ADDRESS FOR DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 9

ADDRESS FOR DEFENCE

Counsel For Hauptmann JURY MEMBERS MOVED Flemington, February 11; In the trial of Bernard Hauptmann, on' a charge of murdering the Lindbergh baby, after the assistant prosecuting attorney, Mr. Hauck, had given an hour’s routine summation of the case, to be followed tomorrow by the final State’s plea, delivered by Mr. Wilentz, the defence attorney, Mr. Reilly, presented a lengthy summation to the jury through which he hopes to gain an acquittal of Hauptmann. In a powerful forensic effort which at times obviously moved some members of the jury, Mr. Reilly asked the jury not to consider any evidence tending to indicate that Hauptmann was an extortionist, but to concentrate on the salient fact: namely, did Hauptmann climb the ladder, enter the Lindbergh nursery, remove the child, accidentally kill it when the ladder broke, and bury the body in a shallow grave. In starting his speech, Mr. Reilly quoted from St. Matthew. “Judge not lest ye may be judged.” He asked: “Who knew the baby had a cold and hlKl to stay at Hopewell that Monday night?” He answered his own question with the words: “Not Hauptmann. Nobody in God’s world but Lindbergh, his lovely wife, his butler, his butler’s wife, Betty Gow, servants in the Morrow home, and ‘Red’ Johnson.” Counsel added that Lindbergh might trust them, but he did not. He declared it inevitable that one of them must have removed the baby and placed the ladder as a “plant.” Otherwise why did not the baby cry or the dog bark?