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1) He is positively identified as the man who passed a $10 ransom bill at an uptown Manhattan filling station; he had $20 of the ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom notes delivered to Dr. Condon the sleeping suit worn by the baby on the night of the abduction. 5 ) Hauptmann did only a few days' work after March 1932, yet lived in mod est luxury. 6) The ladder by which the kidnapper entered the nursery was made of wood from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone can in one way or another identify Hauptmann with the crime. 8) The crime was a one-man job be cause the ladder was left behind. 9) Government auditors will try to account for Hauptmann's spending most of the $50.000 ransom. 10) Hauptmann's criminal record in Germany marks him as the type of man to execute the crime. These charges Defense Counsel Reilly will duck, denounce or deny point by point as follows:
1) Hauptmann did not know the money he was passing was ransom money. He "dipped into it" when he found a shoe box full of it left by Isidor Fisch, who owed Hauptmann $7,500 which he never repaid.
2) Fisch's passage money was his own. By inference the defense will do everything in its power to lay the crime at dead Fisch's door.
3) Defense handwriting experts will contradict those of the prosecution.
4) If Hauptmann did not write the ransom notes, the evidence of the child's sleeping suit falls of its own weight.
5) Hauptmann's thrift and small winnings in the stockmarket enabled him to live with comparative ease. His wife Anna was occasionally employed after March 1932.
6) Thousands of people bought lumber from the Bronx lumber yard. Thousands more could buy such nails as were found in the ladder.
7) Taximan Perrone could not have positively identified the ransom negotiator because he saw him at night. Col. Lindbergh's identification of the voice is not positive since many voices sound alike. Dr. Condon's eccentricity bars him as a credible witness.
8) From the start police have insisted that the crime was not a one-man job, that as many as five might have participated.
9) Pending the Government's courtroom audit of the ransom bills, the defense line is unpredictable.
10) A previous criminal record is not always admissible as evidence of probable guilt.