HAUPTMANN TRIAL
ELEMENTS OF FARCE
COMIC' OPERA TOUCH
FLEMINGTON, February 7.
The Hauptmann trial almost seemed to become a farce today when the defence put on, the stand three neighbours of Millard Whited who lived near the Lindbergh estate and who testified he saw a man lurking in the bush shortly before the kidnapping.
Each witness declared of Whited's reputation and veracity: "Taint no good." Mr. Wilentz made short shift of these witnesses, saying to one: "It is true Whited has never been in gaol?" the reply being "Never."
But you have?—rYes.
A comic opera touch came, however, when Henry' Uhlig, a German furrier and allegedly the defence's best witness, turned upon Mr, Reilly, for Hauptmarin, when' the latter suddenly declared him hostile and shouted the lawyer down with cries. of "You are lying." Tliis arose when Mr. Reilly, by innuendo! attempted to show that Uhlig had tried to get the ransom money from Fisch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 9
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