davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Turns to Ladder

Mr.. Wilentz then turned to the
kidnap ladder and asked about
several markings on it which the
trooper said he had put on it
for Identification. He asked:
'Is the ladder now substan.
TALLY the same as one the day
you found it, except for these
marks and cuts you have put
on it?"
"YeS."
eve offer it in evidence"
Defense Attorney Pope OBJ
1ected to the admission of the
ladder as evidence. He said:
"It has been in the hands of
many men in many sections of
the country, it has been taken
apart. 1t is not in the same
condition as when it was found.
The nails have been taken out
and given into the hands of a
MetallurgiSt.
"The ladder has been altered
materially. Any article found
at the scene of a crime may be
introduced providing it is shown
that this article is in the same
condition as it was then"
Justice Trenchard listened care
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Reads transcript

While Mr.. Fisher was reading
from the transcript of the Bronx
hearing, Mr.. Whited suddenly
said:
"A man head that book to me
Sunday night"
Mr.. Fisher wanted to know
who the man was. Mr.. Whited
said "the colonel" read it to him.
Mr.. Fisher asked what colonel" "
Mr.. Whited pointed to Mr.. WilentZ,
Mr.. Fisher said:
ooh, you mean the attorney
general. You're demOting him."
Mr.. Fisher again picked up a
transcript of Mr.. Whited's testi,
mony taken in the Bronx and
read part of it. He asked:
Mr.. Fisher read a dozen or more
questions and answers given while
Mr.. Whited was on the stand in
the Bronx last October. Mr.
Whited finally said:
II didn't have that converse
ton"
SIS that your testimony as
you gave it in the Br0nx?"
The mountaineer asked:
what do you mean by teSti-
mOny?"
Mr.. Fisher explained, then Mr.
Whited said:
"Well, they asked me ques-
tiOns in the Bronx, but not the
same as you. They weren't
readin' them out Of q book"
The spectators broke into laugh
ter.
Mr.. Fisher forced Mr.. Whited
to admit several mistakes in his
previous testimony and Mr.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Sisk Recalled

Mr.. Bornmann was excused and
Mr.. Reilly created a surprise by
asking Mr.. Wilentz to recall
Thomas A. Sisk, Department of
Justice agent who testified for
the State last Thursday, for cross
examination.
1t was while Mr.. Sisk was tes-
tifying the other day that Haupt-
mann became angry and created
a scene in court by shouting:
"YOu are lying!"
Hauptmann leaned forward as
the slim, boyish-looking Mr.. Sisk
took the stand.
Q.-CBy Defense Attorney Ed
ward j. Reilly)-Did you replace
Special Agent Mann? A.-Man-
ming.
Q.-When you made reports,
Agent Sisk. did you file copies to
Washington? Al kept file of
the reports.
Mr.. Reilly questioned Mr.. Sisk
concerning what happened when
Hauptmann was arrested last
September 19 in New York city by
Mr.. Sisk and several other police.
Q.-When was the $40 bill in
Hauptmann's wallet identified?
A.-Within 2 or minutes after
it was taken from his pocket.
Odd you want to question
the defendant at the police sta
tion in New York? A.-Of course.
Q.-You were denied that privi-
lege, weren't you? Al was not.
Q-You questioned DR.. John
F. Condor several times? Al
talked to Dr.. Condor on numer-
Gus occasions.
Q.-Did you find the box that
contained the ransom money?
A.-No.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Defense Hard Hit

The long-deferred ruling created
sensation in the courtroom.
1t was a significant victory for
the State and a body blow to
Hauptmann'S defense.
The prisoner was not obviously
moved by the ruling. He sat with
his arms folded, patient and still.
State Trooper Lewis Bornmann
was on the stand at the time the
ladder was admitted as evidence.
He had testified to having found
the ladder lying not far from the
nursery window of the Lindbergh
home.
He identified a chisel which
he had found, too. The chisel
also was admitted as evidence
over objections from the defense.
Before leaving the stand,
Trooper Bornmann identified the
OGDEN dowel pin from the ladder
and it, too went into evidence
over defense objections.
On croSS-examination, Defense
Attorney Frederick A. Pope asked
Mr.. Bornmann if he had taken
fingerprints Of the ladder the day
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Footprint Checked

