Evening star., 1935-01-27
BRUNO IS ACCUSED.
BY NEW EVIDENCE
Handwriting Data Brought
From Europe-Defense
Stresses Alibi.
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owner, signed an att1daVlt before a
Montreal notary last week that he
thought he saw Fisch in Montreal
with child closely resembling" the
Lindbergh baby about Is days after
thu kidnapping. Barry said he had not
mentioned the incident until now be
cause friends advised me to keep
quiet"
Another Montrealer-John Harrow,
owner of tailor shop and small
hotel-came forward today. the Mont
real dispatches said, with a story
similar TO that told by Barry.
Harrow positively identified"
picture of Fisch as that of a man he
saw with several other men in
United States car about the time
Barry is supposed to have seen Fisch.
Couple Entered Hotel.
He said the car drove up before
his hotel and after the occupants,
who seemed very nervous, had dis
cussed something in a low tone the
man he believes was Isador Fisch
came forward and asked to see a
room. He said he had a woman
and child with him. Finally, the wom-
an carried the child into the hotel,
screening its face. They refused to
sign the register, Harrow said.
During a conversation Harrow said
he distinctly heard the woman ad-
dress the man as "Isador."
Harrow said the picture of Fisch
''nearly knocked me of my chair,
because remembered every feature
of the mans face because of his
odd behavior" He said he was
sure the man had spoken with Ger
man accent.
Reilly, In New York over the week
END, said that certain surprise" wit
nesses would be called to weld the
''ironclad" alibi the defense is seeking
to prove for Hauptmann.
Dog Enters Case.
A dog-the proverbial mans best
friend"-will be an important factor
in the testimony of one of Reilly's
witnesses.
The witnesses, said Reilly, will be
called to the stand "at the first op-
portunity" after the trial, in recess
over the week end, resumes Monday.
The mans story will be that on the
night of the kidnapping, March /.
1882, he had gone to White Plains,
N. Y, from his home in the Bronx
where Hauptmann also lived-ln
search of a police dog.
Returning unsuccessful in his
search, the man saw an automobile
at a filling station. and in the car
was a dog SO similar to the one he
had been hunting that he thought it
was his own.
The witness, said Reilly, will say
that he approached the car and told
the man in the car that ne believed
the dog was his. The man in the car
denied it, saying the dog was owned
by a friend.
The witness then threatened to
have the man in the car arrested,
and even went so far as to have the
man write his name on a paper, to-
gether with his address.
The name the man wrote was
Bruno Richard Hauptmann," and
the man who wrote it, the witness will
swear, was Hauptmann.
The witness will say that he is able
to recall the exact night on which
this episode over a dog occurred be-
cause, on returning home later, he
heard over the radio the first alarm
concerning the Lindbergh baby kid
naping.
Other Witnesses.
Reilly said he had two other new
witnesses whose testimony would help
the prisoners case. but that he has
had difficulty In gaining their con-
sent to take the stand. He did not
explain what their objections were.
AS the defense, now launched on
the presentation of its own case after
weeks of testimony for the State.
made plans for the presentation of its
alibi case, the State laid equally de-
termined strategy to break down the
defendant when he resumes the stand
for cross examination Monday.
Somewhere along the road Of his
crosS-examination, the State expects
to trap Hauptmann.
The lawyers for the State have ex-
pressed confidence that Hauptmann
will lose the remarkable self-control
he has shown throughout all the
months since his arrest.
The little red memorandum book of
Hauptmann's, which Attorney Cen
eral David T. Wilentz showed under
his nose as he shouted questions at
the pale defendant yesterday, the
the first of several surprises the State
has prepared.
In that book appeared the word
boat" written "b-o-a-d," apparently
in Hauptmann's hand, just as it was
written and spelled in the note which
John" gave to Dr. John F. Condor
in st. Raymond's Cemetery, the
Bronx, on the night of April 2, 1882,
when he took the $4,000 ransom.
To Attack Story.
There was something else. too, which
must have heightened Hauptmann's
dread as Wilentz pounded away at
him. At the prosecution table the
brains Of the State were busy set
ting up the groundwork for fresh at
tacks on the story he proffered in de-
tense of the charge he kidnapped the
baby, collected the ransom and used
a major share of it to speculate in the
stock market.
The prosecution, Wilentz said, "has
only just started" on Hauptmann
Wilentz desires more than a mere jury
verdict of conviction. What he hopes
and what he will try for on Monday
when Hauptmann comes back to sit
alone and face the long hours Of ques-
tioning is a complete breakdown. an
admission Of Hauptmann's that he is
guilty.
Defense attorneys are confident no
such thing win happen and will con-
tinue their fight to show not only that
Hauptmann Is innocent, but that the
crime was the work of more than one
man.
The defense is keeping the names
of all its witnesses secret and would
not disclose today the identity Of
taxicab driver who observed four men,
according to the defense, in the
cemetery around the time the ransom
was paid.