Evening star., 1935-01-30
BRUNO UNMOVED
BY W|LENTz FIRE
Stubborn!y Sticks to AIibl
After Two Days Under
GriIIing.
By the Associated Press.

&tinpinQ questions found Bruno Rlcn-
ard Hauptmann insisting Stubbornly
last night that he has told the truth
In his trial for the kidnap-murder
Of the Lindbergh baby.
Forced by the driving croSs-eXami-
nation of Attorney General David T.
Wilentz into admission that there
were lies in the things he said and
wrote before and after his arrest, the
alien carpenter nevertheless was de-
fiant and confident as his ordeal ended
yesterday.
"I could have stayed up there for
q week. I can't be ratified, because
I'm telling the TRUTH" he said as he
went back to his cell.
Clings Boldly to Story.
He clung boldly, if awkwardly, to
his story that he had no hand in the
kidnapping, the murder, or the ransom
hoax that followed the theft on March
], 1882. of the golden-haired baby.
Much of the time he was calm, al
most SNUG, but there were moments
when his replies we're halting and
clumsy and others when his cold eyes
snapped in anger.
a.
one point, shaking his finger in the
Attorney Generals face as Wilentz
pounced on discrepancies in the car
penter's accounts of his money deals
and the letters he wrote in German
to the family of Isador Fisch, his dead
partner and alibi man.
He barked a vehement mol" near
the end of the croSS-eXamination as
Wilentz accused him of concealing the
truth about everything in this case"
Expressions Compared.
He stuck stolidly to his words, even
when the Attorney General used his
witness stand phrase, "Oh, that is
planned for year already" and COM
pared it polntedly with two ransom
note phrases that were almost identi-
cal
How can I say it otherwise?" the
accused man demanded.
AfterWard even Wilentz said of
Hauptmann:
He was good witness, considering
his position; considering he has told
SO many conflicting stories; that he
has admitted so many untruths, and
considering the volume of evidence
against him. he did as well as could
be expected"
Il don't want a confession from
him. All I want is his testimony.
If he was the kind of man who
showed more nervousness he wouldn't
have committed the crime"
Wiientz to Have New Chance.
The attorney general pointed out
that he would have another oppor-
tunity to question Hauptmann on the
answers he gives tomorrow to his
chief counsel, Edward j. Reilly who
will conduct redirect examination
George K. Large of the prosecution
staff explained that the State was
privileged in recross examination to
make queries about any evidence ad-
duced by Reilly on redirect question:
ing.
The defense. Large pointed out, had
asked for the five letters Isador Fisch,
Hauptmanns former business part
ner, wrote to him from Germany,
where he died. The State, he ex-
planned, was not privileged to intro
duce the letters, since such corre-
spondcnce was considered ''hearsay,"
but should the defense put them in
evidence the attorney general could
question Hauptmann about them.
The Fisch letters, Large asserted
substantiated the States position that
Hauptmann supplied the money for
their market ventures and fur busi-
ness. The State, he added, thought
Fisch's alleged business records were
'largely myth
q. Trap by Own Counsel Seen.
The belief that Hauptmann's coun-
sci unwittingly trapped him into the
virtual admission that he quit work in
April, 1882, because of payment of the
Lindbergh ransom money was ex-
pressed also by the prosecution.
The defense, taking charge of their
principal witness late in the after
noon, presented his pay roll for en-
ployment at the Majestic Apartments
in 1882
The pay roll Wilentz asserted,
showed that Hauptmann had been
employed at $100 a month. The de-
fendant has testified that he received
but $50 and on Monday, April 4, 1882,
he quit for that reason.
"The question has been," said the
attorney general, whether Haupt-
mann quit because he was getting only
$50 or because he got the Lindbergh
ransom money"
Hauptmann Satisfied
Egbert Rosecrans, one of Haupt-
mann's attorneys, also said Haupt-
mann expressed pleasure with the
manner in which he conducted him
self during the longest examination in
the records of the Lindbergh murder
trial.
"Hauptmann told me that he was
in no hurry to finish his croSS-exam-
nation" Rosecrans said.
He thought he had impressed the
court with his innocence"
RoSecranS declared Hauptmann was
not tired when he left the stand,
although he expressed evaporation at
Wilentz's questions.
''He was asking me about lot of
little things, trying to make big crimes
out of them" Rosecrans quoted Haupt-
mann as saying.
But he didn't get anywhere.
could answer his questions for week"
"Hauptmann was not as tired as
Attorney General Wilentz," COM
mented Reilly. He made swell wit
ness in his own behalf"
Reilly said ne would keep Haupt-
mann on the stand under redirect ex-
animation until about noon today.
s7"Then We'll put Hauptmann's wife
on the stand for an hour or so, and
what a witness she'll make"
az Wife'S Testimony Delayed.
The length of cross-examination de-
1ayed until today the testimony of
Hauptmann's wife, Anna. last of the
principals in the celebrated case to
take the witness stand.
Reilly just had started his redirect
examination of Hauptmann when ad-
tournment was taken.
Hauptmann sat calmly, with ready,
II awkward. explanations, as Wilentz
sought to trip him in a seemingly
endless Interrogation about his money