Mr.. Sisk, in response to a ques
ton, said yes, he worked for ]
Edgar Hoover, director of the Bu
reau of Investigation of the De,
partment of Justice. Mr.. Reilly
asked:
isn't it fact that plaster
cast of the foot of the man that
received the ransom money in
the cemetery was taken by DIR.
COndOn'S SOn-in.law?"
Sharp objection was registered
by Mr.. Wilentz. He said no such
question was asked DR.. Condor
when he was on the stand and
also that Mr.. Sisk was not in the
case until November, 1882.
The court ruled Mr.. SiSk
might answer. Mr.. Reilly said:
"I'l put it this way: Is
there any information in the
Federal recordS?"
Eyes. 1 learned that a
plaster cast of a footprint had
had been taken but there is no
positive connection between the
footprint and the man who got
the ransom"
Q.-How do you know? Ats
q matter of speculation.
Q.-Where was this cast taken?
A.-From a fresh grave near a
retaining wall of st. Raymond S
Cemetery.
Q.-How far from the point
where the ransom was paid?
A.-Fifteen to 20 feet away.
Q.-Where is the report on the
plaster cast taken on the freshly
made grave in St. Raymond s
cemetery? A.-The report is ob
tainable. Our reports are the
property of the Attorney General
Of the United States and we can.
not give up the report without his
icci0n
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Jersey FARMER PLACES HAUPTkANN AT KIDNAPPING SCENE
GOT GOOD VIEW
Of DEFENDANT
He DECLARES

main road. On the way back
we both saw the thumb guard
lying there and Miss Cow
picked It up."
Mrs. Whately identified the
thumb guard, which had been at
tached to the baby's sleeping
suit the last night it was put to
bed in its crib.
Q.-(By Mr.. Wilentz)-On the
night of March l, 1882, was the
room in which you and Miss
Cow visited together upstairs
lighted all the time? Alt was.
I switched the light out when I
left the room.
Mrs. Whately identified the
black suitcase that has been in
court for more than 10 days.
Q.-Is this the suitcase that
was below the window in the
baby's nursery on March /, 1899?
Att is.
Using a small plan of the
nursery, Mr.. Wilentz had the wit
ness point out where the suitcase
was in the nursery.
CroSs-examined by Mr.. Reilly
concerning the lights in the house
the night of the kidnapping. Mrs.
Whately said:
81 went upstairs about 9
p. m. The lower floor was well
lighted"
Q.-Do you remember the day
on which you found the thumb
guard? Alt was about March
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
SECURITY BILL
EXPLAINED BY
v A GN En-
International News Service

President Roosevelt's social Sc.
curity program permits non-con.
tributory old age pensions above
$50 per month, Senator Wagner
(D) of New York, declared today
before the Senate Finance Com.
mittee at public hearing on his
social security bill. He said:
"While these Federal grants
are to be made on an equal
matching basis, and are not to
exceed SIS per month per per-.
son, there is no reason to sup
pose that this will limit old age
pensions to $50 per month.
STATE MUST AID
There is nothing in the law
which prevents a State from
doing more for itself than the
Federal government does for 1t.
I'm fact the Federal AdminiStra-
tiOn may refuse assistance to any
State which does not 90 so far
beyond the $50 level as is neceS-
Sary to provide health and de.
cency pensions to all its needy
citizens"
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Hits Admission

Continuing his argument against
the ladders admission, Mr.. Pop
said:
every person who has had
custody Of the article since the
crime must be called. We have
been told the ladder was studied
by a fingerprint expert who
found several hundred finger
prints.
1--WE submit, your honor, the
history and custody of this lad
der since it was found have not
been followed or covered by the
State through its witnesses.
There has been no cOnnec.
ton shown between this ladder
and the defendant Hauptmann."
Justice Trenchard said:
81 am wondering If Mr.. Pope
overlooked the testimony Of an
old gentleman named Amandus
Hochmuth who saw the ladder
In the car on March 1, 1882"
a Affnckc Toofii1oon11,
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Consumer to Pay
JobIeSS Surety Tax
international News Service


The proposed per cent tax
on payrolls for unemployment
insurance under the Administra.
ton program will be passed on
to the consumer, E. E. Witte,
executive secretary of the Presi-
dents Committee on Economic
Security, told the House Ways
and Means Committee today as
hearings continued on the Ad-
ministration measure.
1t was not contemplated that
the employer should bear the
burden. he added. The payroll
levy, Mr.. Witte said, will not be
a sales tax, but should be cal.
culated as part of the labor
cost.
DR.. Witte said it was necessary
that the tax be levied on all
industry. even though some
States fail to establish unem-
ployment insurance systems.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22

Whited said he was anxious to
rectify' the record.
Mr.. Fisher then asked:
when the troopers came to
your house the morning after
the kidnapping, didn't you think
they were looking for your"
Mr.. Wilentz objected to this
question, so Mr.. Fisher again read
from the transcript of the testi.
mony taken in the Bronx. He
asked:
Didn't you testify at the
Bronx that the morning the
troopers came to your place
about 3 a. m. you naturally
thought What they came there
for was for me, thinking 1
might be a thief?"
DYES"
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
John Barton Payne
Has 'Restful Night

