The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-10
MINISTER'S TRIAL
 DRAWING TO END

~1N4 D w 84v~ " AA@ SN (CUntinued from Page D ness, who will be recalled as a re- buttal witness later in the week.
 Judge Smith said there was mo impellant reason" for permitting in- spection of the minutes.
 Vestryman Speaks
 The defense read statement from Dr. Carl F. HauSsman, Ger mantown, Pa, vestryman of Old Zion Lutheran church, of which the Rev. MolZahn was pastor. pr. Haussman was unable personally to appear in the court because of ill., ness of his wife.
 The statement described the Rev. MolZahn's character as "of the best. "
 "He couldn't knowingly do any, thing disloyal to this country" Dr. Haussman's statement said. Judge Smith refused to admit as an ex- hibit a history of Old Zion Lutheran church, booklet submitted by Dr. HauSSman.
 The first of two nuns present in the courtroom for several days, Sis ter Augusta Hirsch, Philadelphia, took the stand as character wit ness for the accused minister.
 Defense attorneys planned to put six or seven more witnesses, includ- ing two nuns, on the stand before calling the ruddy-race pastor and his wife to testify. The government, it was learned, planned thorough cross examination of the minister, who hasn't spoken an audible word since the trial began two weeks ago
 This week probably will mark the end of the trial. Some estimates were the Jury would receive the case about Friday, following final summations by the government and the defense, and the charge by Fed eral Judge J. Joseph Smith.
 The defense has had three full days of testimony thus far, present. ing mostly character witnesses for Rev. Molzahn, pastor of old Zion Church at Philadelphia. The min- ister is accused of using the parish OA OLllo NlAuL ClA cfS q ACOuA II 1NAL LCco for Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, head man of the German-American Bund who has pleaded guilty in this case.
 Rev. Molzahn also was charged with aiding in securing faked pass ports to enable Kunze to leave the country with important United States military secrets.
 Thomas J. Dodd, youthful special assistant to the U. s. Attorney Gen. eral, indicated he would have sev- eral rebuttal witnesses when the defense concludes it's case. One of these witnesses probably will be Father Aleksi Pelypenko, the Ukrainian Catholic priest who was hired by the Federal Bureau of h. vestigation as counter espionage agent.
 Father Pelypenko, the govern ment's star witness, gained the con- fidence of the band of five alleged spy conspirators, learned their sec- rets, virtually engaged in the con- spiracy himself by carrying mes sages back and forth, and, on the side, made reports to the FBI.
 He was guarded constantly during his stay here by government agents.
 Father Pelypenko, who speaks Russian through an interpreter, was accused by the defense of being an agent of entrapment" who tried to lure Rev. Molzahn into the con- spiracy. The priest met Rev. Mol zahn twice in his study according to the testimony he gave. Another Witness
 Another character witness was Mrs. Kaupp, Philadelphia, who in reply to question as to whether she thought the Rev. Molzahn was a Christian, said. If thought for one moment that ne wasn't, ] wouldn't be here to testify"
 Mrs. Kaupp is a member of the old Zion Lutheran congregation and quoted the accused pastor as saying on his return from trip to Ger many in 1887 that "'I've come back from Germany with the full inten- ton of making this country my home"
 Dodd conducted the severest cross-examination of any witness thus far asking Mrs. Linke whether she had made Up her mind on the minister's innocence or guilt before coming to testify.
 Mrs. Linke said she felt the prose cution of the pastor was "unjusti- fled"
 The severity of the cross-exam. ination provoked bitter argument among counsel, causing Judge Smith to admonish:
 "This has gone far enough"
 Mrs. Linke referred to one oi Dodd's questions as "a trick ques. ton" and refused to answer whe. ther she would change her opinior of the pastor if she knew he was { member of the Nazi party and wore party emblem as testified earlier In the trial.
 "That's q hypothetical question, she declared.
 That's all,' said Dodd quickly.