The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-31
LUETGERT'S LIRE
IN THE BALANCE
CcontInued From Flrst Page.)

described.
Mr.. MeEwan said Luegert Disposed of
his wire. He had treated her with vio-
lcnce, as the evidence CT the state will
saow. lie had no affection for her and
lived alone in the factory. There tle
state would show he had been visited by
other women
Judge Vincent objected to this ,esti-
nsony, but Judge Tuthsm overruled this
objection. Judge MeEwan SAID a witness
would be produced who saw Lueisgert
choke his wife a. The back CT the house.
She said: '.You need not kill me as you
did that man, as have no money" Luet-
CERT Then said that she would not be al
lowed to betray him.
Judge Vincent objected to this feature
of the case being reviewed, but WAS over
ruled by the cour:.
When Judge MdEwanl finished, Judge
Vincent said no opening add. ees would
be made by the defense.
Then The witnesses were Called The
first witness. William Hslsey, city
draughirman, testified as to the c2rrscs-
ness of the drawings. NJ
In the afternoon the first witness called
was Dedrich Bickness and ne told OF his
visit to the Luetg mt house for thu pur-
pose Of seeing his sister. He met the
sausage maker and talked with him some
time before he was told Mrs. Luetg.r had
disappeared. The sausage maker told
him,he did not know what had become of
his wife. He had last sen her the Sat
urday evening previous. LuetSert did
not think she had gone away with some
other man, but thought she had wan
dered away He asked the prisoner what
he had done to find his wife, and was
told that he hadin mot notified the police of
her disappearance. INSTEAD he said he
had paid two private detectives S. each
and they would do more than the police
would accomplish. The witn:ss said
Luetgert had told him that III had not
looked to see IL his wife had taken any
clothing with her except the dress she
not VISITED any places or made any in
quiry.
Bickness told his story in a plain,
straightforward way that made him an
impressive witness.
Louis Luetgert, the 12-year- son of
the defendant, was the next witness. The
boy had told his story beforA to the cor
oners jury and the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. He told more than he told
before, but the statement that caused
the prosecution to wish it had not call7d
him as a witness was that at midnight Or
later he had heard his mother in the
house.
The boy said he attended a circus on
the night of May 1 and returned to his
home at 1890 o'clock. Th:re he had
found his mother sitting in the kitchen
in house wrapper and slippers reading.
He told her what he had seen at the err.
Gus, but his conversation with his mother
was interrupted by his father, who came
inao the kitchen and ordered him to bed.
Before he vert to bed he heard his father
descending the back stairs as If going to
the factory. His mother he did not see
again, and the next morning he saw that
her bed had not been slept in.
The testimony did nds differ from The
story told by the boy on former occasions,
but the surprise of the state The made tn.
statement that some time in rhe night
long after he went ITO bed he woke up and
heard rustling in The room.
rs that you father?" he asked, but his
mothers voice replied, 1T is me-
The boy said he was sure it was his
mothers voice.
Assistant States Attorney McEwan
asked him why he had not told this be-
fore. He said NO one had asked him
about it.
81 asked you if you had heard your
mother after you had left her in the
Kitchen" said the attorney for the state.
II thought you meant if had sesn her
again. was the boys reply.
The defense refused to cross-exa mine
the boy and the court adjourned for the
day.
Charged with attempting to intimidate
witnesses for the state in the Luetgert
case, Charles Withers, of $50 Orleans
street, was arrested by Detective Grieb-
moth and locked up in the sub-detective
station.
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