John Barton Payne, chairman
of the American Red Cross, spent
a "restful night" in George Wash
ington Hospital, but because of
his advanced age his condition is
serious, his physician, Admiral
Cary T. Grayson, reported today.
Judge Payne, who will be 80
on Saturday, underwent an op-
GRAFTON for appendicitis last Sat
urdaY.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Dawes Statement
On Steel Attacked

NEW YORK. Jan. % G.N.SD
A statement attributed to Gen.
Charles G. Dawes that capacity
of the steel industry was over
estimated was attacked today by
the American Iron and Steel In.
stitute, which asserted each steel
plant had been thoroughly
checked as to obsolescence and
that its weekly figures on steel
operations were exact.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Found Guard

Mrs. Elsie Whately, wife Of the
dead Lindbergh butler, Ollie
Whately, was recalled. She was
asked to verify Betty Cows story
concerning the finding of the Lind.
bergh baby's thumb guard. Mrs.
Whately said:
Eve were taking a walk that
day. We walked down the
drive from the house to the
The Washington times., 1935-01-22

how Johns" voice sounded when
he yelled-"Hey, doktor?" A
Yes.
Q.-And wasn't Condon's voice
recorded that way on a phono.
graph record? A.-Yes.
Q.-Where is that record? A
In Washington.
Q.-Can 1 get it? Al guess
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Reilly to Call
Justice Agent
In Defense

COURT ROOM, FLEMING
TON, N. j., Jan. % 0.N.SD.
Defense Attorney Edward j..
Reilly created a surprise in
court today when he announced
he would call a State witness,
Tommy Sisk, Department of
Justice agent, as a defense wit
ness.
He made this announcement
while crosS-examining Mr.. Sisk.
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
DIR. w. A. Griffith
Given Bank Post

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
22.-Dr. w. Allen Griffith, of
Berwyn, was yesterday added to
the board of directors of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank
here at the annual meeting of
stockholders,
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
SAYS He TOLD
L|NDBERGH Of
INCIDENT 7
CONTINUED from Page y
1890. Today he said it was

Continued from rage ~
in 1880. Today he said it was
in 1929.
@. (by Mr.. Fisher)-How far
was the man from the Lind
betgh gate when you saw him
the second time? A.-Half a
mile.
On the Bronx didn't you
say mot more than three-quar
tiers of a mile? Al can't
recollect.
Mr.. Fisher read Mr.. whited's
Bronx testimony and it stated
mot more than three-quarterS Of
a mile" Mr.. Fisher demanded:
'Ts 1t a half mile or three
quarters of a mile?"
ITO the best of my knowledge
It is between One-half and three
quarters of a mile"
Mr.. Whited testified today that
the first time he saw Hauptmann
he was a mile from the estate.
In the Bronx hearing he had said
q mile and a. quarter. Mr.. Fisher
asked:
"Is he the same distance away
In your mind tOday?'
The witness fumbled around
for an answer. He wanted to
know what the defense attorney
meant. Then he replied:
Il imagine the road is in the
same place"
you have as much knOwI.
edge now as you had in the
BrOnx?"
81 hope So"
Mr.. Whited spoke fervently,
and the spectators Snickered.
Under Mr.. Fishers barrage of
questions, the backwoodsman be-
gan to show signs of the "jitters. /"
He used the phrase. ito the best
of my knowledge in almost all his
answers.
Q.-Were you working in Feb
ruary, 1882? A.-No.
Date Uncertain
Q.-Can you say positively it
was on February 18, you saw the
defendant. A.-No.
Dwell, when? Al can only
say that to the best of my knowl-
edge it was around February 18.
Mr.. Whited became worried
under Mr.. Fishers cross-examina-
ton. At one point the witness
said:
you're trying to make me
Say something"
Asked how he fixed the time
when he first saw Hauptmann
near the Lindbergh estate, Mr..
Whited replied:
"Simply because lost my
sister on the twelfth of Feb
ruary."
Mr.. Whited was asked if he
knew the late Ollie Whately, the
Lindbergh butler. He said, NO"
Asked if he knew Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh by sight, he said, NO"
GIN the Bronx didn't you
say you knew everybody by sight?
Ayes. I knew who they were.
I could identify Colonel Lind
bergh from his pictures. l
couldn't identify Whately because
I never saw him on the road.
The witness said he did not
know Mrs. Elsie Whately, the
buffers widow. Asked if he knew
Betty Cow, the Lindbergh baby's
nurse, he replied, no"
Prisoner Smiles
Hauptmann seemed to enjoy
Mr.. Whited's discontinue. He
smiled several times.
Q.-(By Mr.. Fisher. Did you
know the carpenters who built
Colonel Lindbergh's house? A
I knew one of them.
Q.-Did one carpenter build the
Colonel's house? Al hope not.
Dwell, you didn't know all
the carpenters there? A.-No.
Asked by Mr.. Fisher whom he
first told of seeing Tauptmann,
Mr.. Whited replied:
Lieut.. Arthur KeatOn."
The defense lawyer then got Mr..
Whited to admit that when he
testified in the Bronx he said the
first man he told was Captain
Wallace"
The Washington times., 1935-01-22

