Evening star., 1935-01-14
Note Evidence
Irresistible,
Two Say.
ACCUSED HELD
SEEN In BRONX
Surprise Witness
Tells of Man Who
Watched Jafsie.

(Copyright. 1895, by the Associated Press0
PENNINGTON, N. j., January IA
A Bronx dress model today identified
Bruno Richard Hauptmann as a man
she saw shadowing Dr. John F. (Jaf-
sie) Condor before he paid the $50, 900
Lindbergh ransom.
A handwriting expert declared hand
writing evidence against the German
carpenter was "irresistible. unanSwer-
able and overwhelming, and a second
expert added the weight of his own
opinion to this testimony.
Miss Hildegarde Olga Alexander, the
dress model, said she saw DR.. Condor
on a night in March. 1882, in tele-
graph station and another man, be-
hind him. obviously watching him.
Il say the man was Bruno Richard
Hauptmann!" she said.
Supports Condon's Story.
The girl was the second witness Of
the day in Hauptmann'S trial, in which
ne is charged with the kidnapping and
murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh,
jr. Her testimony was offered in sup
port of DR.. Condon's own story, in
which he said Hauptmann was the
mysterious John" to whom he paid
the futile ransom for the baby.
The defense sought to break down
her Identification, Edward j. Reilly,
chief of the defense staff, charging:
Il wanAto prove that she was never
there"
Nevertheless, she left the stand still
insisting that Hauptmann was the
man she saw. She said she also saw
him on the street few days after
the incident in the telegraph station.
Hauptmann turned red when she
spoke his name. Mrs. Anna Haupt-
mann, wife of the accused man, paled.
Miss Alexander is 26 years old, chic.
She took the defense by surprise, re-
vealing on redirect questioning that
she had been requested by the State
not to publicize her knowledge.
Eldridge w. Stein, second of the
States battery of handwriting experts,
had sufficient time before the noon
recess to declare it his opinion that
Hauptmann wrote every one of the
IA ransom notes received by Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh after his baby
was stolen on March 1, 1882.
The first expert. Albert S. Osborn,
sr, was on the stand early in the days
session. He reiterated his opinion that
Hauptmann wrote the notes and an
sWered the question of why" with:
Because the evidence is irresistible,
unanswerable and overwhelming"
When he left the stand his cross
examination by Reilly was only partly
complete, the defense attorney reserv-
ing the right to cross-question him
on writings of the dead Isador Fisch.
The State has promised to produce
these writings.
Reilly handed Osborn a card today
which purported to have on it the
writing Of Fisch, but which he did
not further identify, and questioned
him about alleged similarity of that
writing and the writing in the ransom
notes.
Osborn to Be Recalled.
Osborn said an IS" was similar.
but added the writing was different"
He will be recalled by the defense
when the State produces the speci-
mems it claims to have in its pos
session.
Fisch Is alleged by Hauptmann to
be the man who gave him the Lind
bergh ransom money found in his
Bronx garage and the defense has
sought to connect him with the crime.
He was a German furrier, about
whom little was known. Some time
after the Lindbergh crime he went to
Germany and there died of tubercu-
1osis.
Earlier in the trial the defense bore
down on evidence that might tend
to link Fisch more closely, and ques-
tioning of DR.. Condor on the hollow
cough" of the John" of the ransom
payment was emphasized.
Miss Alexander said she saw Haupt-
mann watching DR.. Condor in a tele-
graph office in the waiting room of
the Fordham Station of the New York
Central Railroad.
She fixed the time as sometime be-
tween the time that she learned Dr.
Condor was the ransom Intermediary
and the time it was announced the
money had been paid
who else was in this station be-
sides you and DR.. Condon?" A prose-
cutor asked her.
Il saw a man looking at DR.. Con-
don," she said
She explained the man was 10 to
Is feet away, and said she saw him
again a few evenings later.
"Was there anybody else in that
station besides DR.. Condor and this
man and yourself?"
There may have been, but didn't
notice any one particularly"
''Who was the man you saw in that
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