Evening star., 1935-01-26
Reilly Announces He Has
Written Proof of Talk at
Gasoline Station-Goes
on Stand Monday.
HAUPTMANN STUDIES
RECORDS OF STOCKS
Defendant, Shaken by Wilentz's
Cross Examination, Believes
He Impressed Jurors-Defense
Attorneys Inspect Home.
Prosecutor Maps Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, January 90
Edward J. Reilly, chief defense
lawyer for Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
said today his next witness will testify
he saw Hauptmann at Bronx gaSo-
line station the night of the kid
mapping.
Reilly refused to disclose the
identity of his new surprise witness
but insisted the man even had written
proof of his conversation with Haupt-
mann on the kidnapping night.
Disclosure of the planned testimony
follows Reilly's assertion that the de-
fense would be based in part on an
alibi that Hauptmann was not in
Hopewell on the night Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh's baby son was abducted.
On Stand Monday.
Reilly said he would place the man
on the stand at his first opportunity
when the trial reopens Monday.
The mans story, Reilly said, will be
that he is a resident of the Bronx,
who, on the kidnapping night, went to
White Plains in search of police dog.
Returning unsucceSsfully from his
quest, Reilly said, he will testify he
saw a man in an automobile at
gasoline station with a dog strikingly
similar to his own.
The witness, Reilly said, will main
tain he approached Hauptmann, who
denied the dog was the witness,
asserting it was owned by Christian
Fredericksen, baker employer of
Hauptman's wife.
The man threatened to arrest
Hauptmann anyway Reilly said the
man will tell the jury, and demanded
his name and address. He will main
tain Hauptmann wrote them out for
him.
Remembers Night.
Reilly said his witness will say he
recalls the night because, after return
ing home, he remembers hearing the
first radio announcement of the alb
duCtion.
He will add, Reilly said that when
he saw pictures of Hauptmann after
his arrest he recognized the carpenter
possessing his dog.
Reilly also said he had located two
witnesses he deems important to the
defense. But for reasons he did not
disclose, he said he was having diff
Guilty persuading them to take the wit
ness stand in Pennington.
He did not say who the witnesses
were or what phase of the defense
their stories would support.
Mrs. Hauptmann was with Reilly in
his Brooklyn Office.
Hauptmann Studies Records.
Hauptmann fortified his defenses
today while the prosecution rolled up
new ammunition for its savage attack
on his denial that he kidnapped and
killed the Lindbergh baby.
Court was in recess, but it was only
an armed truce as the defendant
studied his stock-trading records to
account for his aff1uence after the
$4,000 ransom was paid, as his law
yers went to inspect his home in
the Bronx and as State attorneys
studied the weak points in his defense.
He is vulnerable, very vulnerable"
said Attorney General David T. Will
entz. who hammered at Hauptmann
during the murder trial defendants
first half hour of croSs-eXamination
yesterday.
wait until we get really started"
the attorney general advised.
Hauptmann was almost contemptu-
GUS in his remarks about Wilentz.
1T seems that the attorney general
was trying to get me excited" said
the carpenter
"An I can say to that is that he
will have to try lot harder. am
on to that because I have been told
how the prosecution lawyers act. 1t
Just won't work. It's no use"
Believes He Impressed Jury.
Although Hauptmann appeared
shaken when he left the stand yes
terday he voiced satisfaction with the
impression he made on the eight men
and four women who hold his life in
their hands.
State attorneys expressed confidence
that the searching, lengthy cross-ex-
animation it mapped for Monday
would leave Hauptmann discredited
witness, his alibis riddled. Through
out the defendants direct examina-
ton the prosecution lawyers and
their various experts carefully noted
each weak point as it appeared. 1t
is with these notes that Wilentz will
70 to work Monday.
Hauptmann was spending the week
end recess preparing for the clash in
which he can expect no quarter. The
lean German turned accountant
again. He studied his financial rec
ords because the State will strive to
show the jury that the Lindbergh
ransom financed the Hauptmann stock
market manipulationS.
Cross and redirect examination ap-
peared certain to keep Hauptmann on
the stand all day.
Hauptmann's matter -of-fact recital
on direct examination had become
dull in its last hours. Both jury and
audience appeared to be growing
bored.
Then came an abrupt change. AL.
most before any one realized what
was happening, Wilentz was on his
feet, ripping into the former convict
with the most savage croSS-examina-
tion the trial has witnessed.
The attorney general started by ham
mering away at the fact Hauptmann
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