The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-11
Reilly
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 prosecutor, that you feel that this defendant must prove his inno- cence.
 This is not the case.
 You are big enough, you are American enough not be be swayed by the wealth and prominence of the family involved; this defend- ant is but a poor German carpen- ter.
 lover your heads hangs the American flag. Remember that this flag guarantees justice, justice for this poor carpenter from Germany.
 Justice demands that the still voice of your conscieDse be given ful freedom to decide this case.
 I want you to remember that in passing judgment, you have in your power to take away 8 thing you cannot give back-life.
 The jurors leaned forward. their eyes rIveted on Reilly. There was dead silence in the courtroom.
 May 1 read to you the indict- ment. am going to avoid the legal phraseology. It says, this in plain language.
 "' This defendant alone on the first day of March--not the sec ond, not the fifth-but on the first in the township of East Amweil mot Niagara Falls, but in East Amwell--feloniousl murdered the Lindbergh baby.
 "Now there is the pattern. Per haps there is a pattern maker on the jury. There are games with rules.
 "But here is the pattern that the judge will charge you.
 II think the judge will say that the state of New Jersey charges this defendant alone planned this Kidnapping alone, that in the com- mission the child was killed.
 "Now let us begin at the be- ginning. This is the crime of the century. That was what the state |charged in it's opening.
 "So I say this Is the worst and lowest type of crime ever commit- ted. But it is not the defendant who Is guilty of 1t. And no one holds in higher opinion the dis tinguished father of this unfor- tunate child.
 II have the greatest admiration for the family into which he mar ried-the family of the late Sena- tor Dwight W. Morrow.
 "The colonel had q beautiful home. He used it only on week. ends.
 "Bruno Richard Hauptmann never drove q nail in that house. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was never on that estate.
 "The state would have you be- lieve, at the same time, that Hauptmann was master nina and dumb carpenter.
 "They would have you believe that Hauptmann would wear gloves while carrying ladder. and then sit talking to Dr. Condon for an hour and & half with his face exposed.
 You cant carry water on both shoulders.
 This Is like scenario-.which 1t is-a story pieced together.
 "If Hauptmann had asked now many servants have the Lind- bergh's got" it might be suspic- ious.
 "The first thing you've got to de- eide in your jury room Is how did Hauptmann in the Bronx know about Col. Lindbergh's home in New Jersey.
 "Col. Lindbergh was stabbed in the back by servants who worked in his home.
 NO one could ever have gotten into his home without the infor- nation coming from inside.
 q don't care about the ran- som money, the experts. the hand writing, nor even for the ransom money found in his home for which he must stand trial in the Bronx.
 "Who knew the baby was sick. There was no doctod to tell about 1t. There were no tradespeople to speak of 1t.
 "Who knew Colonel Lindbergh was not going to be home Monday night? Not Hauptmann! The people who knew 1t were Betty Cow, Ollie Whately. Mrs Whately and the Morrow servants.
 "The colonel can have all the confidence in the world in Betty Cow. 1 have none.
 But she Is the only person :, ho knew Tuesday afternoon that Mrs Lindbergh was going to stay all night.
 "How do we know about Red Johnson? How do we know who else Betty Cow talked to on the afternoon of the kidnapping.
 There was one agency in the Lindbergh house that night that would respond only 10 It's master That was the dog. That dog Is very important in this case.
 q hope there are some dog lov- CTS on the Jurry.
 "I don't care what sound. in- stinctively these dogs can smell q stranger on the groundns. And this dog never made a sound.
 II say again to you that there was dlsloyalty in the Lndbergh house that night. "There was guilt there. "And this points in q straight | line to the butler Whately and to those servants unfaithful to Col Lindbergh.
 "The state says Hauptmann was in that room--hc had to be there, | they say, beca use that was the way the crime was committed. Now, let's see if he was there" Reilly held q pointer fin h.s hand and he walked over to wall where . chart Of the Lindbergh home was hanging. He pointed out the nursery. "Now, Hauptmann would have to know more about this house. than q