HAUPTMANN TRIAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 9 January 1935, Page 4

HAUPTMANN TRIAL

Evidence of the Nursemaid UNSHAKEN BY COUNSEL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyiight MONTREAL, Jan. 8. A Flemington, New Jersey, message says that tho examination of Betty Gow, the Lindbergh baby’s nurse maid, while revealing nothing hitherto unknown or sensational, nevertheless disclosed a certain weakness in the tactics of counsel for the defence. Moreover, there was much comment on the skilful manner in which the girl withstood the hard, tenacious questioning of Mr Reilly. Every effort to make her admit an act or omission that might possibly incriminate her or other members of tho household failed, until at one point the lawyer cried: “Non’, you are a very bright young lady, Miss Gow, aren’t you!”

“I am," she said, with an upward lift of the head, and the crowded courtroom laughed and applauded vociferously. Two months after the kidnapping she had found near the house a small item of the baby’s apparel, apparently lost while the kidnapper was leaving with the child. Mr Reilly insinuated that she had dcliberatly loft tho item on the spot. Witness flushed and cried angrily: “I did not.” When her cross-examination was completed she was near the point of collapse, but the defence counsel had not succeeded in making her deviate from her straight-forward story, the principal part of which was that she found the crib empty and the baby gone. She wept softly in this part of her relation.