Evening star., 1935-02-10
Case Expected
to Go to Jury
Tuesday.
MRS. MORROW
LAST WITNESS
States Final Fight
on Testimony
on Woods.
Nv the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
PENNINGTON. N. j.. February g.
The case against Bruno Richard
Hauptmann for the Lindbergh baby
murder was completed today, five
weeks and three days after 1t began.
With Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, the
baby's grandmother, as one of the
witnesses. the case ended-eXcept for
the legal oratory which will last
through Monday and part of Tues
day-on a note of sharp contradiction
The final days testimony concerned
itself not with Hauptmann. the Bronx
carpenter accused of horrible crime,
but with the memory of two persons
dead-the little ISador FiSch and the
Morrow maid servant. Violet Sharpe,
who committed suicide.
When it was not seeking to show
that neither Fisch nor Miss Sharpe
had any guilty knowledge OF the kid
nap murder Of March /, 1882, the
State in its last day of rebuttal
testimony, ripped at the lumber"
evidence which the defense has pre-
sented.
Hauptmann, never demonStratlve
sat through the final day of the trial
which may mean his life. showing
little emotion.
Mrs. Lindbergh Present.
In contrast with the defendant
were Mrs. Morrow and her daughter,
Mrs. Anne Lindbergh, who sat
through both sessions today display
ing keen interest in all the proceed
tngs. Mrs. Lindbergh, the baby's
mother, was making her second
appearance in the old Hunterdon
County courtroom. She was one OF
the first witnesses of the State.
Col Ltndbergh, on the other hand
mas been constant court attendant.
sitting behind the State counsel,s
table in a position from which he
could look almost squarely at the
witnesses as they paraded, 141 of
them, through 20 court days of
testimony.
The presentation of evidence came
to an abrupt close at 2:37 pm, when
the State announced 1t had finished
Its rebuttal evidence and the defenst
headed by Edward J. Reilly Of New
York, announced it woulo offer no
surrebuttal.
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard
called recess until Monday, when
Anthony M. Hauck, jr., one of the
assistants OF Attorney General David
Wilentz, who is conducting the State
case. will make the first summation.
Hauck will outline the points which
the prosecution has made through
the testimony of the 88 witnesses it
called to the stand
Hauck does not expect to require
more than an hour and a i1alf.
Reilly, for the defense, will follow
He is expected to require most of the
remainder of the day. Wllentz will
speak for the State Tuesday. and the
case should go to the jury of eight
men and four women by midatter-
noon of that day-Lincoln's birthday
The charge to the jury by Justice
Trenchard is not expected to require
more than As minutes.
Last Witness Called.
Mrs. Morrow was the last witness,
q tragic touch to a trial that has
attracted attention around the world.
She testified, however, not as the
grandmother of baby murdered. but
as the employer of an English servant
girl whose name had been repeatedly
drawn into the case as having pos
sibly had guilty knowledge of the
crime.
Mrs. Morrow, widow Of a Morgan
partner, who also was an American
Ambassador and Senator, testified
that the servant, Violet Sharpe, was
at the Morrow home in Englewood
the night of the kidnapping up to
about 7:45 o'clock, and that she
returned to the home about II. The
kidnapping was from the Lindbergh
home at Hopewell, many miles
distant.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Morrow S
testimony, the defense moved for a
directed verdict OF acquittal, which
Justice Trenchard promptly denied.
Chief Counsel Reilly said: so that
Continued on Page 4, Column -