TRIAL OF HAUPTMANN

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 7

TRIAL OF HAUPTMANN

ACCUSED IN BOX. EFFORT TO SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Flemington, January 25. Hauptmann was again in the witness chair to-day. He made a supreme effort to shift the responsibility for the murder of the Lindbergh baby to Fisch. Time and time again the name of Fisch was brought into the questioning and each time he sought to show that the dead furrier, who was once his partner, was responsible for the acts charged to himself. He admitted trading heavily in the stock market in months after the ransom had been paid, but stressed that it was at Fisch’s suggestion or with Fisch’s participation that most of the stock transactions were undertaken. He denied completely that he alone planned the kidnapping and wrote the ransom note and collected the ransom money. He declared he had never seen the baby, “either dead or alive.”