The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-07
Betty GolU Proues An Able Witness
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 Q. Go on with your story: A. pinned the covers down on the baby's crib. c. What time was that? A. About half past seven.
 c. What time did you leave the baby's room? A. It was about o'clock. I remember distinctly looking at my watch. The witness stepped from the stand to identify the windows in the nursery on the maps and dIa- grams on the wall.
 c. Now o'clock, and you're coming downstairs. What hap pened?
 At this point there was a noise outside the courtroom. The justice, through Wilentz, asked Col. schwarzkopf to have a state police squad disperse the crowd.
 Q. Where did you go? A. In- to the living room where 1 told Mrs. Lindbergh had left the baby sleeping peacefully and quite con tent. ! went into the kitchen. Mrs. Whately had supped with me. received & telephone call from a friend.
 c. Who was the friend who called? A. A Mir. Henry John son.
 C.. Where was Mr.. Whately |? A. He was there and we saw him from time to time. The courtroom had it's first real sensation of the day when Betty mentioned the name of her former sweetheart, Red" Johnson, the sailor who was held in jail for weeks until he could explain away any connection with the kidnapping.
 Q. Where did you go later |? A.. At 9 o'clock I went upstairs 10 Mrs. Whatley's room.
 Q. Was the dog there in the house? A. Yes. The witness. her face flushed. explained to the attorney general the physical layout of the Lind bergh home.
 Q. Then you went up to Mrs. Whately's room? A. Yes, to look at dress she bought. Q. How long did you stay in her room? A. Until about 10 o'clock. c. Where did you go then? A. To the nursery.
 Q. Did you meet anyone. A.. No.
 c. When you got in there what did you find? What did you do? A. I closed the window. waited for minute for the room to lose It's chill. bent down over the crib. The crib was empty. went out In the hall. Mrs. Lindbergs was com ing out of the bathroom. asked her if she had the baby. She said no.
 As Betty reached the dramatic point in her recital where she dis dead silence fell over the court room, and it was completely hushed when she spoke the words-"the crib was empty"
 T asked Mrs. Lindbergh if she had the baby and she looked sur prised and said mo-" Betty con- tinucd.
 T said maybe the Colonel has him. and I ran downstairs to where the colonel was sitting, and asked him if he had the baby. He said mo, isn't he in his crib
 "Then he ran past me upstairs"
 "He looked in the nursery and the bedroom and didn't say any thing at first. Then he went and got his rife. Then the Colonel said, Anne, they've stolen our baby"
 c. Now, Miss Cow after that? A. We stood around not quite knowing what to do. Whately went upstairs and Mrs Whately and I followed him. Then we started to search the house.
 c. Who are "we?" A. The Colonel and Whately searched downstairs. We looked in other rooms.
 Q. What did you do when OiIi- cers Williamson and Wolf came in? A. We sat in the sitting room downstairs.
 Q. Was anthing said? A. We didn't speak.
 Q. Before the police officials came, you remained silent. A. Yes.
 Q. What did you do after- wards? A. I returned to the nurs- cry.
 Q. In the nursery what did you see? A. An envelope on the win dow sill.
 Q. Where was the envelope? A. It was on the window sill.
 c. What else was changed in the room? A. There was dirty smudge on the clean sheet In the crib.
 o. It wasn't a definit. impress sion so you could tell what 1t was? A. No.
 Q. While the search for the was on. did you find SIG, the thumb guard? A. Yes.
 c. Please tell the circum- stances? A. It was about a month after the Kidnapping. I walked to the gate with Mrs Whately. On the way back, about a hundred yards from the house we both saw 1t.
 c. Who picked it up? A. l
 Q. Was the thumb guard in the same condition it now is in this court? A. Exactly.
 Q. still knottcd? A. Still knotted. yes.
 c. What time of the day was it? A. Between and 4 in the afternoon.
 Q. Did you leave the Lindbergh estate any time during that month after the Kidnapping? A. No.
 Q. Finally after April. we get to May. Were you in their employ OD way lE' lJJZ /! R. eb.
 Q. On that day did you go some place to See the child?~A Yes.
 c. Where did you go? A. TO Trenton.
 c. Did you go to the morgue? A. Yes.
 c. Did you see a body there? A. Yes.
 Q. Whose body was 1t? A. The body of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
 Cross Examination Starts
 The prosecution ended its direct examination at 11:02. after Betty had been on the stand for nearly an hour. Chief Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly rose and began the ss-examination.
 Q. How old are you? A. 30.
 c. When did you first enter em- ployment? A. When l was IA.
 2. You say you worked In De- troit? A. Yes, at several separate places.
 Q. Did you associate with any young men in Detroit? A. Yes.
 c. Name them? WilentZ objected to the ot1estio