The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-11
KILLING INSIDE
JOB BRUN0'S
LAWYER CRIES
Reilly Makes ImpaSSioned
Plea for Lindbergh
Kidnap Suspect.
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jury rail and shaking his finger at
the jurors to emphasize his points,
reviewed, in chronological sequence,
the events of March l, 1882, when
nursemaid Betty Cow discovered
the empty cradle and Col Lind
bergh said to his wife, shocked and
hurt, Anne, they have stolen our
baby"
He recited the subsequent opera
TOMS of the police, eliminating in
the finding of the body of the in
FAINT and emphasized the states
contention that "the child died al
most instantaneously," when the
ladder down which the kidnaper
was descending, broke and precipi-
tated both figures to the ground.
ct watched you people sworn in
on this jury, said Mr.. Hauck. LAS
prosecutor, I am going to ask that
YOU do your duty, as I have tried to
do mine. And when the oratory OF
Mr.. Reilly is ended 1 want you to
remember that it is your duty to
weigh the evidence-that the re-
sponsibility of the State Of New
Jersey has ended and it has become
your responsibility.
II want you to remember, above
all, that we have proved conclusive
ly that Bruno Richard Hauptmann
is the murderer of the Lindbergn
baby"
SowS Seeds of Doubt
Mr.. Reilly was in his best forensic
manner. His face flushed, his tone
ranging from the very soft, as when
he spoke of the Lindbergh family,
to shouts of rage when he charged
the state with writing "a scenario"
he used sarcasm, invective and logic
to drive home the thought that
others than Hauptmann committed
the crime.
Reilly was stalking the life of his
client upon his own oratory. Asso-
ciate counsel revealed he had re-
fused to ask Justice Trenchard to
instruct the jury it could return
verdicts of second degree murder or
manSlaughter.
Mr.. Reilly insists upon one of
three verdiCtG, guilty of murder in
the first degree (Which would mean
DEATH, guilty of murder in first de-
gree with a recommendation for
mercy Qife imprisonment, or &C
quittal. He said he was confident
the verdict would be the latter.
Justice Trenchard accepts suggeS-
tons from each side as to the form
of his charge, but he is the final in
terpreter of the law. In order to
admit the lesser verdicts of second
degree murder or manSlaughter, he
must admit the possibility of the
state not having proved a burglary.
The state charges the baby was
killed by Hsuptmann while he was.
committing a burglary. 1t was not
believed Justice Trenchard would
compromise the bench to that posi-
bility.
Insinuations May Help
Throughout his conduct of the
case, it has been his sole purpose to
inject sufficient doubt into the
minds of the middle-claSs jurors
to make them fearful of returning
capital verdict
Even his "shots in the dark" were
calculated to SOW suspicion, absurd
though many of them were. His
insinuations that the crime might
have been committed by Henry
(Red) Johnson and Betty Cow, that
the late Violet Sharpe had e. hand
in it, that the government manu-
featured" the ladder evidence, that
it substituted fictitious characters
for real criminals" may have been
torn to pieces by the cold logic of
the state, but they may also have
contributed to the hope for rea-
sonable doubt.
Mr.. Reilly planned bitter at
tack on the evidence of DR.. John F.
Condor, the "Jafsie" who identified
the Bronx carpenter as the extor-
toner who took Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh's $4,000 in st. Ray
mond'S cemetery. In doing it, he
promised to plant the suggestion
that Jafsie himself knew more about
the Lindbergh crime than the state
revealed.