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STORY OF NURSE HIT BY DEFENGE Betty Gow Indignantly De- nies Dropping Thumb- guard. (Continued From First Page.) the 20-month-old bzbe alive, also re- lated the details of his last day in the Lindbergh home. Her cross-examination by Reilly went immediately into her background. “This is the exact little shirt I made for the baby that night,” she said as Attorney General David T. Wilentz, prosecuting Hauptmann for murder, handed her a tiny discolored garment. By “that night,” she referred to the last night on which she or any mem- ber of the Lindbergh household saw the 20-month-old baby alive. “And is that the shirt that you placed upon the baby as part of its night clothing?” Wilentz asked her. “Yes,” she said. “And was that the shirt worn by that child that night when it was taken out of that house?” “It was.” . Nurse Speaks Lowly The little shirt became “S-13” in the evidence. Miss Gow spoke low. with an accent, and had to be asked to “speak up.” She frequently moist- ened her lips before she spoke. The little nurse related the last day of the baby's life in a restrained, sometimes breathless manner. She managed, With her own tense attitude, to charge the court room atmosphere with some of the same quality. She identified the baby's thumb- guard and the knot with which she tied it to the baby—an important piece of technical testimony by which the State hopes to show the baby was killed in Hunterdon County, the seat of Hauptmann's trial for his life. During this Miss Gow’s attitude was statuesque. Unlike the few other witnesses who have been on the stand thus far, including Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, she neither shifted her po- soticn nor slumped nor leaned for- ward. Her voice broke for the first time when she related the ghastly discovery the baby was gone. She entered the nursery, and then: “I crossed over to the crib. I didn't turn the light on.” “Because you might awaken him?” “Yes, that's right * * * then I felt gll over the bed. He wasn't there!” Went to Mother. Her testimony went on: “I thought that Mrs. Lindbergh may have him. I went out of the baby’s room into the hallway and into Mrs. Lindbergh's room. “I met her, or saw her coming out of the bath room and asked her if she had the baby. She looked sur- prised and said, ‘No.” she didn't. “I said, “well, where's the colonel, he may have him’' I said, ‘where is he?’ she said, ‘downstairs in the library.’ “I turned quickly and ran down- stairs to the library, where I saw the colonel sitting at his desk read- ing. “I said, ‘colonel, do you have the baby?’ He said, ‘no, isp't he in his crib?’ I said, ‘No.”’ Ran Into Baby's Room. “He ran past me upstairs and into the baby’s room. I followed him and irom there entered Mrs. Lindbergh's ‘room. He didn't say anything. He Tan into his closet, came out again with a rifle and all three of us went into the baby’'s room. He said: “‘Annte, they have stolen our baby!"” Shortly after Miss Gow identified the metal thumbguard she was turned over to the defense for cross-examina- tion. Reilly immediately plunged into her employment in Detroit for six months and into her references with such hostility that Willentz inter- posed: “This weman is not on trial, not yet!” Reilly replied that her credibility was on trial and he insisted upon his right to pry into her background. The court permitted him to ask if refer- ences had been given, but barred the defense’s attempt to inquire into their character. Condon Story Soon. A second major State witness, Dr. John F. Condon, in seclusion at Tren- ton, will appear Wednesday and the State expects him to identify Hauptmann as the “John” who took the $50,000 ransom from him. The burly chief of defense has promised to offer his version of the kidnaping and slaying, announcing he would name “probably on Thursday” the band of two men and two women he contends committed the crime. Dismissing this as a “bedtime story,” Attorney General Wilentz said: “The Department of Justice, the In- ternal Revenue Department and the New York and New Jersey police who have been working on this case since March 1, 1932, have solved this case .with the arrest of Hauptmann.” NOVA SCOTIA JUDGE AT HAUPTMANN TRIAL Plans to Make Comparative Study of Canadian and American Criminal Procedure. By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J., January 7.