The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-11
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Suspects Script
Is Death Warrant,
WilentZ Contends

10 Dcdtll w dITd1lI,
WilentZ Contends
other, and I found that they were in
seven or eight different ways"
His voice was loud and he explain
ed to the court that he was hard Of
hearing.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife Of the
prisoner and mother Of his own small
son, flushed deeply when she heard
Osborn say her husband wrote the
notes.
Court recessed for luncheon at 1880
p. m. after Osborn had testified:
They (the notes. were connected
with each other, in my opinion. by
the language contained In them, the
use Of words, spelling, peculiar spell
Ing, by the statement in the latter
letters Of the amount Of the ransom
in the first letter; by the
statement in the latter letters relat-
ing to the subject Of not reporting to
the police, and mainly. and perhaps
most positively, the ransom notes were
connected with each other by a Pc
culiar and ingenious device that ap-
peared on the lower right hand cor
ner.
Photography Revealing
Il hold in my hand the reproduce
ton Of printing, photograph Of print
ing. Of various parts Of these letters
which in my opinion indicate that
the letters came from the same
source. I refer to the language and
the statement, the ideas, In the let
tiers.
For example, the first one Is the
letter that was left in the room when
the kidnapping occurred, what has
been referred to and Is referred to in
the notes themselves as the ransom
note.
THAT letter says, we warn you for
making anyding,' intended for any,
thing,-'public or for notify the po-
lice; and then in the lower left hand
corner Of that first page are the
words indication I think the word
is indication. It Is rather illegible.
indication for all letters are,' then
the word, peculiar word, signature
and below
that the words, and three holes; and
then to the right and in the corner
appears this peculiar device which is
made by imprinting two overlapping
circles with ordinary printers ink
l mean ordinary writing ink-and l
think the impression was made not by
a rubber stamp but some instrument
which didn't take Ink we'll, so that
the impressions are not good. It is
q crude device in certain ways.
Federal Agent Testifies
Frank Wilson, special agent for the
government, testified he had no no.
tice Of any Lindbergh ransom cur
rency appearing after the arrest OF
Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Wilson testified that he, as agent In
charge Of the intelligence department
of the United States department of
internal revenue, directed the prepar-
alton Of the ransom money, which DR..
John F. (Jafsie) Condor charged he
paid to Hauptmann In q Bronx ceme-
terry.
He described graphically the elabor-
ate plans laid for subsequent capture
Of the kidnaper by carefully noting
the serial numbers of each piece Of
urrency-numberS which were later
printed on 100000 circulars and sent
to banks throughout the United States
and in many foreign countries.
The money, $4,000. was counted
out and noted at the J. p. Morgan
company. Only $4,000 was paid by
Condor to the man he then knew only
as John The witness also identi-
fled the $4,000 found in Haupt-
mann's garage In the Bronx as part
of the money.
AS the trial turned from its spec
tacular phases-the intimate stories Of
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lndbergh.
the dramatic testimony Of Betty Cow.
the jovial appearance Of DR.. John F.
Condon-into more technical terri
tory. the crowds still formed moving
background.
All Notes on Same Paper
Other features Of the ransom notes
were outlined as New Jersey contin-
ued its efforts to link the Hauptmann
house in the Bronx with the Lind
bergh house near Hopewell.
Evidence was prepared that all the
notes were written on the same cheap
kind Of notepaper. and that some Of
that paper was found in the defend
ants Bronx home.
In connection with at least two Of
the notes, the state planned to bring
out that the frugal kidnaper tore q
folded sheet Of the paper in half,
using one-half for one missive and
the other half for another. The torn
halves Of the paper will be fitted to-
gether perfectly, q state source said.
The cryptic signature symbol also
was brought into the handwriting
story, the state planning to show that
when Ill the ransom notes are laid
on top Of one another the three pune
lures in the symbolic signatures are
exactly on top Of one another, indi-
eating all the holes were punched at
the same time.
The state, in seeking to prove that
ell the ransom notes.-the one left in
the nursery from which the child was