THE LIE DIRECT

Northern Advocate, 21 January 1935, Page 7

THE LIE DIRECT

HAUPTMANN TRIAL SCENE FRENZY OF ACCUSED’S WIFE. A TELL-TALE PLANK. c. ADDRESS INSCRIBED. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ] (Received 9 a.m.) , NEW YORK, January 19.

At the trial of Bruno Hauptmann at Flemington, New • Jersey, on the charge of murdering the infant son of Colonel and Mrs Charles Lindbergh, Mrs Hauptmann gave the lie direct to Mrs Achenbach, a former neighbour and friend.

Witness had been called to testify that Hauptmann was suffering from a sprained ankle shortly after the kidnapping of the child in March, 1932. Mrs Achenbach had not yet reached the point in her evidence when the outburst came. She was beginning quietly: “It was either a day or two days after the kidnapping that Mrs Hauptmann came over to my front porch.” Mrs Hauptmann anticipated the rest and rose, shouting: “You are lying! You are lying,. Mrs Achenbach!” Spectators leapt to their feet hissing Mrs Hauptmann, and ; Hauptmann’s guard seized his arm. The State Attorney-General, Mr Wilentz, who is prosecuting, cried: “Staged!”

The judge sharply reprimanded the woman. She wept, saying: “I am sorry. I cannot help it.” The prosecution developed one of its most telling points against accused when it brought a plank from his Bronx home to court on which were written Dr. Condon’s address and telephone number. The latter had been changed since 1932. Hauptmann said he had copied it from newspapers, but the State attempted to prove that it had never appeared in the press nor been listed in the telephone directory.