The times., 1897-08-25
LuETGERT's FIGHT F0RL|FE
Chicago Sausage Maker ON Trial
for Wife Murder.
CASE TO ATTRACT SCIENTISTS
Expected the Trial VIII Last Long
and Produce Many Sensations
Counsel for Defense Moves 10
Withdr raw Plea of Not Guilty and
Demur to Indictment.

Chicago, Aug. 24-One of the sensations
whichtlie Stateexpects to springin the Luet'
CERT wife murder case. now ON hearing IN
the criminal court, will be he testimony or
Prof Walton s. Haines, of Rush Medical
College.
lie will TESTIFY that he found indisputabie
evidence in the ashes taken from under the
boiler in Luetgert's sausage factory that a
skeleton was ineinerated In the fires from
which he ashes resulted. These ashes nave
been found to contain insoluble phoSphates
resulting from the incineration OF animal
bones
1t was learned yesterday that Prof.
Haines' experiments have been highly sue
ccssful and that he has secured what
the State S most in want Of i'll Its case,
convincing evidence that a human body
was destroyed at the Leutgert factory
some time prior To May %.
The State has always connected the
furnaces of the boiler with the alleged
destruction of the missing wonIan's body.
But all visible traces had been eradicated.
How To account for the firing of the
%, puzzled them. II, as they claim, the
body waS.dissolved in the strong potash
solution. WHY did Luetgert use the furnace,
and why did he carefully rake out the
ashes? This vas the problem that pre-
scented itself to the police.
When Frof. Haines was called in he
viewed the case from purely scienufic
standpoint. The evidence, as the state had
collected 1t, was presented TO hitn Wheil
the search OF the factory had been practi-
cally completed. he came to the rescue OF
the police with the proposition that II the
ashes taken from the furnace that day could
be secured ne could discover what they con
tanned, and if d body had been destroyed
OF, as tie police believed, skeleton had
been inctnerated, he could prove IL beyond
the question OF doubt This Conference
as held on Saturday, May %, week
after Luetgert had been arrested.
AS q result of that conference several
officers madeoa bmsied trip To the fac
| tory. The pile OF ashes that was last
| taken from the furnace was still IN its
place. 1t Lad been carefully sifted aud
searched in the hope OF finding soits clew
This was all gathered up and taken TO thd
laboratory OF Prof Haines at the Rush
l
Medical College.
| Every effort was made at the time to
keep the takihg away of the ashes a
secret, and the friends of Luetgert never
suspected what the State had done. Dur
| Ing the three months that have elapsed
| Prof Haines has made the Hece ssary chem
| icaI analysis. II is known that the re
suit Of the scientists Investigations are
| such as to support the theory of The po
] hce. The pladSphates We're found in sGct
! quantities that Prof. Heines VIII tesUif!
! that, beyond the question OF doubt
a large amount of bones were destroyed
in the fire from which the ashes resulted
Somewhat Of sensation was sprsine
| today when court convened. As soon rs
| Judge Tuthin assembled the bench counse
| for the defense made a motion to b:
allowed u withdraw the plea OF not
| guilty and enter a demurrer and motion
to quash the indictment and every coun
thereof.
Judge Tuthnl overruled the motion. ant
in response To the judges question the ds
fense again entered a plea of not guilty
The trial promises to he long drawn out
the defense having raised the question o
| constir utionaiity Of the new jury law.