The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-05
HAUPTMANN'S
ALIBI OUTLINED
BY ATTORNEYS
Lindbergh Servants and
GangSterS May Be
Blamed.

Blamed.
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that Col Lindbergh had proof he
was IN contact with them.
3. That envy and enmity for the
Lindberghs among the SOurlands
hill people may have inspired the
kidnapping
4. That the crime was plotted by
underworld characters, well known
TO such New York bOOtlegging cir
Cles as those in which Salvatore
Spitale and Irving Bitz were minor
chieftains.
5. That the Purple Gang of De-
trOit. Mich, a mob then disintegrat-
ing through death and capture, had
an interest.
Fisch May Be Alibi
s. That Isidor Fisch, the deceased
fur cutter who had some vague
business association with Haupt-
mann, was a participant and the
instrument through which Haupt-
mann became innocently involved.
Today. three days after the Ger
man sphinx strobe vigorously into
the Hunterdon County courtroom,
to sit silently and heard himself
branded the murderer, both prose-
CutiOn and defense had presented a
clear - and startling - picture OF
what each hopes to convince the
jury of cOmmOn-sense men and
women is the truth.
On the one hand there were the
Cloan-cut words of Col. Lindbergh,
a serious but bOyish figure as he sat,
CrOss-legged but with intense mien,
on the witness stand and gave the
dramatiCe sequence of events as
they occurred from the evening of
March /, 1882, when he came home
10 find his child ill-and later TO
discover the empty crib.
Col. Lindbergh, in answer to two
direct questions. has declared his
belief that Bruno Hauptmann is the
killer of his child. He said. first,
that the voice of the ransom
snatcher in the Bronx was that of
the prisoner He said. again, that
it is his belief that Hauptmann kid
mapped the child.
Defense Attack Sensational
Against those declarations, the
defense has attacked. more heatedly
than had been expected, and with
inSlnuatiOns that brought gasps of
aStOniShment from spectators within
the ancient courtroom, every point
Of the Lindbergh testimony.
It sought to throw doubt on the
efficiency and truthfulnesS of the
New Jersey State Police. It inSin-
uated that Betty Cow. the Scottish
nursemaid who watched over the
baby from its birth, knew more than
has been exposed. It sought 20
portray Col. Lindbergh as a de-
luded father. badly fooled by the
police and other crime hunters. who
is mistaken in all his conclusions.
The Photographic home picture
presented to the jury by the states
witnesses. from Anne Morrow Lind
bergh down to Mrs. Elsie Whatelv
widow of the late butler in the
Lindbergh menage-the butler who
received the police and newspaper
men at Hopewell on the night of
the tragedy with grave and solemn
expressions of pity and concern
was one of peace and contentment.
The one presented by the defense
is one of internal intrigue. of under
currents of illicit love making. and
Of something even more sinister,
perhaps villainous plotting that had
its tragic end in the Hopewell
tragedy.
Witnesses Are mistaken
Thus far, in the startling story as
it has been unfolded. first by the
courageous Anne Lindbergh and
thereafter by her husband and some
of the minor characters in the
drama. the prosecution stoutly has
resisted all the defenSe's efforts to
force a single witness either to
change his story or to admit that
a different Interpretation could be
placed upon it.
Lindbergh has flashed back indig-
nant answers to Edward j. Reilly'S
red-faced suggestions that he had.
within his menage. a single disloyal
servant.
The play of passion that is evil
dent in the clash of testimony has
gone completely over the head Of
the thin-lipped prisoner, who sits.
blankly facing his accuSers. between
two Stalwart state troopers and a
deputy sheriff.
The eyes of the entire audience in
the rapidly moving drama constant.
tlv move from the witnesses in the
antique chair beside Justice Thomas
w. Trenchard'S bench. to Haupt-
mann, whose wen-knit frame ap-
pears almost lost in the crowd of
CounSellorS, witnesses and newspaper
correspondents surrounding him.
Expression Never Changes
Then their eyes turn back. for
after all there is little TO see. He is
a perpetual enigma. staring, staring.
staring into-what?
1t happens. under the Circum-
stances that brought about a dis
tribution of seats in this absorbing
drama. that this correspondents
chair is within - inches Of Haupt-
mann'S broad back. I could reach
out and touch him. Sitting so close
to him. with a view of his profile
an occasional glance into the deep
pockets OF his sunken blue eyes. and
an opportunity TO observe the flex
OF his muscles. one has a chance 10
observe at close range the complete
infleXibility of his mt cleS.
There is a little vein that runs
from ahOvn his oar dOuO rbro1ror