Frame-Up Charged In Defense Summary Of Hauptmann Trial.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense, voicing its final plea for fiis
life, yesterday boldly accused Lindbergh servants of complicity in the
kidnaping and murder of baby
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., charged
"police crookedness" and bungling,
and denounced the State's star witness as "behind something unholy."
On the other hand Anthony M.
Hauck, Hunterdon County prosecutor, opening for the State told the
jury:
"The State of New Jersey contends that they have proven not
only beyond a reasonable doubt, but
conclusively and overwhelmingly
that Bruno Hauptmann is guilty of
murder in the first degree, that he is
guilty of the murder of the infant,
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr."
The summation for the defense
was delivered by Edward J. Reilly.
He charged Dr. John F. (Jafsie)
Condon, ransom intermediary who
I i tmann as receiver of
the $50,000 futile Lindbergh ransom
"stands behind something in this
case that is unholy."
He charged guilty knowledge and
participation in the crime to Betty
Gow, the baby's nursemaid, to "Red"
Johnson, her Norwegian sailor
friend, and to the two servants, the
late OUie Whateley, butler, and
Violet Sharpe, maid in the home of
Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow.
He charged the board in the closet
of Hauptman which bore the telephone number and address of Dr.
Condon was framed by New York
police and that the kidnap ladder,
prime evidence against Hauptman,
was "planted." He made the same
charge about the baby's thumbguard
which Betty Gow said she found
near the home.