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Fisher registered an objection, but he
was overruled.
Schwarzkopf was excused.
Handwriting Expert
Called to Stand.
Albert S. Osborn, ST, noted hand
writing expert, was called to the
stand.
II am an examiner of questioned
documents" he said, when asked his
occupation.
Osborn said he had worked at his
occupation for upward of 80 years"
He is large and red of face and has
a gray mustache. A bald pate is
fringed with platinum gray hair.
He himself speaks loudly and he
wants others to do likewise.
Il can't hear as well as l did once, p"
he doomed forth. I want the counsel
to speak right out"
The court assured him that counsel
would raise their voices, and he went
ahead with his testimony, an air Of
positiveness dominating every word
in his professional testimony.
ANY question in relation to the
qualifications of the Witness" Tren-
chard then asked.
There was no defense attack on his
qualifications. and Lanigan proceeded.
@. When did you first see the ran
som notes?
A. May, 1892.
@. Did you examine them at that
time.
A. did.
@. Did you photograph them?
A. Yes.
@. Did you examine them later?
A. had many occasions to examine
them. The writings Of well over 100
different possible writer's Of the ransom
notes to see If these or any of these
wrote the ransom notes.
@. Did you reach a conclusion?
A. The conclusion was the writer
of the ransom notes had not been
found.
That was up until September of
last year, he explained.
Reaches Conclusion
Bruno Is Author.
Q. Have you made a careful COM
parison of the ransom notes with the
conceded and requested writings Of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann?
A. Yes.
@. Does 1t give you sufncient ma
terial for o conclusion.
A. Yes. The amount Of the writ
ings is ample on which to base .
conclusion.
@. What is the conclusion. the
opinion.
A. My opinion is that the ransom
notes were all written by the same
hand that wrote these writings signed
Richard Hauptmann.
He was asked how many specimens
he had examined and he replied:
IT think it was H."
He was handed several exhibits.
II haven't seen these markings"
Osborn declared. Somebody has put
new markings on them" ---.
Take your time, Mr. Osborn. We
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FILM BALLOTS MAILED

HOLLYWOOD, January II CP).-
Nomination ballots for the annual
awards of merits by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
February q. were mailed yesterday.
Final voting will commence as soon
as the nominations are completed.
Awards will be given for merit in
production. acting. directing, writing.
art direction. cinematography. sound
recording. film editing. short subjects
and music. Special awards for SCI
entiflc technical achievement also
will be made.
The academy membership votes on
the awards
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Hauptmann Trial
Cost Left on State
By County Board
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PENNINGTON, N. j., January
II. - The Hunterdon County
Board of Freeholders has taken
the State authorities at their
word and prepared 1885 budget
without provision for any cost Of
the Hauptmann trial.
Verbal assurances were given
the freeholders that the State
would bear the entire cost of the
trial, which may approach $780,
900. The freeholders made the
agreement, remembering the s83.-
900 expense bill the Hall-Mills
trial left to Somerset County 10
years ago.
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u. S. Agent Says Ransom Bills
Disappeared From Circulation
after Arrest of Hauptmann
Frank Wilson Tells of Preparing "Cash
Box" for Lindbergh and Insisting
on Taking Serial Numbers.

