LINDBERGH BABY CASE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 9

LINDBERGH BABY CASE

Surprise Witness Called New York', January 14. The Hauptmann trial was continued to-day. Further technical evidence was given by the handwriting expert Osborn and other witnesses for prosecution, reiterating their opinion that the accused wrote all the ransom notes and refusing to be shaken in the least by Mr. Reilly’s vigorous cross-ex-amination. According to reports there was a serious defection to-day among the writing experts secured 'by the defence. According to one report two asked to withdraw from the case, saying that they could not swear that Hauptmann was not the author of the notes. This Mr. Reilly denied, insisting that shortage of funds by the defence make the retention of all the experts desired impossible. While Osborn’s testimony was temporarily postponed to enable him to accumulate additional technical data, the prosecution' called a surprise witness. The testimony of this witness seriously contradicts Hauptmann’s main line of defence. The witness was Hildegarde /Alexander Young, an attractive clothing model, who swore that during the ransom negotiations in March, 1932, she saw Hauptmann shadowing Dr. Condon at the Bronx railroad station. She insisted that her identification was positive, as she had known Condon for many years and so was attracted by his watcher’s “queer” look and could not forget him.