The Washington times., 1935-01-22
HAUP 7 MANN
.TOPUT BLAME
ON F|SCH
BY DOROTHY KILGALLEN

cLEM4CNG yin, IN, D., jail HA
NIN.SO Blame the dead man.
Bruno Richard Hau ptmann,
when he takes the stand tomor-
row to deny his part in the crime
of the century, will lay the kid
naping and murder of the Lind
hergh baby in the hands of dead
Isador Fisch, the man who can't
talk back.
He will try to refute the States
strongest evidence against him
the handwriting Specimens-with
the hypothetical Specter of his
friends hand penning the Lind
bergh ransom notes.
He will say that on the night of
March /, 1882. at the hour of the
kidnapping, he was at home with
his wife.
DiScIaims Letters
Here are the prosecutions three
most damning points against
Hauptnann: The handwriting,
the Identification, the possession
of the ransom money.
And these are his answers, as
he will give them on the witness
stand, as he gave them today ex-
blusively to the Evening Journal
Through defense counsel.
81 did not write those letters
20 Colonel Lindbergh. / never
saw them in my life until that
day I was on the witness stand
i'm the Bronx, when they
showed them to me. I told the
truth when / said / didn't
write them. I'm telling the
truth now"
He was asked:
"But they look like your
Handwriting, and experts have
testified your writing was the
same. How do you account for
4hat?"
Blames Fisch
Hauptmann replied:
'Tf they are like my hand.
writing, they were written by
some one who wanted to double
cross me. Who wanted me to
get the blame for this thing I
didn't do"
"Do you mean ISadOr FiSch?"
Il don't know. can't prove
it. 1t could have been him, /
know"
do you think he could have
copied your handwriting in all
those letters?"
"Sure, he could have"
GSKYM bod NHaNAlnr mR ~n~~, An1NG
writing, many of them. Why,
I could not tell you how many.
wrote him letters. We had
business transactions together.
In our dealings I sometimes
wrote out statements and these
gave to Fisch. He had plenty
of stuff to work on If he wanted
to copy my writing"
Eager To Testify
The chill-faced former machine.
gunner walked his cell like a cat.
He is 1.-the and taut and moves
quietly as leopard moves
through a jungle. His face is
made of blunted angles. His
eyes are blue you cannot look
into without blinking. Today he
ds tense with expectation, like a
prize fighter before the bell; he
cannot wait to get in that wit.
ness chair, he has been so long
without talking. He said:
''Wait till I take the stand
wait till / tell my story. Let
them listen to me for q WHILE"
On the States second point
khe Observation-Disclosures
answer will be chiefly a denial,
except in the instance of the
latest person to identity him,
Mrs. Cecile M. Barr. Hauptmann
will offer proof that she lied.
Money From Fisch
So he dismisses the identifica-
Mons. Then-the ransom money.
the big question mark in the de-
eense case that Bruno Hauptmann
will have to answer. Hauptmann
declared:
"FiSch gave me the money.
I put it away for him. didn't
know it was Lindbergh ransom
money. 1t was in a shOebOx
when he gave it to me. When
found out what it was 1 hid
1t in safer places. I spent only
what FiSch owed me.
"The money that nut In
Che brokerage accounts was not
F1Sch'S money or Lindbergh ran.
som money. 1t was my own.
that my wife and I had saved.
The State proved yesterday
that it was not $4,000 as they
claim. When it was all over
they only accounted for $40, ,OOO."
And when he has told this
story on the stand, Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, talking under the
spotlight Of the whole worlds
eyes, will answer the question the
world is asking:
where were you on the night
of March l, 1882, between 8
and 10 O'clOck?"
This is his answer:
II was at home. My wife
was with me. She remembers,
and that is what she will tell
on the stand"