Evening star., 1935-01-08
Neighbor Of Lindbergh Says
He Sa,u Bruno Near Estate
On Day Baby Was Kidnapped
Continued From First Page.)

Kelly, fingerprint expert, and Nunclo
de Gaetano, a trooper, on the stand.
Reilly attacked especially the "ex-
pertness" of Kelly and quarrele6 with
him over proper methods used Tor pre-
serving Angerprints.
After an exchange with the witness
about the Bertillon system, which KEEL
ly declared was obsolete as an identi-
fication means. Reilly pressed him:
Now you want us to believe, do
YOU, that although Mrs. Lndbergh
had been in the nursery that evening,
Miss Cow had been over to the medi-
cine cabinet and the medicine table
and given the child, believe, cough
mixture and had rubbed the child's
chest with a jar of Vicks and had
been around the medicine table, shown
in the States exhibit SO, you could
find no flngerprints?"
"Of value" Kelly qualified.
Quarrel on Prints.
Reilly quarreled with the witness on
his method of taking f1ngerprintS,
drew from him a statement of the
process he used, and then charged
that his method destroyed prints
which could have been preserved.
Kelly said he brushed over the ran
som note found in the Lindbergh
nursery with camel hair brush on
which had been sifted special pow
der.
rs It not the proper way to take
a fingerprint to sift the powder from
the bottle over the paper and then
blow it off and the powder remains
where the fingerprints are?" Reilly de-
manded.
mo, sir, it is not" insisted the wit
ness.
DO you know that the brushing of
YOUR brush destroys the flngerprints?
"I know in blowing it of you blow
moisture on it and destroy the finger
print" Kelly countered.
Brushed Ransom Note.
"You see me handle this paper"
Reilly. went on.
"Yes, sir"
"And counsel at the table are 60
ing to handle it now. We are going
to leave it right here with the clerk
until you bring your apparatus"
Reilly continued:
THAT is what you did with the
note, too, assume, you brushed II
with the brush?"
THAT is correct"
Reilly drew out of Kelly the fact
that his education about fingerprints
came from a book written by "a man
named Henry in England"
Don't you know the system used
In the United States is system de-
vised by eX-Inspector Faurot OF the
Police Department of New York;" ne
asked.
NO said Kelly, ''I didn't"
"Never Heard Of Him."
Later, after Reilly delivered brief
homily on the erudtion OF the New
York expert. Kelly popped: Il never
heard tell of the man"
Reilly pursued his effort to embar-
rass the witness with:
Now, as to the ladder. Do you
know it has been reported that one
man took over 800 fingerprints from
this ladder?"
Il object to the question" inter-
posed Wils1ts. If your honor please
think"
AL right said Reilly. 'I am ahead
OF myself. I will withdraw It,"
The fifth day Of the trial began
at 1901 am, Eastern standard time.
State Policeman Kelly, flngerprint
and identification expert, resumed the
witness stand to continue his direct
examination.
Wilentz first turned to the Lind
bergh nursery and had Kelly tell of
the table and chair in the middle Of
the room.
The attorney general asked him to
describe the course from the kidnap
window to the crib.
@. You could walk a direct line
from the window to the crib without
encountering an obstruction?
The trooper answered in the af-
firmatiye.
No Fingerprints Found.
@. You said yesterday you could
find no fingerprints in the nursery.
A. That is right.
@. No fingerprints Of any one.
A. Well--
Q. Answer the question. No finger
prints Of any one?
A. None.
Wilentz then invited cross -examina-
tion.
Reilly began:
@. Mr.. Kelly, did you ever study
the Bertillon system? 49,
A. No.
@. Are you known as the expert
In the fingerprint line?
A. No, sir, I am not.
Reilly then demanded why the
trooper had not studied the Bertillon
system, an identification system, which
he began to describe.
"Its obsolete" Kelly interposed.
Asks Ban From Record.
Reilly. turned angrily to the court
to request that his answer be stricken
from the record.
@. You want us to believe, Mr..
Kelly, that although Mrs. Lindbergh
had been in the nursery and although
Betty Cow went in there to treat the
child and rub its chest, you could find
no fingerprints?
A. That's true.
@. No fingerprints Of anybody?
A. Yes, sir.
Reilly had the witness describe his
arrival at the nursery.
@. What was the first object you
attempted to photograph or take fin
gerprints from?
A. The note.
q. II was in the envelope?
A. Yes
@. Sealed?
A. Yes.
Reilly then had the expert give q
description Of his method Of taking
prints.
Put Powder on Envelope.
Kelly told how he brushed black
powder on the envelope and note and
then brushed it of carefully.
Don't you know" snapped Reilly,
'that by brushing the powder off you
are liable to brush the fingerprint OF?
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