Post by Rita Witt on Jun 6, 2010 20:37:29 GMT -5
The window entry story is impossible. Onlly footprints leading away from the window, how?
Reilly Summation
Hauptmann would have to know what room the child was in and whether the Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were home or not; he would have to know who was home, when the baby was put to bed, when there was no person in the nursery at that present minute. Is there any evidence he knew anything like that? You cannot infer, you cannot guess, you cannot say maybe. Before you can go any further in the case, you have got to put Hauptmann in that room.
A man can't come up to a house with a ladder and stock it up against the wall and run up the ladder, push open a shutter, and walk into a room that he has never been in before. That is what they would have you believe. This is a scenario they have written, but it doesn't ring true to common sense. The ladder is put into the mud. They would have you believe that he had gloves on, - 30 inches below this windowsill. Now he has to reach up. He reaches up and finds that the shutters are just closed together. He opens them. Now how long do you suppose two loose shutters would stay back with a gale howling? They would be banging, banging, banging back and forth. But nevertheless, with those shutters banging and a gale blowing, this man has to take himself by his two hands, and I don't see how he could get above the second section of the ladder because he would have to hold on to the side of it, and he would have to hold on to the wall as he went up, to steady himself; but finally he is on the top rung now, and he is reaching three feet through the air, gripping the bottom of the window sill, of a house he has never been in, of a house where he doesn't know who is inside the room - and any fool would know that a Colonel of the United States Army would have a gun somewheres around and put a bullet through your heart; but nevertheless he pulls himself up until he gets in a such a position that he can shove the window up. That makes him at least five feet away from the top rung of the ladder. Now he has got to shove the window up; and here is a window with a shelf, and a beer stein on it for decorative purposes, and I don't care where it was, he didn't know it was there, if anybody ever went in that window, and a strange man is able to swing himself in the window without knocking the beer stein down, and in a room that is absolutely dark, mind you, in which there are toys, furniture, table and chairs, and he has never been in the room before and a crib that he never saw before - this man is able to navigate without bumping into the table or falling over a chair, gets over to the crib where there is a sick child, - why, that child would sense immediately the presence of a stranger! The moment anyone put their hand on that child, its cry ringing out would have brought the mother from the room across the hall.
Reilly Summation
Hauptmann would have to know what room the child was in and whether the Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were home or not; he would have to know who was home, when the baby was put to bed, when there was no person in the nursery at that present minute. Is there any evidence he knew anything like that? You cannot infer, you cannot guess, you cannot say maybe. Before you can go any further in the case, you have got to put Hauptmann in that room.
A man can't come up to a house with a ladder and stock it up against the wall and run up the ladder, push open a shutter, and walk into a room that he has never been in before. That is what they would have you believe. This is a scenario they have written, but it doesn't ring true to common sense. The ladder is put into the mud. They would have you believe that he had gloves on, - 30 inches below this windowsill. Now he has to reach up. He reaches up and finds that the shutters are just closed together. He opens them. Now how long do you suppose two loose shutters would stay back with a gale howling? They would be banging, banging, banging back and forth. But nevertheless, with those shutters banging and a gale blowing, this man has to take himself by his two hands, and I don't see how he could get above the second section of the ladder because he would have to hold on to the side of it, and he would have to hold on to the wall as he went up, to steady himself; but finally he is on the top rung now, and he is reaching three feet through the air, gripping the bottom of the window sill, of a house he has never been in, of a house where he doesn't know who is inside the room - and any fool would know that a Colonel of the United States Army would have a gun somewheres around and put a bullet through your heart; but nevertheless he pulls himself up until he gets in a such a position that he can shove the window up. That makes him at least five feet away from the top rung of the ladder. Now he has got to shove the window up; and here is a window with a shelf, and a beer stein on it for decorative purposes, and I don't care where it was, he didn't know it was there, if anybody ever went in that window, and a strange man is able to swing himself in the window without knocking the beer stein down, and in a room that is absolutely dark, mind you, in which there are toys, furniture, table and chairs, and he has never been in the room before and a crib that he never saw before - this man is able to navigate without bumping into the table or falling over a chair, gets over to the crib where there is a sick child, - why, that child would sense immediately the presence of a stranger! The moment anyone put their hand on that child, its cry ringing out would have brought the mother from the room across the hall.