Evening star., 1935-02-09
Anne Returns
tOCOurt With
Mother.
MAID TO FIGURE
In TESTIMONY
Three Others Will
Clear Servant
of Guilt.
tcopyrisht. 1885. by the Associated Press)

(Copyrisht. 1885, by the Associated Press)
PENNINGTON, N. J., February O.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh came back to
court today with her mother, Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow, who was called as
a rebuttal witness for the State in the
trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
1t was the first appearance of the
bereaved young mother since she
testified on the second day of the
trial.
The two women-mother and
grandmother of the kidnapped and
slain baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.-
slipped in quietly after court opened
for the tTenty-ninth day OF the trial.
Louis Bornmann, a New Jersey
State trooper, was on the stand to
rebut defense witnesses whose testi-
mony was offered to cast doubt upon
the States ladder evidence against
Hauptmann.
To Clear Violet Sharpe.
Mrs. Morrow's testimony was sought
BY the State to rebut defense lnsinua-
tions involving her late maid. Violet
Sharpe. The maid committed suicide
Just before she was to be questioned
for the fourth time in connection
with the kidnap investigation.
The defense used two witnesses,
who said they saw her or saw a
woman resembling her on the kidnap
night, March l, 1882. One said she
carried a gray blanket and was near
a Yonkers, N. Y, ferry early in the
evening-before the time of the
crime-and another said he saw a
woman resembling her carrying a
baby wrapped in blanket and being
assisted onto a street car by man
who resembled the late Isador F1sch.
This incident was alleged to nave
taken place later, in the early hours
OF the next morning
Bornmanns rebuttal testimony at
tackled the opinion of a defense Wit.
ness who qualified as an eXpert and
said that an attic floor board il evl-
dence showed no tool marks wnlch
should have been present If the board
was ripped from its joists.
Nails Are Identified.
The trooper said he pulled the
board up with his bare hands. He
also identified nails taken from 1t
and they were put into evidence. The
defense expert had said he believed
the nails never had been used.
Arthur ]. Koehler, Federal wood
EXPERT. followed Bornmann. He was
considered the States star witness in
its case in chief, for he testified it
was his positive opinion that left
hand upright of the Lindbergh KID
nap ladder was ripped from the floor
ing of Hauptmann's attic in the
Bronx; also that the plane marks on
the ladder had been made by Haupt-
mann's own plane.
The defense attacked the plane eVl-
dence with a demonstration to snow
that hicks in a blade left different
marks when the plane was held at
different angle. Koehler's rebuttal TO
this was that the marks, though closer
Or farther apart according to the angie
of the plane. we're still telltale.
He directly disputed one OF the de-
fense experts who brought to court
Two pieces VI WUOQ, d1IU odlu Why "SAN
Of different origin though their grains
matched. Koehler said they were OF
the same piece. The object OF the
defense had been to show that the
matching of the ladder rail with the
attic fioorboard could be coincident,
and not necessarily discriminating.
One of the points made for the
defense by two practical lumbermen
was that the attic board could not
be a part of the ladder rail because
it had more knots than the rail. Both
said it was a butt board. from the
base of the tree. and that the rail
was a top board from the top of the
tree.
Koehler said the opposite. The
attic board, he testified was above the
rail in the tree.
1T is common knowledge" he said,
shat when tree gets to be of size
30 that lumber can be cut from it,
there are practically no limbs near
the bottom of the tree, but the limbs
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