Evening star., 1935-02-04
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| UPHELDBYF FRIEND
Says Bruno Played Music
With Him on "Ransom
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stopped in the road to read it. How
ever, which I was reading the mail,
looked up End I noticed q car come
around the bend, but before I could
get into motion this car pulls on the
wrong side Of the road aud he parks
on an incline, which Is an entrance
to q cornfield."
Ladder in Auto.
'Now, as you passed that car" c.
Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel asked,
"did you notice anything in the car
other than the occupant?"
"Yes, I did"
what did you see there?"
"I saw two sections Of a ladder"
He said the man In the car didn't
look like foreigner: appeared to be
"a city chap"
He said the car carried Mercer
County, N. j., license plates and was
q dark blue or black sedan.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
produced newspaper articles bearing
his name, in which he was purported
to have said Hauptmann was the
man. Lupica declared he had been
paid for the articles, but said he did
not write them; also, that he COM
planned to the newspapers city editor
about them.
Pictures Identified.
Sommer. surprise witness, insisted
he saw two men and woman with
blond baby on the night the Lindbergh
child was taken, identifying a picture
of Fisch as that of one Of the men
and saying a picture Of the Morrow
maid, Violet Sharpe, who later killed
herself, closely resembled the woman.
Wilentz accsued Sommer of being
q professional witness.
Wilentz said the States present
plans called for nc more than an hour
and a half of rebuttal testimony after
defense evidence is completed.
Chief Defense Counsel Reilly, mean
while, reiterated his complaint over
police handling of his witnesses, and
charged an attempt had been made to
frame" him Sunday at his Brooklyn
home.
THE State police of New jersey"
Reilly said, "have interfered enough
with defense witnesses. Some Of my
witnesses have been told to go home,
that they would not be needed, and
when wanted them they were gone" j"
He did not implicate Wilentz in his
charge, calling him "a square shooter" Z"
To reports that witnesses would be
called to clear Violet Sharpe, Reilly
said:
THE Alphonse- and CASTOR days of
this trial are over"
Tells Of Strange Visit.
The attempt to frame" him, Reilly
said, was made when "a Negro dolled
up in black bearskin coat" called at
his home and offered to fix up a story
about Hauptmann that would be be-
lieved even though 1t was a fake"
Reilly said the man suggested a
walk through the park while he told
the story-a suggestion which Reilly
asserted he suspected was based on the
likelihood some one would take a pic
| ture Of them together for framing
purposes
Il told him to get out" Reilly said
Reilly obtained permission Of New
York City officials to call DR.. NJ. Ed.
ward Marten, deputy chief medica
examiner. to testify in support of the
defense contention the Lindbergh
baby died Of pneumonia and not a
fractured skull.
May Call Schwarzkopf.
Defense counsel also made efforts
to obtain Col. H. Norman Schwarz-
kopf, head of the New Jersey State
police. as defense witness to get into
the record police report on the lad
der.
Hauptmann'S attorneys asserted
they had the original report of State
official setting forth that the builder
Of the kidnap ladder was an un-
skilled left-handed workman. Haupt-
man is right-handed.
Squire johnson, member of the
construction staff of the State De-
partmeAt Of Institutions and Agen-
cies, who made the report in question,
was understood to be reluctant to tes-
tify, according to defense counsel.
Reilly faced legal handicaps in OBJ
tanning either as witness, because of
possible State objections that neither
was qualified expert.
Hauptmann himself showed in
creasing evidences of despondency-a
mental condition in marked contrast
to his exuberance after the conclu-
sion Of his own appearance on the
stand. His guards said his spirits had
fallen steadily as defense witnesses
were croSs-examined.
He was visited yesterday by his baby
son, Mannfried, in the county Jail and
wept when Mrs. Anna Hauptmann
took the baby away.
''He felt very bad" his wife said
after the brief visit.