The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
SAW BRUNO AT
KIDNAP SCENE,
WITNESS SAYS
Lean Mountaineer Seventh
to Link Hauptmann
to Staying.
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aging pieces of evidence against
Hauptmann-the ladder by which it
claims he climbed to the Lindbergh
nursery. and a chisel it asserts he
dropped on the way.
The defense fought long and bit
terly to exclude the evidence, par
ticularly the three-piece. home
made ladder, ugly in construction
and crude in design.
The state paved the way, then, to
trace the wood in the ladder from
the West Coast 10 the Bronx, where,
it says. Hauptmann used it to con-
struct the ladder.
Denies It's Inside Job
Mrs. Oliver Whately. widow of the
suave Lindbergh butler who died
year after the kidnapping, was re-
called to the stand to beat down de-
Tense insinuations that some one
within the Lindbergh home" had
signaled to the kid1apers by turn
ing lights on and of, and to corro-
borate the story of how Betty Cow,
the nursemaid. found one of the
baby's thumbguards lying on the
ground in a lane near the house,
about a month after the kidnapping.
New Jersey is prepared to launch
a crushing attack upon Haupt-
manns story of how he came into
possession of the Lindbergh ransom
currency, the United Press learned
today.
When Hauptmann has completed
his denial of the kidnapping and
murder of the Lindbergh baby, the
state is ready to show through
croSs-examination and with at least
10 rebuttal witnesses, not only that
he had possession of the money
long before Isidor Fisch left this
country to die in Germany, but that
he set himself up as a petty banker
to his friends, using the proceeds
from the Lindbergh eXtortion as his
capital
The businesses into which he put
the money fulfilled two purposes.
Inc state Will cOnJenQ.
Sought Good" Money
l. They enabled him to get rid of
discriminating bank notes. with tell
tale serial numbers, and obtain
good" money in return.
?. They gratif1ed his acquiSitive
sense-the sense that Atty. Gen.
David T Wilentz described in court
as his love of money. money,
money!"
The climax of the amazing story
that has been unfolded in Is days
of trial may be expected to come
when Hauptmann tries to blame
Fisch, his former friend, known to
a circle of Germans in Yorkville
and the Bronx as the poor little
fur cutter" for the extortion.
Rebuttal witnesses, including
members of the Fisch family. will
show that a strange relationship ex-
listed between Hauptmann and
Fisch, and that it was Hauptmann
who was the leader. the dominant
character.
Hauptmann claims he discovered
the ransom money, in FiSch's shoe
box" late in 1884.
The defense was not unprepared.
It claimed it had in Pennington, a
friend of Hauptmann known as
Gerta Henkel, who is prepared to
testify that she saw FiSch give
number of gold notes to Haupt-
mann.
In Is days of trial. every essential
circumstantial fact linking the Ger
man ex-convict to the kidnapping
and slaying of Col. Lindbergh'S
baby has been presented to the jury.
Meanwhile, protected from the
curious by the iron grill that en-
closes the small Jail courtyard.
Hauptmann'S dark blue sedan, its
interior ripped to pieces. has been
relied up as another inanimate wit
reSS against him.
state Nears Finish
The question, still undetermined,
was whether the jury will be taken
down to view it. If they 60, Haupt-
mann will go with them. as is his
right. If he goes. he will go strong
" Shackled to his guards. and the
400 spectators who daily throng the
court Will be barred from the
spectacle because there is no room
for them in the narrow court yard.
The state would like to show the
jury that it would be possible to
transport the ladder from the Bronx
to Hopewell by means of the sedan.
The state expected to conclude its
presentation tomorrow.
c. Lloyd Fisher, Pennington at
torney, will make the opening adj
dress for the defense, after the GUS
tomary motions for a directed YER
dict of mot guilty"