The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
DR.. Dorsey's Recent Testimony FIatIy
Contradicted by DIR. w. III. Airport,
Another Expert Witness.
CROWDS OF CURIOUS PEOPLE
ANXIOUS TO HEAR THE EVIDENCE IN
THE FAMOUS MURDER CASE.
The Big Sausage Maker still Seeking
Opportunity to Go on the witness
Stand and Score the Police.

CHICAGO, Sept 29.-Hog or human? That
is the issue in the Luetgert case at present,
and according TO the view of the case
adopted by the jury Is the fate of the de-
PENDANT likely to be. If hog. he will in all
probability go free. If human. there is no
telling what will happen to him, or rather
what may not happen TO him. The defense
proved to-day that the bone which DR.. Dor
sey. the PSYCHOLOGIST of the Columbian Mu-
scum, declared was the femur of a human
being. of woman. and of woman of deli
cate physical structure, was Mrs. Luet-
CERT. is nothing but the bone of hog. 1t
came from a hog of delicate organization,
so said the expert for the defense The
femur was rather small. for the usual
of hogs, but this was a small boDed hog,
and there is no doubt of the origin of the
bone. The witness who declared all this for
the defense was DR.. w. II. Airport, profess
sor of descriptive and comparative anatomy
in the Northwestern University He de-
clared in the most positive manner that the
femur was that of a hog and that there
was no chance of his being mistaken in the
matter. DR.. Dorsey, who proved for the
state that the femur was that of a woman,
was in the courtroom when DIR. Airport was
on the stand, and his face flushed when the
expert for the defense declared that the
bone came from hog. He will take the
stand when the time comes for the state to
offer its evidence in rebuttal and prove to
the jury that the femur is not that of
hog, but of human being and woman of
delicate physical organization.
The declaration of DR.. Airport clearly de-
fines an issue between himself and Prof.
Dorsey. They are the respective leading
experts of the defense and the prosecution.
Doth
and contest will be the result. Dr. ALI
port drew pictures of what he said, repre-
scented human femur and a hogs femur,
and explained to the jury the difference be-
tween them. The difference was principally
in the socket OF the hip joint according to
the witness. He declared that the knob or
joint end of the femur in evidence was
much smaller than that of the average per-
son, and that undoubtedly the bone was the
Iemur of a small bOned hog. Tomorrow
DR.. Airport will be cross-examined after he
has testified further concerning metacarpal,
Secamoid and temporal bones. Previous to
DR.. AllportS testimony, Prof. j. A. Weiss
enger gave evidence IN support of Or.
Riese's testimony in connection with the
experiment with human bodies made in the
watts in the Luetgert factory early i'm the
present month. Ills testimony was of a
corroborative character.
CRUSH IN THE COURTHOUSE.
The crush of humanity at the Criminal
Court building to-day was greater than upon
any other occasion for the past two weeks.
"A report spread that Luetgert himself would
be called to the witness stand to-day to tell
his story to the jury, and people by the hun
dreds struggled TO gain admission to the
courtroom. Many got into the building by
telling the officers or duty at the entrance
that they were called as witnesses in other
rooms. Then they made frantic but unsuc-
cessful efforts to reach the second floor on
which Judge Tuthill's courtroom is located.
Court balnt1s shut the throng off at the
stairways leading TO the court CORRIDOR and
those VINO sought TO reach the courtroom by
means of the elevators were shot up to the
sixth floor by the elevator men and. landed
high above the goal of their ambition.
There was much profanity over this ruse on
the part of the male victims, While the
women and girls stood at the elevator shafts
and scolded till they were hoarse.
Luetgert was in rare good humor. He is
recovering from the injury to his right leg,
and the assistance of crutch is scarcely
necessary as an aid to his locomotion now.
The testimony in his behalf recently has
had a reviving effect on his spirits, and the
scOwl which characterized his features for
a month past has given way TO a decidedly
cheerful expression. Luetgert again ex-
pressed his earnest desire this morning to
go upon the witness stand. He is DESTROYS
to talk to the jury" as he expresses it.
His lawyers, ex-Judge Vincent and Attorney
Phalen, apparently feel somewhat nervous
about putting Luetgert on the stand The
big sausage maker, however, is as relentless
He wants to "get even" with the police and
some of the people who have lied about him,
as he declares. Luetgert'S counsel have
great respect for States Attorney Deneens
ability as a cross-eXamner. They appear to
fear that under the rapid cross-questioning
of the states attorney Luetgert may make
admissions or be led into statements that
will spoil much of the important evidence in
his behalf. The members of the jury were
In good spirits to-day. Last evening they
went out to National League baseball park
and played ball for an hour.
DIR. B. L. Riese was recalled to-day and
questioned as to his experiments with hui
man bodies boiled in a. 10 per cent. solution
of caustic soda The important matter
brought out was his declaration that the
bones produced by the prosecution had
never been subjected to the test of potash
solution He said the surface and general
appearance of the bones which the prosecu-
tion maintains were found in and around the
vat cid not Indicate that they had ever come
In contact with potash solution The other
witnesses were Messrs. Airport and WelS-
enger.
States Attorney Deneen smilingly de-
clared tonight that Professor Dorsey would
settle the question as to the identity of the
bones beyond question when next ne APP
reared on the witness stand. Luetgert and
his lawyers were we'll satisfied with the
showing made, and cx-Judge Vincent said
he could not see the necessity OF Luetgert
going on the witness stand. There is moth
ing for him to deny" remarked ex-Judge
Vincent.
The Florida Orange Crop.
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