it was found and if photographs
of the ladder had been taken
that day. Mr.. Bornmann said:
Trooper Kelly tried to take
fingerprints. 1 don't known of
any finRerprintS-
The Washington times., 1935-01-22

fully to Mr.. Pope's argument. The
peculiar, Intersection ladder, is re-
garded as one of the States prize
DieceS of evidence
The Washington times., 1935-01-22
Bill Identified

permission.
Evening star., 1935-11-18
How 1t Started
BY JEAN NEWTON.
To Be Fair Game.

DRECEDENT, than which no edict
L of the Medes and Persians was
more inexorable, will usually reveal
and justify almost any usage OF
language in which we moderns in
oulge.
While this generalization should be
taken with latitude, the extent OF
its prevalence is wide and curious.
Let us consider, for illustration, the
word game.
Here is a syllable that can be used
correctly in almost any fashion that
fits across the fancy. each with ap-
parently diverse connotation. each
barking back to a different allusion,
yet all being part and parcel of the
same root.
So We say ''he died game" indi-
eating that to the last, he was brave
and unyielding; "he has game leg, "
meaning he is lame; "he likes the
game" for he takes pleasure in the
sport, contest or business: Ito play
the game" for to act straightfor-
wardly; and many others. including
ito be fair game" referring to a per-
son who has been made an object of
attack or ridicule.
The last usage originated as a
hunting metaphor and made it's ap-
pearance in the fifteenth century.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1935-11-18
Natures Children
Common Liverwort (Marchantia
Do11,y,o or,,bo \
Polymorpha.)

ferns peeping from under a ledge
and the most tantalizing doorways
(holes to the uninitiated). If you
| stay perfectly still for a few moments
after YOU have entered the woods,
YOU will soon sense the life that is
going on about you. Many Of the
creatures you have met In this COL
umn, and know far more about them
than they do themselves, are close at
hand.
LverwortS pack their children in
capsules. Look for the little brown
packets and see. They do not have
lids as the moses have, but open
in four parts instead. If you will re-
move some of the wee cups (gemmae)
you can take few seeds home to
plant in your own garden, If you hap
pen to have damp, shady spot.
In the olden days, the liverworts
were eagerly sought by herb doctors,
who believed that a tea made from
the leaves of this plant would be very
beneficial to those afflicted with liver
trouble. There were plants that have
leaves or flowers or even roots that
have slight resemblance to some
organ of the body. and that is the
only reason for the idea these teas
would cure person. 1t is amusing
to read how many liver sufferers were
made whole; little they realized what
faith would do.
(Copyriaht 1887
Evening star., 1935-11-18

Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE w. SPROWLs.
After Repression, WHAT

ID EPRESSION is a mental mech
anism created by Dame Nature.
Therefore. some sort Of divinity at
taches to It's reason for being. But
repressions do cause trouble. Some
70 so far as to say that all our mental
griefs are due TO attempts to push
them out OF consciousness. The
"scorns and whips of time" really do
make towards of us ALL" But that
seems to be the course of Nature.
Mental hygienists have pondered
this situation. They have searched
for a Scheme TO prevent repression,
and for another scheme to get rid Of
those repressions that want to stay
and make trouble.
In the first instance. the best meth
cd is prevention. Decide upon and
follow a regimen that will prevent
their coming into your scheme OF
| things. Modern leaders have sug-
gested that 1t is best not to know too
MANY people. The theory is that our
acouaintances are everlastingly sug-
pesting fears. And fears mean re-
pressions. unless they happen not to
conflict with our unframed desires.
But suppose you have acquired a
repression. one serious enough 10
force itself upon you. You will al
ways know when that happens. Then
the thing to do is to face the fact.
Train yourself to look the repression
in the face. You may do well to i'm
agine its presence and then address 1t
as your mental enemy. The theory
is that in bringing it up into the
realm of consciousness you have
taken one more step in reasoning 1t
out of your system.
tCopyright 1880
Evening star., 1935-11-18
Bedtime Stories
The Glad Days.

