Evening star., 1935-01-30

BULLETIN.
PENNINGTON, N. j., January
80 LP).-Albert Carlstrom, a car
penter, testified today that he saw
Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the
Bronx at $50 pm. the night of
the Lindbergh kidnapping.
HE was in front of the bakery
reading a newspaper CarlStrom,
a surprise witness for the defense,
said
(Copyright 1895. by the Associated Press)
PENNINGTON, N. j., January 30
Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann-teS-
tifying to save her husband from the
electric chair as the kidnaper and
murderer of baby Charles A. Lind
bergh, jr.-tremulously offered an
alibi to his jury today for every i'm
portant date connected with the crime
The State, taking her over for cross
examination, Immediately attacked her
credibility on her assertion she had
never used a shelf in broom closet,
and therefore, had never seen the
shoeboX in which Hauptmann said the
dead Isador FiSch gave him the S14,-
600 Lindbergh ransom money found
in his possession. She admitted she
did use the shelf.
She said Hauptmann was with her
in New York or the night of March
]. 1882, when Baby Lindbergh was
stolen from his crib more than so
miles away.
ho hn OF homo
her and friend on April 2. 1882
when DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Condor
said he paid Hauptmann the $4,000
futile ransom in Bronx graveyard.
Denies Theater Trip.
She said Hauptmann spent the
evening of November 26, 1888, at
home A theater cashier had testi-
fled he proffered a Lindbergh ransom
note in payment for ticket on that
night. The date was prior to the time
Hauptmann said FiSch gave him the
shoeboX with the money.
Mrs. Hauptmann succeeded her
husband on the stand. On her direct
testimony she said she could not
reach the top shelf of the broom
closet and for that reason never
used it.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
made her admit she kept tin box
with soap coupons on that shelf and
that she often took the box down;
also that she kept rags and curtain
rods on the shelf
She insisted, nevertheless, that she
never saw the shoe box.
Wilentz, attacking the most impor-
tant alibi she offered for her husband,
asked her:
And so when they (the police)
asked you about March l you said,
That's too far back; I can't remem-
Der whether my husband was with me
or not'?"
when they asked me about the
1st of March I believe I said that"
she admitted.
Denies Husband Limped.
She also disputed the testimony of
q State witness, Mrs. Ella Achenbach,
her former employer, who said the
HauptmannS called on her in March,
1882, after the kidnapping, saying they
had just returned from trip, Haupt-
mann limping. Mrs Hauptmann said
the call was paid in 1881; further
that she had had quarrel with Mrs.
Achenbach about pay.
Edward J. Reilly, Hauptmann's de-
tense chief, asked Mrs. Hauptmann:
Now on Tuesday, March l, 1888,
did your husband call for you that
night?"
He did"
"At what time?"
well. maybe it was 7 O'clock may
be quarter after 7, maybe quarter be-
fore Z. I don't know exactly the
minute"
At Bakery Till $3.50.
"And how long did he remain there
Cat the bakery before you and he
left to 60 homer"
"Oh, about half past 8, quarter to
TO-"
The Lindbergh baby was stolen be-
tween 7:30 and 10 pm, on March l,
more than go miles away.
She said Hans Kloeppenburg and
Hauptmann and herself were in the
Hauptmann home the night Condor
paid the ransom money.
"And what were you doing?" Reilly
asked.
MY husband and Hans make music,
play the mandolin and guitar, and
after this we played cards, all three
Of U.s."
She rebuked State hints that her
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