The San Francisco call., 1897-12-11
Boston People Talk of
the SauSage-M Makers
Wife.
Said She Would Not Return
to Chic ago Unless Her Hus-
band Was Convicted.
Spoke of the Rings Found In the
Vat and Said They Were Among
Jewelry She Left at Home.
Special Dispatch to The CALL

BOSTON, Dec 10-"Mrs. Luetgert, the
supposed victim in the sausage factory
murder, is alive and we'll. Mrs. Luetgert
was seen in this city during the month OF
July, and acknowledges her identity, be-
sides giving more or less explanation reIa-
tive to she reasons which caused her 10
leave her husband"
Such was the startling declaration made
by John H. SchnfieId, OF ST. Louis, to a
CALL correspondent tonight.
SchofeId supplemented his statement
further with the positive assurance that
Mr.. Luetgert was az the house BuIfnch
place for a period of three or four days
during the middle OF July last. He sa id
ne based this assurance upon the fact that
Mrs. Lue;gert while in Boston, ackuowI-
edged her full identity, with the assertion
that she left her husband, the Chicago
sausage maker, because of his actions with
other women as we'll as for reasons which
she thought would help him in MS tnan-
cial EN- barrassments in business.
SchofeId says that out of sympathy held
by many old business associates OF Luet-
CERT In the cass, and the fact that Luet-
CERT Is now penniiess, he has for sew eral
months past been engaged in the mission
VI AL0kllS BITS LutLGCEls he was &C
quainIed with the family.
Mrs. John Moss boards at the house
where Mrs Luetgert stayed Mrs. Moss
said to The CALL man: ''She was known
at this house a Miss Mile Barker. She
did not say where she came from. One
afternoon, upon looking iuio her room, I
found her WI, a pa per in her hand appa-
rently much distressed. She pointed 10
an article In relation TO the trial of Luer-
CERT. The woman suddenly looked up and
rem arked that YOU would be surprised
II l tot you who [ was Thereupon she
said, Why. l am Mrs. Luetgert'
''She said she had left her husband BE-
cause OF his cad actions, and that she did
not propose to go back to him. She said
also that her go ng away was intended TO
help Lue' CERT rather than hurt him in his
business. She said that people in Chicago
would naturally sympathiZs with Luet-
CERT by reason OF his wife having left him.
Inc 81 mpa lhy thus given the husband
would naturally lead 10 more or less sym-
pathy for him in his financial troubles.
II called her attention to the finding OF
the rings IN The vat where the bodv was
supposed to have been thrown and con-
sumed i'm ediately after the murder.
she in reply said that the rings found in
the vat were portion ot he- iaweIry
which she left at home upon her de-
parture, and she cou.d not understand
how the rings found their way to the vat
IN the factory. She said that she would
not return 70 Luetgert or make known he~
existence unless Luetgert was convicted
and stood upon the scaffold She said
considerably more regarding her troubles.
much o. which l do not care 10 talk about.
Mrs. LuetCert became more or less
fr ghtened after she had made known that
she WAS Mrs LUetgert. On the following
afternoon she went out with an ordinary
satchel or handbag in her hands and
since then no one has seen her at the Bull
finch place house,