The herald., 1897-10-19
TRIAL is ENDED IMlNOOk CREEK
Luetqert's Case Given to Looms Up as the Rival of
the Jury Kl0ndike
SCENES OF WILD DISORDER AS GREAT RUSH EXPECTED
I'M THE COURTROOM AND NEAR AS THERE DAWSON
CITY
SCENES OF WILD DISORDER
IN THE COURTROOM AND NEAR
THE JAIL
A Half-Hearted Attempt at Rescue
Promptly Discouraged by Po-
licemen's Clubs
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1S.-The ninth week OF
the Luetgert trial opened today with
the greatest crowd yet seen. States At
torney DeneeU promptly began his clos
ing argument. After stating that the
oratory of counsel for defense left him
nothing 10 answer but ridicule, he said
that there were three matters Of vital
Importance deserving discussion in this
great trial. First, the soap theory; sec
ond, the evidence of the Schimpke sis
ters; and third the mysterious woman
at Kenosha. He them proceeded to de-
fend the police department from the
charge of perjury made by the de-
fense, and reviewed the evidence of the
principal witnesses for the prosecution.
He continued to discuss the evidence
for two and half hours.
Just before the hands on the dial Of
the court room clock Indicated the hour
Of four, States Attorney Deenen rested
his elbow or. the rail before the Jurors.
Running his eyes along each of the
twelve men, he said: Gentlemen, 1t
has been said that Assistant States
Attorney McEwan did not ask the in
Fiction of the death penalty. That is
true. 90 not think it Is usually within
the province OF a states attorney to ask
a jury to return such q verdict. But
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wanton. that feel perfectly justified in
asking at your havads the extreme pen-
atty of the law in. the case of Adolph L.
Luetgert."
After brief recess Judge Tuthill be-
gan the reading of his charge to the
jury. AS Ju0ge Tuthill finished the
reading he looked up at the jurors ard
said: "Ge'ptlemen, you may retire and
consider your verdict"
Immediately there was an uproar IL,
the court room. People who had been
sitting rose 10 their feet and the shouts
of the bailinfs, ordering every one to "sit
down" availed. nothing. The crowd
surged forward and took up every inch
of space to where the circular fence
barred them from the attorneys Wom-
en- tainted in the crush and their cos
TUNES and headgear suffered. The
crowd seemed to want to get near
Luetgert. All wanted to see how the
big sausage maker stood the final or
deal, now that his case was in the hands
of the jury.
For more than half an hour after the
jury retired they did nothing but breathe
freer air and stretch their achigg limbs
At $50 o'clock dinner was served to
them from a neighboring restaurant.
Soon afterward they began their deliber-
ations in earnest.
The crowd which surrounded the GRIM
inal court building and Jail at night sur
passed in number anything witnessed
since the opening of the famous trial.
BY dark the street in front of the court
building was jammed and the crowd
surged around the corner in front of the
Jail. Men, women and children lined the
pavements in front of the Michigan
street entrance and the line extended to
Dearborn avenue on the east and North
Clark street on the west.
About $3.50 o'clock the crowds in Mich
igan street were augmented by over a
score of men from the vicinity of Luet-
enue and Diversey street They were
asertive and unruly and demanded ad-
mission to the court building. This was
refused them, but they were so persist
ent that word was sent upstairs. The
deputies at the door, fearing a rush for
admission, telephoned to the East Chi
cago avenue police station for more off,
GERS. The alteration drew a crowd
which quickly choked the entrance. The
police on duty were entirely incapable. OF
handling the crowd. Captain Hogan OF
the East Chicago avenue station sent
up patrol wagon filled with officers on
a hurry up" run. When the officers
reached the building they drew their
clubs and, aided by score of deputy
sheriffs quickly collected in the build
ing, drove the crowd back The friends
of Luetgert had by this time been rein
forced by about 200 other people from the
crowds. But they retreated after few
vigorous applications of the clubs. The
mob took up a stand near the middle OF
the street and jeered the police, while
small boys with tin horns added their
quota to the discord which swelled from
the deep lunged, wouldbe rioters, who
loudly proclaimed their right to enter
the building.
At midnight not a word of any kind
had come from the jury room and the
chance for an all night wait for ver-
dict seemed excellent. Rumors of ter
to two for conviction and later of ten to
two for acquittal floated around, but
there was no authority for either story
The attorneys on both sides were con-
fident at midnight of verdict favora-
BILE to their side, while the opinion Of the
public was turning toward a disagree
ment.
At o'clock telephone message wal
received from Judge Tuthill saying that
verdict or no verdict he would not come
to the criminal court building tonight
The jury at 1 o'clock was still in the
jury room and seemed no nearer a ver-
dict than at any time since 1t went in
There is no chance of a verdict being
announced before the opening of court
Tuesday morning at $3.50.
THEY WON'T AGREE
AT 1870 o'clock this morning uforma-
ton direct from the jury room was tc
the effect that disagreement had Iaker
place, both sides being obstinate, and
the chances for an agreement before
morning very slight.
The majority OF the jury are with the
state and desirous Of conviction Jus'
how the jury stands could not be
learned, but it is now generally thought
agreement