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Hunterdon Country Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8--The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most--his sister,--came into this courtroom today to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of suspicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime...
...prosecution's announcement that it was investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...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...
...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...
...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...