"Since the defense counsel asked
that sort of a question of Col. Lind
bergh. thought would try to do the
same thing" Wilentz said.
He added. however, II don't think
it's legal, and withdraw it."
Fisher took up the cross-examina-
ton of Wilson.
No Ransom Bills
Seen Since Arrest.
will you say" Fisher thundered,
that no ransom bills have appeared
since Mr.. Hauptmann's arrest2"
A. I can't say. I haven't received
any notice of it if any has turned up.
Fisher started to question Wilson
concerning the testimony he gave at
the trial Of John Hughes Curtiss, the
Norfolk. Va. b0at-builder, convicted
in the Summer of 1892 of obstructing
justice in the Lindbergh case.
Wilentz was on mis- feet with an
objection against this defense effort to
introduce Curtiss' trial testimony into
the present trial.
Justice Trenchard sustained the OBJ
lection.
@. Did you develop any clues in
your investigation indicating you ex-
pected to close in on the criminal?
A. No.
Fisher then returned to the Curtiss
testimony. and asked the witness if at
that trial he had said he was aware
of tie identity of mot him, himself
(the kidnaper). but we're in touch
with other persons, and because of
that decline to name the person."
Wilentz again objected successfully.
Tries to Bring Up
CurtisS Testimony.
Fisher said cauStically:
apparently the State would like to
forget the Curtiss case"
He tried to bring up the Curtiss
testimony again. but again Justice
Trenchard sustained objections.
The jurist asked Fisher a question
on the Curtiss case.
He was indicted for interfering
with justice, but no one knows for
what he was tried" the defense at
torney said.
Counsel should know" Wilentz shot
at him. "he defended him"
Fisher continued his crosS-exami-
nation.
@. Where was the first ransom bill
picked up?
A. The first that We know Of was
in bank on Broadway near Seventy
second street. That was on April z
or 8. 1882
The second" he said, was taken
in and came to light in lower Broad
way restaurant"
He set the date at pproximately
May /. 1882
On questioning he said that he had
no knowledge of ransom money being
passed in Bridgeport, Conn. Nor, in
fact. anywhere in Connecticut" he
added
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writing of Richard Hauptmann in all
three ways-occasional characteristics,
standard characteristics and unusual
characteristics, he said
He spoke of the ransom notes
briefly. In my opinion. all letters
were written in a disguised hand,
somewhat disguised"
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As Cash Possessor.
Wilentz asked II he had done this
duty and the mild hammered man said
''yes," explaining how the ransom
money serial numbers had been re-
tanned, and the money diligently
traced down by Government agents.
AS result of this activity he said a
man had been. apprehended with a
large sum of the money in his posses
sion, had been indicted and "is now On
trial for murder"
Wilentz asked him who the man
was.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann."
There was an objection.
What I want to make known Is
that there are two indictments" c.
Lloyd Fisher, associate defense counsel,
interposed. "One for kidnapping and
one for murder.
I'VE are trying the murder indict-
ment," the court ruled.
There is only one indictment. and
you know it," Wilentz replied to
Fisher.
He resumed his examination.
Who do you think is guilty.?
he began.
Red-faced Reilly was on his feet OBJ
jecting before the question could be
completed.
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| curing the PreSloentS golQ eWDarg0
without detection.
@. Do you know whether Mr.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann worked
at the Majestic Apartments?
A. Yes, sir.
A defense objection was sustained.
Witness Is Asked
To Define Phrase.
Fisher began his re-croSS examina-
ton by asking Wilson to define the
phrase "of your own knowledge" with
which several Of the attorney gen.
erals questions had been prefaced.
why a transcript Of a court pro-
cedure." Wilson replied.
@. Then you are relying. under
oath. on something you can read?
A. Yes. sir.
@. Now about ransom money Slip
ping back into the Treasury Depart
ment What were the instructions?
A. There were orders to the Federal
Reserve and other banking institu-
tions to make a careful search.
@. And these orders were issued by
no less authority than Herbert Hoover,
President of the United States?
A. Yes.
Gold Law Made
Check More Difficult.
Wilson then explained patiently
that when the country went off the
gold standard, the influx of gold
notes to the United States Treasury
made a careful check impractical.
Wilentz took the witness for Sec
ond redirect.
Wilentz asked Wilson if it were not
true that about the time of the bank
ing holiday a large amount of gold
notes were not in circulation.
Reilly objected.
The court asked the witness If he
knew and Wilson shook his head.
HE said he don't know" Justice
Trenchard announced gravely and the
dispute ended.
Wilson was excused and q five
minute recess taken at 1871 am.
In contrast with the testimony OF
previous days, today'S early session
was dull. So dull, in fact, that sew
eral members Of the jury disregarded
the testimony Of the Federal agent,
whose testimony about the checking
Of the ransom serial numbers and
other technical matters was fire.
Quently objected to by defense coun-
sci. Rather than watch the disputes
on the floor, the jurors allowed their
eyes to roam over the crowd in the
Court room.
Hauptmann and his wife talked
again together during the recess. Both
were serious and their rare smiles were
very fieeting.
Col. Schwarzkopf, head of the State
police, was the first witness called.
Specimens Identified
by Schwarzkopf.
Former Judge George K. Large, who
conducted the examination, showed
the Colonel some handwriting Speci-
mems.
Q. Who wrote them?
A. Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
@. Under what circumstances were
they written?
A. Inspector Lyons of the New York
Police Department explained to Bruno
Richard Hauptmann we wanted speci-
mems of his handwriting and asked II
he was willing to give it. He said
"Yes" and from circular then pub
lished Inspector Lyons dictated.
@. Is the spelling his own?
A.. Yes, sir.
@. Referring to whom?
A. Hauptmann.
Fisher took the witness and asked
him to specify the date Of the speci-
men.
September 49," said Schwarzkopf.
The defense counsel brought out
Hauptmann had been in custody for
q number of hours when the samples
were given and was not represented
by counsel.
When the exhibit was offered.
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Investigated Men
Who Wrote Slip.

