Evening star., 1935-01-20
Mystery Riches
To Be Laid to
KidnapCash.
FIGHT MAPPED
BY DEFENSE
Expert to Tell
How Ladder
Was Built.

BY the Associated Press.
PENNINGTON, N. j., January 19-
Ladders, letters and lucre became to-
night the cruX Of the States case
against Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
The ladder, thus far excluded as
evidence but promised as an exhibit
before the trial is over, is that on
which the State contends the kidnaper
of the Lindbergh baby descended with
the child. Hauptmann. the State will
attempt to prove, made it.
The letters are the series of ransom
demands. Experts have testified
Hauptmann wrote them.
The lucre represents the sudden
wealth which. the State says. Haupt-
mann displayed shortly after $50, 900
ransom was paid to a mysterious
John" by Dr. John F. Condor. act
ing for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Condor and Col Lindbergh say that
John" is Hauptmann.
Bruno Studies Copies.
The prisoner sat tonight in his cell.
always under the eyes of guards, and
studied photostatic copies of his own
brokerage accounts-the accounts by
which the State hopes to prove that
Hauptmann came into possession Of
his unexplained wealth Immediately
after the ransom was paid.
Defense attorneys had planned to
study the accounts today, but instead
of going to Trenton. where the ac-
counts are being held. Chief Defense
Counsel Edward J. Reilly obtained
copies of the accounts and sent them
to Hauptmann.
The prisoner is expected to famil-
iarize himself with every phase of his
transactions and thus be prepared to
advise his counsel when the State be-
gins presentation of this testimony.
The State will submit to the jury OF
eight men and four women that
Hauptmann, a carpenter with few
Jobs to keep him occupied in the de-
preston period, managed to have an
income of S49, geo between the time of
the payment of the ransom. April 2,
1882, and the date of his arrest, Sep
tember 10 last.
AS it progresses through the devious
business of revealing Hauptmann's
brokerage transactions and showing
the amount of his bank accounts, the
prosecution will halt this line of testi-
mony occasionally to call witnesses TO
strengthen the States contention
Hauptmann was in the Hopewell area
before and during the day Of the kid
naping, March l, 1882.
Accounts Gone Over.
Federal Agents Edward Hill and
William Frank and Assistant Attorney
General Richard Stockton went over
Hauptmann's bank and brokerage &C
counts in Trenton today. They elm
mated 18 of the witnesses the State
planned to call to testify to the Haupt-
mann accounts and will produce only
a certified public accountant and a
Federal agent.
The money angle of the case has
been stressed from the beginning by
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
chief of the prosecution staff. Haupt-
mann, he said in his opening to the
jury on January 8, planned the kid
naping for money and collected the
ransom alone.
He will show next week that Haupt-
mann bought a S400 radio shortly
after the ransom collection date, that
his wife Anna was able to make a
trip to Germany in the Summer OF
1882, and that Hauptman himself
made frequent hunting trips. More
over it was about that time, or little
later, the State will show, that Haupt-
mann opened his first brokerage ac-
count.
At the time of his arrest Hauptmann
had a credit balance of 1886 in his
account with Steiner. Rouse g. Co.,
whose customers man testified yester-
day. Under his wife's maiden name,
Anna Schoeffler, he had a credit bal
ance of $5,017. In the Central Saw
ings Bank, New York, the Hauptmanns
had a joint deposit account of $2,578.
They held two mortgages. totalling
$1,000, on houses in Brooklyn.
The State figures Hauptmann lost
$1,000 in stock market speculationS,
and he made the assertion he loaned
1sador Fisch, his German furrier
friend, $500. Ransom money turned
up before his arrest totalled more
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