Show COUNSEL TELLS DEFENSE BASIS Says Plotted in Lindbergh Home and Five Involved FLEMINGTON N. N J. J Jan 4 i- i Bruno Bruno Richard lIa defense lense I AY-I it became known today will be based on a contention that the Lindbergh was planned in the home cf of Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh without the family's knowledge Five men not one committed the crime said Edward J. J Reilly chief chiel of oC defense The defense of oC Bruno Richard I Hauptmann he announced will willI cs- cs I that he had nothing to do with the crime and that it was conceived conceived con I in the Lindbergh home itself but jut not by all any member of ol the family I. I Xam Names s Withheld We will show that the was vas planned and executed by a gang gangol of ol five persons whose names naturally naturally nat nat- we cannot disclose at this I time ime Furthermore the defense will prove rove that the child was carried from its is nursery down the stairs of the i house louse and out a door of ol the house rather than down the ladder which the he state tate contends was used in perpetration perpetration per per- of the crime We uWe will wiH show that this ladder was never used in iii the and will attack the authenticity of photographs photo graphs allegedly alleged I depicting the marks it made in the soft earth beneath the nursery window To Mention Violet Sharpe Reilly said he will brin bring up the question of ot Violet Sharpe the Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh maid who committed suicide La in n the aviators aviator's home four hours before be be- ore lore sh she was to have been questioned for lor the fourth time by state troopers Although Mrs Lindbergh has championed her servants and de dc- scribed c the maid as frightened to death Reilly said Laid he will bring up several still unexplained secrets of the girls girl's life me and death |