Evening star., 1935-01-07
STORY OF NURSE
HIT BY DEFENSE
Betty Cow Indignantly De-
nies Dropping Thumb
guard.
(Continued From First Page.)


the 20-month-old babe alive, also re-
lated the details of his last day in
the Lindbergh home.
Her discrimination by Reilly
went Immediately into her background
This is the exact little shirt I made
for the baby that night" she said as
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
prosecuting Hauptmann for murder,
handed her tiny discolored garment.
BY that night" she referred to the
last night on which she or any men,
ber of the Lindbergh household saw
the 20-month-old baby alive.
And is that the shirt that you
placed upon the baby as part of its
night clothing?" Wilentz asked her.
"Yes," she said
"And was that the shirt worn by
that child that night when it was
taken out of that house?"
1T was"
Nurse Speaks Lowly.
The little shirt became "S-13" in
the evidence Miss Cow spoke low.
with an accent, and had to be asked
to speak up" She frequently moist
ened her lips before she spoke.
The little nurse related the last day
of the baby'S life in a restrained,
sometimes breathleSS manner. She
managed, with her own tense attitude,
to charge the court room atmosphere
with some of the same quality.
She identified the baby's thumb
tho Gnnt tIrith Whinh che
tied it to the baby-an important piece
of technical testimony by which the
State hopes to show the baby was
killed in Hunterdon County, the seat
of Hauptmann's trial for his life.
During this Miss Cows attitude was
statuesque. Unlike the few other
witnesses who have been on the stand
thus far. including Col. and Mrs.
Lindbergh, she neither shifted her po-
soften nor slumped nor leaned for
ward.
Her voice broke for the first time
when she related the ghastly discovery
the baby was gone.
She entered the nursery, and then:
Il crossed over to the crib. I
didn't turn the light on"
Because you might awaken him?"
"YeS, that's right then I felt
all over the bed. He wasn't there!"
Went to Mother.
Her testimony went on:
II thought that Mrs. Lindbergh
may have him. I went out of the
baby's room into the hallway and
into Mrs. Lindbergh's room.
or
of the bath room and asked her if
she had the baby. She looked sur
prised and said, No she didn't.
Il said, well where's the colonel,
he may have him I said, where is
hep she said, downstairs in the
library
stairs to the library, where I saw
the colonel sitting at his desk read
ing.
Il said colonel, do you have the
baby?' He said, no, isD't he in his
crib?' I said. No
Ran Into Baby's Room.
HE ran past nae upstairs and into
the baby's room. I followed him and
from there entered Mrs Lindbergh's
room. He didn't say anything. He
ran into his closet, came out again
with a rifle and all three of us went
into the baby's room. He said:
annie, they have stolen our
babyG"
Shortly after Miss Cow identified
the metal thumbguard she was turned
over to the defense for cross -examina-
ton. Reilly Immediately plunged into
her employment in Detroit for six
months and into her references with
such hostility that Willentz inter-
posed:
This woman is not on trial, not
yeti"
Reilly replied that her credibility
was on trial and he insisted upon his
right to pry into her background The
court permitted him to ask if refer
ences had been given, but barred the
defenses attempt to inquire into their
character.
Condor Story Soon.
A second major State witness, DR..
John F. Condor, in seclusion at Tren-
ton, will appear Wednesday and
the State expects him to identify
Hauptmann as the John" who took
the $4,000 ransom from him.
The burly chief of defense has
promised to offer his version of the
kidnaping and Staying, announcing he
would name probably on Thursday"
the band of two men and two women
he contends committed the crime.
DismisSing this as bedtime
story" Attorney General Wilentz
said:
THE Department of Justice, the In
ternal Revenue Department and the
New York and New Jersey police who
have been working on this case since
March l, 1882, have solved this case
with the arrest of Hauptmann."