The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-16
KIN TO
Be WITNESSES
IN REbUTTAL
WiIentz Saws All Persons
Connected With Bruno
Are Absolved
By HARRY FERGUSON a5
rited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Corrcspcndcnt
Copyright 1885 by United Press)
HUN ERDON COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, FLEMINGT O n,
N. j., Jan. 16.-CUP)-Hidden
somewhere along New Jersey
roads choked with snow there
were four persons last night pre-
pared to knock the props from UNI
der Bruno Richard Hauptmann's
defense. ..... a rE
They have travelled all the way
from Germany to refute charges
of Hauptmann's lawyers that u
gang = not Hauptmann - killed
baby Charles Augustus Llndbergn'
Jr.' ...f ..
Perhaps never before has such
stern watch been set over W.T.
ncsses in a legal action. Even the
names of the four persons are
withheld, although it IS REASONABLY,
certain that two are Plncus ana
Hanna Fisch from Bavaria -.
It also is reasonably certain
that they are in a Trenton hotel
suite and that no one is passing
through that door except walters,
hotel maids and the ATTORNEY gen
eral of New Jersey, David 1. WI
lentz.
Throughout this trial there has
bobbed up the name OF lsidor
Fisch, a skinny little fur worker
who used to drink beer with
Hauptmann in the Yorkville sec,
ton of New York City. He IS dead
from the tuberculosis that was
sendino him into coughing fits be-
fore he went back to Germany 10
die. :. ,o.
As this trial unrolls it becomes
clear that the strategy OF Haupt-
mann's lawyers will be to try TO
prove that Isidor Fisch kidnapped
Charles A. Lindbcrgh, Jr., and
collected the ransom money. They
will explain the $14.6O0 of ran
som money found in Hauptmann $
possession by saying that Flsch
gave it to the prisoner.
So these four persons We're
brought to this country to tell
how Fisch died in poverty and
therefore, could not have had any
ransom money.
Before the lie de France came
poking through the mist into Ne"
York harbor Tuesday, she was
halted and the coast guard cutter
Raritan nudged alongside. Inc
four mysterious witnesses went
over the side OF the liner and
were carried away to their mdihg
place. on,
Wilentz tossed out some scraps
of information concerning his
four witnesses.
Some are members of the fam
ilv of the late Isidor Fisch, ne ne;
said. "and some are not. VIII
not tell you how many are reia'-
cd to him. ,,. 90
s.Thev have been brought to
this country in event it becomes
necessary to refute defense allie
cations regarding Fisch. They are
rebuttal witnesses.
Unfortunately for hauptmahi,,
those who have been connected
with him are already absolved so
far as the state is concerned ,
Wilentz's remarks were carried
to Edward j. Reilly, chief of de-
tense counsel. >,
envy regards to Mr.. Wilentz, "
Reilly said, "and tell him to keep
the Fisch family in safe place
until Friday" =,
Somebody besides his family
came to the defense of lsidor
Fisch Yesterday. In New York the
limited Press interviewed LOUIS
Bitter lodge brother and lawyer
for Fisch.
"Fisch lived in a boarding
house." Bitter said, land he took
everything he had in the world
to Germany with him."
! Bitter said he knew that be-
cause Bruno Richard Hauptmann
himself told him so three months
before he was arrested and charg-
ed with murder
Later Hauptmann explained
tha ransom money in his posses
sion by telling police Fisch had
left it with him.
All these were things that hap
pened long ago and far away to
Fauptmann as he sat in court yes
terday, a splotch of crimson in
his right cheek where the jail bar
Der nicked him. and listened to
handwriting experts tt tt f y
against him.
Two more-John Tyrrell and
Herbert J. Walter-swore that all
Ia of the scrawling, illiterate
no+oc cont ont nv tho ;idnann,.