The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-22

would hang out indefinitely for a verdict
of guilty. while others were just as set
in the opposite convictions. Finally it
was decided to announce a disagree
ment Judge Tuthill asked the jurors
to make further effort to reach de-
cision, on account of the vast eX-
pediture Of money, time and trouble
necessary for another hearing of the
evidence.
They Cannot Agree.
But all efforts to reach a verdict
proved futile. The jurors slowly filed
back into the court room. The air was
filled with intense excitement. The
crowd arose to it's fee.~n it's eagerness
to hear the decision. r>e rapping of the
bailiffs. mallets and the calls to sit
down" were scarcely needed. The Jury
stood in two silent rows in the jury box
and waited for order. There was mo-
ment of breathess silence. Luetgert.
as he leaned forward in his chair. with
his eyes riveted upon the faces Of the
jurors. was the picture of intense anxi-
ETY.. Attorneys Vincent and Phalen on
one side of the table and Deneen and
McEwen on the other listened eagerly
for the decision.
Gentlemen" said Judge Tuthill, in
an apparently undisturbed tone, have
you agreed upon a verdict?"
1--WE have not" replied the foreman.
"How do you stand numerically"
mine for conviction and three for ac-
quittel," was the answer.
There was a buzz of voices in the
ROOM The bailiffs' mallets and voices
in N
Attorney Deneen and Assistant States
Attorney McEwen were plainly disap-
pointed. Inspector Setback looked still
deeper aggrieved. On the defense side
Of the table there was also disappoint-
ment. but apparently not so keenly felt.
Luetgert sank back in his chair He
seemed anxious to get away. He is
practically bankrupt and there is no
knowing where he will get the money
for a new trial. Judge Tuthill expressed
regret that the issue could not have
been decided one way or the other. Then
he discharged the jury, after thanking
them for their close attention during
all the tedium of the protracted trial.
How Luetgert Took It,
When the order of Judge Tuthill dis
charging the jury was made Luetgert
stood up with smile on his face and
nodded to the jurors. He was cool and
| collected. The action of the jury had
| justified an oft-repeated prediction of
| the prisoner in the past twenty-four
hours. William Charles, Arnold Luet-
CERT, Luetgert's counsel, and other
| friends of the sausage maker. crowded
around him and shook his extended
| hands. Luetgerts eyes sparkled, but
he did not say much. A great weight
of anxiety had been lifted from his mind
and the sudden reaction from doubt to
certainty as to the jury's position filled
| the broad chest of the sausage maker
with emotion. A bailiff tapped the pris-
oner on the shoulder and motioned him
to follow. Luetgert walked away with
a degree of activity not seen in his mode
| OF locomotion before. He walked across
| the bridge to his cell In the Jail with a
| light step and in happy frame of mind
despite the fact that he remarked to the
| iail guard: "They ought to have ac-
quilted me- Their action showed doubt
and the court told them / was entitled
| TO all doubt"
There will undoubtedly be a motion
made to admit the prisoner TO bail, 1t Is
thought, in a day or two.
Great Interest In the Trial.
The crime of wife murder which was
charged against Adolph l.. Luetgert
the sausage-maker of Diversey boule
| ward. attracted the widest attention
Jurists watched the developments o
the case and the progress of the tria
on account of the unusual method o
proving the corpus delicti. Scientist,
pursued even the smallest details. ow
ing to the battle of expert testimon,
which was necessarily involved. Busl
ness men scanned the accounts Of tn
case as one OF their number had sud
denly been taken from their midst nm
charged with most atrocious crime