The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-24
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TELL STORY OF
HIS LIFE TODAY
Lindbergh Murder Suspect
to Deny State Web of
Evidence.
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suit that was new when his trial
began % days ago, as he came
through the door from the court
library, his wrists pinioned by a
state trooper and Deputy Sheriff
Hovey Low, and seated his tall,
powerful frame in his accustomed
arm chair at the enclosure rail.
Converses With Wife
He was freshly shaven, and his
general appearance was one of
neatness. His trousers bagged at
the knees, and he wore heavy brown
shoes and brown socks. His shirt
was light blue, set off by a dark
blue necktie with white spots on it.
He seemed more alert than usual
after reaching his seat, and there
was an occasional touch of color to
his pallid countenance. He smiled
when the United Press correspond
ent asked him how he felt, nodded
his head vigorously. and said,
Fine"
His wife Anna entered the court
room a few minutes after her hus-
band, and talked in low tones with
the prisoner.
New Jersey has placed Haupt-
mann, through identificationS, near
the Lindbergh manor in the Sour
lands at the time the baby was
stolen.
It has placed him in two Bronx
cemeteries as the mysterious John"
who carried through the plot by
which Col. Lindbergh was induced
to give away $4,000 for the return
of a child already dead.
Linked to $4,000
It has linked him, through the
sworn testimony of eight of the ma
TONS leading handwriting experts,
to the writing of the series of ran
som notes which led to the Bronx
eXtortion.
It has traced into his possession
$44, 6O0-acquired in 80 months while
he was not working-and it defies
him to explain how he got it legiti-
mately.
It has shown that a hoard OF
nearly $4,000 in gold notes, all ran
som money, was buried under the
floor of his garage and secreted in
curiously constructed hiding places
in its walls.
The state has demonstrated that
a man described as Hauptmann
passed ransom money a year before
he says he received it lin a shoe
box" from the late Isidor Fisch.
Ladder Evidence Sensational
Finally, it has shown that the
marks of carpenters plane on the
so-called kidnap ladder-the crude
three-sectioned ladder that now
rests agaist the courtroom wall
were made by imperfections in
plane discovered in Hauptmanns
tool chest. And that board miss
ing from Hauptmann's attic CORE
spends in grain. texture and size to
one of the side pieces of the ladder.
There was keen speculation today
upon what sort Of appearance
Hauptmann would make on the
stand.
Through the most damaging OF
the testimony, his figure seems
frozen to the chair. He sits with
his arms folded across his chest.
His broad back and wide shoulders
never seem to move.
Hauptmann is man who never
tells another man a secret. He has
been of little assistance to his bat
terry of counsel. Even his chief
counsel, the forid Bull of Brook
lyn," Edward J. Reilly, has not been
able to get close to his inner emo
lions.
That he has become more nervous
as the state, day after day, pounded
him with ransom notes, kidnap lad
ders and identifications, is unques-
toned. For time it appeared he
was about to break, and his outburst
against Agent Sisk seemed to mark
the limit of endurance. He PAGES
his cell at night, unable to sleep,
calling for cigarets.
Each day he has appeared a little
more pale, more hollow-eyed. That