The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-05
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Attempt to Link
Dead Friend With
Ransom Ruled Out
court holiday Is it Is Lincoln's BIRTH

court holiday Is 1t Is Lincoln's birth
day.
Attorney General David r. Wi!entz
forecast q brief state rebuttal, with
only about seven or eight witnesses
to be called. Both sides hoped to be-
gin sumtnations to the jury on Satur-
day.
The trial is costing New Jersey
about $500 . day: with expenditures
already In excess Of $4,000.
Mrs. Morrow May Get Call
Before the state concludes its prose-
cution Il became virtually certain
that Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow would
be called In an effort to clear the
name Of Violet Sharpe, the maid In
her home who committed suicide sub
sequent to the kidnapping.
The states tentative decision to
call Col. Charles A. Lndbergh's
mother in-law Is the result Of defense
maneuvers TO cast suspicion on Miss
Sharpe and Isador Fisch, Haupt-
mann's dead business partner.
In the event Mrs. Morrow appears
a. q rebuttal witness. 1t was not ex-
pected she would be long on the
stand. The testimony sought by the
state Is that Miss Sharpe was at home
at the time Hauptmann witnesses de-
clared they saw some one resembling
her ct q Jersey ferry slip In New
York with . blonde baby and two
men.
"Did your investigation disclose the
fact that he sometimes dressed Is a
woman and masqueraded around the
neighborhood7" Reilly asked.
mo, sir, 1t disclosed no such fact" "
Testimony Ruled Ont
With Z view to showing that Fiscll
was the collector Of the ransom the
defense put on the stand Mrs. Bertha
Ho6f, who testified that she was
visited about November, 1888, BY
Fisch and Z farmer named Budreau
who lived at Lebanon, N. J., 20 miles
from the Lindbergh estate.
The visit, she said, was ct her home
at Bayside. L. I.
Reilly, fighting to get into the record
testimony that Fisch carried bundles
at the time, declared hotly:
During the day II I can get my
witnesses here from New York, hope
to prove Isador Fisch was the man
who jumped over the cemetery fence:
that he received the money from
d. Condor"
Dr.. John r. (Jafsie) Condor testi-
fled for the state that Hauptmann
leaped over . cemetery fence to meet
him and that he subsequently paid
to Hauptmann the $4,000 Lindbergh
ransom.
Contend Fisch Got Ransom
Reilly went on, saying he would
show "that Isador Fisch from that
date on not only approached one but
many persons In New York trying to
dispose Of this money. am going
TO trace every connection Of lsador
Fisch with this money until he left
on tina steamer. ] hope to be able to
prove BY witnesses, when he arrived
In Hamburg, his actions before the
immigration authorities In Germany.
II am going 70 trace everything !
can to chow that lsador Eisch and
not this defendant received the money
from d. Condor. tried 70 dispose Of
It, tried 70 leave It not only with this
woman but other people. finally left
Il With HAuptmann."
Justice Thomas w. Trenchard ex.
cluded tie testimony despite Reilly's
plea.
Attorney General David T. Wilents
said Reilly ~ going to b called upon
70 prove his statements and ! feel
confident there win b no credible
pcoo1."
Teek TIP = Graveyard
The defense used the testimony Of
Q Bronx taxi driver In IN effort to