Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-24
THE LUETGERT TRIAL.
Testimony That Mrs. Luetgert Was
Seen After May LIST.

CHICAGO, September 2S.-Nlewed from
various standpoints, to-days proceed
ings In the Luetgert murder trial were
the most remarkable that have occurred
within three weeks In the face OF the
sensational circumstantial evidence pro-
duced to prove that Mrs Luetgert met
death in her husbands sausage-factory
on May lst, three witnesses testified to-
day that they saw the woman alive on
Nav Cd and 4th one of these witnesses
talked TO her. and believed from a de-
scriptlon and photograph of Mrs.
Iuetgert that the woman he saw was
Mrs. Luetgert. This witness was Matt.
]. Sholey, a barkeeper at the Hotel
Maple. Kenosha, Wis. He said he saw
a strange woman at the Hotel Maple on
the evening of May Sd. He talked with
her nearly ten minutes. She asked to
be directed to the farm Of one Muller
i'm the neighborhood but as no one
seemed to know Of such person, the
woman left on the following day.
Sholey again saw the woman. He de-
scribed her general appearance and
clothing, and identified a photograph OF
Mrs. Luetgert as that of the woman he
saw. on cross-examination by States
Attorney Dereen. Witness Sholey at
first fixed the weight Of the woman he
saw at 100 or 40 pounds. Then he hesi-
tated. said he had got mixed up, ard
remarked that the woman weighed no
to 11s pounds. which was about Mrs.
Iuetgert's weight. This hesitation and
correction was made much of by the
prosecution, which intimated that Sholey
had forgotten the weight that had pro-
baby been told him.
l.
nosha, Wis, saw a strange woman in
the police station In his town on May
3D. and the following day saw her at
the railway station. He described the
woman. said she wore sailor hat and
slippers. The witness identified the pic
ture of Mrs. Luetgert as closely resem-
bling the woman he saw.
William j. Grunsten, a clerk In the
Grant Hotel Kenosha, Identified the
photograph as the picture of woman
he saw in his hotel on May 3D.. He
said she came into the hotel and re-
mained ten minutes. He described the
woman, and corroborated the evidence
of the other witnesses.
Emma Schimpke came to the court
room i'm the afternoon to hear Rosa
Gleich impeach her evidence, given on
Wednesday. Attorney Phalen discovered
ner presence III luc IOoni' anu Ndhtu hcl
to the witness stand. When asked If
she had not told Rosa Gieich she had
liel on the witness-stand, she replied,
II don't remember"
'Did you not tell Harry Fielder you
lied when you said you saw Mr.. and
Mrs. Luetgert May 1st?"
II don't remember"
Did you not tell Rosa Gleich you did
see Mr.. and MS. Luetgert the night Of
May 1st?"
II may have said So"
Mrs. Matte Sherrer, the last witness
of the day, testified positively that Emma
schlmpke told her that the testimony
the Schimpke girl had given on the wit
ness-stand was untrue.
Late in the afternoon the witness
Sholey, who had testified that he saw
Mrs. Luetgert in Kenosha. announced
that he desired to correct his testimony.
He took the stand and delivered himself
OF the following: "When / said the wo-
man weighed 40 pounds, / meant to say
she weighed about l15. / was thinking Of
her age when / made my former state
meat"
whats thatT asked States-Attorney
Deneen.
II was thinking Of her age, when
said she weighed 40 pounds"
You mean. do you. that she was about
40 years old and weighed 1l5 pounds?
Is that it?'
That's it. l was thinking OF her age"
That's ALL" said the States Attorney,
and Sholey stepped down.