The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-10


of the Lindbergh ransom advertise
mentS.
The defense attorney went back ant
fourth over his story, looking for any
possible loophole In the details, fol
something with which to attack Jaf'
sizes credibility.
The business became grimmer thar
| before. Thursday there was no laugh
ter when the educator demanded the
attorney speak English" The attor'
ney returned: Il can't speak baby tall
for you, doctor"
Judge Calls For Order
| When the attorney contended 1t wa!
unusual for man to be climbing ou'
of cemetery at night and demanded
did you ever climb out OF a grave
yard at night" the answer was: tive
never been in one at night" And thu
result caused Justice Thomas w
Trenchard to bring down his gave
to stop the laughter.
Reilly's first questions Of Significance
pertained to the hollow cough" o.
the man known as John" He want
ed to know If it was hard cough. 9
soft cough, its exact nature.
Did the cough appear to come
from his lungs?"
Eyes, sir, that's It,"
! The defense is expected to contend
that the man known as John" was
Isador Fisch, who died Of tuberculosis
in Germany.
Con. Henry Breckenridge, personal
friend and legal advisor of Lindbergh,
stood ready to tell what he knows OF
Jafsies activities and to identify the
single ransom letter which the kid
naper sent to the lawyers New York
office for delivery to the aviator.
Another was Mrs. Myra Hacker. DR..
Condon's daughter, who followed her
father to the door when he received
ransom note delivered by John Per-
rome the taxi driver who has identi-
fled Hauptmann as the man who gave
him 81 to take 1t to Condon's Bronx
home.
Bronx Editor Called
A third witness called in this sup
porting group was Gregory Coleman.
editor Of the Bronx Home News, the
newspaper which carried the Condor
letter appealing to the kidnaper to
contact him as an intermediary.
Jafsie received the first ransom note
after this letter was published.
Then the state will proceed with its
murder case against Hauptmann on
any one Of three lines of evidence.
Which one will be taken up first
has not been definitely decided, but
everything is ready for the introduce
ton of testimony on the following
points:
l. Handwriting standards. Samples
Of Haputmann'S handwriting Cetters,
etc.
2. Preparation Of the 10000 ransom
at the banking house Of ]. p. Morgan.
(Noting Of the currency serial num-
bers.)
3. Discovery of the body Of the
murdered Lindbergh baby. (Coroner's
and county physicians reports)
Jafsies testimony during his first
day on the stand gave the state the
strongest direct evidence It has mar
shalled to date. prosecutors said. I'm
Llicating the inscrutable Hauptmann
with the kidnapping Of the Indbergh
child - the crime during which the
death of the baby occurred.
Positive in Identification
DR.. Condor not only identified
Hauptmann as the mysterious John
who collected the $4,000 ransom. III
reiterated it vehemently three more
| times.
He named Hauptmann Is the mar
with whom he held an hour-and-a q.
quarter conference at the Woodlawr
cemetery rendezvous in the Bron1
during which the preliminary ran.
som payments were discussed.
Twice he named the Bronx alier
as the man who crouched behind {
hedge in st. Raymond's cemetery ant
accepted the $4,000 blood money
for the promised safe return Of 1
child that was already buried In I
hastily scooped-out grave near tn,
Lindbergh estate.
Finally the pedagogue told Of zee
ing John" last August. The mys