JURORS MOVED

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1935, Page 5

JURORS MOVED

PLEA FOR HAUPTMANN HOPES FOR AN ACQUITTAL GREAT FORENSIC EFFORT QUOTATION FROM GOSPEL SUSPICION ON SERVANTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5 p.m. Flemington, Feb. 11. After the assistant prosecuting attorney, Mr. Hauck, had given hours to a routine summary of the case, to be followed to-morrow by the final State’s plea delivered by Mr, David T. Wilentz, the defence attorney, Mr. Reilly, presented a lengthy summary to the jury, through which he hopes to gain the acquittal of Hauptmann. It was a powerful forensic effort and at times obviously moved some members of the jury. Mr. Reilly asked the jury not to consider any evidence 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 child, accidentally kill it when the ladder broke and bury the body in the shallow grave.” In starting his speech, Mr. Reilly quoted from St. Matthew: “Judge not lest ye be judged.” “Who knew the baby had a cold and had stayed at Hopewell that Monday night?” he asked, and answered his own question, “Not Hauptmann. Nobody in God’s world but Colonel Lindberg, his lovely wife, his butler, his butler’s wife, Betty Gow, the servants at the Morrow home and ‘Red’ Johnson.” He added that Colonel Lindbergh might trust them but he did not. He declared it was inevitable one of them must have removed the baby and placed the ladder as a “plant.” Otherwise, why did not baby cry or g, dog bark?