The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-19


t guilty, he would be tried for eXtor
.nSom money.
I Defense forces seized the week
end adjournment of his trial tt
strengthen it's case, knowing that b.
Wednesday at the latest it will hav,
to start attacking the closely fitting
mass of evidence linking Haupt
mann with the murder. The stat,
conceivably can finish its evidence
by Monday night and perhaps vii
finish by Tuesday night.
Hauptmann's four lawyers entered
their busy weekend with harmony
apparent on the surface, but man!
resentments of personality still eX'
listed beneath.
Edward j. Reilly, chief of coun'
sci, announced last night that HI
and his associates were in perfec
agreement and that there was NJ
possibility of any one withdrawing
Admits Seeing Fisch
The defense found some little en-
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last two of the states witnesses al
yesterdays sesSion-the first it has
received during the two weeks the
state has presented one damnine
circumstance after another.
Edward G. Mulligan, Wall-st GUS
toners man, who had dealt with
Hauptmann since 1880, admitted un-
der cross-examination, that he hac
seen Hauptmann with Isidor Fisch
dead German furrier, five or si2
times"
FiSch, however, never had an &C.
count with his firm while Haupt.
mann did, and FiSch never gave
him any money, Mr.. Mulligan testi-
fed.
Hauptmann said after his arrest
that he received some $4,000 in ran.
som money found in his possession
from Fisch and the defense will at
tempt to show that Fisch, not
Hauptmann, was the kidnaper.
Bank Savings Increase
Hermann Riedrich, teller at the
Central Savings Bank, New York
City, testified Mrs. Hauptmann hao
an account of several thousand dol
lars in 1929, three years before the
kidnapping. He said this under
cross eXamination. In direct exam
nation, he said Hauptmann's &C
count showed indications of sudden
affluence soon after the ransom
money was paid in April, 1882.
Hauptmann, he testified, often
made deposits with quantities OF
silver-once $3.50 in nickelS, dimes
and quarters. The state charged
thus by inference that Hauptmann
then was passing Lindbergh ransom
bills by purchasing small items, such
as cigarettes, receiving silver in
change.
Atty. Gen. David T. WiIentz and
his staff will do little work over the
weekend, feeling that they could
rest the states case at any time ano
obtain a murder conviction.
Forty More Witnesses
The last of the states witnesses
will number some forty. Many
friends of the Hauptmanns will tell
of his affluence Immediately after
the ransom was paid. Some tech
nical witnesses remain who will, it
was said, offer proof that Haupt.
mann made the ladder the kidnaper
11Snd tn steal the hahv
When these witnesses are heard
the state will rest. Then G. Lloyd
Fisher, home town" boy who de-
Tended the hoaxer, John Hughes
Curtis, will make the opening de-
Tense presentation to the jury.
Mr.. Fisher has been in disagree
ment with Mr. Reilly more often
than the other defense attorneys
This assignment was believed Mr.
Reilly's peace offering to his asso-
ciates.
Hauptmann will be the first wit
ness in his own defense. His law
yers already have revealed that they
will ask him seven questions as
soon as he is sworn in on the Gideon
bible which is used in this court
room.
The first six will deal with
whether ne was in New Jersey on
the night of the kidnapping and
whether he climbed the ladder and
abducted the baby. The seventh
question will be:
Defense Counsel Disagrees
where did you get the ransom
money found in your home and
garage?"
And Hauptmann will reply:
IT got it from Isidor fisch."
Fisch is dead, but his brother and
sister are N Trenton, waiting to go
to the witness chair and defend the
reputation of their kin.
Mrs. Hauptmann will be the Sec
ond witness.
Defense lawyers admitted today
that there was disagreement over
the strategy they will use in their
attempt to save Hauptmann from
the electric chair.
Mr.. Reilly apparently wants to
stake everything on a final oratori-
cal plea to the jury. Fisher and
his local associates prefer to build
up a slow, painstaking case, filling
in chink by chink, the alibis for
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