FEB. 13.1933 THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES PAGE 9 MORE THAN 100 WITNESSES TESTIFY IN BRUNO’S TRIAL STATE CHARGES HAUPTMANN The Artists Take a Peek at Fiemington CHIEF WITNESSES’ TESTIMONY WAS KIDNAPER, KILLER AND _ 4, I INill nlUtflMOST REVOLTINGIiLI ‘CRIME TAKER OF $50,000 RANSOM OF CENTURT IS REVIEWED Dav-by-Day Summary of Case Reveals Col. Lindbergh, Among First to Take Stand, Methods Used by Prosecution to Tie Recalls Events of Night When Blond Crime to Stolid German Carpenter. Child Is Stolen From Nursery. By United Pre,§ freii Bt tnliH A. Lindbergh—lie told of the events on the The steps by which the state of New Jersey built up its Col. Charles kidnaping, the empty crib, the ransom and murder case ajjainst Kruno Richard Hauptmann, and the night of the note outside. He heard a noise which efforts of the defense to combat the relentless piling up of the ladder found might evidence, are detailed in the have been a falling ladder, at about 9:15 p. m. on March 1, time of the kidnaping. The land- of following day-by-day sum- lord of Hauptmann's Bronx home but thought nothing it at board from the bearded and alert, testified he saw mary of the identifies a taken the time. He identified the trial: attic of the house, which the state Hauptmann drive past on March 1 and the "dirty WEDNESDAY. JAN. 2 says formed part of the ladder, the original ransom note in a green automobile" con- remainder having come from a lum- taining a ladder. Hauptmann turned Trial opens. “Jersey justice" moves second one which w is mailed ber yard where Hauptmann once to his wife and muttered in German, swiftly rapid selection of ten with worked. to him. asking for $70,000 instead "The old man is crazy.” the Jurors. of $50,000. He identified voice Albert S. Osborn—Famed hand- JAN. 23 "Hey, Doctor" THURSDAY, JAN. 3 WEDNESDAY. which he heard call writing expert, one of eight such Four more link the lad- Bronx cemetery on the worn- witnesses outside the called by the state, who gave de- Jury of eight men and four and the was paid as the stf.te der with the attic board night the ransom cisive testimony that Hauptmann fen sworn. David T. Wilentz. Hauptmann of Hauptmann. He said he outlines case against lumber yard where voice wrote the ransom notes. With prosecutor, worked. Arthur Koehler, lumber believed HauptmannP to be guilty of graphic, enlarged he Hauptmann, branding him as the 6V charts, com- expert Madison, Wis., makes the } crime. Lindbergh appearedapp pared for the jury Hauptmann's kidnaper, murderer and receiver of of V I ! the identification positive. U 8 tis calm, weighed hishis words and seemedse< known handwriting on automobile the $.50.00® ransom money. Col. and if IrJpSfcKV , every to be fair.h license A. Lindbergh go M to make effort applications and samples Mrs. Charles THURSDAY, JAN. 24 If 4 ¦> Lindbergh Tearfully, but taken his arrest r of 1 Mrs. after with the ran- trrough hea-t-b eaking ordeal state rests and the stolid on night The bravely, the mother identified the som notes, including the damning telling of the events the German carpenter goes on stand The fury is polled ...The defendant flicks not an eyelash found 1932. the baby’s garments —the soiledsSdskcsleeping one in the nursery. of March i, his presents in own defense. He suit in which the Thomas S. Sisk—Special Depart- FRIDAY, JAN. 4 alibis, claiming to have been at ment of Justice agent in charge of home the kidnap- ba 11 er ed body Col. Lindbergh, stoical after the on night of the the Federal men who arrested ing and the the ransom She strain identifying tne mutilated night was found. Hauptmann. Curly-headed and al- of money paid. A neighboring of his dead son. identifies was told of events on most bo.vish-lookmg. Agent Sisk clothing and wife Hauptmann as the owner bakery owner his support LINDBERGH CASE told quietly of the dramatic events positively the night of the heard m the Bronx the aiibi, but are not positive. vsfisr of Sept. 18 which ended a relentless of the voice he kidnaping, of cemetery on the night of the ran- FRIDAY. JAN. 25 search of months. He testified how som negotiations. |Hp, playing with the Hauptmann lied and contradicted Haptmarn, still on stand, ap- COST COST ESTIMATE himself about money. "Mister, babySSSPjI the £h in the aft- MONDAY, JAN. 7 pears upset and uncertain under mister, you stop cried ft of lying,” Haupt- merciless cross-examination. He ernoon and Betty Gow, the baby s nurse, tear- to mann. cffzrs more alibis