— R. H. Murray, judge of the County of Halifax, Nova Scotia, visited the Hauptmann trial today to make a ‘comparative study of Canadian and ‘American criminal procedure. The judge, who said he was combin- ing a visit to the trial with a vacation, observed: “I am very much interested in criminal procedure in the American courts.” Planning to remain a day or two, Judge Murray was eager to see the principals in the trial, especially Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Every house- hold in his section of Canada, he said, was discussing the case with great interest. . NEW SCHEDULE BEGINS Chevy Chase Coach Line Service Is Changed. Howard L. Dove, assistant superin- tendent of operations for the Capital Transit Co., inaugurated a new schedule for the Chevy Chase coach line this morning, beginning at 7 o'clock. With the first coach leaving Chevy Chase Circle at that hour, there will be another at 7:20, one at 7:35, one at 7:42, 7:48 and 7:53, awhen the service will take on arifl two-minute headway. This will last until 8:30. After that the service will be on & 20-minute schedule. T THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1935. Witnesses Assemble for Hauptmann Trial Session Betty Gow Tells Dramatic Story of Scene At Lindbergh Home on Fateful Night (Continued From First Page) window in the southeast corner of the nursery. “This one we couldn’t quite close. It was slightly warped. We closed it as best we could,” she said explaining that the shutters were closed but not locked. The window was closed, but the shutters were only swung to. Before she left the nursery at 8 p.m., the dark-skinned nurse said she tucked the child in. “I secured the blankets firmly to the mattress with large safety pins.” Asked to detail further her move- ments of the evening, Miss Gow con- tinued: “Mrs. Whately and I took dinner in the kitchen. When Col. Lindbergh came in he spoke to us.” “Where was Whately?” asked his witness. “Mr. Whately, the butler, was in the pantry, I believe.” 'Did you see him from time to time?” “As I recall, I did.” Received Telephone Call. “Later,” the nursemaid continued, “I received a telephone call from a friend.” “Who was the friend?” “Henry Johnson.” She said she saw Ollie Whately, the Lindbergh hcuseman, and Mrs. Whately at frequent intervals in the servants’ dining room between 8 and 9 o'clock before she went upstairs to Mrs, Whately’s room to see a dress the housekeeper had bought. “I looked at my watch, it was two minutes of 10, I said. ‘I must go to the baby,’ to Mrs. Whately.” She told how she reached the nursery. “I found things exactly—I did not put any light on, I opened the door for the light from the hall. I crossed the nursery and closed the window— the French windows. I plugged in the electric heater to take the chill off the room.” “I then crossed over to the crib. I didn't turn the light en.” “Because you might awaken him?” “Yes, that's right, then I felt all over the bed. He wasn’t there.” Girl's Voice Breaks. The girl's voice broke. waited until she could resume. Col. Lindbergh, who has shown a keen interest in all testimony at this trial, was never more attentive than when Betty Gow told her story. He swallowed hard several times, but showed no other emotion at the touching testimony. “I turned quickly and ran down- stairs, when I failed to find the baby,” Miss Gow continued. “I asked Mrs. Lindbergh if she had the baby. She looked surprised and said no. “Then I told the colonel. He ran upstairs and said nothing, but later went to the closet for his gun.” And then: “‘Anne, they've stolen our baby'.” “Who said that?” prompted Wilentz gently. “The colonel did.” Her voice was trembling, and she was fighting to keep back the tears. She put down her head. ‘The attorney general got her a glass of water and she recovered her composure somewhat before continu- ing with her story of how the police were summoned and Lindbergh dashed forth into the night with his Wilentz Wilentz e, Mrs. Lindbergh, Mrs. Whately and the nurse went down dumbly to the living room on the first floor after ' b4 they had frantically | house. g Q. What were you doing? A. T guess we were all praying for | the return of the baby. speak. Q. You all sat there in silence. A. Yes. Saw Note on Window Sill. The young nursemaid also told of seeing the ransom note on-the win- |dow sill and ot finding a clayish smudge of dirt on the sheet of the baby’s crib. Wilentz asked her™to describe the finding of the baby's thumb-guard. ‘I believe it was about a month |after the kidnaping. Mrs. Whately |and I were walking about 100 yards from the house. I picked it up.” Q. Was it near the public high- way? A. Yes, Q. It was the same then as you see it now? A. Yes. She took up the little blue cord on the thumbguard. “It was knotted just as it is,” she said. She clutched a tightly rolled hand- kerchief in her clenched hands as the ordeal