The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-23

nlent? That's the question raised Agent William $. Frank in Hunter
 bank balance prior to the ransom
 traced to him and explained in tin
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 the crib? A. Yes, but they were
 of no value.
 c. What comparison of tht
 ridges did you make? A. WheI
 you have no ridges you can't make !. any comparison.
 Reilly apparently was trying (
 show that somebody could have
 gone over the walls and furniture
 of the nursery, wiping out finger
 prints with a towel
 Reilly turned to the kidnap lad.
 der. He asked Kelly if he had
 dusted the ladder for prints. A Di
 Hudson of New York sprayed silver
 nitrate on the ladder in his pres. ence. Kelly said.
 Reilly offered small piece of
 wood with silver nitrate stains
 upon It for Identification.
 The defense attorney, pressing his thumb upon the board, asked Kelly to take his print by the sll. yer nitrate method. It was decided to wait 24 hours before making hte test. Reilly said he would call the expert as de- fense witness. c. Did you see Dr Hudson take between 800 and 1000 fngerprints from the ladder? A. No.
 Wilentz went back to the piece of paper which Reilly had handed to the witness. l While you are making these tests, on the piece of wood, MT Kelly. will you also mako tests on this paper?" Wilentz asked. A. Yes. Q. Mir Reilly had you take fngerprints only from one side of the paper, didn't he? A. Yes. c. There might be fingerprints on the other side of the paper A. Yes.
 c. Now a great many persons had handled that ladder? A. Yes
 c. Would you say great mum Der of persons? A. A very great "uaOSfi q. + a man carried this lad. der to Hopewell and wore gloves would he leave his fingerprints on the ladder? A. Absolutely not. Q. Would this man wearing gloves leave prints on the window sill or crib in the nursery. A. He would not. G. Would a, child's clothing wrapped around the child--erase hngerprints from the window sill ? A. All traces. Reilly started recross examina- tion.
 Q. Now if Mrs Lindbergh and Betty Cow pushed down the win dow and wore no gloves, there would be prints wouldn't there |? A. There would be impressions. o. But if that child were talk en from its crib down the back stairs, there wouldn't be any prints on the window, would there A. No.
 Reilly told the witness to go over to window behind the Judges bench and open 1t. Kelly did it. "You left some marks on that window. didn't your" Reilly shout ed. A. Yes. Wilentz broke in: "Yes, but you aren't standing on ladder and you don't have on gloves, do you?"
 "No," Kelly replied. The witness was excused. Inspector John J. Lyon of the New York police was the next wit ness. He was questioned by Wilentz.
 He said he had gone to Haupt- mann's home after his arrest. He was shown a piece of paper. q. Did you find this paper in tha Hafanda nt'u h a.S in a desk. Q. Was he present? A. He was.
 Wilentz offered the paper, A sheet of writing paper. in evidence. Reilly objected and questioned the witness.
 0. This is ordinary writing pa. per isn't it? A. Yes.
 chased in any five and ten cent store? A. I do not know that of my own knowledge. Q. Was Mrs Hauptmann there at the time you found 1t? A. No. The piece of paper was admitted Tn evidence and Lyons was excused. Detective Lewis J. Bornmann of the New Jersey state police was recalled.
 He testified about the condition of closet in the Hauptmann home. ! He said police removed shelves from the closet and crawled up into the attic. o. When you got in the attic what did you find? A. We were searching for money. We found some of the floor boards were of different lengths. A large photograps of the attic was shown. Bornmann, with a pointer in his hand pointed to a place where board was missing. Bornmann said an eight-foot sec- ton of the attic flooring was miss ing. There were nail holes in the beam and sawdust around the nail holes.
 Bornmann said he removed a companion board to the one miss- ing.
 Q. Were you in the same build- ing with MT Koehler on October g? A. Yes.
 A. What did you do? A. We checked the nail holes in rail 1e, with those nail holes in the kidnap ladder.
 The jury leaned forward 10 watch Bornmann show where the nail holes were in the enlarged photo- 1 graph.
 0. What did you do with the nails? A. We tried them in the holes. Q. Did you use hammer'g A.