@. Did you find any?
A. Several. Two or three had died
since 1892.
Q. Do you know If the Faulkner
bank slip was submitted to hand
writing experts for comparison with
the defendants handwriting?
A. was informed it was taken
care of.
@. Were you informed whether it
was turned over to the handwriting
experts?
A. Yes
Q. What was the result of that
examination?
The agent said the handwriting
was not Hauptmann's, according to
his information.
Q. How much ransom money. ex-
elusive of the money here and the
$3.50 OF the Faulkner deposit, has
been turned in to the Treasury?
A. I don't know. I know of ap-
proximately $1,000
Q. Who would have that knowl-
edge?
A. The cashier of the United States
Treasury.
Fisher asked if $4,000 would be a
correct total for the money recovered.
The witness nodded.
Q. Then at the moment. SO far as
you know. there is roughly s31 900
which has not been returned to the
United States Treasury and is not in
your possession at the time of this
trial?
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Tells of Circular
Letters on Bills.

Wilson, at Fishers request, related
how all banks, police departments,
post offices and other institutions
here and abroad had received the
circular listing the serial numbers.
Were any ransom bills picked up
anywhere but New York City?"
The agent said a few were recovered
Immediately outside Of the city, but
most of them came from New York.
Fisher asked if he knew of q $40
bill found in London, but the witness
said mo"
The defense counsel asked il money
had ever been recovered In Phila-
delphia, Chicago or washington.
Again mo sir" was the answer.
@. Do you know If any bills were
found in the safe of the Earl Taylor
Hat Co., New York?
A. No. sir
@. Did you ever know it was passed
by one Meyer in New York?
A. No. sir
He said thai ''25 or 28' men had
knowledge of the recording Of the
ransom serials.
THAT includes Col. Breckenridge
and Col. Lindbergh," he added.
On redirect examination Wilson
was given the opportunity to express
the opinion that of the $31 900 Of the
ransom still unaccounted for some Of
1t might have come irto the Treasury
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Left, above: Mrs. Hermina
Koren. the mystery woman in
green" as she appeared yesterday
at the trial Of Bruno Hauptmann.
She was identified by DR.. John F.
Condor as person to whom he
spoke about the Lindbergh case.
She was a surprise witness for the
defense. but is not expected to
testify until later.
Right. above: Some of the prin-
cipals in the crowded court room.
On the extreme left is Egbert
RoSencrans of the defense. Just
below him is Edward j. Reilly,
chief Of defense counsel. c. Lloyd
Fisher, also Of the defense, is bend
ing over the table. Hauptmann,
fianked by guards. is in the center.
and at the right. Mrs. Hauptmann
reads a paper being used by the
defense.
Below: Hauptmann leans over
to talk to Fisher during recess.
A. P. Photos.
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No Bills Passed
Outside America.

Wilson said he had Investigated the
case thoroughly.
@. And you have not learned that
ransom money has been passed out
side the United States?
A. Not to my knowledge.
O. Did you know that one deposit
of $4,000 Of the money was made by
Max Schlang, florist Of New York
City?
A. No, sir.
9. Do you know that on the day
the gold embargo became effective
$4,000 OF the ransom money was
passed in the Federal Reserve Bank
in New York City?
A. Not that sum. 1t was 81, $50.
@. Was it passed by one person?
A. don't know, there was no way
to trace it.
The agent said that "J. ]. Faulk-
ner' had passed that amount of money
in the Federal Reserve Bank that
day
But he couldn't be traced" he
added.
@. Isn't it true that j. j. Faulkner
committed suicide from the Chrysler
Building in New York shortly after
that?
A. don't know about that.
@. Well he did. Didn't you investi-
gate j. J. Faulkner?
A. Yes.
Evening star., 1935-01-20

