The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-22
R|ME OF A CENTURY
of the Celebrated luet.
|''s cert Murder Trial at
Chicago.
1,rs OF WITNESSES EXAMINED.

\. Weayes W.
=. About the Prisoner-Expert resu-
CIV an Bones Found in the Middle Vat
o1' sausage Faotory--Aiieged Appear
,,e Missing Woman In Various
'.s..-Personality of the Prisoner
40 night of May l last Louisa
.r, disappeared. At O'Clock
siemmerlng. the servant girl re-
CO.. the night, leaving Mrs. Luet-
an about the house. A little later
soy Louis returned from circus
nod been exhibiting in the neigh
[s0od and found his mother sitting in
lair II was then about 10 O'CLOCK
~ was sent TO bed. having seen the
This mother perhaps forever. Mr..
.,oert came into the house little be-
.ho how went TO bed. and the latter
|. susband and wife together. At this
:, the story DIVORCES and the most
.rs trouble Of A. l.. Luetgerts life
rIrs At what hour Mrs. Luetgert
,ho bouse no one, save possibly her
L.hord knows. The following day
I,aav-members of the family knew
1, Ms mistress was gone. On the nth
\ If Nav the climax came. The saus-
maker, who had been almost a king
porg his neighbors. was dragged up
stems of the East Chicago avenue
|ics station at about o'clock in the
ternoon.
uetgert's preliminary examination
Ian before Justice Kersten on May
Bickenese. Mrs. Luetgert's L.other,
d Of Luetgert's Indifference, old
bank Bialk told how Luetgert had
emf the night on which his wife dis
peared cooking something m the mid
vat, and the police disclosed the
hes. Mrs Agatha Tosch. Luetgert's
arm friend and proprietor of the sa
pn which he patronized most, declared
the police she believed him guilty
wife murder, and Unexpectedly went
the stand and told how Luetgert had
lied about his wife to her, and had
Id he wished she were dead.
The only person from whom the p0-
[e could not extract word was Luer-
|rt himself. Sweatbox. persuasion,
reats and coaXing had no effect on
m
One Week to Get Jury.
The trial was begun eight weeks ago,
Aug 20. One hundred and forty VEN
emen had to be summoned, and one
EEK consumed before twelve jurymen
Ere secured. On Monday. Aug 80,
iedrich Bicknese, the first witness for
e prosecution, was put on the stand.
Louis Luetgert, the 12-year-old son
the prisoner, was one of the states
rliest witnesses. He recited the oc-
lrences Of the night Of May /, and
ID powerful story for the prosecu-
pm, on discrimination there was
lrprlse for the state. The boy an.
Punced that at o'clock in the morn
g Of May 2, when. according to the
ate Mrs Luetger's body was being
stroyed in the vat, he heard a rust
Pc in the house, and a voice which
believed was his mothers. Young
petgert acknowledged he had suddenly
collected this in the office Of Luetgert's
tomeys, and the state fatty charged
al Luetgert's attorneys had manufact-
FED the evidence.
Luetgerts threats, his statement that
would Ike 10 crush his wife, and that
regretted calling a doctor for her
men she was Ill, that the dead. rot
BEAST would have croaked," were re-
un'ed by Mrs. Agatha Tosch. Frank
ak told of Luetgert's unexplained
F'lons The night his wife vanished. and
en the state disclosed how the potash
line in the vat.
frank Odorofsky and Jacob Lavan-
ssky' two laborers about the factory.
startling stories Of breaking potash
small pieces burning their hands
u faces and putting ii in the vat un-
Lue'gerts orders. They described
STICKY Shiny stuff on the basement
VT tne morning after the alleged MUIR
when Luetgert had partly flushed
~ vat by means Of a hose.
Had Bitter QuarreIs.
NeishDors and relatives of the Luet-
.s testified to the bitter quarrels be-
I.H men, and Luetgert's employees
10 s'eu now Mary Siemmering, his serv
~ nau visited him at the factory at
hours. 1t was known that
4 S Luetgert sent old Frank Bialk to
Ihn' 'ah' urug store for Hunyadi water
,,4 ne ne was busy at the vat. there were
Pctory. "N' wafer AZ ''e
nina and Gottliebe Schimpke. two
ro, nvihg across the street from the
n .es' went on the stand and told
@s Luetgert and his wife going
cloa,. direction Of the factory at 10
kprt,s vi the night of May 1. Luet-
10 ;, a''orneys succeeded in frighten-
kss ni Oh cross-examination. There
S.h. secohd sensation when Nicholas
no ~. .sstlned that on the night of MAY
NIL ,o au gone to Luetgert's house to an
Iso y. WORK at the factory. and that he
nae seen Luetgert ana b,s VIE 60
)oor Wv" the alley toward the factory
| The gold u,.
hts,. solu rings. with Mrs. Luetgert's
kyIdsns were regarded as the stronges,
Bus w,,s ne state produced. Numer-
|he r,nn sSes' some of whom had worr
Mrs. Iss' positively identified them as
kas sroN 'sert's, and but one witness
Fsslhenticity. VINO aouoted thei'
The st..
)ns % ~ began by showing the feel
|he nro"a .gert toward his wife. Then
kouss os traced her from the
|hc doc. .ne night Of May 1 almost to
(snd :. oi the factory with her hus.
toOr NJ was shown that the basemen,
5ny nars barred, and that Bialk. the
)ad bsa ,Son IN the factory that night
wa. :. sent away at about the time
"S charged the nuraar a..,,s