The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

Hauptmann, fighting for
his life, was wary of the
traps the attorney general
was setting for him. He re-
sorted to general denials, or
pleas that he couldn't re-
member" during the most
embarrassing of the ques-
tions.
But in more than two hours of ex-
animation Mr. Wiltnez had drawn
from him the following admissions:
l. That the accounts he kept of
his financial transactions we're false
-purposely so, lest his wife become
aware that he had money.
2. That book containing some of
his writing, with the word "boad"
in it, was written in 1881 instead of
eight years ago, as Hauptmann had
claimed.
3. That it was difficult for him to
spell words containing the letters
"gh," and that he was in the habit
Of inserting unnecessary ms" in
long words, such as signature" and
seventy"
MisspelIing Is Stressed
4. That at a time when Haupt-
mann claims he was worth mine or
ten thousand dollars" just before
the Lindbergh kidnapping, his brokers
were bounding him for a STA margin
on his account, and threatening to
close him out.
The habit of miSSpeIling words
was vital to the states case, because
1t has shown through its handwrit-
ing experts that the same misspell-
lngs occur in Hauptmann'S acknoWl-
edged writings and in the ransom
notes sent to DR.. John F. Condor.
The matter of Hauptmanns mar
gin calls was also important. Haupt-
mann stubbornly insisted that be-
fore the kidnapping he had plenty of
money, cached in a trunk.
Yet, according to the attorney
general, he was unable to meet mar
gin callS-and didn't take any of
MS hidden wealth to pay them.
Let Money Dry First
With infinite sarcasm, Mr.. WiIentz
forced the prisoner to say that when
he found the money he says was
left with him By Isidor Fisch, he
didn't count it for two weeks.
The money, according to Haupt-
mann, had become soaked in the
shoe box by rain that came through
into the broom closet where he was
keeping it.
I let it dry first, before counted
1t" Hauptmann said, calmly.
1t was the second day of Haupt-
mann's terrific ordeal, and the
attorney general was as savage in
his attack as he was last Friday.
when he sent him, pale and near
collapse, back to his cell after a.
Commute inquisition.
Bruno Refuses to Answer
Mr.. WIlentz cracked down on
Hauptmann'S statement that he
wrote the word "boad" (for "boat)
IN the red book found in the house
some eight years ago.
You wrote that word in 1891.
didn't you?" the attorney general
asked.
No answer came from Hauptmann,
but Mr.. Wilentz pinned the date to
That year because it was an account
OF expenditures made by Haupt-
mann, his wife, and Hans Kloppen-
burg, during their 1881 trip to
California.
Under the badgering of the prose-
cutor, Hauptmann was obviously
endeavoring to keep his temper in
check. Some of the questions were
designed to trap him into an ad-
from the stand that he had
a part in the crime. Haptmann
would not be trapped.
Denies Planning kidnapping
Didn't you begin keeping ac-
counts after the idea of the Lind
bergh kidnapping came to you?" he
was asked.
Il never kidnapped any baby" he
replied, stolidly.
Reports that Hauptmann had
confessed or might confess from the
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