NspoIeon's fatal letter Of March %.
1914. IN which he told Marie Louise of
his intention to march his army sseay
from Paris. The letter ,vss captured BY
the Prussis1s, scho thus learned that
Paris seas being left undefended-a"d
marched IN and cook possession.
has sometimes written her ~ often ~ twice
day. He u glad to receive news about his
son. and Is glad that Marie Louise has re-
covered from . cold. A little later there comes
this:
"Iney tell me good things about the King
(hs son), that he l. growing, walks and Il in
good health =. Adieu my dear Louise, de-
sire very much to sec you and give you kiss
upon your beautiful mouth"
Deep into Russia went Napoleon hurting his
mighty army against the tremendous masses the
Russians sent against him. On September ..
1912, he wrote:
II am on the battlefield Of Borodino. beat
the Russians yesterday. All their army. 120 900
strong was there. The night was hot, the VIC
tory was enormous have made thousands Of
prisoners. have had many killed and wounded
My person was not at al exposed"
Eight days later he wrote from Moscow,
which he had just occupied. Like any country
bumpkin, he expressed his surprise that the
city was as big as Paris, with many fine palaces
furnished In the French style. and . fine. metro
politan air about it.
He mentioned that great fire was raging.
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honor you and to address to the Emperor, your
father. the desire to confide to us the happi-
ness Of your imperial highness. Could we hope
that she win accept the sentiments which in
spire us to this step? May we natter our
selves that she will not be determined only by
the duty Of obedience to her parents? Little
as the sentiments Of your imperial highness
display partiality for US, we wish to cultivate
1t with so much care and take as our task to
please her In everything. that we natter our
selves to succeed in being agreeable to her"
Napoleon's diction, now and then, grew just
4 shade confused.
A BOUT two weeks after writing this letter.
n Napoleon married Marie Louise by proxy,
the Archduke Charles Of Austria representing
him at . ceremony In Vienna. Then Marie
Louise set out for France by coach accompa-
MED by some Of her own people and some
French functionaries Napoleon had sent her.
A week after this proxy wedding, while she was
still en- route. Napoleon wrote her a. follows:
'T learn that you have deprived yourself Of
your soverness in order to appear among my
people totally surrounded BY French. ap-
prove and I am very grateful for what you
have done. and yet am sad. This new sacri-
nee added to those Of your father and your
family win make your heart bleed anew. But.
madame. do not hold it against your spouse.
It has not been in his power to spare you these
terrible moments which inhere In the nature Of
things
Caroline writes me that you desire strongly
to know what can make me happy. wish 70
tell you myself this secret. Madame. II viii
appear simple to you and yet It Is quite true:
BE truly happy over our union"
Marie Louise finally reached Paris and was
greeted as Empress. In due course she bore
the long-hoped-for son. whom Napoleon pro-
claimed King OF Rome. Then-on May day,
1e12-Napoleon set forth with his greatest
army on the most colossal and fatal Of his
ventures-the campaign which took him to
Russia and paved the way for his downfall.
Special couriers took back his letters to Marie
Louise One Of them, sent from Reichenbach,
Germany. reads thus:
'T stop for an instant for lunch, take
proft to write you and recommend to you to,
be gay and not be moved, all the promises
that made you win be kept, 10 our separation
win only be for . little WHILE"
c COMETNdES his letters contain homely
- touches such as might appear In the letters
OF any man far away from his family. From
Koengsberg. for instance. he wrote saying that
she was wrong to accuse him Of idleness; he
Evening star., 1935-01-20
NAPOLEON, JosEpHINES GREAT LOVER.
mas JUST a HUSBAND to MARIE LOUISE

Newly discovered letters from the
little corporal to his second wife show
elesnly that his first one was his great
love- for to Msde Louise he wrote Of
battles and SUCH but to Josephine he
poured out his heart in burning ardor
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quarter ago. They were written to his second
WIFE, Marie Louise-and by o singular coinci-
dence. their sale at auction here came only q
little more than q year after the similar sale
of q sheaf OF letters he had written to
Josephine. Marie Louises predecessor.
And they point the contrast between the two
women and their places in Napoleon's life.
Josephine. the sultry Creole adventures who
was the love OF his youth, received q burning
series Of missives as impassioned IS any ever
written by an impetuous poet to the girl Of
his dreams
And Marie Louise daughter Of the great
house Of Hapsburg. for whom he cast Josephine
aside-Marie Louise got letters that were for
NAL. stilted. dutiful. and As cool Is an army
bulletin
To Josephine, in one Of the letters sold last
year. Napoleon could write:
You must be here with me, on my breast,
In my arms lip TO lip. Fly. am 80 impatient"
To Marie Louise. in one of the 800 letters
auctioned just recently, he wrote:
II am at Smolensk have taken this city
nom the Russians am very occupied
every day here and in combsts" (Punctuation
was not his strong point)
0UT however wounded Marie L0uises pride
might be, II her shade could contrast the
Unconditional letters she got with the burning
ones Josephine got, the letters recently sold
were Of extraordinary interest to historians.
They were written between 1870 just before
Napoleon and Marie Louise were married. and
1e14. when his empire came crashing down
about his ears A mystery surrounds their
appearance on the market. All that was
said was that they had belonged to an Austrian
noble family; and it Is believed in some quar-
ters that the sellers we're actually connected
With the Hapsburgs themselves.
Wherever they came from, they had never
been seen by historians before and they brought
high price, going to the French government
for about $4,000.
Some OF them will be more understandable
II you brush up little on your history.
Napoleon needed an heir to his throne and
Josephine his FIRST wife, seemed unable to give
him one, so he divorced her and Arranged a
marriage with Marie Louise. Marie Louise
lived In Vienna. knew no French and looked
ON Napoleon as . sort Of ogre. But her father,
the Emperor Francis, whose armies had re-
Gently been beaten by Napoleon, was anxious
TO arrange the marriage for reasons Of state.
On February 23. 1870 learning that his offer
had been accepted, Napoleon wrote the prin-
cess:
The brilliant qualities which distinguish
your person have inspired in us to serve and
Evening star., 1935-01-20
BY MILTON BRONNER.

