The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-28

left hand with his right, he sat in stions slowly and carefully us he evidence woven around him. | your transactions until July 1930? A. I can't remember when I stop ped.
 c. Why did you stop? A. don't know. c. You stopped when you came back from California? A. I don't remember.
 c. In 1892 you began keeping accounts again? A. Brokerage accounts.
 c. Didn't you keep an account of the furs bought between you and Fisch, their cost, their sale price? A. Part of it.
 c. Who were you hiding this from? A. Fisch kept part of the accounts. Q. I show you ransom note and I want you to read this sen- tence?
 Defense counsel objected. The court overruled the objection.
 IIauptmann puzzled over the note for minute. Wilentz asked sarcastically:
 c. Hard for you to read it isn't it? A. You bet.
 c. Isn't 1t true that you stop ped keeping accounts about two weeks before the Lindbergh child was born in July 1880 and didn't start it again until after the ran som was paid? A. can't re- memebr.
 c. Isn't it true that you started keeping accounts again when you got the idea of Kidnapping the Lindbergh baby? A. I never kid naped any baby.
 Wilentz showed Hauptmann a small gray-covered note book and had him look at it closely. Each time, a page was turned Wilentz would ask:
 "Is this your handwriting?"
 Tt is," Hauptmann replied Wilentz asked Hauptmann about some drawings that appeared in the gray book.
 Q. Is that drawing here a win dow or a ledge? A. It doesn't look like it to me.
 Q. We'll that's a picture of lad der. Look at the dowel pin? A. don't know what that is
 Q. Now some of these drawings. whose are they? A. They are drawings of q child that visited us.
 Q. Now these figures. is 1t a pi- nochle score? A. It is the score of some game.
 Q. The last page you didn't write? A. don't think so.
 Wilentz had Hauptmann cross out words in the book that he didn't write. He told the defendant to put on "R" over some drawings that were not his.
 Wllentz had him identify one drawing. which he said was not his. by marking the page K" and putting a circle around 1t.
 The book was offered In evi- dence. The defense did not object.
 A recess of five minutes was or- dered.
 During the recess Hauptmann returned to his chair and talked with his wife and with Attorney Pope.
 Mrs Hauptmann's face was red, but she smiled as she conversed with the prisoner.
 Windows in the courtroom were opened and fresh air poured in on the crowds.
 Sol Ildu lOIloWcu tIt jury from the room when the re- cess was called.
 The jury was boiled and Haupt- mann. apparently calm, resumed the stand.
 Q. (By wilentz.) Now. on April 2, there's been testimony that Dr Condon paid you $50,O00? A. He didn't pay me $50,000.
 nt1 t1Hof dotn nh tho atnnl you had was 50 shares of Warner Brothers. you had only $203 in the bank? A. Yes.
 Q. Now in 1881 you had about S4,000? A. Yes.
 Q.,In cash at home? A. Yes. c. That was the cash you hid or your wife? A. Yes.
 c. In 1929 you had a little less about $3,500? A. Yes.
 Q. Whore did you hide 1t? A. In trunk.
 c. How big was the trunk? .Hauptmann spread his hands. A. About S2 inches. c. How wide? A. Two feet.
 C.. What else did you have in 1t? A. Clothes.
 Q. It was dry place, wasn't 1t? A. Yes.
 A. Was the trunk locked? A Yes.
 Q. Did your wife have key? A No.
 Q. You weren't hiding the feath. CT beds from your wife? A. No. c. It was the money you were hiding? A. Yes. o. That was in the front room where your victrola was? A. Yes c. That was because 1t was safe and you could keep 1t away from your wife? A. Yes, I went in there only two or three times year.
 Wilentz held up the grey record book again. :. in 1929 weren't you? You were working as a carpenter and your wife was working? A. Yes.
 Q. This was your inventory al the end of the year? A. Yes.
 Q. Read the next item? A. $16 in cash at home.
 O.. That's all there was left? A. That was SIG at home my wife knew about.
 Q. How much do you say you were worth in 1929? A. Nine or ten thousand dollars. Q. You still had quite some money in 1880. didn't you? A.
 c. Most of the money you made in odd jobs you wouldn't show your wife? A. That's right. c. sDid you ever have as much as $1.600 in Europe? A. Oh, had billions. e. You had billions7 A. Yea .ft I ef