The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-25
ACCUSED WOMAN
 HAD COLLAPSE
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nelius P. Collins adjourned court early because of the 31-year-old de- fendant's condition.
 A physicians too realistic descrip- ton of the bullet wounds that killed Dr. Gebhardt, industrialist with a wife and two children in Germany, completed the disintegration of Miss StretZ's composure. He was Dr. Milton Halpern, police examiner, the first witness called after com- pletion of jury of men who all said they believed in one standard of morality for men and women.
 Lawyer Is Careful
 Samuel Leibowiz, lawyer with . talent for courtroom drama, care- fully prepared each juror for a self defense plea.
 He quoted to them Frederick Nietsche's dictum that "Woman is for the entertainment of man" and then asked each talesmen whether he subscribed to the theory.
 Only one of 86 veniremen an- swered aff1rmatively. He was ex- cused.
 Dr. Halpern described the scene he found in Dr. Gebhart's sky scraper apartment the night of Nov. Il after Miss Stretz, who occupied an apartment two floors below his, shot him. Miss StretZ was found a few minutes after the staying on a stair of the building with gun and blood stained night dress in her handbag. She confessed the staying then and her attorney ad- mitted again yesterday that she fired the fatal shots.
 Motive BaffIed Police
 It was the motive that baffled police, for she refused to talk. They settled on jealousy after learning that Gebhardt was married and that he had spent night at hotel with some woman other than Miss Stretz. Leibowitz indicated that Miss Stretz will accuse her much older lover of erotic brutalities and claim that she killed him in self defense against criminal attack.
 Gebhardt was shot four times, Dr. Halpern said, once in the back. Police found him clad in an old fashioned, knee-length nightshirt, with his feet tangled in sheet ly- ing half across bed. Prosecutor Miles O'Brien, assistant district at- torney, hinted that he will use the position of the body to prove that Gebhardt was in bed when shot. The inference would be that Miss Stretz also was in bed if she was resisting an attack. The circum- stance might influence a jurors opinion of her right to kill.
 Closed Her Ears
 With tears wetting her paper white face, Miss Stretz closed her ears to Dr. Halpern's testimony with her fingers and whispered frantic appeals to her counsel to request adjournment.
 Judge Collins took in the situation without being asked and ended the session at 4 o'clock.
 Photographs of the body of Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, stretched out on the floor of his apartment with blood from his death wounds stain ing his white nightgown, were intro- duced today at the trial.
 Eyes Were Buried
 The pretty defendant kept her eyes buried behind her hands so that she would not see the gruesomc pictures of her former sweetheart. She did not break down, however, as she did yesterday when first prose- cution testimony was given.
 The photographs were put into evidence through testimony of De- tectiye Daniel R. Barry, police pho- tographer, who was called to Dr. Gebhart's apartment after Miss Stretz shot him four times early on the morning of November 12.
 Barry said that the pictures were taken in Apartment 2l14 of the Beekman Towers apartment house and he was dismissed.
 Lawyer Didn't Object
 Samuel Leibowitz, defense coun- sel, made no objection to the prose- cution's introduction of the photo- graphs.
 Indicating again that self-defense will be the basis of his attempt to save Miss Stretz from the electric chair, Leibowitz closely questioned William II. Loughran, civil engineer of the district attorneys office. Loughran was called by the state to establish measurements of the rooms in Gebhardts apartment.
 "Is it not true" Leibowitz asked Loughran on cross examination, that the hallway from the bedroom is 50 narrow that one person might easily have kept another from pass ing in it?"
 Loughran answered in the affirma- tive.
 Leibowitz's questions carried an indication that he will attempt to show that Miss Stretz was attempt ing to leave Gebhardt's bedroom when the shooting occurred.