HAUPTMANN TRIAL
FIRE OF QUESTIONING
PLANNED TRIP TO GERMANY
(Received January 30, 2.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, January 29.
Hauptmann once more spent a dintcult day wherein Mr. Wilentz showed again and again that be bad lied, break* ing down every intimation that the defendant had obtained the ransom money from Fisch, and showing striking similarities between errors in the English in the ransom notes and expressions used by the witness in answering the prosecutor's questions. Mr. Wilentz alleged that Hauptmann. tried to arrange a trip, to Germany to escape the consequences of the kidnapping. Hauptmann countered this ;by saying he had planned the trip "for a year already." Mr. Wilentz then picked up tni.ransom notes, cautioned Hauptmann . _t» listen carefully, and read, '"' : Tlii»;; kidnapping was planned for a year already. It was prepared for & year already." In letters which Hauptmann , had written to Fisch, certain words were underlined in Ted and blue crayon. Similar underlining was found on the ransom notes.
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 12
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161HAUPTMANN TRIAL Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 12
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