went on. Mrs. Hauptmann watched her, but without any show of interest. Haupt- mann was sphinx-like. Tells of Identifying B.ody. Then came the story of the identifi- cation of the body. “I went to Trenton,” she said. Q. When you got to Trenton did you go to the morgue? A. 1 did. Q. Did you see a body there? A. 1did. Q. Whose body was it? “Charles Lindbergh, jr.,” she said, | with quivering lips. Q. How much did the baby weigh then? A. About 26% pounds, and he was about 33 inches tall. Q. You came here from Scotland to testify? A. Yes. Wilentz Reilly. Big and bulky, the chief defense counsel, started speaking in & very low voice. Q. How old are you? A. I am 30. He began by probing about her background, and the places she had been employed. She said she was once employed in Detroit. Q. Wherg did you work in Detroit? A. Several places. She mentioned four or five places she held as maid. Q. Did you associate with young men? A. Yes. Wilentz objected, and this line of questioning ceased. She said she had communicated with no Detroit young men since leav- ing there. Q. Did you ever apply for work through Hackensack Employment Agency? A. Yes. Q. And you were unable to supply references? Here Wilentz objected, and Reilly rephrased his question. Q. You did not give any references when you looked for a job? A. No. Q. How did you secure your posi- tion with the Lindberghs? A. Throug! then turned her over to We didn't | “I saw it lying on the ground and | searched the |a maid named Mary Beattrice in the Morrow home. Q. How many brothers have you? A. I have two brothers, Alexander and James. Q. Where are they now? A. Glasgow. Q. When did they get back. A. They've never been out of Scot- land. Crowd Enjoys Answers. The erowd appeared to be enjoy- ing the shrewd way Betty answered Reilly’'s questions. Reilly turned to Henry “Red” John- son, the acquaintance of Miss Gow who was questioned in the early days of the case. She said she met him in Nerth Haven, Me. “His name was Henry Johnson. I believe his friends called him “Red,” she said. Q. Did you and he go out to- gether? A. Yes, we did. Q. Where would you go when you went out. A. To the movies. Sometime we would go to a cafe for coffee. Some- times we went skating. Reilly demanded if she ever went to Palisade Amusement Park. “Any difficulty there that night,” he started. “No—— No.” Q. Don't you recall any confusion with the police that night? A. No—— No. Q. Did you know that “Red” John- son had an apartment in Flemington? A. No. Q. Where did he work? A. On a yacht, Mr. Morrow's part- ner’s. Q. Where is he now? A. Norway. Q. How long since you've heard from him? A. Six months. State Paid Her $650. Reilly's questions, sharp, crisp and rapid, beat upon the witness with surf-like consistency. He turned to the question: “Who paid your fare over to this country?” She said after much questioning that the State haid paid her fare and given her an additional $650. “For your services here?” Reilly insisted. ‘Wilentz objected to “services.” ‘To Wilentz's objections Reilly heat- edly replied: “I object, too. You're not testify- ing, Mr. Wilentz.” Miss Gow said she decided to come here “when I knew I'd get that amount.” She said under Reilly’s questioning that she had not worked one day since her return to Scotland, that her total capital on leaving this country was $800, and that prior to her de- parture for this country she had been offered a job at about $12 a week. Reilly showed her two pictures, one which she identified as her own. The other she said was not her picture. The burly defense chief tried re- peatedly to get her to say there was some similarity between her picture and that of the unknown woman. Q. When were you told you must identify one and not the other? A. I was never told that. Knew Violet Sharpe. The name of Violet Sharpe, the h the recommendation of | Sharpe? , Morrow maid who committed suicide during the case, popped into the ques- tioning briefly. Q. Was there a member of the Mor- row domestic staff named Violet ‘i L No. 1—Betty Gow, the last per- son to see Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., alive, is on the stand today at the trial of Bruno Hauptmann. No. 2—Edward J. Reilly, chief of defense counsel for Hauptmann, shown in his New York office with the handwriting experts he will call to testify. Reilly would not reveal their names. No. 3—Three Jersey City detec- tives, who will testify today. A. P. Wirephoto, taken just before the men left for Flemington, shows, left to right: Robert Coar, Chief Harry Walsh and James Fitz- gerald. All worked on the kid- naping case from the beginning, Fitzgerald having been the first detective on the scene at the time . of the crime. No. 4—Dr. John F. Condon, who handed $50,000 ransom to the mysterious “John,” photographed at Taunton, Mass, where he stopped en route to New York from Brockton, Mass., where he enjoved a brief vacation in anticipation of being called as a witness. He is shown auto- graphing cards for bystanders. