The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
TESTIMONY IS ENDING.
Close ofthe Luetgert Murder Trial
Now in Sight.
VERDICT Is EXPECTED OCT. Is.

At that Time the Case VIII Have Been on
Actual Trial for Seven Weeks-Attorneys
To Begin Their Arguments on Monday
Grand Jury To BE Called to Testify for
the State-Mrs. Feldt Again on the Wit
ness stand.
Chicago, Oct S.-The end Of the Luet-
CERT case is in sight. BY Friday night
all the evidence will be before the jury.
No court will be held Saturday, as the
attorneys on both sides will need that
day TO prepare for their final arguments,
and Judge Tuthil is to be one of the
patriots who will go to the Nashville
exposition to uphold the pride and glory
of Illinois, Next Monday the addresses
TO the jury will begin. Assistant States
Attorney McEwen will make the first
argument, opening for the prosecution.
Attorney Phalen and Vincent will plead
for Luetgert and States Attorney De-
neen will close the debate. All the
speakers will require a day each, and
Mr.. McEwcn says he may need even
more time. 1t is therefore expected
that the verdict will be returned a week
from Saturday. The case will then have
been on trial seven weeks. Judge Chet-
lain will be called as a witness in the
case, and with him will be subpoenaed
ten members Of the grand jury that in
dicted Luetgert for the murder Of his
wife.
VIII Testify for the state.
They will testify for the state to inn
peach the evidence of Mary Siemering.
Besides Judge Chetlain and the grand
jurors there will be ten other witnesses
to swear that Mary Semering disregard
ed the truth i'm her desire to shield her
former employer. That makes twenty
eight in all to refute the girls testimony.
Three of them testified at the morning
session Thursday. Judge Chetlain and
the grand jurors will swear that Mary
made certain admissions in the grand
jury room, which she denied point
blank when called to the stand by the
defense. Some of the admissions re-
ferred to her relations with Luetgert.
Others concerned her belief of the de-
fendant's knowledge Of his wifes fate
and his peculiar actions the days follow
ing her disappearance. When cross-ex-
amined by Assistant States Attorney
McEwen she hlindly declared that she
had never said such things, in spite Of
the fact that the members of the grand
jury heard all her testimony and were
able and ready to controvert her elev-
enth-hour denials.
Denied Charges of Intimidation.
Captain Schuettler and Police Matrons
Mcmahon and Brown were on the stand
Thursday and denied the charges made
by the Siemering woman that she had
been intimidated and abused by the po-
lice. Schuettler also declared that she
had made the statements rejecting on
Luetgerts innocence, which she after
wards repudiated when called as wit
ness by the defense. Mrs. Feldt was
also on the stand, and declared that
both William Charles, Luetgert's busi-
ness associate, and his wife, had urged
her to swear that the rings found i'm
the vat were not Mrs. Luetgerts. Carl
Schroeder. who worked i'm Luetgert's
meat market until last March, was the
first witness called when the state re-
sumed its rebuttal at $50 o'clock He
said he was a foreman of the work Of
disposing of the meat scraps and had
frequent occasion to go into the ice
house. The factory closed down in Feb
ruary. II made the last sausage Feb.
90" said he. and proceeded to state that
there was more or less tallow kept in the
factory icehouse in barrels
Conld Not Remember.
WAS there any tallow in the icehouse
when you quit last March," asked Nc
Even, to show that there was none in
the factory from which Luetgert could
have made the soft soap about which
the defense has made so much capital
The witness said he thought not. but
couldn't remember for certain. Mr.. Nc
Even had the witness explain the sort
of tallow produced in making sausage
and then turned him over to the defense
for cross-examination. Mr.. Phalen
brought out the fact that Schroeder had
worked for Luetgert since 1882. The at
torney for the defense finally let the wit
ness CO. after getting him to say that
he knew nothing about the tallow used
at the factory.