, 1935-01-30

A. Yes.
a. what did you buy7
A. Vegetables.
a. HOW mrich2 Ten cent worthy
al NO. IL Vfas almost q dollar.
a. You lived ND on 222nd street and
yun went all the way down 20 65th
street to DO your wtfe's marketing
A. No. no. THAT was right near my
office. near Steiner Rouse, the broker
age office where / was every day.
q. What time was it7
"A. 7 fix the time-I usually go out
from the brokerage office) for dinner
around IA o'clock or after three. II de-
ponds how the market 10.
Made Most of Purchases
Hauptmann explained he put the
purchases In his car and would take
them home mt 3 O'Clock when the market
closed. He said he made most Of the
purchases for the home after the baby
was born"
wiIentz walked over to the witness
with the Majestic Apartment payroll
sheets. He had the witness scrutinize It.
@. DO you see your manner
A. Yes.
9. How many days work.
A. Eleven.
@. What Is the pay rate7 A month";
A. Richard Hauptmann 500.
Only the other day Hnuptmann said
he quit hts Job after the $4,000 ransom
money was paid because he was get
ting only $50 a month instead Of 800.
The state was trying 70 destroy this
alleged reason for resigning by having
Hauptmann himself read the record
showing 800 O month as his pay rate.
UfINnNw hnIM Nfn fAm NManaF4a NnmwR-
ment payroll before Hauptmann and
led him through the details OF his
ployment.
q. Now is there anything on here
that shows you worked the Ind OF APP
A. It shows two days. rhst's how I
know I worked the and.
@. That's your testimony but does
the record how it3
A. ! am not familiar with this record.
how they keep II.
@. While you look nc It win you tell
us n rate OF pay Il shows7
A. e1c0 rate.
wilentz took the s'Jafsie' address
board and showed II 20 the witness.
q. Is II the fact that you did testify
you wrote the address on the panel?
A. Not in dis court.
That was In the Bronx" Reilly in
ter1ected.
Hauptmann agreed that that was his
testimony In the Bronx.
But I think you said Tuesday that
you couldn't identify the writing"
Wflentz continued. He read the rec
ord showing Hauptmnnn said he told
Reilly the lumber was his.
@. Is it your lumber
A. ! can't prove Il n II Is or not.
q. I don't want you 70 prove II.
IA mwmww NmN~mn a. a. 49,
q. Is this or Ia this not your lumber
A. 7 can't say yes or no.
@. 50 the wood is h same In every
house7
A. Yes.
@. Every house hasn't got your hand
writing on it7
Hauptmann did not answer.
q. Wasn't this lumber different than
others because IL had writing on IL?
Wilentz' voice rose as II had before
In his badgering OF Hauptmann.
q. When you were shown this piece
OF wood. you were also given a mngni-
Tying glass 20 study the writing7
O. And after you looked at the writ
ing. YOU said that's my lumber"
O. But you couldn't tell IL was your
lumber until you saw the writing7
A. / didn't think.
Reilly rose to object asserting I'VE
have had 80 hours Of this and 10 has
been zone over many times"
Mrs. Hauptmann Called
Justice Trenchard said he thought
so too but I don't know what Is on
the attorney generals mind.
Wilentz said the subject was impor-
fnnf pn0qrwh m wn Anfn
He asked q few more questions and
said that's all"
Hauptmann stepped down and vent
quickly 70 his seat.
Mrs. Hauptmann was called TO testify
TO alihis for her husband.
She crushed a rolled handkerchief In
her hand. q apparently was very
nervous.
q. You are the wife OF the defendant9
A. Yes. / am.
Her voice was a tremulous whisper
that was almost inaudible.
Q. When did you come to American
A. In 1924.
O. who did you first work for.
A. Mrs. Rosetts Rosenbaum.
Reilly interrupted his questions 70
ask for quiet.
Justice Trenchard stopped court and
ordered the officers TO remove all per-
sons who could not find seats.
q. Your occupation when you came
70 the United States was IL general
house work.
"A. Yes.
She said she worked until the middle
OF 1925 and married Hauptmann Octo-
Der 10. 1925. at City Hall. New FORK.
Mrs. Hauptmann. like her husband.
spoke with q pronounced German ac-
cent.
Made $50 Monthly
@. How much did YOU make whea you
worked for Mrs. Rosenbaum7
A. The first rear I had $50 q month.
The second year SIS.
q. When you met sour husband what
was hts o~ccupation7
A. when I first met him I think he
worked as a mechanic, and then IS q
carpenter.
q. How much was he making then7
A. sec. I remember that. $50 a month.
q. Had you planned to go to some
western state on your honeymoon7
A. Yes. we wanted TO 60 to Califor-
MIA.
q. When did MFR. Hauptmann buy his
first carr
A. 1t was two or three weeks before
we were married. II was a Chevrolet. II
was second hand cost about $500 or
$500.
The quiet-spoken m told OF
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