ADDRESS TO JURY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20538, 13 February 1935, Page 1

ADDRESS TO JURY.

Hauptmann’s Trial Drawing to an End. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. FLEMINGTON (New Jersey), Feb. HAfter the assistant-prosecuting attorney, Mr Hauck, had given an hour’s routine survey of the case, to be followed to-morrow by the State’s final plea, delivered by Mr Wilentz, the attorney for the defence, Mr Reilly, presented a lengthy summing-up to the jury, through which he hopes to gain the acquittal of Hauptmann on the kidnapping and murder charge. In a powerful forensic effort, in which at times he obviously moved some members of the jury, Mr Reilly asked the jury not to consider any evidence tending to indicate that Ilauptman 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 be judged.” He asked: “Who knew that the baby had a cold and had stayed at Hopewell that Monday night?” Then he answered his own question: “Not Hauptmann. Nobody in God’s world, but Colonel Lindbergh, his lovelv wife, his butler, his butlers wife, Betty Gow, and the servants of the Morrow home and Red Johnson. lie added that Colonel Lindbergh might trust them, but he did not. Mr Reilly declared that it was inevitable that one of them must have removed the baby and placed the ladders as a “ plant,” otherwise why did not the baby cry or a dog bark?