Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11

whenever the child received that
blow" Reilly read from Wilentz's OPEN
ing statement, asserting that the child
might have lived several days in any
one of 100 hiding places near Hope
we'll.
Whenever" Reilly declared. docs
pattern. That's the indictment"
Reilly raised doubt that ransom
note could have remained on the ledge
on night with a gale bowling"
He asserted it would have blown
away instantly.
But when they entered the room,"
he went on, implying again the crime
was an inside job. THE note was
there, the window was closed, the
shutters we're drawn just as they had
been and the beer stein was undis-
turbed."
Hauptmann was absorbed in Reilly's
again inveighed against Betty Cows
failure to visit the sick baby between
the hours Of and 10.
Reilly emphasized again that moth
ing was disturbed in the nursery. and
then spoke of the mud prints found
on the nursery floor.
They say there were mud prints
on the floor. but it's just as con-
sistent those prints came of Col.
Lindbergh's shoes as of anybody
else's."
Believes Lindbergh
Left Mud on Nursery Floor.
Reilly said he believed that the
colonel got mud on his shoes when
he dashed out to search Tor his child
and then left the mud on the nursery
floor when he returned after a futile
hunt
The defense attorney questioned
the FEASIBILITY of hdnaper stepping
on suitcase under the window and
not breaking it.
THAT baby was taken down those
stairs" he declared, indicating the
diagram of the house floor plan.
Some one must have wiped of
the fingerprints in the nursery, Reilly
argued.
"They didn't even find a finger
print on the glass Betty Cow used to
bring the child a drink" Reilly de-
clared
Here's where the bungling CT the
State police begins. and Col. Schwarz-
kopf, the head of the State police, is
a graduate of the Nations great mill
tary school,"
Col. Schwarzkopf smiled as Reilly
attacked the methods of the police
in searching the nursery for finger
prints.
Reilly launched into an invective
against State police for failure to use
blood hounds and hunting dogs in the
search for the baby Immediately.
He spoke softly next of how Mrs
Lindbergh and Col. Lindbergh prayed
for their joins safety.
Scorn in Voice
As He Mentioned Betty Cow.
He still had scorn in his voice, how
ever, when he mentioned Betty Cow.
Il can't imagine any prayers coming
from that woman that night, the
woman who contacted the man Cred
Johnson from Denmark.
He gestured toward the jury fore
man.
II don't know what the motive
greed, gain, spite, or vengeance.
But, my God, 1t could not be plan.
ned by one man. It had to be the
work Of gang" he shouted.
1.-THE State stands here and says
kill Hauptmann,' let everybody else
sink into obscurity." Reilly shouted.
land close the case"
1.-THE mob demands kill the Ger
man carpenter on circumstantial EVIL
dence."
Reilly referred to the Wychoff
murder case of 20 years ago, when a
local man was nearly convicted on
circumstantial evidence. The people
clamored for blood" he asserted.
This brought protest from Wilentz
that there was no such evidence
$50 everybody waited and every
body prayed, but there Is no evidence
the child was killed that night.
Nov if you want to convict Haupt-
mann as the mob wants you to, all
my prayers and pleas won't help
him. However, think you value
your oath as jurors more highly than
that.
Hauptmann could not be convicted
Of murder, he declared, because he had
ransom money.
Could Have Called
Out the National Guard.
1.-THE bungling of the police" he as
serted, went on. They could have
called out the National Guard Of this
great State when the child Of the
greatest living American had been kid
Mapped"
Col. Lindbergh flushed at the appel
lation. During the attack on the State
police the smile remained on Col.
Schwarzkopf's face.
Reilly glanced up at the clock and
noted the luncheon recess was near
at hand.
Turning to the jurors. he said he
wanted to leave two thoughts with
them as they went to lunch.
There Is no evidence In this case"
he declared. "that Hauptmann was in
the nursery that night, and there is
no evidence whatsoever that the child
was killed that night"
It was on this note he closed ana