KIDNAPPED BABY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 January 1935, Page 3

KIDNAPPED BABY

LINDBERGH’S ACCUSATION HAUPTMANN IDENTIFIED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) FLEMINGTON, 4th January. Speaking with evident sincerity that none in the crowded courtroom could doubt, Colonel Lindbergh from the witness-stand to-day twice accused Hauptmann of kidnapping his child. He made his first accusation a’gainst the stolid German carpenter under questioning. Witness positively identified Hauptmann as the man’ whose voice he heard in the Bronx Cemetery the night when, with Dr. Condon as a go : between, he paid the 50*000 dollars ransom the second time. When, after a severe cross-examination by Mr Edward Reilly, chief counsel for the defence, during which the latter sought to implant in the minds of the jury the idea that the kidnapping was an “inside job” engineered by members of Lindbergh’s staff of servants, the questioner asked the witness point blank, “Do you believe Hauptmann is guilty?” Colonel Lindbergh replied, “Yes.”

Colonel Lindbergh was an earnest and wiliing'-witness, and stood up well under rigorous questioning. Hauptmann sat rigid and staring back glassily at the witness, who looked directly at him when making liis accusations.