NURSEMAID EXAMINED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9

NURSEMAID EXAMINED

Rigorous Questioning Withstood LINDBERGH BABY CASE (Received January 8, 5.5 p.m.) Montreal, January 7. A Flemington message says that the examination of Miss Betty Gow, the Lindbergh baby's nursemaid, while revealing nothing hitherto unknown or sensational, nevertheless disclosed a certain weakness in counsel for the defence’s tactics. Moreover, there was much comment on the skilful manner in which the girl withstood the hard and tenacious questioning of Mr. Reilly. Every effort to make her admit an act or omission that might possibly incriminate her or other members of the household failed until at one point the lawyer cried, “Now you are a very bright young lady, Miss Gow, aren’t you.”, “I am,” she said, with an upward lift of her head, and the crowded courtroom laughed and applauded vociferously. Two months after the kidnapping she had found, near the house a small Item of baby’s appaifel, apparently lost while the kipnapper was leaving with the child. Mr. Reilly insinuated that she had deliberately left the item on the spot. Witness flashed angrily, “I did not.”

When hei- cross-examination was completed she was near the point of collapse, but counsel for the defence had not succeeded in making her deviate from her straightforward story, the principal part of which was that she had found the crib empty and the baby gone. She wept softly in this part of' her narrative.