Evening star., 1935-01-03
'We'uProveH It,
Cries Wilentz
at Accused.
INFANT HELD
SLAIN in FALL
Mother Bows Head
as Death Details
Are Barred.

tcopyrisht. 1895, by the Associated Press)
PENNINGTON, N. j., January s.
The State Of New Jersey charged
to a quickly completed jury today that
Bruno Richard Hauptmann killed
baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh
simultaneously with the kidnapping of
the child 2 years and 10 months ago.
The State further charged the stoiid
Bronx carpenter with ripping the
sleeping suit from the dead baby in
order to perpetrate ghastly ransom
hoax upon the parents.
The speech of the prosecutor was
In the presence of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lind
hergh.
Taking of testimony began imme-
diately after the States statement OF
its case with Walter E. Roberts, Hun
terdon County engineer, on the stand
to explain charts of the Lindbergh
estate at Hopewell in line with the
States attempt to prove the crime
was committed at the place charged.
The attorney general, David T.
Wilentz, told the jury he would prove
that the man who kidnapped the baby
and murdered it "sits in this court
room"
Then, accusing Hauptmann, he
said:
He went out that window and down
that ladder of his. The ladder broke.
He had more weight going down than
he had when he was coming up. And
down he went with this child.
Instantly Killed.
'.In the commission of that burglary
the child was instantaneously killed
when it received that first blow. 1t
received q horrible fracture. the di-
mensions of which, when you hear
about it, will convince you that death
was instantaneous.
Wilentz declared the ki6naper, real
izing a dead baby could not be re-
turned, ripped the sleeping garment
from the body" to use for ransom ne
Rotiation purposes.
He spoke of DR.. John F. Condor, "a
very distinguished educator in the
Bronx" and told how the elderly man
inserted an advertisement in the
Bronx Home News offering his serv-
ices as an Intermediary.
THAT advertisement Mr.. Haupt-
mann answered." he said, humping
the court rail.
He told of that futile fight Lind
bergh made to Gay Head, Mass, to
fnd the mythical boat on which
the kidnaper said the baby was.
And Lindbergh, who could find
speck at the end of the earth. could
not find his baby-because Haupt-
mann had murdered that baby"
A look of horror fitted across the
faces of jurors as Wilentz described
the gruesome scene in the morgue
when the horribly decomposed" body
was identified.
THAT was the little eagle" he said.
During Wilentz' dramatic presenta-
ton, Hauptmann sat fixed in his chair,
staring at the speaker.
His head was raised for almost the
I1ISG ClII1G aS WllcIlLZ lduIlCIlco 4IlIO
Q description OF the finding OF the
baby's body.
The defendant seemed to brace
himself as he sat back in the chair.
"One leg was gone, eaten away,
or rotted away" he said. "One hand
was gone. There was the curly blond
hair. the high prominent forehead.
The foot with the overlapping toes"
Mrs. Lindbergh Hears.
Mrs. Lindbergh's head bowed for
ward. Her eyes were fixed on the
floor. Perspiration appeared on Lind
bergh's brow. He moved nervously in
his chair.
Betty Cow also dropped her head
forward, her eyes downcast.
Wilentz talked from 11:17 am. to
11:46.
Edward Reilly, defense counsel, i'm