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of people-curiosity seekers, po-
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ice and reporters who visited the place? A. Yes.
 Justice Trenchard stepped from the bench to address the witness.
 "I'm not so sure understood your testimony. Was this thumb guard on Col Lindnbergh's proper tyr" he asked. :.
 "Yes, about 100 yards inside" Mrs Whately replied.
 O. Miss Cow bent over and picked up the thumbguard? A. Yes.
 Mrs Whately was excused and a five minute recess was ordered.
 Willard Whited a Sourlands lum- Der man who claims he saw Haupt- mann near the Lindbergh home shortly before the kidnapping was called as the first witness after the brief recess.
 Whited was dressed in a brown suit. A white silk scarf was around his neck.
 Q, How many years have you lived in New Jersey? A. A. 37 years.
 o. You lived near the Lind- bergh estate in 1892? A. About mile from it.
 o. How close was your land to the Lindbergh estate? A. There was a 10.foot strip between.
 c. Had you lived on the farm before you bought 1t? A. No.
 0. In 1882, particularly in February did you know all the people in your vicinity? A. Xes all but one stranger.
 O. Did you see him again after in that vicinity? A. l did.
 Q. Did you see the defendant9 A. did.
 o. When? A. About the 18th of February.
 O. Did you SC him again after that? A.. Yes, betwgeen Febru- ary 25th and 27, 1882.
 0. How did you happen to see him the second time? A. It was on the crossroads. I was coming up the road with a truck. and trailer. He was standing by the
 O. How close did you pass him 2 A. About 6 feet.
 O. Now in the early morning hours of March 2 after the kidnap- ling did you tell state troopers what you had seen? A. did.
 o. Is there any doubt that the man you saw was this defendant 1? A. None at all.
 Q. What did this man you saw wear? A. A gray suit and a gray felt hat, tipped over his eyes.
 Q. Could you see his eyes? A.
 Q. Did you see his eyes the first time? A. Yes.
 o. When you saw him the sec ond time where was he? A. He just came out of the bushes. He was on the border of Col Lind bergh's land. Q. Did you read the papers about the Lindbergh case? A. Not
 e. Can you read, MT whited? A. Not enough to get anything ou! of the papers. Fisher cross examined. 0. You can recognize a picture, can't you? A. Sometimes. Q. You can recognize a picture of yourself? A. Not soffie of them Fisher asked the witness if ne had received $3O for posing behind the courthouse yesterday. Wilentz objected and was sus. tained.
 farm? A. In the last part of 1928, o. Did you get deed. A. Well IT got . contract. Q. Have you the deed with you? A. No. haven't got 1t with me.
 Q. Who did you sell your farm to? A. I don't remember his name.
 e.. How much did you get for 1t? A. $215O.
 c. Didn't you testify in the afrm in the fall of 1890, and now the fall of 1929? Which time were you right? A. I guess I am right now.
 Fisher was taking Whited's tes- timony at the extradltion proceed ings in the Bronx and trying le find discrepancies between that and his present testimony. o. Do you place the defendant, in your mind. the same distance from the road now as when you testified in the Bronx? A, We'll, don't believe the road has moved O. Will you say thas .,ou saw the defendant on February 1S2 A, wouldn't say. I said 1t was around that time.
 c. Will you say definitely when you first saw him? A. Well, it was no later than the i7th. I know because lost my sister on the 18th.
 Whited paused and counted or his fingers trying to fix the date He said the date he saw Haupt- mann might have been either the 17th or 18th of February. Q. When you saw this man. Il didn't impress you, did it? A.Weli the man was a stranger. Fisher asked the witness if he knew the late Ollie Whately and Cc' Llndbergh. c. You testifed in the Brouz that you knew everybody iTi youf section7 A. We'll I do. know all those who own land, who bel0ne there, or who rent. Q. Did you know all the eag,