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. . Yes. . Did you know her? . Yes, T did. . Very well. . No. . How old was she? A. In the late twenties. Reilly then switched to the week end preceding the kidnaping, and had' | Betty Gow tell that it was Mrs. Lind- berg’s habit to take the baby down to | the Sourland estate and care for it herself. She then told under Reilly’s ques- tioning that she had told her friend “Red Johnson” of the Lindbergh fam- ily’s movements. She said she told Johnson “and probably others” tiat the Lindbergh baby was not returning home on Mon- day. Mrs. Hauptmann Gaunt. Mrs. Hauptmann gazed at the wit- | ness through red-rimmed eyes. The defendant’s wife, who had managed to procure a place just five seats from her husband, was gaunt from worry. Reilly wanted to know all about the telephone call the nurse received from Johnson the night of the kidnaping. “Mr. Johnson and I held a tele- phone conversation after Col. Lind- bergh arrived,” she said, fixing the time about 8:30 p.m. Q. Where was the call from? A. Englewood. Reilly raised his voice sharply and cut in: # “Didn’t you know it was from Hope- well “No,” she retorted quietly. Wilentz meanwhile was on his feet objecting because the question was predicated on a statement not a fact. “I am testing her credibility,” Reilly snapped. “She does not know where the call came from.” The witness testified that Mrs. Whatley's window in the Lindbergh home faced those of the nursery. She said that the second floor was vacant until 9 p.m., when she went up to look at a dress with Mrs. Whately. Q. That left Whately alone, didn't it? A. Yes, at 9 o'clock. She said that the child was accustomed to strangers.” Lindbergh Interested. Lindbergh appeared to be intensely interested in Reilly’s interrogation. He then demanded why Betty had not telephoned Johnson before coming to Hopewell. “I did,” she retorted, and explained she had phoned his boarding house in Englewood before leaving the Sourland estate. He was leaving for Hartford, Conn., the next day, she remembered, and she wanted to tell him good-by. The fiyer watched every fleck of the pointer as the Brooklyn criminal law- yer questioned Miss Gow on aspects of the house. Rellly appeared to be trying to dis- cern where one might send light sig- nals from the house. “There were no lights in the nursery wing,” she said as Reilly asked on the house’s illumination that night. Q. Did you ever tell any one where the nursery was? A. No. Q. No one had ever questioned you where the nursery was? “not A. No. Q. It wasn’t generally known where the nursery was? A. No. A five-minute recess was taken at 12 noon. Will Return Shortly. During the recess Wilentz said that Miss Gow intends leaving for Scotland shortly unless her presence is further required by the court. She said in her testimony: that she you pl to the witness stand,” asked Wilents. The slim young woman in rz Pnnm dress crossed the court and resumed | her place. Q. Who was the first person to turn on the nursery light after you found the baby gone? A. Col. Lindbergh, I suppose. Q. About how long was it after | you went in the nursery that the light was turned on? A. About five minutes. Q. As you looked around the room, did you notice anything unusual? A. I did not look around the room. I just knew the baby wasn't there. Q. How were the bedclothes, dis- arranged? A. Very slightly disarranged. The clothes still had the shape of the spot where the baby had lain. Dog Barked at Strangers. Reilly then pressed for information abeut the little dog of the household and brought out that the Whatelys had brought and trained the dog. Miss Gow said anything the Whate- lys did would not arouse the dog's stspicion, but she had heard the ani- mal bark at strangers. Q. Whately was the dog's master, was he not? A. Why, no. Q. Whately brought didn't he? A, Yes. Q. Fed him? A. Yes, Q. Cared for him? A. Yes. Q. So that anything Mr. or Mrs. Whately did was above suspicion to him? A. Yes, Q. Did the dog bark that night? A. No. Q. Did he ever bark? A. Oh, yes, indeed. Shutter Was Warped. He resumed questioning her about the ransom notes. Q. Was it tacked to the nursery window? A. No, it just lay there. Reilly ascertained that the nursery window shutter was warped. Q. You noticed it warped