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Resuming the stand next day, Col. Lindbergh continued the tale of his ordeal up to the time of the ransom payment. And here Attorney General Wilentz considered that he had scored the biggest point of the trial's first week...
Defense. Fleshy Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly gallantly refused to cross-examine Mrs. Lindbergh, but he did not spare her husband, whom he grilled for three solid hours after Attorney General Wilentz got through with...
Night before, in another of his series of broadcasts about his side of the case, Counsel Reilly had declared: "The defense will establish that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the crime and that it was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself, but not by any member of the family. We will show that the kidnapping was planned and executed by a gang of five persons. . . . Furthermore, the defense will prove that the child was carried from its nursery down the stairs of the house and out of a door of the house, rather than down the ladder. ... I have...
Nurse. Betty Gow took the stand after Col. Lindbergh. As a prosecution witness the 30-year-old Scotswoman added little but tears to Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping...
Miss Gow collapsed when she left the witness stand after cross examination, but Counsel Reilly was feeling better than he had felt all week. Basing his case on the theory that the crime "was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself," he had scored a point in demonstrating that the household servants of the Colonel's mother-in-law knew of the Lindbergh family's movements immediately before the crime. Having narrowed the guilty crew down to "four people in a roadhouse," Counsel Reilly had already dramatically told reporters that he would reveal their identity this week...