The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-06
.LUBTGER1'S DEAR TALK
Wants Money From Phono-
graph Showmen-Demolish
ing His Defence.

CHICAGO, Oct. 8, lS91-The taxing OF
testimony in the Luetgert trial moved
with refreshing rapidity today. The mys-
tifying technical scientific dissertations OF
astrological experts gave place to short,
crisp, impeaching testimony. Metacar-
pals, sesamoids, femurs, temporals ana
other bones were stored away in the Ju-
dicial cupboard and scandal was dragged
forth to destroy, II possible, the reputa-
tion for truth and yeracity of the. wit
neSses who had testified for the defense.
This sort of thing interested the crowd
in the court room vastly more than the
exposition of profound learning py the
eminent opposing experts.
Luetgert came into Court smiling. he
had swallowed his disappointment at not
being allowed to testify in his own behalf.
Apparently the desire of the big sausage
maker to go upon the witness stand was
genuine, but there are those who profess
to know that Luetgert really never IN
tended to tell his story to the Jury ana
that his show of anxiety to do SO was
only ruse TO gain public sentiment.
The reputation of Matt Scholey, who
testified that he saw Mrs. Luetgert in
KenoSha on May and 4 was attacked
today, and witnesses followed each other
upon the witness stand rapidly to say
that they would not believe Scholey I'M
der oath.
Several of the witnesses were not of q
high order of intelligence. The word
.veracity'' fioored one of them complete
ly. This witness would not peiieye
Scholey under oath, because, he said. the
latter had been his partner in a saloon
venture and they had quarreled and dis
solved the copartnership. Villain y APP
fel, Andrew Larsen, Peter Barbos, Peter
Wagner and other neighbors OF the man
who was 50 positive in his Identification
of a photograph Of Mrs. Luetgert
he said he saw in Kenosha TWO days
after Mrs. Luetgert disappeared, as
serted without reservation that they
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Sharp and sarcastic CROSSE questioning by
Attorney Phalen usually brought out
the fact that at one time or another the
impeaching witnesses had experienced
trouble at the hands of Scholey Wit
-nesses were called to .impeach other wit
nesses who had testified on behalf of
the defendant.
Gordon Clark, who is connected with
the firm of Lord, Owen & Co., from whom
Luetgert purchased the barrel of potash
which he is said to have used to destroy
the body of his wife, testified that he
once explained to Luetgert that there was
no difference between the different brands
of Hunyadi water.
This evidence was introduced in re-
buttal of the story that on the night of
May 1, Luetgert sent Frank Ball. the
watchman at the sausage factory to
because upon the first trip Bialk had
secured the wrong brand.
State Attorney Deneen announced today
that he would have So rebuttal witnesses,
and that 10 or Is or these would come from
Kenosha, Wis. 1t is expected that the
prosecution will spring surprise upon
was was seen in Kenosha and identified by
means of a photograph of Mrs. Letgert.
This woman was traced to Joliet by
Detective Decelle; 5 She Is said a1 to be e.. IN
cling evangelist of somewhat eccentric
disposition.
The photograph men are having fun
with the Luetgert case
Yesterday afternoon the big sausage
maker refused to talk into monograph
ic receiver until contract was made
that would assure him fifty per cent. of
the receipts. 1t had been agreed by Ar
mold Luetgert, son of the prisoner, that
the Columbia Photograph Company
should have an option 9t on upon + the talk
pany declined to buy at that time the
fifty per cent. contract should remain in
force. But Luetgert upset all negotia-
tionS by refusing to talk.
Talk is cheap as ageneral thing" said
he, but my talk costs money today
Courtland Shaw, manager of the Phon-
nouncement in the Photographic machine
which had been carried to Luetgert'se
sAdolph Luetgert's denial of his guilt
taken in the Cook County Jail october
Then Luetgert was urged to make his
statement in a ten-minutes, talk.
mot on your life" quoth the sausage
maker 81 want the contract made and
signed before l say word in that funnel.
take no mans word for anything. I
have been lied to and lied about ever
since I've been here.
Luetgert's son tried to persuade his
father to talk to the machine The pris-
oiler turned upon him with:--'I'll do Moth
ing of the sort. You are at liberty ! am
locked up. I need money and you bet I'll
get it before speak in the tube"
So the machine was carried away. Late
this afternoon matters were patched up
and Luetgert was to have told the story
he did not tell upon the witness stand.
The photograph men have spicy talk
among physicians, reporters and others
taken at the Luetgert factory last Sum
day during an experiment which was