for the first time, Tuesday night, March 1, 19322 A. Yes. Q. How many times did you put the baby to bed? A. Many times, Q. Have you any accurate recollec- tion that shutter was never warped before that night? A. No, I have not. Reilly brought out Ollie Whately was the handy man who fixed such things about the house. Q. Did you call it to Whately's attention that night when you came downstairs? A. It was too late then. The defense counsel next directed her to describe the influx of police and news reporters at the estate after the kidnaping. Q. In the next couple of days there were a hundred there? A. I'm sure there was. Identifies Sleeping Suit. Reilly took the sleeping suit from him there, PERSONAL LOANS One year or less. Monthly deposits. 3 names. No collateral re- & Mass. Ave. 10th & Pa. Ave. & G Sts. SE. 3608 Ga. Ave. & oth 8th oth 'ap. Sts. 3401 Ce: Ave. among the exhibits, showed it to Miss Gow and asked “what is this?” “It’s the baby's sleeping suit,” she replied. Q. What kind of a sleeping suit is i) A. A Dr. Denton’s. Q. How many of these did the baby have? A. I don’t recall. Q. Where were they laundered. A. I washed them. Q. Where were they kept? A. Almost all in a suitcase. Q. Any at the Morrow estate? A. Yes. Q. As well 85 at Hopewell? A. Yes. Q. Now about these thumbguards. How many did you have for the child? A. Two. Q. Only two? A. Yes. Q. Where were they purchased? « A. Mrs, Lindbergh purchased those. Q. You can buy them in any drug store, can't you? A. I believe you could. Reilly Electrifies Court. Reilly electrified the court when he picked up the thumbguard and asked Betty Gow: “Did you drop this on the road on your way into town?” She replied heatedly, her small chin thrust forward belligerently, “I did not.” Reilly then asked her to put it on. | “That is not the condition it was | in,” said the nurse. “It was flattened.” Meaning that it had been crushed after it fell from the baby’s hand. Reilly, his voice now loud and in- sistant, directed her to describe the s)g;ct spot she found the guard. She id. “You didn’t see it when you were going down that road,” he demanded. “With all those policemen search- ing night and day for a month, you want us to believe you could pick this up without having dropped it?” he asked. “This thumb guard isn't fhuddy, and it isn't soiled,” Reilly con- tinued. “I'll leave it to the jury as to whether it is shiny.” 1 Betty Gow said that when she had seen the thumb guard it was muddy. “Youre a very bright young lady, arer™ you?” Reilly demanded. “I am,” was her pert reply. The court resounded with applause and Justice Trenchard repeated his warnings against demonstrations. Reilly turned to look at the clock as the judge threatened to clear the room in the event of further disturb- ance. He asked adjournment and the Judge acquiesced. Session Resumed Promptly. ‘The afternoon session got under way promptly at 1:45 p.m., Betty Gow re- turning to the witness stand to face another barrage of hectoring cross- examination from Reilly. Reilly bowed to the judge and in- toned his first question: “How long were you in Canada?” “About three hours.” He dropped that line of questioning | and asked: “Do you remember Miss Nellie | O’Connell. who came over on the boat | with you?" “No. Q. And you don't remember seeing her at Alair's employment agency? | A. No. | Reilly showed her several pictures. | asked if she knew who they werg and | filed them as exhibits. “Now I show you a photograph and | ask you whether or not you know the | original,” said Reilly giving her a | photo that was not further identified “No, I never saw that before,” she | answered after a quick glance. He thrust another picture before | her. “I have seen him.” Q. Do you know who he is. A. Yes. Q. Who is it? A. Dr. John F. Condon. Denies Going Boating. Reilly asked then if she had ever or the water adjacent. “No,” was the reply in both cases “Did you ever do any boating?"” The nursemaid said she had at the Morrow estate at North Haven, Me., but no place else. She next denied any knowledge of two women named Paulette and Louise Du Boise. City Island and Hunters Island were | visited frequently by Hauptmann. i Reilly then turned to details within | the nursery, from which the bab,\'i was abducted He asked if there had been a table in the center of the room. “Yes,” she answered. “And were there a kiddy car and some toys on the floor?” A. Yes, sometimes. Reilly asked her about the draught screen around the crib. The screen was at the head of the bed? A. At the head of the bed, yes. He next inquired whether the screen was undisturbed when she discovered the kidnaping. “To all