The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-01-10
Witnesses Identify Bruno
Hauptmann as kidnaper

have taken on new life. Once his
stony face broke into a smile, and he
said to his silent guards:
eff had made ladder like that,
would consider myself a very poor
carpenter
The guards however are forbidden
ever to speak to him.
Betty Cow Tells Story
The bulk of Betty Cows testimony
checked with that of several other
witnesses concerning the events in
the Lindbergh home on the night of
the kidnapping.
She furnished graphic picture of
the love she held for the baby and
the care she gave it. Again she was
at her dramatic best when she de-
scribed the horror Of the household
when it was discovered that the baby
was gone.
She told how Colonel Lindbergh
rushed wild-eyed to, the living-room
and cried in agonizing tones:
"Anne, they've stolen our baby
During the confusion in the other
parts Of the house, whole policemen
and reporters were dashing about in
frantic search for clues, she said, the
three women, Mrs. Lindbergh, Mrs.
Whateley, and herself, sat rigid and
terrified in the library. Pressed to
tell what they did, she said they did
nothing. Asked what they talked
about, she said they spoke not a
word. Reilly, Hauptmann's lawyer,
then demanded them to know just
what they did, and she replied:
eve were all praying"
She created a vivid scene in the
nursery when she went, for the last
time, to see how the baby was Sleep
ing.
The room was dark, she said except
for pool of light on the floor from
the bathroom lamp. She entered the
room and lowered window. Then,
feeling the chill of the air, she turned
on an electric heater.
Feeling her way to the crib, she
paused at it's side to listen to the
baby's breathing. She was anxious
about his breathing because of his
cold. She listened intently in the
darkness. She said:
81 couldn't hear him. I bent closer,
and there was no sound of his breath
ing. | put out my hand to the place
where he should have been. I could
not find him. I felt about the crib
hastily.
"The crib was empty"
By this time, tears were coursing
down her cheeks. She was choking
and sobbing. Attorney General David
T. Wilentz gave her glass of water.
DIR. Condon's Identification
Expected
Regarded as perhaps the states
chief witness, the aging educator, DR..
Condor, who paid the $4,000 ransom
for a dead baby walked into the
courtroom Tuesday and took seat
near Colonel Lindbergh.
Prosecutors expect that when he
testifes, probably tomorrow, he will
accuse Hauptmann directly as the
man who took the ransom from his
hands.
Two state troopers contributed the
ony new points to the record of the
trial Tuesday. They were: (1) A
woman's footprint, still unexplained
was found in the soft mud near the
place where the kidnap ladder was
placed beneath the nursery window;
and, (2) only two sections of the
three section kidnap ladder were u.s.
ed, thus tending to puncture the con-
tention of the decese that the ladder
was too long to be of use at the win
dow and to fiimsy in the top section
to hold a man.
The appearance Of the ladder
probably the most famous since
Jacobs, created a sensation in the
courtroom where spectators, unable
to restrain themselves, half rose from
their seats and pressed forward