The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-22
ALL OF THE DIRECT TESTIMONY
AGAINST LUETGERT SUBMIT
TED AT LAST.
MOTIVE EVIDENCE VALID.
THE OBJECTION OF THE DEFENSE
OVERRULED BY THE TRIAL
JUDGE.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS AHEAD
Attorneys for the Sausage Maker
Promise to Keep the Public
Interest Excited.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The direct evil
dence in the Luetgert case is in and
the state has rested. Shortly after
o'clock this afternoon, the last witness
OF the prosecution was heard. This
witness was Mrs Louise Miller john
son. She came into court supported by
capt. Herman Schuettler, of the Shelf
field avenue police station. Mrs. John
son has been i'll for several weeks and
the prosecution feared the woman
would not be able to appear to testify.
Her evidence was important as show
ing Luetgert's attitude towards his
Wife. "A carriage was sent to her home
on the North side, and Mrs. Johnson
MADE the trip to the court house at
tended by friend. She was quite ex-
hausted when she reached the criminal
court building, and almost tainted at
the elevator leading to Judge TuthilPs
court room. When sworn. Mrs. John
son testified that, upon one occasion,
she saw Luetgert in a rage chase
his wife out of their house. The big
sausage maker, the witness said, was
armed with revolver He called his
wife names and threatened to shoot,
Ool oid liOl.
Ex-Judge Vincent did not cross-ex-
anime this witness at length When
she left the stand State Attorney De-
neen said: eff the court pleases. the
state rests There was a general
movement in the crowded court room
as the spectators glanced toward Luet
CERT and his counsel. Luetgert leaned
Toward and whispered to ex-Judge
Vincent. The latter arose and made a
hot |.
from the jury on the ground that the
state had failed to make out a case.
Juoge Tuthlll promptly overruled the
motion without argument.
Ihen eX-Judge Vincent stated that,
owing to the lateness of the hour. he
would like to postpone his opening adj
dress to the jury until tomorrow morn
ing. There was no objection to this and
an adjournment was taken.
1t required just twenty days for the
presentation of the evidence of the
| prosecution. EX-Judge Vincent said
tonight, the defense would present it's
| slde OF the case in just half that time
MY address to the jury in opening
Will be short and directly to the point
SAID he We deny the murder--the
corpus delecti has not been proved as
the law requires. This fact cannot be
assumed nor inferred from such testi-
mony as has been presented here We
VIII explain away all the evidence
brought out here by the police depart
ment after months of investigation and
manipulation. l do not care to give
| out in full our defense until we pet
| started, but l promise some startling
developments before We are through y
Judge Tuthlil, as soon as court con-
vened today, ruled that the motive eyi-
dence of Frank Bialk and Frank Odor-
ofsky former employees of the big sau-
sage MAKER was admissible as long as
1t was direct. This was the matter
taken under advisement last Satur-
! day. The evidence of these two men
is In relation to the frequent visits TO
Luetgert's sausage factory of Mary
S1emmerinS, Luetgert's servant 1t is
the theory of the state that Luet-
| gert's alleged attentions to other
women were the original cause of the
trouble with his wife, and his persist
ence in open firtations with other
women eliminated in a continual war
fare between husband and wife, Luet-
CERT, it is believed by the prosecution,
| in order to pursue his course undis-
turbed conceived the idea of getting
| rid of his wife and did so.
Frank Bialk, the aged Waterman at
the Luetgert sausage factory, who be-
| sides watching the premises at night
kept fires burning in the furnaces. was
the first witness called this morning to
| show the motive. He said that Mary
| Siemmering paid frequent visits to
Luetgert in the latter's office in the
sausage factory. The last time the
witness remembered seeing Mary Stem
mering there was one week before May
| 1, the date of the disappearance of
Mrs. Luetgert. The witness said that
| Mary Siemmering visited Luetgert or
an average of three times a week for
months before Mrs. Luctgert disap-
peared. This had been going on for
three or four years before May l, of
| the present year.
Ex-Judge Vincent sharply cross-ex-
amined Bialk. He asked him If he had
not been constantly with Detective
Klinger since a month before the trial
opened. and the witness said he had.
Then the lawyer wanted to know if
he was not telling story which had
been prepared for him by the prosecu
ton The old man shook his head slow
ly, and replied:
mo. I am telling the Gods truth"
! Frank Odorofsky testified to sub
| stantially the same story.
The evidence of Bialk and Odorofsky
| closed the case of the prosecution.