and says his sud- putting him fully tells her story of the night TOPS $600,000 bed after he had Mrs. Ella Achenbach Bronx den from TOPSSGOO.OOO and the wealth came previous sav- iiiipS of Mrs. of the kidnaping identifies neighbor Hauptmann who ings given him the been given medi- sleeping other gar- and money to by formerly employed jobless car- Infant's suit and r cine his cold. the The state has now present- late Isidor Fisch. a business asso- ® for wife in ments. Spent $25,000 in SN s Both state and penter’s part-time work. ed basic facts kidnaping, mur- ci?.e. who subsesquently died in Flier Spent in Ad- |T 'gC* '. /pN -r" ' ; ' Mrs. that a day its of and e sense treated V* Achenbach testified der. identification of the victim and Germany. He admits writing or two after March 1, Mrs. Haupt- “boad” in dition to Ransom, Fig- 1 her with the ut- ;; the payment of ransom money. for "boat” his diary, iITTj MreMrs.. LindbLindbergh mann told her she had just returned which corresponds to the &7f\ f most deference 1 spelling 'MO uwette tetu* from a trip with her husband. The TUESDAY, JAN. 8 In the ransom notes. ures Show. |! // I Sidand afterafterh™"testimony,her testimony, she did not A ffiS • latter limped, Mrs. Achenbach said, IS Wimt WSTAK'S J appear the trial again. The state builds up its rase to BvBt United Press |l /& at and Mrs. Hauptmann explained he MONDAY. JAN. 28 4 1 l\V Hauptmann both with the kid- From the night of March 1. 1932, / *!'m II? Betty Story UnshakeiUnshaken had sprained his state's link Hauptmann wavers and grows / \ j,'j \\ f. ([ Gow’s ankle—the naping and the acceptance of the untiluntil the present day, the Lindbergh | \ ’ r/)l if 8 implication being that have A * it could confused and angry under five government < Betty Gow—TheGow—The comely, 30-y30-year- ransom. Joseph Perrone, Bronx casecase has cost the and ,1* Us / j •') .. |\ j 'll j$ been sprained in a fall from a hours of cross-examination by Mr. i\ J nursemaid, supportedsuppo lad- taxicab driver, identifies Haupt- thethe various agencies engaged in r VN? / \ tl / l Mjj ll old Scottish der. “You are lying,” Mrs. Haupt- Wilentz. He admits he had told and Mrs. LindbLindbergh mann as the man who gave him $1 trackingtracking down the perpetrator, more (V / Pr jit j \ Itii |j the story of Col. man shouted shrilly. many lies since his arrest, including wept with un- ton March 12. 1932, to take a note thanthan $600,000.$600,0C0. lO(LJ / /] \: in every detail. She tall, bald, V.ATOi.]))f telling aabout Arthur Koehler —The Dr. John F. Condon, or “Jafsie,” statements in the Bronx court Including the $50,000 ransom he A /l | 1/I\ 'jnf \ mistakable grief in to oath. If lls showedshe 1 middle-aged technologist of the negotiator for Lind- under paid—of which he will receive back jfiCHjjffVvO.)jvvw / \ I .Ijj | the baby. Her testimony the ransom fl * t United States Forestry Service $15,000 in S ; I clothing the baby wore be- bergh. Amandus Hnchmuth, 87- TUESDAY, JAN. 29 nearlynearly found in Bruno Rich- 1 /£. j 1 a . fjj :\ U that the proved a key witness for the state ardard Hauptmann's garage—Col. \ T *¦ ji the kidnaping and when he was year-old Fiemington resident. Iden- Letters from to \L 'R J . / ll \ fore and told one of the most fascinat- Hauptmann Charles A. Lindbergh has spent at 1; J\ was identical —evid tifies Hauptmann as a man he saw- are introduced, in j found dead identical—evidence ing stories of dogged detective work Fisch’s brother $75,000. His friend, Col. Ji * I //VJI sarrsamples in an automobile with a ladder leastleast Henry pftxiwl vV > -¦* .\| j designed ,toto prove that the heaid at the trial. Shown the lad- which Hauptmann wrote that he Breckinridge, spent rnilWft If near the scene on March 1. Haupt- C.C. has another P& i i / I submitted by the ransom taker ccame der after the kidnaping, he spent had begun business dealings with SIO,OOO.SIO,OOO. The efforts to run down H l 111 kidnaper and murdmurderer. mann creates scene by calling one spring FW >J‘ 0 w \ I) ' \ from the 18 months patiently tracing its Fisch the of 1933, * in al- false clefclews,s, suen as those presented f V 7 s j\. was calm under cross-<p witness a "liar" and the other though he had testified previously iWi \UKjjjfEfJ 'r-vVV S } l Miss Gow wood through lumber yards and Reich, in the John Hughes Curtis hoax, im a l examination, parrying deftly eevery “crazy.” A1 associate of that the profitable association f //// J U/i \ mills all through the United States.