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V MEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 3. 1936. PAOE SEVEN Two -Year Man Hunt Cost Million to Place Hauptmann on Trial By HARRY FERGUSON United Preu Staff Correspondent FLEMINOTON. N. J. (UP) It took $1,200,000 ind mora than two year of grinding work ty police and federal agent to bring Bruno Richard Hauptmann to trial In Hun tendon County Courthouse on Jan. 3, 1935. At 8:43 a. m. on that day Haupt-! mann was led In from the Jail by state police and Deputy Sheriff Ho- j Tey Low of Hunterdon county. The j prisoner wa seated in a folding chair, j with ft guard on each aide of him. He bad on a brown suit, blue necktie and brown shoes, but that wasn't what everybody noticed first. Hauptmann had changed the way he oombed his hair It was parted on the left side Instead of on the right In an attempt to plant doubt In the minds of wit nesses who would be called upon to Identify htm. "Your honor," said ESgbert Rose crans, defense counsel, "I move the admission to the New Jersey bar of Mr. Edward J. Rellly of Brooklyn. N. Y." Rellly In Morning Coat Rellly stood up Rellly who had won acquittals In 1.000 homicide cases a heavy, red-faced man In striped trousers snd morning coat. "We are glad to have, you with us, Mr. Rellly," said Justice Thomas W. Trenchard. The nation's most sensational mur der trial was on. It took a day and a half to get a Jury of four women and eight men. Attorney General David T. Wllentz had never prosecuted a criminal case until he found himself In the little courtroom at Fleming ton where the heat of so many human beings pack ed Into so small a space raised the temperature from 68 to 83 in three hours. He laid his lines carefully; minor witnesses established the fact that the crime was committed In Hunterdon county, and then Wllents walked half-way across the courtroom and said: "Mrs. Undbergh, will you take the stand?", Mrs. Lindbergh Dressed In Glack She 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. Wllentz carried over to Mrs. Lindbergh a scrap of cloth and asked it that was part of the shirt her son was wearing the night he was kidnaped. "Yes, that's the shirt," she said, gulping back her grief. 'Your witness," ssld Wllentz. Rellly bowed to Mrs. Lindbergh and the court. "Mrs. Lindbergh's grief needs no eross-examlnatlon," said Rellly. Colonel Next Witness Undbergh was next. He had been Jn court all the time, sitting about eight feet from Hauptmann behind the prosecution table. He contributed two pieces of testimony. He said he haerd a crash on the night of the kidnaping "something like a crate breaking" and the state let the Jury assume that wss the kidnapers ladder breaking. Then Lindbergh told of go ing on April 3, 1932 to St. Raymond's cemetery In the Bronx with Dr. John 7. (jafsle) Condon and a box full of ransom money. He heard a voice, he said, celling "Hey. doctor, over here," a voice guiding Condon to the rendezvous. "That wss Hauptmann's voice," aid Lindbergh calmly. Then came the "three old men" witnesses who were so damaging against Hsuptmann that Justice Trenchard recalled their testimony in bis charge to the Jury. The first was Amandus Hochmuth. a former soldier in the Prussian army, who lived where Featherbed lane cuts into the main highway, a few hun dred yards from the Lindbergh house. About noon on March 1, 1032, Hoch muth said he saw a green car, with a 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 Wllentz. Hauptmann Pointed Out Hochmuth hobbled down from the witness chair, went lowlyscross the room and laid hts right hand on Hauptmann's knee. Albert Osborn was the second. So deaf that he used a mechanical ear device, he apent hours explaining to the Jury the odd curlicues people make when they write. Internation ally known as a handwriting expert, Osborn swore that Hauptmann wrote all of the ransom notes. Then came "Jafsle.' He rubbed his hands on a hand kerchief,, glanced at the tiny Ameri can flag In his buttonhole and step ped to the witness chair. It was a crucial moment. Rellly had said "the state's case will stand or fall on Con don's testimony." Patiently, Wllentz got the story out of the old man: had him tell about putting an advertisement In the Bronx Home News, going to Woodlawn cemetery at night and talking to a man who called himself "John," and finally of a trip to St. Raymond's cemetery where he paid $50,000 ran som. "And who was this 'John to whom you talked In the two cemeteries?" asked Wllentz. Hauptmann Again Identified M 'John' was Bruno Richard Haupt mann," yelled Jafsle. Betty Gow told her story, and un der cross-examination angrily fought back at Insinuations of defense coun sel that she collaborated In the crime. Other witnesses chinked In details of the state's case. But the state saved Its best until last when Arthur Koehler, depart ment of agriculture wood expert, went to the witness chair. He told an en thralling detective story of how he had taken grains of sawdust, splln ters, nicks on boards and come to the conclusion that Hauptmann'! tools were used In building the lad der that the kidnaper abandoned un der the Lindbergh nursery window, He went further than that: he swore that one rail of the ladder was rip ped out of the flooring In Haupt mann's own attic. Last Prosecution Witness "The state rests," said Wllentz. The state had woven a tight, strong web of circumstantial evidence. Hauptmann waa seen near Hopewell on the day of the kidnaping; he was identified as the man who collected the ransom and wrote the notes; he was Identified as the man In the two cemeteries; he waa caught passing ransom bills; ransom money was found In his own home. But the state could not produce a witness who saw Hauptmann climb into that window and kidnap the baby. "It all reads like a movie scenario,' shouted Rellly, opening for the de fense. Hauptmann could not have com mitted this crime, the defense con- E',""-f'a-ir feX Made from (&s Wtitirn ?k. tE1 Wheat in V " i r Cali" :. 