A Northwestern University professor last night charged Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman with "putting words into the witnesses' mouths" in the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Speaking before the Harvard Law Forum, Stephen Love, professor of Law at Northwestern, called for President Truman to reduce the death penalty sentence given to the Rosenbergs.

Love seriously doubted their guilt, saying it was impossible for the Los Alamos mechanic who allegedly gave the Rosenberg's vital atom secrets to have sketched from memory in two hours a twelve page manuscript as the the mechanic claimed.

The professor asserted that Judge Kaufman's had interjected his own bias into the preceedings over 100 times, "helping out government witnesses and making smaller defense witnesses."

Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, gave a short rebuttal to Love's argument, stating Kaufman's interference was not great enough to merit importance and that the Rosenberg's middle man--the mechanic--could have given valuable material.