The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-11

just the nursery.
 Public clamor is not going to drive a man to death or impris. onment because the mob wants 1t.
 "Hauptmann would have to know what room the child was in. He would have to know who WAS home.
 "Why Hauptmann would have to know every cranny in the Lind- bergh house to do a thing like that.
 "A man can't place ' a ladder against window, climb up and open a window in the nursery.
 Now, here's your ladder and It's sections"
 Reilly walked over and touched the ladder.
 "Oh, they say the colonel heard a noise that night.
 They'd have you believe this ladder was 30 inches below the window sill. That he was wearing ', gloves.
 Any fool would know that 6 colonel in the United States army would have a gun handy to shoot the heart out of any man who climbed into window. l This man climbed in to Q room he had never been in before, q room where toys werer scattered around. And this man walked to a crib he had never seen before. He gets over to the crib where there Is a sick, frretful child. Why, the child would sense immediately the presence of q stranger.
 Ut would cry out and it's mother would rush in from the other room. I say to you 1t is my conviction that the person who carried that child out of It's crib, knew the baby well and was we'll known by the baby.
 They would have you believe this man climbed out with q 30 pound child in his arms.
 Reilly said that if the man feli with the baby "hc'd make so much noise, he'd wake the entire family"
 And there'd be his imprint in the mud.
 T say that ladder was a plant that ladder never was against the side of the house that night. | Wouldn't that broken ladder coming down. rub against the stucco of the house and leave a mark all tho way down. | The man would have fallen to the right or to the left. | But there's no mark in the mud.
 "Mudprints in the nursery; none on the ladder.
 | How did he get off the ground? |? Nobody heard q motor. l bWnnIJ &ha ,S,nn yuhn haI 1uct kidnapped 8 baby. wait to place the ton and the possibility of getting shot.
 This was we'll planned by somebody unfaithful. There was Whately downstairs with the dog that wouldn't bark when he told 1t not to. Mrs Whately and Betty Cow upstairs talking about a mas querade dress.
 There was a telephone call for Betty Cow from Red Johnson who she had legt only hours before.
 "Who is he? I don't know. But the state of New Jersey brought back members of the Fisch family and allowed only one member to testify.
 Who's hiding the truth here ? Why wasn't Red Johnson brought back?
 "Why was the man who talked to Betty Cow that night allowed to remain in the safety of Dem mark?
 That child was carried down one of the two staircases in that house, wrapped in the arms of someone who could comfort 1t.
 "The ladder wasn't needed.
 "If the fall was hard enough to crush the child's skull, 1t would have injured the man.
 You must take the attorney generals theory-thhat's all it is--- that the ladder broke.
 They say that whenever the child received the blow, he died.
 What does that whenever mean? That doesn't mean March
 And that's the pattern-that's 8 the indictment"
 His voice grew heavy with sar- casm when he asked the jury how the ransom note could have stayed on the sill of an, 0 p e n window when the testimony was that "a gale was bowling and blowing 'Or IT ne IeLt bJ db IC Wchb Vos' he had the baby in his arms. He has to turn around to lay 1t down and then shut the window so fast that the note didn't blow away.
 Don't you think that. child with a cold, who had taken q physic-don't you think a nurse would have visited the child be- tween and 10. .,
 "Thats common sense. Or could 1t be that someone responded to a signal?
 Now a 175 pound man would have stepped through the dress suit case under the window slll.
 Then they sent for Trooper Kelly. It stands to reason there would be fngerprints all over the room.
 But if someone of the dlsloyal serva nts had been told to wipe away the prints there wouldn't DC any on the sill.
 That's what must have beer done for Kelly didn't find single "Who rubtcd out those finger prints7 srhe hand Of death ba' rubbed out rnan Z persons who nave been cn8nss4 ed with this case lDeath has aeaf many of those per. lsons td retEbn lon, but 1t won Isend til.s defend int to retributioT