The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-31
HAUPTMANN'S ALIBIS
STAND AT THREE
AGAINST 7 HEARD
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came to the witness chair yester-
day to take an oath.
Thus did big Ed Reilly, best of
Brooklyn's homicide lawyers, build
up his contention that Haupt-
mann never was near the scene
of the crime, that he did not
,kidnap the Lindbergh baby and
that his only connection with the
case is a swirl of strange events
that put him in possession of
$14,60O of the $4,000 ransom
that Lindbergh paid as a price for
the life and safety of a dead
baby.
Hauptmann chose yesterday
when his own ordeal on the wit
ness stand eIded-to display his
first CULVER Of tender sentiment.
They dismissed him from the wit
ness chair in mid-mornino and
called his wife. She went IN there
in her shapeless blue dress, her
black hat, beige stockings and
black pumps to try to save her
husband from death.
H. 1t WAS not talk about babies
alive or dead-that pumped the
tears into Hauptmann's eyes. 1t
was testimony about his mother
a wrinkled old lady, well past her
ALLOTTED lifetime of three-score-
Eand-ten-who lives in Kamenz,
IGermany, and hopes for the best,
"Why did you take trip to
IEurope?" Reilly asked Mrs
Hauptmann.
i al wanted to see my husbands
mother, for one thing" came the
reply. "She was 70 years old"
| Persons sittin~ directly behind
IHauptmann saw him reach for his
handkerchief and brush it across
his face. 81.
as he crying?" one of them
asked the state trooper who sits
at his side.
"And howl" came the troopers
whispered answer.
Hauptmann fumbled with his
handkerchief and put it back in
his pocket.
There have been charges made
here that the Hauptmanns have
been coached to weep and to
hout "Liar" at witnesses
Whether this was an act is Sc
cret locked in the mind of Haupt'
mann. If it was an act, it was s
good one, for tears fell and hi
handkerchief was a damp ball o.
linen when it went back into mi
pocket.
Anna Schoeffler Hauptmanr
was trapped into contradictions
yesterday by the smooth-worklne
| attorney general of the state OF
New Jersey, David 7. Wilentz
but when the sum of all of the
testimony for the defense i:
struck, it is likely that she vii
emerge as her husbands best wit
ness. ,
She was calm and unhurrled
She talked confidently, answered
questions crisply and even re
membered to flash an occasional
smile at her husband, 80 Zee
across the room. Lindbergh seem
ed fascinated by her testimon!
and never took his eyes oft O.
her. Put it down as good ia!
for the Hauptmanns, perhap
their. best. ~ -,
For Mrs. Hauptmann was abb
to do more than tell the jury ne
husband was with --her--and no
out across the Jersey meadows OF
some errand o; crime-on tn
night of the kidnapping, She. swor'
THAT he also was at home on an
other fatefuI night-the night 9
April 2, 1882, when DR.. John F
Condor drove to st. Raymond
cemetery and handed across tn
bedgo the $4,000 which h
thought was going to bring tn
iLindbergh baby back alive.
Mrs. Hauptmann was a wait
ress in the Fredericksen bakery
earning about SIS a week. Trad
was brisk, she said, and she wa
the only waitress. Sometime
when her husband called to tax
| her home he would have to sit a
a rear table until she had cleare
up the last of her bakery chores
Reilly asked her to raise ne
voice a bit, because what she wa
about to say might be the differ
ence between freedom and tn
electric chair for her husband.
Nov, Mrs. Hauptmann," h
asked, con Tuesday, March
1882, did your husband call TO
you?"
eyes"
about what time?"
"About 7 o'clock in the ever
ing"
| How, long did he stay there g