The Washington times., 1935-01-18
F FRESH SHOCKS
DUE TODAY FOR
HAUP PTMANN
BY LEIGH MATTESON


FLEMINGTON, N. j., Jan. 1S
G.N.SO Richard Haupt.
mann, in person, sat in court to-
day at his trial-not that alb
Straction, the "stolid defendant"
His so-called "stoic calm" has
been shattered at last, and it was
due to be shattered again today
when police witnesses testify to
further discrepancies in the stories
he told officers Immediately after
his arrest.
Few observers realize exactly
why Bruno Richard Hauptmann
finally emerged into public view
as an accused person yesterday.
He had emitted only a few lowly
spoken words of evaporation be-
fore his more genuine outbreak
yeSterday-notably when he called
the taxi,driver, Joseph Perrone, q
"liar."
Reason For Action
Hauptmann acted as an accused
person acts when he is accused
not because he was accused of be.
ing the murderer of the Lindbergh
baby, but because he was accused
of stupidity, of Simple-minded
negligence.
When International News Serv-
ice presented it's lone man" the
ory of the Lindbergh case to the
New York police in May, 1882,
this writer and DR.. Dudley D.
Shoenfeld, New York psychiatrist,
told Lieut.. James j. Finn and his
Superiors that the killer of the
Lindbergh baby and the collector
Of ransom from the hoaxed father
believed he was "omnipotent,"
that he was unable to make mis-.
takes, even one mistake.
Examples Cited
We pointed out that the whole
crime was stupidity planned and
stupidity executed. AS examples
we cited:
l. Building of a ladder so light
that it broke when he came out
of the nursery with 80 pounds of
extra weight-the weight of the
child.
2. Burial of the infants body
alongside road that would have
been searched for a mile on either
side, the moment that an assump-
ton of murder was raised.
3. Johns" exposure of himself
to easy capture twice, in deserted
cemeteries at night - unoccupied
areas that easily could have been
surrounded by Gordon of police,
and he would have been the only
suspect in those areas.
4. Mere selection of the Lind.
berghS for victims, in a crime com.
mitted for only $4,000.
Sure of Himself
Yet from many phases in the
ransom notes we gathered that
the perpetrator of the crime
fancied himself as a very smart
fellow. He felt sure about his
safety at all times.
The Lindbergh case prisoner,
Hauptmann, has betrayed a SINH.
lar feeling since his arrest and
since the beginning of his trial.
Even the amazingly convincing
evidence presented by the hand.
writing experts only held his in.
tent interest.
But when Federal Special Agent
Thomas H. Sisk yesterday said
that he had tricked Hauptmann
into making a statement that de-
StroyS his only claim to an alibi
his stubborn assertion that he
found the ransom money among
ISidor Fisch's effects only three
weeks before he was arrested
then Hauptmann, exhibiting all
the egomania detected in the ran
som notes, literally blew up.
Resents Insult
SiSks assertion that Haupt-
mann had told him he had trans
ferred the money from the crock
three weeks prior to his arrest
was the most insulting thing at
which Hauptmann seems to have
listened since his arrest and since
the trial began.
His inflated ego quivered at the
charge that he had made such
a damaging admission under per.
sonal questioning. But the pos.
SCISSOR of that ego did not at any
time resent nearly so violently
the charge that he was being
held and tried as the perpetrator
of the most atrocious crime of
our times.