Evening star., 1935-02-01
WRITING CONTRAST
CITED FOR bruno.
States Own Charts Used
to Claim Accused's
Innocence.
BY the Associated Press.

John M. Trendley, 67-year-old hand
writing expert from East st. LOUIS, Ill,
carried Bruno Richard Hauptmann's
hopes today as the defense opened its
fight to convince the jury Hauptmann
never wrote the Lindbergh ransom
notes.
Chief Defense Counsel Edward ].
Reilly said he believed Trendley, a
veteran of more than $50 legal hand
writing battles, would conclude his
testimony during the forenoon. Then
we'll turn him over to the State for
cross-examination,a and let them tear
down the testimony Of their own ex-
perts," he declared.
The defense chief was referring to
the fact that Trendley, in his en-
deavors to prove Hauptmann never
penned the ransom letters, would use
the same Photographic charts OF
figures, letters and words which eight
State experts prepared to Illustrate
their unanimous conviction that the
pallid defendant and he alone wrote
the kidnap correspondence
The court room was well filled for
the session, but there was noticeable
decrease in the crowds waiting outside.
The weather was bitter cold, many
thermometers registering as much as
10 degrees below zero.
Hauptmann came in with his guards
and busted his chair before he sat
down.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
George K. Large. Richard Stockton,
Anthony M Hauck. jr., and others OF
the prosecution staff appeared In court
shortly before 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann came In
alone and took her accustomed seat
near the defendant. She soon started
her usual morning chat with Haupt-
mann.
Trenchard Confers
With Prosecution.
Court convened at 1914 am. E.
S. To.
Justice Trenchard had delayed the
opening of the session for a confer
ence in chambers with Reilly and
Joseph Lanigan of the prosecution
staff.
The jury was polled and Trendley
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direct examination Wilentz rose to his
feet and addressed Justice Trenchard.
Wilentz referred to the statement
yesterday of Louis Kiss, New York silk
painter. that he took his child to a
hospital a week before the kidnapping.
The witness testified he saw Haupt-
mann in the Fredericksen bakery on
the kidnap night and fixed the time
as one week after the disqualification
of the child.
The State counsel asked that the
hospital records be admitted to show
the child was received at 1:20 am. on
February %, 1882. A week after that
date, the State pointed out, would be
February 90. and not March /.
Reilly said the defense joined with
the State in asking the hospital rec
ords be incorporated in the court rec
ord 1--WE welcome it"
Both defense and State agreed to
stipulate February had 29 days in the
leap year 1882 and that one week
after February % that year was Feb
ruary 20. The stipulation was to
avoid the necessity of having a 1882
calendar admitted in evidence.
Justice Trenchard said the record
would show the stipulated facts.
Expert Says Bruno
Did Not Write Notes.
Reilly resumed questioning of Trend
ley. The witness told of examining the
Hauptmann writings, the ransom notes
and the charts of the State experts.
@. AS a result of your study, are
you in position to render an opinion
as to whether Hauptmann wrote the
ransom notes? A. In my opinion, he
did not
Reilly directed the bespectacled ex-
pert to direct his attention to the
handwriting charts prepared by Albert
S. Osborn, the first handwriting au-
thority who appeared for the State.
Trendley, in response to a question,
said his examination Of the charts Of
all the State experts showed they did
not use the same characters and words
as Osborn's as basis for comparison.
He added some experts used some Of
the same letters and words, but not all
of them.
Reilly asked Trendley to pick out
from the charts of Osborn the ID" in
Dear sir" of the first ransom note.
Trendley said neither the letter nor
Osborn exhibits.
Trendley examined the Osborn
charts further and asserted the word
"sir" Of Dear sir" and the exclama-
ton point following were not depicted.
Says State Omitted
Pen Characters.
Reilly took the nursery note and
letter by letter had Trendley tell the
jury Osborn had not included the
characters pointed out in his photo
graphic chart already in evidence.
While the smoke from the pipe of
Elmer Ham, the court crier, drifted
into the court room through the open
ley continued his recital of lack of
similarities in certain words of Haupt-
mann's writing and the ramson notes
@. Did you examine the handwrit-
ing of other persons particularly
Isador Fisch? A. Yes.
Reilly's question was the first i'm
plication of the day that the defense
would seek to prove Fisch, Haupt-
manns dead business partner, was
the writer of the ransom notes.
The slow recital and examination
of the charts continued. Some. Of
the jurors watched. Others gaze6
about the room. A bag Of cough drops
was passed among them. '''---'''
The restless movement and cough
ing In the crowd increased.
As Reilly finished examining Trend
ley on each line of the nursery note
and bringing out the words and char
acters were not shown on the Osborn
charts, he asked each time: .-.
"Am I correct, then, Mr.. Trendley
that these lines do not appear on Mr..
Osborn's charts and that you have
taken these lines into consideration
in forming your opinion"
II have" was always the answer.
Pattern of Hand
Is Explained.
Reilly suddenly interrupted his In
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