appearances it was, yes.” Stepped Around Screen. Reilly then wanted to know if it was her deduction that whoever took | the baby stepped around the edge of | the screen. “It is,” she replied. Reilly then devoted himself to the | doors of the nursery. One cf the two | doors near the foot of the crib led to | a closet, the second to the bath room, and the third to the hall, He asked the width of the crib, and she answered, "about two-and-a-half feet wide.” i The defense counsel pointed to a door at the foot of the baby's bed. Q. Where does that lead to? A. To the baby's bath room. Q. And on the other end of the bath room there was a door leading to | Mr. Lindbergh's bath room? A. No, to Mrs. Lindbergh's bath room, H Q. Who occupied the bed room di- rectly opposite that (nursery) room? | A T did. Left Room in Darkness. Q. You left the baby in complete darkness and at no time you heard any one enter that room, fall over been at City Island, or Hunters Island | ILANDLADY T0 BAR HAUPTMANN BABY Says Herves Wouldn’t Al- 15 Her to Take Child as Boarder. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J,, January 7.— If Bruno Hauptmann's babj is brought back to the trial scene “he will have to stay somewhere else,” Mirs. Haupi- mann’s landlady said yesterday. “My nerves couldn't stand it,” said Mrs. William Opdyke, who rented her second-floor front bed room to the German carpenter’s wife. “He is not a bad child, but very active. He gets out of one thing into another.” Mrs. Hauptmann left the baby, Mannfried, with a niece in the Bronx before the trial opened. His black perambulator, with a toy dog, a red ball and a neat blue pillow with a cov- er of white crochet inside, stands in the Opdyke dining room. Nearby is a newspaper flaunting a streamer headli “Lindy: ‘It Was Haupte mann.'” “Mrs. Hauptmann 1s a great hand to read the papers,” Mrs. Opdyke said. “But she doesn't mention the trial. She goes to her room and locks the door.” It is a spacious, comfortable home— this green-shuttered yellow house that has opened its doors to an accused man’s wife. An overstuffed parlor set with crochet “tidies” stands in the living room. There's a rubber plant in the dining room, and a ther- mometer, framed in a forest picture. Hot biscuits, fried oysters, “marble” cake are comforts Mrs. Opdyke offers to divert her boarder's mind from the trial. She takes pride in her baking and Anna Hauptmann has a hearty appetite, “but,” said Mrs. Opdyke, “I don’t think she enjoys her meals D C. WOMAN FLEES BANDITS IN CHINA Four Missionaries in Party Leave for Fow-Chow as Com- munists Advance. By the Associated Press. SUICHAN, Southeast Szechuam Province, China, January 7.—Four American missionaries departed hur- riedly from here yesterday for Fow- | chow, a port on the Yangtse River be- low Chungking. in advance of ap- proaching Communist outlaws from the east They were Christian and Missionary Alliance workers, with headquarters in New York. They included Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Traux of Los Angeles, Miss Fanny Baumgartner of Pandora, Ohio, and Miss Agnes Birrel of Washington, D.C The situation in Hunan Protince was proved. many Northwestern reported im- American missionaries | returning to Changteh. Miss Agnes Birrel is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Birrel, 2028 North Capitol street, retired missionaries. who spent many years in China while affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance | workers. Miss Birrel attended the public schools here and is a graduate of Cen- tral High School. She has been in i China for several years. | the chair, or fall over the screen? A. No. Q. Miss Gow, do vou know a B. J. Potter of City Island. A. No. Q. Mrs. Potter. A. No. Q Did you ever go boating in or around New Rochelle, A. No. Reilly asked several questions as to whether or not Miss Gow had visited the Lamont yacht either at its moor- ing in North River or off the Engle- wood dock. He concluded with a final burst, Q. Did you ever visit Violet Sharpe at the Morrow home? A. No. Q. Did you ever go out with her, A. No. She ended her cross-examination with the vigorous assertion, “I never visited any boat owned by Dr. Condon. Wilentz in rebuttal asked first, “You didn’t know Dr. Condon at all before March 1, 1932, did you?" She replied in the negative, PASSENGERS U.S. MAIL EXPRESS MIAMI "in 6 hrs. 45 min. NEW YORK Utmostflyingease,deep- est quiet and greatest speed in famous “Flor- ida Flyer”. Luxurious, steam-heated cabin. RATES and TIME from WASHINGTON to: OneWay RoundTrip $1295 $21.80 2. Time 80 minutes 1 hr. 40 min. 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