The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-16

were conducted in this fashion.
 Fisher charged that Col II Norman Schwarzkopf who haC knowledge of the ranso mnotea was present at the time of the re quest writings.
 Osborn said he did not believe that the state police heads pres ence had any effect on the re- quest writing.
 c. And the fact that he spelled the word mot" as mote" in tho request writing was significant? A would say that that alone wa. enough to prove that Hauptmanr was the guilty man.
 Q. Do you mean to say tha, the person who dictated the writ. inEs might not have dictated note for 'not?' A. can't believe 1t.
 Fisher went into the correct spelling of hazardous" and incor. rect spelling of simple word Iik, "be."
 He would look up the Ionee, words in his German English dic. tionary, and spell them core ctIy He would misspeil the shorte, words" the witness said.
 The cross-e then went into the peculiar Ks" in the ran. some notes, made like double e."
 osoorn said it was significan that there were no such Ks" fin the request writings.
 lie know how to make that let ter when he wanted to-" he said.
 Osborn, admitting there were dis. similarities between two words in the Hauptmann request and the ransom writings, said that this did not hOld when the comparisons were carried far.
 ou don't write the same word twice the same way yourself" he said.
 Osborn was turned over to the state for redirect examination by Lanignn.
 Q. Were the 55 pieces of paper ample for your study of the Haunt mann writings? A. Yes.
 Q. Have you ever had such an a abundance of material to study ? A. No.
 Fisher then took the witness for brief re-crOss- examination.
 J. Clark Sellers, handwriting ex- pert of Los Angeles was tn enext witness called by the state.
 lAanigan took the Pacific coast witness through the routine oues- tons to establish his qualifications as an expert.
 Sellers said he had examined the extortion letters in the kfdnaping of Marion Parker and Identified d Edward Hickman as the writer.
 He was the examiner in the Win nie Ruth Judd murder case. He examined documents in the Mae West jewel robbery and the Paul Bern death. Bern was the late hus- band of Jean Harlow.
 Sellers was accepted as quaIi- fled witness.
 Q. As a result of your study have you arrived at an opinion x A. l have. a definite opinion.
 Q. What is 1t. A. I am con- definitely convinced. that the person who wrote the conced- ed and request writings was the person who wrote the ransom notes. If Mir Bruno Richard HauptmaDn wrote the conceded "iAtihtSot thGH HS dlSO WTOIe the ransom notes.
 Sellers asked permission of the court to shorten his testimony by making q general statement"
 This was granted.
 'I found q similarity through the use of odd forms in these writings.
 Through an examination of the conceded and the anonymous ran- som notes I found differences and similarities.
 ''I tried to account for differ ences in the writings on the theory that they were done by q different writer-but I~found no fundamen- tai differences.
 "I am convinced many of tho differences were due naturally, and others were due to an attempt to disguise.
 "The great stumbling block 10 disguised handwriting Is the in- ability to keep from the disg guised writings some of the little habits of the writer"
 Sellers presented several photo- graphic exhibits of handwriting comparisons.
 The writings of MT Hauptmann and the ransom writings show many variations from the copy book standard" he said.