The witness Is Walter Manley of New York. A Manley appeared in the cast last week when he told New York po- lice he had informatiop of value in the Hauptmann case. No one showed much interest in him here first of the three alibis which Hauptmann offer needs to be prop ped up bit.
  Defense counsel startled the courtroom with the announcement that they would produce a witness who saw ''the actual kidnaper carrying a ladder up the road tc the Lindbergh home on the night of the Kidnapping. This man wal not Hauptmann. they say. Shrewd guessers believe this witness will turn out to be Der Lupica, a Princeton student. wht already has figured in the case, Ht has told his story to authorities but the state chose not to include l him among it's witnesses.
 | Most of the testimony Haupt mann has given so far has beer designed to show that the defend ant was a thrifty German laborer who earned as high as $10 a day sometimes, Reilly is anxious tt prove that Hauptmann had none! l--in banks and hidden in his hom' --long before April 2, 1882, wheI the $50.0O0 ransom was paid. On that date, the state contends Hauptmann suddenly became veal thy as the result of a trip he mad, to St Raymond's cemetery to keel a $50.000 appointment with D Condon.
 Both prosecution and defens agree Hauptmann makes a goo' witness. He was nervous when h first went to the witness stand, bu recovered quickly and began giv ing short. concise answers to Reil ly's questions. He never volunteer ed any information that was no covered by the question.
 "Hauptmann seems to be jus what we always have contended h was." said George K. Large, spe cial assistant attorney general, "a intelligent man."
 "Hauptmann made very fav oorable impression on everybody,
 Reilly said. That impression WI
 be deepened as this trial proceed and he gets his entire story int u