Evening star., 1935-01-21
Treasury Agent Gives De-
tails of Family Financing
as Justice TrenChard Has
Testimony Repeated.
"THIS MAY BE OF GREAT
IMPORTANCE" HE SAYS
Reilly, in Examination of
Witness. Brings Out Account
When Closed Was Within $50
of What 1t Was When It Was
Opened.
BCLLT TIN,

PENNINGTON. N. J.. January
81 (P,.-Defense counsel moved for
mistrial in the case of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann. being tried for
murder in the Lindbergh kidnap-
ing.
Justice Trenchard denied The mo-
ton, treating it very casually
The motion came after Attorney
General David T Wilentz had re-
ferred TO purchase of aviation
stock by Hauptmann.
Chief Defense Attorney Edward
j. Reilly charged that Wilentz
had admitted that the intention
OF his question on the aviation
stocks, in which he brought in the
name of Col Charles A Lindbergh.
was intended to let the jury know
that the father of the kidnaped
child was interested in aviation.
tCopyrisht 1885, by the Associated Pressl
PENNINGTON. N. j.. January 2l.-
Government accountant testified to-
day that Mr.. and Mrs. Bruno Richard
Hauptmann's assets swelled S44.486
after the futile $4,000 ransom vas
paid for baby Charles A Lindbergh. jr.
The State. which accuses Haupt-
mann of kidnapping and numbering the
Lindbergh baby. also brought to
driveway near the court. ready to show
to the jury if the court permits, the
automobile in which Hauptmann was
alleged to have been seen near the
Lindbergh home on the day of the
kidnapping, March /. 1882 One wit
ness has testified he saw a ladder in
the automobile.
To Refute Fisch Link.
The State also announced itself
ready to refute any further attempt
on the part of the defense to implicate
the dead German furrier. Isador FiSch.
in the kidnapping and murder or COL
lection Of the ransom. A New York
attorney. Albert D. Kurtz, the prose-
cutor said. has diary showing that
he and Fisch we're together the day
of the kidnapping.
Hauptmann claimed on his arrest
that S14,600 ransom money found in
his garage had been given to him by
Fisch for safekeeping.
A defense announcement on the
same point was to the effect 1t had in
formation Fisch used the name of
John when he went back to Ger
many to die of tuberculosis wom-
an giving this information. Mrs. Curt
Schwarz, Bronx housewife, has not
promised to testify. however
Mrs. SchwarZ was quoted by de-
fenSe investigator as saying FisCh also
wrote she and her husband, signing
his name as John
The man to whom the ransom money
was turned over in st. Raymond S
Cemetery, the Bronx. by DR.. John F.
| (JafsieD Condor called himself John"
DR.. Condor has sworn this was Haupt-
i mann.
A puzzling development of the day
was a report to police by a youth
! named Robert Grant 49, at Hastings
on Hudson. n Y. that he had been
| kidnapped by two men who threatened
to hold him as hostage to prevent
| testimony for the defense by a man
named Manly. Grant told the police
! he had furnished Manly's name to the
defense.
The figure on Hauptmann assets
given to the jury by the Government
ury agent. included the Sl4600 found
in his garage and S120 in gold coins
| found in his home in the Bronx.
Justice Thomas w. Trenchard sur
/ prised the attorneys by ordering the
court reporter to repeat the amount
of the assets, S44.486, noting it, and
remarking:
This may be of great importance
to me-"
Lessons in Margins.
Franks testimony that three broker
age accounts of the HauptmannS
{ Jumped to stock purchases of S256,-
44215 in 1888 caused the defense to
bring out on examination q les
son in margin dealings.
Frank testified Hauptmann began to
deal on margin in 1880, and the de-
fense elected from him acknowledge
ment that the books of stock margin
account would not show the money
actually put in-that is. that it would
not show the amount of the pur-
chaser's equity in the account
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
brought out from Frank testimony
that the $44 486 was exclusive of any
cash loans made by Hauptmann.
Hauptmann said after his arrest
that he had loaned the dead ISador
Fisch $500. He also said that Fisch
had given him the ransom money for
safe keeping and that, because of
the unpaid loan, he had begun to
spend it without knowing what it was
1t was Hauptmann's expenditure of
a ten-dollar gold note, a ransom bill,
for gasoline. that led to his arrest
in the Bronx, and to his subsequent
indictment as the kidnaper and mur-
derer of the Lindbergh baby.
Frank gave this account of Haupt-
mann'S stock purchases from 1929 to
1884, with 1880 omitted, and three
separate accounts (Hauptmann, Mrs.
Hauptmann. Mrs. Hauptmann in
maiden name) being considered after
1892:
1929-S1, ,196.
1931-S2, 1856.
l932-S4,905.25.
1933-(three accounts), S256,442.1S.
1934-$10, ,982.55.
Frank said there was also one small
commodity account in 1888 for which
he had no figures.
Reilly brought out in cross-ex-
animation that Houptmann and his
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