The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-14

gaze at the quiet, attentive prison- CT.
 A third set of pictures were passed to the jury. 1 Mrs Verna Snyder, junior num- | Der three, suppressed yawn with her hand. Mrs Ethel Stockton, most attractive of the lady jurors, leaned forward in her seat to look at the pictures. She had put on her spec tacles when she was handed the | first group of pictures.
 Stein was telling much of the testimony of his predecessor, Os- born. He enlarged upon a descrip- ton of the written 't'-which in many cases. was not crossed.
 "These peculiarities when they're all considered with the others, be- come highly significant.
 Here are three different illus trations of the letter "f' as used at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of words. In all cases the variations appear to be similar both in ransom notes and request writing"
 Stein then brought out the fact that the ransom note author in- variably placed the dollar sign aft CT the figures as-500, 0,000$-instead of before the figures.
 This would be done, perhaps. by anyone who learned to talk and write in German.
 "The dollar sign is spra wiling and carelessly made" he said. c. Now explain about the let ter "D"?
 A. In my opinion if that letter stood alone, you couldn't tell what it was. You have to read it with the word in its entirety. That Is distinguishing characteristic.
 Q. How about the writing of New York;?
 A. l have never seen New York written that way before. It is not a commbon foreign manner to write New York that way. It is q pccu- liarity. 1t was written both ways in the ransom notes and in the re- quest writings, that is. both with and without the hyphen. To my mind that Is significant" Stein said that the finishing strokes of the "s" turned back to the left in the ransom notes, but there were no such examples in the Hauptmann request writing.
 Q. Would that indicate an at tempt to disguise the writing? A. It would.
 Stein then explained another set of charts.
 Tho court ordered recess at 2:59 D. m. for five minutes. Still another set of photographs was given the jurors. The customers were finding the discourse much duller than that of Osborn, despite its seeming i'm | portance. As usual, the tempera- ture of the court house had risen to 85 degrees, and many of the audience were nearly asleep. Verna Snyder, Juror No. 3, fre- quently yawned politely, and her | eyes were searching the court l room.
 Hauptmann and Lindbergh were l perhaps the two most interested | on-lookers. The prisoner looked at 1 the charts as they were held in Lloyd Fishers hands, three feet | away. The Colonel inspected each chart over the shoulder of Judge George K. Large, special assistant Attorney general.
 Justice Trenchard also became | interested in the lecture, and held l copies of the charts close to his | eyes as he followed the testimony. Mrs ogden Mills and her daugh- | ter-in-law, Mrs John Fell, were spectators at the afternoon session. They sat in the left bank of l benches facing the jury.
 Some of the "T's" employed in l the ransom and request writings were distinctly German, others were not, Stein continued after the recess. He turned to the letter i "X" one of the points stressed by | Osborn.
 "The K is composed of two small loops which appear to be written 'ees.'
 They are all like this in both the writings studied.
 ''In oe of the writings the last letter of the word Bronx the K is regularly crossed. The writer, thus, knew how to make regular
 x
 q have never seen another ex- Iample of this peculiar 'x' form and . It's presence in both specimens of writing leads me to believe that Hauptmann wrote the ransom notes."