Iron County register., 1897-09-30
THE NOTED LuETeERr CASE.

tionRl lTestimony-Witnesses for the State
Impeached-rhe Missing Woman Seen
and Talked With Since the Date of the
Supposed Murder.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-The crowd at the
courthouse was larger than usual, and
the struggle to secure admission to the
courtroom partook of the nature OF a
riot. Hundreds were turned away. and
the officers on duty at the door had
several encounters with unruly visit
ors.
CHARGES OF INTIMIDATION.
The trial opened with a sensation in
timation by ex-Judge Vincent that the
police were intimidating the witnesses
for the defense. Ex-Judge Vincent,
soon after court opened, asked that the
jury be excluded while he made a
statement to the court. After the jury
retired ex-Judge Vincent, with indig-
nation in his tones, and force in his
declaration, said
JUDGE vINCENT's STATEMENT.
''If the court please. there is strong
reason to believe that the police are
interfering with witnesses for the de-
fense, and trying to intimidate them.
I do not say absolutely that this is
true, but the indications point almost
directly to that conclusion. I desire
an order of court prohibiting such
action on the part of the police or the
prosecution.
WARNING FROM THE COURT.
'T will say now for the benefit of the
police, +" said Judge Tuthill, with sever
ity in his tone. ''that if l hear of any
in nterference with witnesses on either
side of this case I will deal with the
offend er, and my dealing will not be
gentle. This defendant has rights
here, and they will be protected"
mPEACHING EMMA sCHIMPKE.
When the jury was recalled Rosa
Gleich was placed on the witness stand
for cross examination. This witness
was called to impeach the evidence of
Emma Schimpke, given on the direct
examination by the prosecution. She
stated that she was with Emma
Schimpke on the night of May un-
til IL o'clock, and remained
with the Schimplze girl until
the latter entered her home. She
denied emphatically that either of
them had seen Luetgert and his wife
leave the latter's residence and go to
the sausage factory as described. She
denied also that Gotlieba Schimpke,
who testified that she also saw Luet.
CERT and his wife, was with Emma and
herself that night.
SAID EMMA ADMITTED SHE LIED.
The witness said that Emma
Schimpke, since she had testified in
the case, had admitted to the witness,
in the presence of others, that she had
lied. According to the witness, EN-
ma Schimpke said she lied be.
cause Gotlieba, her weak-mind-
ed sister, had got her into
the Luetgert case-and she will testify
on Luetgert's side. The witness also
stated that Emma Schimplze tried to
get her to tell the same story Emma
had told to save the latter's reputa-
ton.
ON INSTRUMENTATION.
witness with one OF the most remarka-
BILE cross-examinations ever heard in
the criminal court His questions
were fred at her with rapidity of a re-
peating rifle worked to the limit
of its speed. The witness was quick
witted and replied promptly for
awhile, but she was not as resourceful
as the lawyer, and after half an hour
she became confused and her face
blazed with excitement. Then she be-
gan to contradict herself as to inn
portant particulars, and made correc-
tions which weakened her evidence.
Harry Fielder corroborted Rosa
G1eich's story and asserted that the
mother of the Schimplse girl compelled
the latter to tell the story she did.
SAID HE SAW MRS. LUETGERT MAY 3.
George Sholey, bartender at the
Maple house in Kenosha, Wis, testi-
fed that he saw Mrs. Luetgert on the
night of May 3. He said she came
into his saloon, weary and with be-
draggled skirts. as if she had
walked far. She inquired the direc-
tion to the house of a farmer named
Mueller. The following day Shaley
said he saw the woman again at
Spring Bluff, a suburb of Kenosha.
NAA"ANJ "oS NV "AbA All
Luetgert, but from the description of
her he was positive the woman he saw
was she.
OTHERS TELL THE SAME STORY.
Policeman Henry Feldshaw, of Ke-
nosha, Wis, testified that he saw a
strange woman in the police station of
his town on May 5. The witness said he
afterward saw the woman at the Hotel
Maple. and the following day at the
railway station. He described the
woman as blonde, and said she wore
a sailor hat and slippers. One of the
slippers she had worn was found in the
police station after she had left. The
witness identified the picture of Mrs.
Luetgert as closely resembling the
woman he saw.
William J. Gunsten, a clerk in the
Grant hotel, Kenosha, identified the
photograph as the picture of woman
he saw in his hotel on May 8. He said
she came into the hotel and remained
ten minutes and left. He described
the woman, and corroborated the evil
denee of the other witnesses.
EMMA sCHIMPKE AGAIN.
Emma Schimpke came to the court
room in the afternoon to hear Rosa
Gleich impeach her testimony given on
Wednesday. She was fighting mad