The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-11
IuETaERT TAIKs ARour HIs CASE.
He DsuounesS the Police as Prosecutors
Says witnesses Are Liars.


CHICAGO, oct. 1O.-Adolph L. Luet-
CERT gave out an estimate of the case the
prosecution had made out against him.
The big sausage maker grlpped the bars
of his cell and swung his ponderous body
to and fro as he talked OF police persecu-
ton and "the lying evidence" of those
who testified against him. lie was es-
peclally bitter in his denuncIatlon OF the
police and Professor George Dorsey, the
chief astrological witness against him.
II have kept quiet about what I
thought OF the case that was being made
out against me-expressed no opinion
during the trial because thought by so
doing I'mIght inJure my case" said
Luetg,rt,
'But now will say, I'm my opinion, the
case of the state Is weak. It is built
upon lies. Why Frank odorofsky and
Frank Lowandowsky, those two 'Po-
lacks would swear 10 anything, They
are liars, pure and simple. Neither OF
them worked for me the week ending
May /. Odorofsky came to my factory
and Friday, April 30. had nothing for
him to do, and told him 10 come back
Monday. He was not at the factory
again, and all the evidence he gave about
what he saw and did at the factory. Sat
urday. May /, was manufactured.
~ did try to make soap In that vat.
That is the absolute truth Of the matter.
The soap washed out OF the vat and ]
gave up the job. had intended to hire
thirty men to scour the sausage factory
from top to bottom and put 1t In first
class shape to be sold.
1.-THE police treated Mary Slemmerlng
shamefully. They prosecuted her, bull
duzed her and threatened her, They
tried 1t on me when was first placed
under arrest, but stopped them In short
order They could not put me in the
sweat box. i knew my constitutional
rights, and informed Inspector Setback
that he was not acting in the capacity
OF a trial court and that did not have
to answer any of his questions. He drop
ped me then.
"Fullbeck. who swore that Mary Stem.
mering told him, May 8. that Mrs. Luet-
CERT was upstairs In bed, is a base falsi-
fier. That fellow has not seen q sober
day in years. He used to come into my
factory intoxicated, and when l ordered
him away, he's say: Don't drive me
away. Luetgert; thrash me- He is an
migrate.
Some people seem to think that Luet-
gcrt's brain is no good. They are fool
fish. I remember things well. People
who are under obligations to me went on
the witness stand and swore against me.
Some time In the future l may have
something to say to these people. Mrs.
Johanna Leeb, Fred Miller and DiedriCh
Bicknese deliberately falslfled when they
testified that Mrs. Luetgert always
treated her children well. How could
they know. They only called at my
house occasionally.
"Dr. Dorsey. the bone expert, IS n very
fresh young man. He things he knows
all about bones. but In my estimation
Or. Airport has forgotten more about
osteology than Dorsey ever knew.
AS have often said before, believe
my wife Is still alive / should not have
been surprised II she had entered the
court room any day during the long trial
now nearly over She will be heard from
yet, and then all the people who have
lied about Luetgert will be shown up to
the world In their proper light.
81 am an innocent man. My health
and happiness have been destroyed by an
unjust prosecution, and my fortune-the
result of years OF toll-has been swept
away To-day, verglng upon sixty years
of age, find myself almost penniless,
and in the deepest trouble that can come
to man. I would like to have told my
story to the jury, but my counsel thought
It better that l remain OF the witness
stand. Reluctantly followed their adj
Vice. That is all have to say at this
time"
States Attorney Deneen and Assistant
States Attorney McEwen put in the
time to-day outlining the arguments
they will present to the Jury next week.
EX-Judge Vincent and Attorney Phalen
were similarly employed. Judge Tuthill
having gone to Nashville, there was no
session OF the court yesterday.
The Luetgert trial has inspired a local
playwright TO write play entitled "The
Sausage Maker Of Lake View" Its first
production viii be given Sunday night.
II the play succeeds, the author win try
to seure for the tItle role Luetgert him
self, provided, OF course, the sausage
maker Is not convicted.