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Q. — On the night of April 2, 1932 when you were in the vicinity of St. Raymond's Cemetery and prior to delivering the money to Dr. Condon and you heard a voice hollering, "Hey, Doctor," in some foreign voice .'.. . since that time have you heard the same voice?
A. — Yes, I have.
The Attorney General, looking hard at the jury, continued.
Q. — Whose voice was it, Colonel, that you heard in the vicinity of St. Ray mond's Cemetery that night, saying "Hey, Doctor"?
A. — That was Hauptmann's voice.
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 him.
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 an awful lot of questions to ask Col. Lindbergh, an awful lot of things I want answers to."
Thereupon, Counsel Reilly began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon.
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 she told Johnson and the servants in the Morrow household at Englewood that she was going to Hopewell.
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.