The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-10
was found and you knew this to be a fact? A. I don't recall having said this. won't say didn't.

was found and you knew this to be fact? A. don't recall having said this. won't say didn't.
 Q. After the defendant was ar- rested did you ask Detective Calla- han of the Bronx for some pictures oe this defendant so you could study them? A. No.
 c. Did anybody give you pic- lures of the defendant? A. No.
 Q. Did you say to Callahan Don't tell anyone you gave me the pictures?" A. No. (Emphatically).
 Q. Where were you when you say you saw Hauptmann in the Bronx in the latter part of August, 1884? A. was riding in bus.
 Q. Give me the number of the bus? A. don't remember.
 Q. Give me the chauffeur's H. ccnse? A. didn't take it.
 Q. Did you make an outcryq A. In the bus, yes.
 Q. Give me the name of some- one who heard you? A. didn't ask anyone for his name.
 Q. Did you tell the bus driver to run this man down? A. No, he couldn't run him down in that traffic, 50 people might have been killed.
 c. Where did the man go? A. He disappeared in the woods up by Pelham parkway.
 c. Then 1t is your sworn testi- mony that you saw this man you say you paid the ransom to-the man who double crossed you and you made no effort to capture him? A. I couldn't.
 Q. Do you recall g. detective or investigator named Val O'Farrell? A.. I never saw him.
 Q. Do you remember being, on the piazza of your home 0 few days after the defendants arrest and talking to O'Farrell? A. I never talked to him in my life.
 Condon was shown a picture of O'Farrell and said he had never seen the man.
 Q. You know he's dead, don't you? A. That makes no differ ence. This is the truth.
 Q. Did you ever rent farm near Hopewell, N. J.? A. No.
 c. Did you ever know Mrs Day?
 Q. Do you know Mrs Peacock2 A. do.
 c. Do you know Bernard Eihl? A. know Captain Eihl, the name Bernard is strange.
 Q. Did you ever tell anyone at City Island you were receiving mall from the kidnapers?
 An objection to the question was sustained.
 o. I ask you whether you ever received this letter? (Reilly hand ed him letter.. A. Yes.
 Q. When? A. can't say ex- actly.
 Q. Can you say if this letter was received during ransom negotia- tons? A. couldn't say. Q. Did you receive this letter? GA second one was given him). A.. Yes. in November, 1882. The letters were offered In evi- dence by Reilly. Justice Tren- chard termed the procedure irreg- ular. The letters were admitted there was no state objection--on the groun it was evidence for the defendants case.
 Reilly led out of the crowd a woman in a green dress and hat, and brought her up to the witness chair. Her name was given only as Mrs Koeran."
 Q. Did you ever see this lady before?
 Jafsie looked at her intently, and said:
 q believe she came to my house one time with 6 Mrs Rush." Q. Did yiu give her two letters and did you tell her that the hand writing in those letters correspond ed to that in the ransom notes? !? A. Not that recall.
 Mrs Koeran, middle aged woman, turned and went back to her place in the section reserved for witnesses.
 WiIentz asked that the letters. as evidence, be read to the jury. Reilly protested that the letters would be more intelligible to the jury when the defense's case was in progress.
 Finally the state agreed the let- ters could be withheld temporarily.
 c. Weren't you transferred af- ter being principal 3 years of q public school 32 at the teachers re- quest?
 A. At my request. he1lly ana Wtlentz engaged III debate on the method of question: ing.
 Wllentz protested the "assassina- ton of witness by inference A moment later Reilly thun- dered:
 Isn't 1t 6 fact that you were transferred from the public school by the board of education at the request of teachers for conduct uri- becoming gentleman with q woman teacher?" 4"No," condon replied smiling. Court recessed for lunch at 12:32. Hauptmann was rushed from the courtroom. Two guards grabbed the prisoners hands. Heretofore he has made his way from the courtroom leigurely--a guard in front and one to his rear.