The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-11
H HANDW BITING OF DEFENDANT,
 ISSUE IN CASE
Ransom Note Written by Same Person, Con-
 tentiion of State
SIXTEEN SPECIMENS
 INTRODUCED, COURT
N Noney Found in Home Identified Objections
 Made, Sustained

PENNINGTON, N. J., Jan. H. Ransom notes, with the cryptic symbol signature. preempted the attention of the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, charg- ed with the staying of Baby Lind bergh. as the prosecution started out to prove the notes all came from the pen of Hauptmann.
 The session today promised to be replete with technical testimony of handwriting experts.
 The court room was filled long before the opening of the trial. Defenses Loses Point The State laid the groundwork for the structure of the handwrit- ing evidence by introducing. late yesterday over the vigorous de- fense objections, sixteen specimens of Hauptmann's script samples to be used for comparison with the ransom note writing.
 Experts to Testify
 The attorneys for the State said the experts would tell the jury in the penning of the first ransom notes, the kidnaper made the very obvious effort to disguise his nor Imal handwriting but in the later notes the writer's efforts at dis |guise became less pronounced until the final notes approximated his regular writing.
 States Contention The State contends this is in line with the prosecutions con- tention that Hauptmann tried to disguise his penmanship when he prepared the original ransom note then became careless as he pro- gressed, due to increased confidence over his success in the crime. The State contends that when Hauptmann was arrested and was directed to write a number of pages, he again sought to disguise his hand.
 The State plans to show he in- stinctively used the same forms ap- bearing in the ransom letters. Money Identified
 The first witness on the stand today was Special Agent Frank Wilson, in charge of the Intelli- gence Department of the Internal Revenue, who identified money found in the Hauptmann home, as part of the ransom money counted out in the J. P. Morgan Company, where the serial number of each piece of currency was noted. The defense objected to intro duction of the money as evidence, the objection was sustained and I the State caused it to be with drawn for the present.
 Two Blows Aimed Besides expecting to name Haupt- mann as the writer of the If ..ln- som notes, the State has two other important blows ready to send Hauptmann to the electric chair, | it is said.
 Government Agent Wilson testi- fled that to his knowledge no ransom bill has appeared in cir culation since Hauptmann's arrest. Wilson also testified that the first ransom bill to come to light after the payment, appeared in a Broadway bank, New York, not far from the Majestic Apartments where Hauptmann was employed before the ransom was paid. Defense Scores
 The defense scored with the same agent when it established a slip signed by J. J. Faulkner. which accompanied the exchange of s2.980 of the ransom money at a New York Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. was not in Hauptmann's writing. A man of the same name shielded. The agent testified he was unable to trace the man making the exchange.
 Another Link
 Identification of handwriting on the ransom notes as that of Haupt- manns was made by Albert s. Osborn, Sr.. who examined both notes and specimens of Haupt- mann's handwriting made after his larrest. The State considered this one of the pieces of testimony to link Hauptmann to the actual stealing and killing of the baby.
 There will be no session tomor- TOW, a recess being taken over the | u,aokapd