The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-11

wT.adies and gentlemen of the 5ury,y HaucIs said. "You have list encd to a million and half words of testimony.
 you have seen sf2 exhibits.
 @And I want to congratulate you ladies and gentlemen for your pa- fience.
 'Realizlng the expense would be mrent, I went to the attorney gen eraI and asked him to help me. He aid 70 and I am grateful.
 when the grand jury of Hunt erdon county indicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann for murder the responsibility was mine.
 'sE had q small staff.
 i've have proved not with any reasonable doubt, but of a certain ky. that Bruno Richard Hauptmann $ guilty of the murder Of the m fank son of Col Charles A. Lind- bergh.
 ICol and Mrs Lindbergh brought their infant son from EnglcwoUd fo their home here in East Amwell township.
 i've have proved the corpus de- lctI.
 we have proved the murder. ". have proved 1t was a normal child-that it played with toys az your children and my children do The things that any normal child of 20 months would do.
 I've have shown that Miss Betty Cow fashioned a shirt to put on the child-becauBe it had a cold. You heard the testimony of Mrs Lindbergh, how on the afternoon Of March 1, she went for walk under the window and threw peb- bles up there and how the child looked out the window. at her and smiled.
 .sNow that south east window was closed. Miss Cow told you how the. covers were pinned down to the crib.
 Now Miss Cow went down at o'clock to eat.
 "At 10 o'clock she went back to the. room.
 '.she walked over to the crib an1 you remember how she testified the baby wasn't there-that he wasn't in the crib.
 'cThen she tcstifed how she ran into Mrs Lindbergh's room and said Have you got the baby"
 Then she got Col Lindbergh and they rushed upstairs. He fouut the crib empty and he rushed to a closet and got his rife.
 "Then, the testimony showed that Col Lindbcrgh turned to his wife and said:
 .'Anne, they have stolen our baby
 "We have shown you how those three women-the mother, the nurse and the housekeeper went downstairs and silently remained in prayer: ,,o oro,ra was e footprint and the marks o: tha4 very same ladder you see in this room.
 "The ladder was 70 feet away. Furthermore the ladder was brok' en.
 "Cn the window was ransom note. Mudprints were on suitcase on che floor.
 "We proved conclusively that this child was forcibly taken from . his home.
 'sThen on May 12, we have the finding of the body.
 "Col Lindbergh identified the body, Miss Cow identified the body. Counsel for the defense do not challenge this Identification, for when that point came up, they got up here in this courtroom and sold:
 "'We do not dispute that this Is tEe child's body: Col Lindbergh's word that this is his child's body Is enough
 i've have shown you how by ex- periments with duplicate ladder it broke in the same place as did h r. h Bruno Richard Hauptmann car. rIed the Lindbcrgh baby.
 There was further proof that this child died instantaneously Bet ty Cow testified that out on a driveway she found the metal thumbguard. She said 1t would be impossible to take the sleeping garment off without removing the thumbguard.
 '.So this defendant ripped off the garment and the thumbguard fell on the ground. He needed that garment so he could use 1t to col : feet $50,000 of Col Lindbergh's money.
 Now, members of the jury, we have proved conclusively that the blow or that death occurred In the county of Hunterdon.
 "You can infer from the testi- mony that the defendant hurried to his car. He didn't dare dispose of the body near the Lindbergh home.
 Tt was not until he got to Rose HiIi road did he dare 70 leave the body.
 file buried it therein this ccunty-and hurried to his Bronx home.
 Tt Is the contention of the state that burglary was committed on the dwelling house of Col Lind bergh. The window was flung wide --there were muddy footprints in the room. There is no doubt that there was breaking and entering.
 We have proved intent. The kidnaper yanked off the tiny gar n.ent. He gave 1t to Dr Condnn and received $50.00O of Lindbergh ransom money. That proved intent beyond a doubt.
 q say that Bruno Richard Hauptmann who sits here in t:.is courtroom did all these things.
 ''Then the witness Rossiter old you how he had seen the defend ant Bruno Richard Hauptmann near Princeton. We brought in Mltiard Wnlteu or HunteruOn cOun" ty. who named Hauptmann as the man he had seen in Hopewcll a day or so before the Kidnapping.
 "And we brought into court Mir Arthur Koehler. who gave out one of the most impressive pieces of testimony l have ever heard.
 'He visited mill after mill and finally traced the wood that went into the kidnaper's ladder.
 ''Then we traced the car of luni- Der to the very neighborhood where Bruno Richard Hauptmann lived. We traced it to the National Lumber company where Haupt- mann often purchased lumber.
 "That was year and a half be- fore anyone knew of Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann.
 Then we took you into the Hauptmann attic, where boa rd