HAUPTMANN TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 9

HAUPTMANN TRIAL

♦ . _ PROSECUTION'S REBUTTAL

EVIDENCE NOW COMPLETE

■ '■■'.• : FLEMlNGT6N,\Februa^r;'9: The taking of .testimony;' in the Hauptmann trial was completed today. It is expected that the prosecution and the defence will require two days for their, summing-up and. the case..'will probably go to. the jury. late on Tuesday. ■■:■'.■ : ' .',:".,-..■ '".V: : ■,-':''"':. ..■-'.'-- . In a dramatic finale to. the .prosecution's rebuttal, late in thei ; afternoon, Mr. : Wilentz called Mrs. .Dwight; Morrow, mother of Anne Lindbergh, to-the witness stand. She gave ; Violet Sharpe an alibi for the' night ,of the kidnapping, saying she never left the Eriglewood home for more than three hours. Previously three persons swore that Violet,: accompanied them to, a roadhouse that' time. ") :' ' ; Other State witnesses supplied alibis for Fisch both on the night of the kidnapping and; of: the ransom payment, while :the; Government ; wood expert, Kbehler, * again entered ": the stand :to rebut the defence's contention that the kidnapper's ladder ■•boards- were not from; Hauptmarin's home.1 • ■ - .- •

Mrs. Lindbergh accompanied her mother to the courtroom for the first time since she testified early in the proceedings.l ' Colonel Lindbergh was also present as was his custom.

After the adjournment today Mr. Wilentz expressed satisfaction with the State's case, but declined to predict a verdict of guilty. However, it is believed- that the defence's effort to place the crime' on Fisch or Sharpe has been completely smashed and most of their witnesses' testimony discredited.

' Fisch's sister' Hannah,- "who, with several other members -of : the family, was brought' from Leipzig to "testify for the prosecution, swore that Fisch had no part of the'; ransom-■ money when he returned to Germany, where he subsequently died. -She said that he had only 500 dollars.; Air this and more was used for hospital expenses. He died destitute. ' -■ ■ i i ■ - ;

Joseph Levinson,' a New York real estate broker, testified that he was witlr Fisch, in -Bronx until eleven oh the night the baby was kidnapped, and produced promissory notes signed by Fisch: Then to: prove' this Mrs. Ema; Jung confirmed the testimony ;that Heier was lying -when He said he was in a' parked car near Saint Raymond's Cemetery. It was'asserted by Joseph ,Farber that-at that time his and JJeier's ' automobiles "were in' collision in a different part of the' city. The prosecution further 'produced witnesses who declared that other" of the defence' witnesses. had N;lied.: ■ Mr. Wileritz stated that' he was preparing to ask for perjury indictments against some of the defence witnesses. ~-:\'i