Evening star., 1935-01-22
MARKET DEALS
OF BRUNO AIRED
Theater Cashier Identifies
Accused After TeSti-
mony on Stocks.
By the Associated Press.

PENNINGTON, N. j., JANUARY ZZ'-
Prosecutors struck double blow yes
terday at Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
on trial for the kidnap-murder OF the
Lindbergh baby, with the testimony
of a woman witness.
Mrs. Cecile Barr, little cashier of a
Sheridan square. New York, movie
theater. not only was positive that
the carpenter threw carefully
folded Lindbergh ransom bill into her
cage, but she fixed the date in way
that hit hard at the prisoners alibi
She said it was the night of No.
vember 26, 1888, some time before
ISador FiSch, Hauptmann's frail fur
rier friend, went to Germany.
Hauptmann has claimed that he
first saw the ransom money after
Fisch's death, when he opened shoe
box the furrier left in his keeping.
U. S. Agent Heard.
Yesterday a Treasury agent added
up the once thrifty carpenters 1888
stock purchases to the fat figures OF
s256.44215 The defendants former
timekeeper on a New York apartment
hotel project said he failed to show
I'D for work on April ?, 1882, and
came back but once after that.
DR.. John F. "Jafsie" Condor says
he paid the $4,000 ransom to Haupt-
mann in a Bronx cemetery on the
night of April ?. The State says 1t
has shown that the prisoner handled
every dollar of the money later.
The defense CroSS-eXamined Mrs.
Barr sharply, but failed to shake her
1,yzt TO
tor hiSsed when Hauptmann's defender
suggested she might have sought
moeie contract in return for her
testimony.
He threw a five dollar bill in at
met was folded three times in
eight parts" she testified
Threw" Bill at Her.
"He threw it in at me, threw it in
the window as looked UP at him. And
while 1 was opening it out. he stood
there looking at me and said, We'll,
what do you Want?'
He looked up at the sign. We have
three price tickets. He looked up at
the sign and said one forty. All that
time l looked at him
The pale defendant listened with
close attention-almost. it seemed,
with satisfaction-as William E.
Frank. an agent of the intelligence
unit of the Treasury Department.
related stock deal after stock deal.
He was followed by Edward F. Nor
ton, timekeeper at the Majestic
Apartments, New York. who testified
Hauptmann began working there
about II days before the ransom pay
ment date, but did not show up on
April 2.
On April 4 he came back, collected
his wages, and failed to reappear
thereafter, Morton's records and
Hauptmann'S time card showed.
They we're admitted as evidence
over defense objections.
On April 2. 1882. the day of the
ransom pay-off, Frank placed the
Hauptmann assets at S203 80 in bank
deposits. and S1OO in marketable stocks
so shares of Warner Bros.
Frank revealed also. that Haupt
manns brokerage account de-
posts between April 2, 1882, the date
OF the ransom payment, and Sep
tember 49, 1884, the date of his arrest.
totalled $1694275, and his bank de-
posits, $9.07325, total of S26,0l6.
Found in Garage.
This sum. added to the Sl4,600 in
ransom certificates found in the car
penter's Bronx garage, the Sl20 in
gold coins found in his home, and the
$3.50 he spent to buy a mortgage,
brought the grand total to S44, 486,
Frank said.
The prosecution is expected to show
further that Haupmann loaned Isador
Fisch, his German furrier friend,
$500, a sum that would bring the
grand total of Hauptmanns monetary
possessions above the amount of the
ransom.
To substantiate its theory that
Hauptmann passed the ransom bills
in inconsequential purchases and
banked the change, the State had
Frank total the amount of coins
which figured in the Hauptmann bank
the kidnapping compared to the two
years succeeding it.
In the eight pre-kidnap years the
coins amounted to only STAT, he
said, whereas after the ransom was
paid over the amount of coined money
scared to $453.25.
Losses Exceeded Profits.
The State scrawled more dollar |
signs into the court record when it |
brought out that in 1888 Hauptmann's |
stock market purchases, some of them /,
on margin, totaled $256,4 APIS and |
that his net losses that year exceeded |
his profits by more than $1,000.
The testimony of Frank, prolonged |
by sharp cross from Ed
ward J. Reilly, chief of the defense !
staff, led to Reilly's second unsuccess- !
full demand for miStrial late in the |
day.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz, |
on redirect examination, had elected !
that Hauptmann bought 300 shares of |
Curtis Wright Aviation stock Then |
he asked:
DO you know what business Col. |
Lindberg is in?"
Reilly said this was merely an |
attempt to get again before this jury |
in an improper way" Lindberg's in !
tereSt in aviation, and respectfully" /
asked for a miStrial.
Supreme Court Justice Thomas w. |
Trenchard denied the motion.
Reilly proceeded to an examination !,
of the financial transa ctions of Haupt- |
mann and his wife. intent on showing,
it was apparent. that the carpenter i
was interested in stock SpeculationS |
even before the Lindberg baby was |
born, and that he had considerable |
money in those days.