Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-12
He failed his arms and shouted.

He failed his arms and shouted.
THE whole world hasn't turned
crooked because Of Hauptmann.
THAT defense table hasn't got
monopoly on honesty and truth. Not
by . long shot,"
"All this bungling they talk Of
tkat doesn't relieve the defendant, who
IL guilty Of murder.
HE can't walk out Of this court
room . free man because some one
didn't do his Job as well as some ex-
pert from New York would have done.
This bungling, 1t Is something
which has nothing at all to do with
his guilt"
Col. Lindbergh, he asserted, had told
the defense cross-examiners that he
thought the State had good police
force, q refutation Of the charge Of
'bungling" in the case.
1.-The defense says DR.. Condor was
always alone" the prosecutor went
on, turning to the implications Of
Reilly's summation that the ransom
intermediary was involved In tie
crime.
Murderers and kidnapers don't deal
with intermediates In public, Wilent2
reasoned.
The kidnaper picked two cemeteries
on opposite sides Of his home to deal
! alone with DR.. Condor, he asserted.
That's why DR.. Condor was alone, y
he declared.
Hauptmann wore no mask in these
trysts, confident that the worst that
could happen, Wilentz asserted, was
arrest for taking the money from DR.
Condor.
He sought to refute the defense at
tack that the State In one breath
charged that Hauptmann was clever
and the next "a fool"
Hauptmann, he reasoned further
had no fear of anything but a jail term
why, he broke out Of jails," Wilentz
shouted.
IF we didn't have anything else in
this case, If we had no one else but
Condor to come here and point to him
and say, There is the fellow I gave
the money that's all you would need. >
That's all you would need" he re-
peated, ito convict this defendant OF
first-degree murder"
Does Not Know
Where Other Guard Is.
The attorney general referred next
to the defense question as to what
happened to the second thumbguaro
the baby wore on the kidnap night.
unfortunately" he said. II cannot
make answer. I do not know where
| It is.
But that gentleman over there be-
tween the guards, he can tell you
where 1t is. He knows"
The testimony Of the taxi driver
Joseph Perrone, who carried ransom
note to Condor. was attacked by the
| defense as trash" Wilentz recalled
Perrone's description of the mar
who handed him the note was giver
to the police, he pointed out, Ions
before Hauptmanns arrest.
"Muddy-blond hair. About S feet 9
Muscular athletic" Wilentz recitec
Perrone's description to show sim
ilarity to Hauptmann.
| THE defense hasn't yet found ou
what this case is all about" he said
humping the table.
He was caustic as he spoke o
Reilly's charges that the Treasur!
agents in the case testified becaus'
they became interested in the case a
the start.
Their original interest, Refill!
charged. was because they though
United States Senator Dwight w. Nor
row would be President some day ane
reward them.
why" shouted the attorney gen
eral, Senator Morrow died in Octo
Der, 1881, months before the kid
mapping.
That's typical Of their case"
Gun Hill road, where Perrone re-
ceived the note, Wilentz went on
seeking to dispel the defense ridicult
of the taxi drivers story, was no
Broadway and Forty-second street,