The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-31

WADHa Cafigtrom said he had tn.
 l[nded to call on the night oi
 March 1, 1888.
 CarIGfeOm was one of the de-
 I1uee'a Surprise witnesses" He
 testified that he had known Anna
 Haupttn4nn by sight. although he
 Nid not know Bruno Hauptmann
 flas her husband.
 He denied that he had ever
 t6en the prisoner but once in his Ufe - on the occasion of his visit Qn March 1. And he remembered that date. he said. beca use it was
 his birthday and because Haupt- mann laughed at him.
 &The defense was resentful of the elete's attempts to make such a GsOrough check on their witness, And insisted the government was a1tempting to "terrorize" the witt nhss.
 Special Assistant Attorney Gen. efal George K. Large had an- Mounced that the state was inves- ffkating the witness with a view to
 fsbsgible prosecution was perjury. and intlmated the state would show GArIstrom was in Duunellen, N. J., oh the night of the Kidnapping.
 "A conference of prosecution and defense attorneys at Justice Thomas ". Trenchard's bench over these cfsarges and counter-charges lasted until 1O:25 a. m., when Wilenz re- sumed his cross examination Of tfe witness.
 Carlstrom was released from the afand after a terrific cross-Ques- tiDning by the attorney general, who left the inference he would move Carlstrom was at Dunnellen. N J., on the night he says he visited the bakery.
 @The good-looking young Swede who came to the support of Haupt- nianrl--w whose wife he knew as waitress in the Bronx bakery-was forced to admit he wouldn't care to say" where he went after his meeting with Hauptmann.
 But he would not admit he was in DunelIen, N. J., with one Arthur Larsen, and declared he would stick to his story even though rec 6Fds might be brought into court to disprove 1t.
 Tho prosecution indicated 1t would bring Larsen into the case as al rebuttal witness, to show that oH the night of March l, both Lar sen and Carlstrom slept in a vacant house in the New Jersey town.
 Three Alibi Witnesses
 Hauptmanh's alibis for the Lind Hergh kidnaping and murder stood ak three today as against seven Prosecution witnesses who have iaentified him with the crime.
 MThe Bronx Germans witnesses have been:
 %1. Mrs, Anna Schoeffler Haupt- mann. his wife; who says he called for her at the bakery of Christian Fredericksen in the Bronx, on the &Vening of March 1, 1882, when the crime was committed.
 ss. Ebert Carlstrom, a swedish young man who went to the bak- eKy on that night on an amorous ftflesion, and who says he had strange encounter with the prison- CT, "a. Louis Kiss. Hungarian silk 5einter, who declares he saw HAuptmann talking with his wife aik~ut a police dog, on that inn pAftant date.
 'eiAttorney General David T. Will entz fought long and sometimes bitterly to break down the alibis. I1N achieved his greatest success With Carlstrom, who contradicted his1self on at least two important parts of his story, and who was forced to admit he had been ac- quainted with Anna Hauptmann- dnd that one of his girl friends" wes an intimate friend of the pris- ofer's wife. aCarIstrom was also obliged to the story of how he went l to Brooklyn after having seen and remained lin the l of some women" until five l o'clock the following morning. The government intends to show. Attorney General Wilentz indicated | that Carlstrom spent the night in N. J., with a friend, Arr thur Larson.
 Kiss, whose business is painting l satin, admitted he was carrying two pints of liquor which he had | d friend in the Bronx, when he went into Fredericksen's bakery | where he saw the defendant. N Laughter swept the court when | the Hungarian, in broken English, l how he added rum fla l voring to alcohol and sold 1t for | $1.25 a pint.
 sAnother burst of amusement oc- cured when Kiss informed the | General that he never | drank rum in the evening--only in | the morning.
 Both defense and prosecution | attorneys said today that they had | no knowledge of Mrs. Fannetti | Rivkin's statement that she had been sought as witness at the | trial.
 Later, however, Attorney Gen. l eral David T. Wilentz said: II can not say she will or will not be a witness. All I know is that she says | she is q witness. Beyond that have nothing to say"
 Trying to Smash Story
 New York, Jan 31--OUP)--Thc | state of New Jersey sought today | to smash Elvert Carlstrom's alibi | for Bruno Hauptmann by the word | of Carlstrom's former girl friend 1 and of his former employer.
 Carlstrom testified at Haupt- mann's trial on charges of murder ing the Lindbergh baby that he saw s,A. nk.Nl