LONDON, January 10, 1885.
uF THE ghosts Of those two splen-
did ladies Of q lost empire.
Josephine Bonaparte and the
Empress Louise. could have wan
dered into Sotheby's historic
shop in London recently, they
would probably have exchanged
naughty and icy glances over little
stock of dusty. tirne-stained letters
and the lady who lost would have
been the one who looked triumphant.
For these letters were written by
Nanoleor paorlv q rentt,ry and n
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nitely worried his imperial father-in-law, ~
Emperor Francis Of Austria. WAS growing hes.
tile. and It WAS reported that he would actually
take up arms against the French. So. In Apsta.
Napoleon wrote 70 Marie Louise:
'write to Papa Francis every eight day1
give him military details and speak Of my q.
tachment to his person"
A little later he wrote:
Louise, you re that this country (Franoe)
win not allow itself to be nnistreatsd nor have
shameful conditions imposed upon It by Russia
or England have actually . million
men under arms"
And little later he wrote.
"Wrte to Papa Francis that he should noe
allow himself to be Influenced by the hate that
his wife has for U.s. that this win only be fatal
for him and win bring many misfortunes."
Later that same day he wrote:
IT am very faugued. have won . complete
victory over Russian and Prussian armies. Z
have lost 10000 men. killed and wounded. Nv
troops have covered themselves with glory and
have given me proofs Of devotion which haxa
touched my heart
Then comes another warning for the imperial
father-in-law:
Papa Francis has not conducted himself
very well Peace VIII be made II Az.
tria does not nsh In troubled water"
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Napoleon Ioved josephine nsadly and Svote the
imprisoned letters her whenever they sep
arafed. She is shoiUn belo,O in a.,.r
q miniature by Isabey.
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his letters to her reveal him ss
a ssiised, formal lover. a con-
temporary portrait Of Marie
Louise is repr9duced below.
~
The famous burning Of Moscow,
which signalized the utter failure
OF his seemingly triumphant Rus
sian campaign and foreshadowed
the loss Of his army, was in progress
but he seemed not to see the Sig
nificance Of 1t. He remarked merely
that It would be m enormous loss
to the Russians.
BY September 20. however. hs
had evacuated Moscow. On that
date he wrote:
Evening star., 1935-01-20

Marie Louise, the proud daughter OF the Emperor st
Austria stirred him did her predecessor, and
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II am en- route to take up Winter
quarters. The weather Is superb but II
won't last. Moscow was entirely burned
and, not being military position, had Il
abandoned and withdrew the garrison !
had left there" .:.S
In this matter -of-fact way he announced
the beginning Of that tragic Winter march
which was to destroy five-sixths Of his
magnificent army, strew the bones OF tens
Of Thousands Of the finest Of Frances sons
across the snowy Russian wastes-victims
Of the cold, hunger and the perpetuAlly
active bands Of Cossacls which hung like
wolves to his 1anks-and which, In addi-
ton, was to start him on the tragic path
downward which ended at st. Helena.
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nURN0 the retreat from Moscow he
- concealed from Marie Louise the fear
ful hardships Of the march. Once he wrote
annousiy to ask her how their son Was
teething. He complained that he received
no letters from her; he suspected that
Coasaeks were interoepting his courierA
The next year. with Europe rising IN