ACCUSATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1935, Page 8

ACCUSATION.

KIDNAP CASE. HAUPTMANN TRIAL. Taxi-Driver Asked to Carry Note. ACCUSED MAN INTERJECTS. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 2. :w p.m.) FLEMINCTOK (N.J.), January 8. Two Slate witnesses, a Bronx taxidriver named Perrone, and an 87-year-old retired New Jersey farmer, named Hochmuth, placed the finger ot: identification to-day on Bruno Hauptmann, who is being charged with the murder of the Lindbergh baby. To the taxi-driver the accused man muttered, "You're a. liar." Perrone testified that on the evening of March 12, 1932, Hauptmann stopped him and gave him a dollar to deliver a note to Dr. Condon Ransom, Colonel Lindbergh's intermediary. Witness stepped down from the stand nnd touched Hauptmann on the .shoulder. The latter, besides crying "You're a liar." declared later that witness was "Crazy," and added, ''You only saw my picture in the papers." Hochmuth, feeble of step and weak of sight, swore that Hauptmann, driving a green-coloured automobile with a ladder in it. was the man he had seen near the Lindbergh household a few hours before the kidnapping. Mrs. Hauptmann, who was in the court, cried, "That can't be. He can't mean Richard."

SILENT WATCHERS.

HAUPTMANN IN HIS CELL.

NEW YORK, January 2

For many weeks, night and day, in a cell in the Flemington prison, hard electric lights have glared on Hauptmann while three silent guards have stood outside and two more, equally silent, have been stationed within the cell.

In spite of the strain of this unite watching, Hauptmann has said nothing except to insist upon his innocence.

; American newspapers. freely declare Hauptmann guilty, but openly question whether he can be convicted of anything- more serious than possessing ransom cash.

For the defence, handwriting experts * •will be called to testify that the ransom notes -were not in Hanptmann's handwriting.

Then it will be argued that Hauptmann merely dipped into the ransom money, when Isador Fisch, probably the real kidnapper, returned to Germany and died.