The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-06

partner. Mrs Charles said that upon
several occasions Mrs. Luetgert had
said to her I'm going away. My hus-
band has failed in business, and peo-
pie will now point their fingers at me
and say She is the wife of the sau-
sagemaker who failed cannot
stand that
On May the witness said she saw
Mrs. Luetgert for the last time. 1t was
about II o'clock in the morning. Mrs.
Luetgert again said she was going
away, and repeated that she could not
stand the disgrace the failure had
brought upon her family. "She turned
away, and I never saw her again"
| concluded the witness.
DRAMATIC SCENE.
A dramatic scene followed. 1t has
been agreed that Luetgert has offered
an explanation of every accusation of
the prosecution except the rings found
in the middle vat in which the body
of Mrs. Luetgert is alleged to have
been disintegrated. The rings found
in the vat were stuck together when
discovered, according to the story OF
Policeman Dean, who found them. Ex-
perts who examined them said the
rings were glued together by human
flesh. In one of these rings were en-
graved ''L 1.-the initials of Mrs.
Luetgert The theory of the prosecu-
ton was that they had dropped from
the dissolved finger of Mrs. Luetgert
in the vat and had been glued togeth-
er by flesh tissues. The defense put off
an explanation of these rings until the
last moment. 1t was the climax of the
sausage-maker's story.
Did you ever see Mrs. Luetgert
wear finger rings?" asked Attorney
Phalen, after Mrs. Charles had finish
ed telling about the missing woman's
threats to leave home.
81 have" replied the witness.
Glow many?
'She wore two"
Were they gold rings?"
"They WERE
"You saw them often?"
Eyes, very often"
Describe them-can you?"
Both were plain gold rings, nearly
equal in size-as to the width l mean.
One of them | am Sure-perhapS both
contained Mrs. Luetgert's initials"
did you ever see this ring l now
hand your
It was one of the rings found in the
vat. People in the court room stood
up and craned their necks with
breath1ess interest while the witness
examined the ring. The big court room
was hushed as the crowd of spectators
strained their ears to catch the reply
of Mrs Charles
mo, sir; never saw that ring be-
FORE she finally answered. ut is
narrower than either of those Mrs.
Luetgert wore"
The other ring was handed her, and
the witness gazed at it fer some time.
This ring is about the size of one OF
the rings she wore'' said Mrs. Charles,
"but I cannot tell do not think 1T is
one of them"
States Attorney Deneen questioned
the witness sharply. He asked her
why she did not tell this story to the
police or to Justice KerSten long ago.
She replied that she had told it to
Luetgert's attorneys, and was not
asked to tell it again.
Fred Miller, a nephew of Luetgert,
who had worked for the latter in the
grocery department of his sausage fac
tory. testified that he had the watch
of Mrs. Luetgert. He produced it
upon the witness stand. The witness
said that Mrs. Luetgert gave it to him
to carry, saying she feared Luetgert
would take it away from her, as ne
seeded about her having so much Jew
elry, when, as a matter of fact her
watch and rings were all the jewelry
she had.
The unexpected cessation of the evil
dence of the defense found the prose-
cution unprepared to go on with its
rebuttal. Court was adjourned until
tomorrow. States Attorney Deneen
said today he would put on eighty wit
nesses in rebuttal, and that ten of
them would be from Kenosha, Wis,
where it was said by witnesses Mis-.
Luetgert was seen May 3, and 3.