Evening star., 1935-01-20
HAUPTMANN TRIAL
TURNS TO RANSOM
Defense to Fight Charge
Accused Spent Cash
at Once.
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the authorities recovered $l4,600,
bringing the general total to $40 $50.
The defense will try to Offset the
damaging effects of this evidence by
showing that none of the ransom
money turned up in Hauptmann's
bank accounts or bokerage transac-
tions. Reilly also has pointed out the
carpenter and his wife were frugal in
their habits and had sizable bank
accounts before the kidnapping.
The State will contend that Haupt-
mann changed ransom bills in small
transactions and deposited numerous
amounts of silver in the bank.
The so-called kidnap ladder, one OF
the most important pieces Of evidence
in the States case, is still unaccepted
as evidence, though it has been
marked for identification. The de-
fense has objected to its admissibllity
on the grounds that its custody has
not been clearly traced.
The State will call Arthur Koehler,
Federal forestry products expert, to
trace the wood and to attempt to
prove that Hauptmann made the
ladder. The tools, found in his Bronx
garage, including a plane, have been
accepted as evidence, and the State
will try to show the plane was used
in the ladders construction.
One of the States witnesses, Octo-
genarian AmanduS Hochmuth, testl-
fed last week he saw Hauptmann in
the vicinity Of the Lindbergh estate
near Hopewell on the day of the kid
naping, and that ladder was IN MS
car.
Neighbor to Testify.
The full list Of the States witnesses
who will be called to place Haupt-
mann in New Jersey on the day OF
the kidnapping or shortly before has
not been announced. Millard Whited.
Sourlands Mountain lumberjack and
neighbor of the LindberghS at that
time, will testify he saw Hauptmann
prowling around the woods in that dis
trict a few days before the kidnapping.
The defense, it IS known, will try to
tmpeach Whited's credibility.
Other State witnesses will be Ben
Lupica, Princeton University student,
and Frank Rossiter, theatrical booking
agent, who will identify Hauptmann
as the man they saw near the Sour
land Mountain estate.
OF greater worry to the defense is
the evidence Of the wood trim panel.
found in closet Of Hauptmann'S
home, and bearing the Bronx address
of DR.. Condor, and Condon's tele-
phone number. Condor, one Of the
States principal witnesses, identified
Hauptmann in court last week as the
man John" to whom he paid the
ransom in St. Raymond's Cemetery,
the Bronx.
The State has still another con-
vincing piece of evidence-the board
on which had been written the serial
numbers of two Of the ransom Ger
tificates, numbers which were not on
the list published by the Government.
Hauptmann admitted at the time
OF his arrest that he had written
Condon's telephone number and ad-
dress on the panel because he was
interested in the case"
Fisch Name introduced.
The name of Fisch, who, the defense
has limited, was involved in the kid
naping, and who, according to Haupt-
mann's story, was the man who gave
him the ransom money found in his
into tho rnpnrH NJ
testimony twice yesterday
C. Lloyd Fisher, associate defense
counsel, got from State Police Sergt.
John Wallace the admission that
Hauptmann had told the authorities
the money was left in shoe box
with him when Fisch sailed for Ger
many, where he died in 1888.
And Reilly, questioning William
Mulligan, Steiner & Rhouse custo-
mer's man, elicted the fact that Fisch
had accompanied Hauptmann to the
brokerage Office five or six times in
the late Spring or Summer Of 1888.
Mulligan identified a photograph
of Fisch.
Fisher said today the defense would
produce witnesses to testify that
Fisch offered to them for safekeep-
ing the shoe box.
The prisoner claims that he was
unaware of the box's contents when
Fisch gave it to him.
If the defense follows the line Of
attack it has suggested in its vari-
GUS references to Fisch, the State will
call as rebuttal witnesses three rela-
tives Of Fisch and the German nurse
who attended him in the last stages
of tuberculosis.
The four were brought to America
last Tuesday by Detective Arthur
johnson of New York and are now
in New York.
There is the likelihood also that
the State will present medical testi-
mony to show that Hauptmann was
treated for a leg injury shortly after
the kidnapping. 1t has already pro-
duced, in the person of Mrs. Ella
Achenbach, elderly Bronx matron,
evidence that Hauptmann limped
few days after the kidnapping.
Leg Injury Claimed.
The State contends that Hauptmann
hurt his leg when the ladder broke as
he was carrying the Lindbergh baby
from the nursery. Mrs. Achenbach,
whose appearance and story caused
Mrs. Hauptmann to rise and call her
a liar, testified Mrs. Hauptmann and
Hauptmann called at her home In
March, 1882, and on that occasion
Mrs Hauptmann said they had just
returned from "a trip" on which Bruno
had sprained his leg.
With the decision in the Hauptmann
case still many days distant, Haupt-
mann'S counsel won victory today in
another court when the appellate
division of the New York Supreme
Court signed an order commanding
James Fawcett, who was Hauptmann's
original lawyer. to turn over to Haupt-
mann's present counsel certain docu-
ments deemed necessary to Haupt-
mann'S defense.
The nature of the papers in question
was not disclosed, but the decision of
the court was taken as indicating that
in the courts opinion the papers are
valuable to the carpenters defense.