tented folk. Mr.. and Mrs Grouse and
several of their children were there.
Buster Bear was there now and then.
although he came more frequently in
the early evening. Buster has a liking
for beechnuts. He paid no attention
to the other folk, and they paid little
attention to him. To be sure. they
took care to keep beyond his reach,
but they were not afraid, for they
knew that as long as those sweet little
nuts could be obtained he would not
harm any of them.
Bobby Coon dropped around; so did
Unc' Billy Possum. Thus it was that
Slimlegs came to make the acquaint-
ance of many Of his neighbors in the
Green Forest. He and his mother and
father were together now most of the
time. The stranger who had fought
with Lightfoot had not been seen
again, and there was no other Deer in
all that part of the Green Forest. So
Lightfoot no longer had need to fight.
Now and then he went away by HIM
self, but he spent most of the time
with Mrs. Lightfoot and Slimlegs.
Very safe did Slimlegs feel when his
father was near, for had he not seen
his father fight and drive away the
stranger? He was sure that there was
no one of whom his father need be
afraid. You see, he knew nothing of
Puma the Panther. for the latter was
on the Big Mountain and rarely came
to the Green Forest.
There's nothing to be afraid OF, is
there?" he asked his mother.
mo, not just now. my son." replied
Mrs. Lightfoot There is always
Yowler the Bobcat TO beware of, but
you are growing so fast that it won t
be long before you will be so big that
you need have no real fear of Yowler
So long as you are with your father
and myself you need be afraid OF no
one until'- Mrs. Lightfoot didn't
! finish.
"Until what?" asked Slimlegs after
while
Until hunters with terrible guns
come looking for u.s." said his mother.
Slimlegs looked puzzled. He was
puzzled. He didn't know who these
hunters with terrible guns might be
or what they looked like. He looked
at Lightfoot, and the very sight of
his father, with those magnificent
antlers, reassured him. Not even
hunters with terrible guns could
frighten his father, he felt very sure,
and then in the enjoyment Of the
sweet beechnuts he forgot all about
this. For that matter. so did Mrs.
Lightfoot. These were glad days and
they were making the most Of the
gladness.
Copyright. 1a3S)
Evening star., 1935-11-18
~ THORNTON w. BURGESS.
But also theer is some OF gladness.
old Mother Nature.

TT sometimes seems as if some
people can sec only the sadness
In life. You will find 1t that way
Il everywhere you 60 But as surely
as there are sad times there are also
glad times. 1t is just so with the
little people of the Green Forest and
the Green Meadows. Fortunately and
wisely, they soon forget the sad times,
and all of them make the most OF
the glad times.
For most of the little people of the
Green Forest these late Autumn days
were happy days. You see, they are
the days of plenty. The hard times
lie ahead in the Winter, but few of
them looked so far ahead. OF those
who did several were well prepared
and we're making the most of the
harvest IN these glad Autumn days.
Happy Jack Squirrel and all his re-
iatives were working with might and
main from dawn to dark, storing away
food against the days in Winter when
Evening star., 1935-11-18

there would be no food to be found.
Some of the Mouse family were doing
the same thing. Paddy the Beaver
and Mrs. Paddy and their children
were busy cutting trees and cutting
these up into logs to store away in
their food pile in the pond. 1t was
hard work, but it was happy work for
all these little people.
Lightfoot the Deer, Mrs. Lightfoot
and Slimlegs the fawn were very
happy. There was a splendid harvest
of beechnuts this year, and. in COM
mon with some others, they are very
fond of beechnuts. Under the beech
trees was daily gathering of con-
Evening star., 1935-11-18
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

A GAIN We md anOthef one OF
n the widdings with a common
~ name that is far from pretty.
a So let US call her Marchantia
She belongs to the same group as the
highly priced Hepatica, who is sup
posed to herald Spring to the woods
about her.
The liverworts are all lovers Of
moist. dim places. They have pref
erence for climbing damp banks. and
you will always find them in company
with moses and lichens. as well as
many others of your woodland friends,
with whom you have at least nod
ding acquaintance.
Marchantia is the largest member
Of her family. She is usually well
Evening star., 1935-11-18

A. T. B-"When any one tries to
squeeze her she hits him in the eye"
is the correct form, not she hits
them in the eye" Note that ANY
one" is singular and requires the sin
gular him." not the plural them. I"
IF any one calls, tell him or her
that I'm not at home." not tell them
I'm not at home"
Evening star., 1935-11-18
Jolly Polly

A Little Chat on English.