The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-13
JURORS GIVEN CASE
AT 11:20 A. M. TODAY
Continued from page one

(COnClnueQ IrOn page OIej
George Burns, the fugitive from
a Georgia chain gang" who es-
capped to New Jersey.
New Jersey refused Georgia's
request that George Burns be
brought back for trial on charges
of being fugitive from justice.
Wilentz and Edward ]. Reilly
of defense counsel went up to the
Judges bench to assess the dam
age that had been done by such a
remark made in the presence of
the jury. They agreed to disre-
gard it and not to request that
mistrial be declared.
Then Trenchard turned to the
jury and said:
81 don't know whether you
heard much of the incident that
/ just took place. If you heard any
of it, | want you to disregard it.
Just forget that you ever heard or
saw anything here of that nature
this afternoon. The jury may now
retire and come back at 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning.
Once more the wisdom of this
71-year-old man had brushed aside
legal technicalities and kept this
, trial going in the face of events
such as never before have &C.
curred in anv courtroom,
Outside the courthouse came
the howl of a crowd that filled
Main street, spilled over into al
legs and spread through the vii
lage. 1t was a crowd that had
been waiting all day for a chance
to get into a courtroom that al
ready bulged almost to burst with
humanity. State troopers flung
open the courthouse doors and
cleared lane for the jury, which
filed across the street into the
Union hotel.
Then the mob surged against
the courthouse doors. People who
had been inside all afternoon
dubbed and fought to get into the
open where they could gulp fresh
air into their lungs. Those on the
outside hurled their weight for
ward, trying to push into the
courtroom for one glimpse before
it was closed for the night.
A file of state police in horizon
blue coats, pistols strapped to
their waists, fought their way
through the mob and in ten min
utes had restored order and quiet.
In the midst of this day of ex-
element and anger and bitterness,
one fresh word bearing on the
case came out of Attorney-Gen-
real Wilentz' summation. He said
the state held the theory that
Hauptmann either "killed OF
crushed the Lindbergh baby into
insensibility" right in the nursery
The blow that shattered the
child's skull might have been
struck with a chisel that was
found on the Lindbergh estate,
Heretofore, the state has express.
ed the belief that the child was
killed-and Hauptmann was in
jured-when the ladder used in
the kidnapping broke under their
combined weight.
The rest of the summation was
a review of the evidence and one
of the most savage TRADES ever
heard against a prisoner at the
bar of justice.
Wilentz was more than a prose
cutor yesterday. He was an aveng
er, sure in the belief that ne wa
demanding the death penalty II
the name of all mothers ana I'd
theirs. He told the jury TINS WA
| the first time he ever prosecute
a criminal case; that such matter
always had been referred 10 SUI SUI,
ordinates in the attorney-geheral
office. His voice shook with rag
as. time after time, he LAID tn
whin across Hauptmann's back.
Crack went the Wilentz lash:
SHanntmann is an animal. H
dresses like man, but ne Is a
animal.
the prisoners face and his eye
bored into Wilentz who wa
standing over him.
! CracS! went the lash again:
Ii "He would cut your heart wit
; a razor, wipe it on his sleeve an
GO on upstairs to dinner"
| Mrs Hauptmann, five feet ava
| from her husband, bowed her hea
| and rumpled the handkerchief II
so tightly in her right hand thu
her knuckles went white. Br
- Wilentz was in no mood E,