The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31

PENNINGTON, N. j., March 81.
1t took s1,20o,000 and more than
two years of grinding work by po-
lice and Federal agents to bring
Bruno Richard Hauptmann to trial
in Hunterdon County Courthouse
on Jan. 2. 1885.
At 9:45 a. m. on that day Haupt-
mann was led in from the Jail by
Lieut.. Allan Smith of the New
Jersey State Police and Deputy
Sheriff Hovey Low OF Hunterdon
County.
The prisoner was seated in fold
ing chair, with a guard on each side
of him. He had on brown suit,
blue necktie and brown shoes, but
that wasn't what everybody noticed
first. Hauptmann had changed the
way he combed his hair-it was
parted on the left side instead of
the right.
Your honor" said Egbert Rose
Grams, defense counsel, II move the
admission to the New Jersey bar of
Mr.. Edward j., Reilly of Brooklyn,
N. Y"
Reilly in Morning Coat
Reilly stood up-Reilly who had
cases-a heavy, red-faced man in
striped trousers and morning coat.
1--WE are glad to have you with
us, Mr.. Reilly" said Justice Thomas
w. Trenchard.
The nations most sensational
murder trial was on.
1t took day and half to get
jury of four women and eight
men.
Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz had
never prosecuted a criminal case
until he found himself in the little
courtroom at Pennington, where the
heat of SO many human beings
packed into so small a space raised
the temperature from 60 to 83 in
three hours.
Mrs. Lindbergh Called
He laid his lines carefully; minor
witnesses established the fact that
the crime was committed in Hunt
erdon County, and then Wilentz
walked halfway across the court
room and said:
Mrs. Lindbergh, will you take
the stand?"
She had on a little black hat
that tilted down over her nose ana
black coat and dress. There was
no rouge on her face and she
seemed lost in the big, oak witness
chair. WilentZ carried over to Mrs.
Lindbergh a scrap of cloth and
asked her if that was part of the
shirt her son was wearing the night
he was kidnapped.
Eyes, that's the Shirt" she said,
gulping back her grief.
Your witness" said Wilentz.
Reilly bowed to Mrs. Lindbergh
and the court.
Mrs. Lindbergh's grief needs no
cross examination" said Reilly.
Colonel Next Witness
Lindbergh was next. He had been
in court all the time, sitting about
eight feet from Hauptmann behind
the prosecution table. He con-
tributed two pieces of testimony. He
said he heard crash on the night
OF the kldnaping-"S something like a
crate breaking the state let
the jury assume that was the kid
naper's ladder breaking.
Then Lindbergh told of going on
April 2, 1882, to st. Raymond's
Cemetery in the Bronx with DR..
John F. (JafSie) Condor and a box |
full of ransom money. He heard a
voice, he said, calling "Hcv, doctor,
over here" a voice guiding Condor
to the rendezvous.
THAT was Hauptmann's voice."
said Lindbergh calmly.
Then came the three old men"
witnesses who were so damaging
against Hauptmann- that Justice |
Trenchard recalled their testimony
in his charge to the jury.
Points Out Hauptmann
The first was Amandus Hoch-
muth, former soldier in the Prus-
sian army, who lived where Feath-
erbed Lane cuts into the main high
way a few hundred yards from the
Lindbergh house. About noon on
March l, 1882, Houchmuth said he
saw a green car, with a ladder on
the running board, skid into the
ditch. Inside was a tall, lean man
who looked like he had seen a |
ghost
Point that man out if he is in
this room," suggested Wilentz.
Hochmuth hobbled down from the
witness chair, went slowly across the
room and laid his right hand on
Hauptmann's knee.
Albert Osborn was the second. So
deaf that he used mechanical ear
device, he spent hours explaining to
the jury the odd curlicues people |
make when they write. Interna-
tionally known as handwriting ex-
pert, Osborn swore that Hauptmann
wrote all of the ransom notes.
Jafsie Names Bruno
Then came "Jafsie"
He rubbed his hands on a hand
kerchief, glanced at the tiny Ameri- |