The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-04

At 9:45 a. m. on that day Haupt- mann was led in from the jail by Lieutenant Allan Smith of the New Jersey State Police and Deputy Sheriff Hovey Low of Hunterdon County. The prisoner was seated in folding chair, with a guard on each side of him He had on a brown suit, blue necktie and brown shoes, but that wasn't what every body noticed first. Hauptmann had changed the way he combed his hair - it was parted on the left side instead of the right in an att tempt to plant doubt in the minds of witnesses who would be called upon to identify him.
 "Your honor" said Egbert Rose crans, defense counsel, T move the admission to the New Jersey bar of MT. Edward J. Reilly of Brook lyn, N. r."
 Reilly in Morning Coat
 Reilly stood up-Reilly who had won acquittals in 1000 homicide cases - a heavy, red-faced man in striped trousers and morning coat. We are glad to have you with us, MT. Reilly" said Justice Thomas w. Trenchard.
 The nations most sensational murder trial was on.
 It took a day and a half to get 8 jury of four women and eight men.
 Attorney General David T. Will entZ had never prosecuted a crim- inal case until he found himself in the little courtroom at Remington where the heat of so many human beings packed into so small a space raised the temperature from 63 to 83 in three hours. He laid his lines carefully; minor witnesses estab- lished the fact that the crime was committed in Hunterdon County, and then Wilentz walked halfway across the courtroom and said: Mrs. Lindbergh, will you take the stand?" Mrs. Lindbergh Dressed in Black
 Sihe had on a little black hat that tilted down over her nose and a 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. Lind bergh 8 scrap of cloth and asked her if that was part of the shirt her son was wearing the night he was kidnapped.
 "Yes, 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 contributed two pieces of testi- mony. He said he heard crash on the night of the Kidnapping - something like q crate breaking" = and the state let the jury assume that was the kidnapers ladder breaking. Then Lindbergh told of going on April 2, 1892, to St. Ray mond's Cemetery in the Bronx with pr. John F. Gafsie) Condon and box full of ransom money. He heard voice, he said, calling Hey, doctor, over here" a voice guiding Condcn to the rendezvous. That was Hauptmanns voice, ' said Lindbergh calmly.
 Then came the three old men" tuIp t1tara flo in u against Hauptmann that Justice Trenchard recalled their testimony in his charge to the jury.
 The first was Amandus Hoch- muth, former soldier in the PruS- sian army, who lived where Featherbed lane cuts into the main highway, a few hundred yards from the Lindbergh house About noon on March ], 1892, Hochmuth said he saw a green car, with ladder on the running board skid into a 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
 Hauptmann foInLeu OuL
 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 explain ing to the jury the odd curlicues people make when they write. h. ternationally known as a hand writing expert. Osborn sWore that Hauptmann wrote all of the ran som notes.
 Then came "Jafsie."
 He rubbed his hands on a hand kerchief, glanced at the tiny Amer ican flag in his buttonhole and stepped to the witness chair. It was crucial moment. Reilly had said "the states case will stand or fall on Condon's testimony"
 Patiently, Wilentz got the story out of the old man: had him tell about putting an advertisement in the Bronx Home News, going tC Woodlawn Cemetery at night and talking to a man who called him self "John," and finally of trir to St. Raymond's Cemetery where he paid $50,000 ransom.
 And who was this John to whom you talked in the two cerne- teries?" asked WilentZ.
 Hauptmann Again Identified
 ".John' was Bruno Richard Hauptmann. yelled Jafsie.
 Betty Cow told her story, and under ross-examination angrily fought back at insinuations Of dc- fense counsel that she colaborateo in the crime. Other witnesses chlnked in details of the states peared in print letter was posted case.