5&Nf 4 Shredded f I Wheat f. RSJL Bakery A I1 tended, because on the night of March 1, 1032, he waa sitting In a bakery In the Bronx waiting for his wife to get through work so he could escort her home. Several persons said they saw him there. El vert Carlatrom saw him. and laughed at him because he spoke broken English. Louis Kiss, then a bootlegger, saw Hauptmann there, too. Mrs. Hauptmann said he waa there. Defendant Guided by Rellly Then Hauptmann got on the stand. Under Rellly 's guidance he explained that a man named Isidor Pisch, a for mer business partner, gave him the ransom money that waa found In the Hauptmann garage. Where Flsch got It, Hauptmann didn't know and no one else knew because Flsch went away to Germany and died of tu berculosis. "Hauptmann, did you kidnap the Lindbergh baby?" asked Retlly. "No " "Were you ever In Col. Lindbergh' house in your life?" "No, I never was." "Did you build that ladder?" Hauptmann looked at the ram shackle ladder, laughed and said; "I am a carpenter." ATfluence Was Explained Why did Hauptmann quit work and live In ease after the ransom was paid? Because he had made some money In the stock market. Peter Sommer testified he was sure It was not Hauptmann who kidnaped the Lindbergh baby because he saw the actual kidnapers on the Wee hawken ferry, escaping from New Jer sey. A woman was with them, he said, and she was Violet Sharpe, maid In the home of Mrs. Dwlght Morrow who later committed suicide. She car ried a blonde, curly-hatred baby. Isidor Flsch was with her. "The defense rests." said Rellly. Wllentz walked up and down In of the Jury box, waving his arms. "Hauptmann la Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world," he shouted. "He la the kind of man who would cut out your heart and go upstairs to dinner. X hate to be In the earns room with him. The state of New Jersey asks you to bring back the only rerdlct possible In this case murder In the first degree." "Judge not lest ye be Judged," cau tioned Rellly. reading the Blbls to the Jury. "Dont send this man to his death and then, years from now, learn that somebody else has con fessed on his death bed. The Jury retired at 11:23 a. m. Feb. IS. At 10:28 p. m. the bell In the courthouse tower tolled signal that a verdict had been reached In a capi tal case. Hauptmann never flinched as he stood up to hear Trenchard say "Bruno Richard Hauptmann. you hava been convicted of murder In the first degree. The sentence Is that you, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, suffer death at a time and place and In a manner provided by law." E FOR ALIEN TRADE WASHINGTON (UP)A nittllr manufacture of wine and heavy taxes explain a small decline In wine Im ports from Spain last year and the failure of Argentina and Chile to find a market here, trade authorities be lieve. More than 15.000.000 gallons of wine were estimated produced laat year In the basements of American home,. Hundreds of thousands who learned to make wine during "bone dry days have continued the practice even when wine can be purchased at every corner grocery. In 1933 Spain shipped 478.000 gal lons of wine to the United States, and In 1934 only 350.000 gallons. Pre-re-peal prediction, that the wines of Argentina and Chile would find mar rets here have not been fulfilled. Importera blame the home manu facturera. the tariff and the Internal revenuea for the unfavorable Import altuatlon. They are seeking reduc tion In Internal revenues, and also hope that the negotiation of a United Slates-Spain reciprocal trade agree ment might lead to lower tariffs. A third possible remedy would be an advertising campaign for Imported wines. The National Association of Alco holic Beversge Importers pointed out that many American consumers are buying distilled spirits in preference, to wines. The future of the import wine trade, it was thought, is not bright, ani an adveTtlalng campaign wsa recommended. - The Roosevelt-Hull trade program thus far has favored rum, whisky, and gin lmporta but had little effect on the International wine trade. Rum tariff was cut In the Cuban agree ment, old-whlaky tariff In the Cana dian pact, and gin In the recent Netherlands treaty. In view of this situation, the win trsde will eagerly watch the Impend ing United States-Spain agreement for possible changes In wine tariffs. rodilrt of National Blsc-ult Co. 9 itmi) ' Excellent Rdulce Once you try this Flavor Coffee of all coffees its freshness, Ira grance and uniform goodness keeps it your "favorite coffee". FLAVOR SEALED-IN-VACUUM Hi. TIN and Mi. RI-USABLI JAR Come in Saturday and test this delicious cheese Jr I ARISTOCRAT ll aSll?Iffi5 jUtell 2r days jMAYONNAISrl Serve with cheese - .. ... P'NT JAR. . 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