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LUETGERT JURY D|SAGREES.
MISTRIAL DECLARED IN THE Gel.
EBRATED MURDER CASE.
THREE STOOD OUT FOR ACQUITTAL
The Big sausagemaker Furnishes = State
ment to Representatives ofthe
Associated Press.

A Chicago special says: The Luet-
CERT jury failed to agree and as result
. mistrial in the celebrated case was
declared by Judge Tuthill Thursday
morning.
As soon as the court was called to
order Foreman Heickhold handed the
following to Clerk Knoch, who, by
order Of the court read it aloud:
1--WE, the jurors in the case of the
people Of the state of Illinois, VS.. A.
L. Luetgert, tender to the presiding
Judge, the Hon. Richard s. Tuthill,
and the brilliant states attorney,
Charles S. Deneen, and his no less
brilliant assistant, Mr.. w. NJ. Nc
Even, as we'll as the attorneys for the
defense, our most heartfelt thanks for
the very kind treatment we have re-
ceived at their hands, and we do not
hesitate to state that we're it not for
the way in which they have attended
to our personal comfort, as we'll as to-
our sanitary condition, the hardship
would have been very great.
Gas to the trial we wish to state
that, while the evidence was such that
we were unable to agree upon ver-
dict, one thing we did agree about,
and that is that the circumstances
were such that the police had ample
reason to prosecute on the showing
without hearing the defense, and We
commend them for having done their
duty on this case"
This was signed by Foreman Heick-
hold and the balance Of the jury.
The jurors were evidently of the
opinion that the statement was enough
to give the public at this time.
The twelve men were divided as fol-
lows:
For conviction and the death penal
ty-Heickhold, Boyd, Bibby, Mahoney,
Behmiller, Hosmer, Shaw, Franzen
and Fowler.
For acquittal-Harley, Holabirn and
Barber.
Luetgert's Statement.
Thursday night the Associated Press
obtained the one great feature missing
in the famous trial-tbe sworn testi-
mony OF the defendant himself.
Standing in the gloomy jail adjoin-
ing the grim looking gray stone court
building in which his remarkable trial
had at last been brought to finish,
the burly sausage manufacturer capped
the climax of the extraordinary series
of events which began with his sensa-
tional bankruptcy and the alleged
frightful diabolism Of boiling his wife
to death at midnight in q vat in his
factory cellar.
Closely following the final result
OF the trial, which has attracted
worldwide attention, Luetgert made
under oath statement for the Asso-
ciated Press concerning the fearful
crime charged against him, the first
sworn statement yet made by him,
and the first sworn statement of such
kind ever known in newspaper an
mails. The affidavit was put in writing,
in due legal form, and is certified to
by q notary.
The affidavit explicitedly declares
Luetgert's innocence. The document
in full is as follows:
"To the Public-The result OF my
trial ended today is a victory for me
because Of the disagreement of the
jury, but I am very much surprised
that the jury did not bring in YER
dict Of not guilty.
II did not kill my wife and do not
know where she is, but I am sure that
that it is only a question of time until
she comes home.
II did not go upon the witness
stand because my lawyer, Judge Vim
cent, was bitterly opposed TO my do
ing so, and because he advised me that
it was not necessary.
II am grateful for the tremendous
change in public sentiment in my ia
vor, and time will demonstrate that I
ON not only an innocent, but very
grievously wronged man.
ADoLpH L. LUKTGERT.
Subscribed and sworn to before
ME this 21st day Of October, A. D.,