Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
W|LENTz CLOSES,
DEMANDING DEATH
Fiery Summation interrupt
ed by Shout of Minister
Another Confessed.

Hauptmanp's death sealed New Jerseys
case against him yesterday for the
murder of Baby Lindbergh.
His voice raised in scorn and fury,
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
cried out in his all-day summation for
a jury mandate which will put Haupt-
mann in the electric chair, but as he
finished he was interrupted and the
court room thrown into confusion by
a spectator Clergyman shout.
From his perch on window sill of
the damned court room. Rev. Vincent
G. Burns, North Jersey pastor in
terrupted the summation to cry:
"A man confessed that crime to me
in my church" He later said the man
was not Hauptmann.
Struggling, he was hauled down and
taken away Later Justice Thomas
w Trenchard ordered him released,
after inStructing the jury to disregard
his story before to both prosecution
and defense, but neither called him
as a witness.
Hauptmann sat tight Tipped through
out WilentZ'S fiery all-day summation
as the prosecutor swung his fist and
called him the lowest form of ami
NAL" a pariah who "contaminates the
air
Anna Hauptmann was Statuelike in
her chair. but the jurors, by slight
gestures and fleeting expressions, fire.
ouently betrayed their feelings.
Hits Mercy Recommendation.
Savagely Wilentz demanded that
Hauptmann be put to death like a
dangerous beast, and told the jury that
a verdict of conviction with recon-
mendation of mercy would be "wishy-
washy."
Only the electric chair, he cried,
would "thaw out" Hauptmanns cold
ness-''He is cold, yes, but he will be
thawed out when he hears the switch.
At times the prosecutors passionate
bursts of oratory all but left him eX-
hausted.
He shouted that the murder of the
Iindbergh baby would be "insignlfl-
can't as compared to the crime OF
freeing Hauptmann, that every Wom-
an in her home would shudder again.
Bitterly, Wilentz exclaimed OF per
fury" in the phoney defense:
Perjury is a joke in this case, ne
cried. They would swear to any
thing, anything to save HauPtmann.
Defends Others.
His phrases dripped with scorn as
he arraigned the ASSASSINATION of
DR.. James F. "Jafsie" Condor, the
man who paid the $4,000 ransom;
Nurse Betty Cow. Ollie Whateley, the
dead Lindbergh butler: Violet Sharpe
the suicide maid, and others.
Nothing too mean, nothing too dis
graceful. to plant some little germ
of doubt in the mind of one juror,
their only hope he exclaimed.
He rebuked the defense contention
that Col Lindbergh could not have
remembered the voice of the ransom
mantle voice he swore was Haupt-
MAINS.
God! Could you ever forget it?"
WiIentz cried. Would anybody ever
forget it? His hope"
DR.. Condons Identification of Haupt-
mann as the ransom John" was
enough in itself to convict the car
penter Of first degree murder, Wilentz
contended.
Sees Gain in Loss.
The attorney general concluded his
plea with If this jury will do its
duty. we can translate Col. Lind
bergh's loss and sorrow into some gain
for civilization. to show that whether
We catch a man walking into the room
or not, we can crush them, We can
crush these snakes. We can crush
these criminals: that society isn't so
weak that We can't deal with them.
That's the job that you can do. ="
The court room was thrown into con-
fusion by the cry of the minister from
his window-sill perch.
The court stenographer, the lawyers
and Justice Trenchard heard no more,
apparently, than his words If your
honor please"
Those near him said he hollered:
"a man confessed that crime to me in
my church"
An officer pulled Burns down from
the SILL clapped a hand over his
mouth and hustled him out.
The justice raped for order as the
excited crowd milled in the court room
after the jury had retired, ordered the
deputies to clear the room and sum-
moned counsel for a conference in his
chambers.
1t was decided to let the clergy
man go.
Burns first told his story at Fort
Lee, N. j., November %, 1884, it was
recalled yesterday.
He announced then that mon had
come to his church on Palm Sunday
of 1882 and "confided to me his part
In kidnapping crime"
Asked why he had not turned the
man over to police, Burns said: That
was out of the question; he came to
my church for protection"
Wilentz charged that Hauptmann's
defense against the charge he kid
naped and murdered Baby Lindbergh
was financed by idiots, cranks and
fools: pleaded that no mercy be
shown. and dubbed him public
enemy No. of this world"
He defended with vigor the circum-
stantial evidence on which the State
depends for conviction, and enumerated
that part of the case which he said
was not circumstance.
About circumstantial evidence he
said; When it starts to scream all
the lip evidence in the world can't
overcome it."
AS not circumstantial, he listed:
The Identification of Hauptmann bv
Condor and Joseph A. Perrone, taxi
driver, who said Hauptmann paid him
a dollar to deliver a ransom note to
Condor.
Closet Board Cited.
The board in the closet of Haupt-
MAINS home with writing on it by
Hauptmann-Dr. Condon's telephone
number and address-as admitted by
Hauptmann in the Bronx.
The identification of Hauptmann by
Amandus Hochmuth, Willard Whited
and Ben Lupica as man seen lurking
near the Lindbergh home before the
crime.
Col Lindbergh's identification of
Hauptmann's voice as that of the man
to- Il.