Word: hauptmanns
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...like Hauptmann's, declared the Government wood expert, had "signed" its teeth marks into the lumber in the ladder...
...Another "signature" had been made, said he, by a chisel similar to the one which was found with the ladder. A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights. Furthermore, the chisel was of the same make as another of Hauptmann's chisels, and filled the one vacancy in his tool chest...
...searched for a year and a half for the mill and lumber yard which had supplied the pine for most of the rungs in the ladder. The mill was finally located in South Carolina. The lumber yard was found in The Bronx, the very lumber yard where Hauptmann had bought wood...
...upright was made, Mr. Koehler was positive, from a missing plank in Hauptmann's attic floor. Old nail holes in the upright fitted perfectly into place over the attic floor joists. Its growth rings matched an adjoining floor plank...
Three Dates. The State detonated its last great testimonial charge with Witness Koehler. But in the week preceding his appearance it had arduously laid another mine under the defense with a string of witnesses which tied Hauptmann to the crime on three crucial dates...