Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-01
IUETGERF DEFENSE WITNESS BAD
LIZ TANGLED VP.
CAN'T TELL DOG FROM MONKEY.
posED AS AN AUTHORITY BGF FELL
poWN WITH A THpD.
Was on the stand All Day Yesterday
aua still the state VIII Not let
Him Go-Another Week
OF Expert festi-
Iupny.

Chicago Sept 30-There was but one
wituess on the stand in the Luetgert trial
TO-DAY, and at the conclusion of the session
the state announced that II would IN all
pTohA bility keep him on the stand Tor the
greater portion Of tomorrow. The witness
was Or. W. II. Airport, The expert who
testified for the defense yesterday that the
feInur claimed by the state as femur OF a
woman is in reality the femur OF a hog.
The state had prepared a warm cross-eX-
animation for him. and toward the latter
portion OF the afternoon session it succeed
ed in confusing him and gaining from him
several contradictions of mis- own evidence
he identified the skull of a dog as being the
skull OF a monkey, aud was neatly trapped
by the state into doing so. The attorneys
fer the state have considerable teetlng
against Dr, Airport, as his testimony, more
than once. has been to the effect that eVi-
dence has been manufactured BY the prose-
cution. and they will leave nothing undone
to break him down.
Hour after hour Or. Airport answered
questions suggested in the main by Pro-
fessor Dorsey and propeunded BY Assist
ant States Attorney McEwen. The seilsa-
tional statement OF DIR. Airport at the
morning session of court to the effect that
the temporal bone Identified by Professor
Dorsey as being the rlght temporal 9t
female was in reality not temporal bone
al all aroused the prosecution. The ex-
pert conclusion that the exhibit Vas ssv.
temporal bone suggested traud and an at
tempt to manufacture evidence whleh the
prosecution does not relish. The result was
that Assistant States Attorney MeEWen
went at Or. Allport with nrrn ds{efnlna-
tion to learn i the witness really knew
what he was talking about. Questions were
tired at the expert regarding temporal
bones, sesanoids, the phalange in evidence
and other matters with such fapaity thas
Contradiction and this developed sharper
cross questioning, SO that the last two
hours of the expert upon the witness stdha
We're fraught with nerve7testihg anxiety Aof
Professor Dorsey whose evidence pr. Alt
port fatty contradloted, listened attentNelS
pert for the defense He heard his own
story and those of Professor bailey and
IT. Pierce punctured by Dr. AiiBoft with 2
smile Of scorn lowering about ms lips
Later on Professor Dorsey viii so ON the
witness stand to substantiate his original
testimony If he can
Assistant States Attorney McEwen
neatly caught DR., Airport mapping during
the afternoon session The expert was re-
Quested to name a portion OF bone handed
him After a brief examination the expert
said it was part of the skull Of a monkey
Assistant States Attorney McEwen iTnme-
dately asked another question which led
DR. Airport TO believe he had Identified the
exhibit at the first guess, and the expert
confidently entered upon a long disserta.
ton relative to the similarity OF the skull
in some portions to that of human skull.
After he had finished Assistant States At
torRey McEwen reached for the bone the
expert held, and remarked: Well, the
bone is from the skull of a dog.
Dr. Airport looked surprised, but recoy-
ering himself suddenly he observed: Well
il might have been a monkey-faeed dog /"
This was greeted with a laugh, in which
Luetgert Joined.
There was a long wrangie between coun-
sci and the witness over seSamoid bones
and phalanges. This part of the examina-
tiQn became 50 technical and scieatitic that
the majority of the spectators became tired
and many of them left the building. Even
Judge Tuthill became drowsy and dozed
for a moment, only to awaken with start
that ratified the bones piled up on the
court railing near him. much to the amuse-
ment of the spectators.
1t Is likely that the cross6re of the ex-
perts will be kept up for nearly another
week, After they have finished. Luetgert
will be called Although ex-Judge Vincent
does not believe Luetgerts evidence is nee
essary, yet in his opening statement he
told the jury that the big sausa gemaker
would talk TO them from the witness stand
and he said to-day he would not disappoint
the Jury.