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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-
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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."
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WASHINGTON (UP)A nittllr
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