Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-30
WHEN EXPERTS DIFFER
What viii the Jury in the Luet.
CERT Wife Murder Case Be
Likely 70 Decide?
DORsEY's BONEOLCGY AssAILED.

What He ClHmed To he from q Woman
DIR. Airport Is Positive Is from a Hog
Actual Experiments Show That the
Part Of the Bone Produced by the state
l. Destroyed in the Nat-Prof Longs
Important and Interesting Testimony.
Chicago. Sept. 30.-Hog or human?
This is the issue in the Luetrert case at
present. The defense proved yesterday
that the bone which DR.. Dorsey, the
ostcClCEist of the Columbian museum,
declared was the fenur Of a human be-
irg, Of woman. and Of a woman DELI
cate in Physical structure, as was Mrs
Lue;gcrt, IS nothing hut the bone OF a
hog. Il came from n hog Of delicate Or
g2niz2ti0n. 50 said the expert for the de-
ierse, but it was nothing but hog, for
al! that. The femur was rather small
Tor the usual run Of hogs, but this was
a sTndll-boncd hos, ard there was no
doubt Of the origin Of the bore. The
witness who declared all this for the de-
feEse was DR.. W. II. Allpcrt. professor
Of descriptive and comparative anatomy
IN The Northwestern University.
Was VERY Pusi.iv. Witness.
ner that the feEur was that cf a hog.
and that there was no chance of his he
iIg mistaken in the matter. DIR. Dorsey
who declared for the state that he fe-
mur was that Of woman. was in the
court room when DR.. Airport was on the
stand. and his face flushed when the ex-
pert for the defense declared that the
bone came from q hog. He viii take the
stand when the time comes for the state
to offer its evidence in rebuttal and insist
to the jury that the femur is not that Of
hog but Of human being. Of awornau.
and of woman Of delicate physical or
ganization. The declaration of Allport
clearly defines the issue between himself
and Dorsey. They are the re.pectiye
leading eXrerts Of the defense ard pros
ecution. Both pride themselves upon
their regulations, and a battle roval Will
be the result
Draws Pictures Of the r,ones
Or. Airport drew pictures Of what he
said represented the human fenllr and
the hogs femur. ard explai0ed to the
jury the difference between them. The
dlffererce was principally in the socket
OF the hip joint. according to the wit
ness He declared that the knob. or
joint. end Of the femur in evidence was
much smaller than that Of the average
person. ana that undoubtedly the hone
was the fcmur Of Il small-bored hog
AHfT0-t vii, be cross-exauined after the
has testified further rconcernfnrmetacar-
pal. sasamcrd and temporal bones
Previous to Allport's testimony Profes-
scr J. y. We.srer gave sEidence in sl1p-
port Of DR.. Reise's testimony in correc-
ucn with the experiments with human
bodies made in the watts in the Iuetgert
factory early in the present month. His
testimony was Of Il corroboratfve char
acter.
CroSS-Evamination OF Ecise
Dr. Riese was Cross-examineI ard the
state got little satisfaction from him.
lie admitted that one little bore of the
defense might have been subjected to
the action Of 2 solution of potash. but as
to the others declared his belief that
they had never been. He believed as he
dlc as the result Of n hundred or so ex-
periments he had made to ascertain facts
Of this kind. He showed that in his
actual eXperiments-not by inference
like the alleged boiling Of Mrs. T.uet-
Eerts hody-the very parts Of the bones
that the state introduced were the Darts
that were Cissolved-the erds. the artic-
ulatiors. The bone he admitted might
have been subjected to n potash solution
was n metacarpal bore. but he said II
was not such a solution as the Lazt-
CERT vat contained. The state has n rib
with the articulation complete, and this
bone ReiSa declared had never been in
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