Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-04
More and Positive Identification Of
His Wifs's Rings.
STATE sRblHes A SENSATION
Mrs. FfIdt} Tells of Conversations
~
She Had With Prisoner.
A TRAGEDY AVERTED

| which WILL he believes. clinch the fate of
the accused sausage maker. 1t is nothing
| less than a portion of Skull number
| of teeth and the first joint of what is be-
| deved to be the left index finger of hui
man hand, which, 1t is claimed, were found
In the vat In the basement of the sausage
| factory. Already testimony has been in
| troduced to .show that there were par
ticles Of flesh found in and around the
vat by the police and others appearing as
| state witnesses, but SO far there has been
doubt as to the ability of the state to
| prove that these were particles of human
| flesh.
| Gruesome and important as these small
particles of bone are, 1t Is believed by the
| attorneys for the state that they will be
convincing when introduced evidence
| along with the expert testimony of Pro-
fes sors Belafontaine and Haines that they
| are human. These two experts, a re-
| suit of experiments recently conducted,
| will, 1t Is said, state positively that it is
which 1t is alleged by the state that Luet-
| CERT worked to destroy and disintegrate
| a human body.
If, as is stated by a man closely asso-
| GATED with the prosecution, a portion of
| a Skull Is introduced and the experts tes-
| tify that 1t Is human, it will be hard for
| the defense to shake the effect it will nave
| on the jury.
The rush of people anxious to hear the
Lretgert trial. and see the lel6ins character
| i'll the now famous case, almost resulted in
a tragedy today On account of the great
crowds which have been gathering in the
Criminal court building all the week, the
| elevators have been forbidden to stop at the
second floor.
Today the floor near the elevator shaft
was packed with people who had just been
| denied passage up the stairway to the
courtroom. and exasperated by the frmness
OF the big deputies, they made a rush just
1 oil atyot np
| slipped by the level of the floor the heavy
| iron door fell into the elevator with a crash,
| carrying several people with it. The ele-
Va.or conductor stopped the car with jerk
ana the would-be passengers all badly
scared and more or less bruised, were picked
up. Had the car assembled few feet fur
ther some fatalities would undoubtedly
have resulted.
More Identify the Rings.
frieda Mueller. niece of Mrs Luetgert,
was the nrst witness. She said the rings
were the ones which Mrs. Luetgert wore
hao'uaiy. Mrs. Christina Pearce of 656
Clybourn avenue followed. She said she
| had known Mrs Luetgert since she. the
| witness, was small girl. Mrs Luetgert
before her marriage to the sausage laker.
hved at The house of witness mother She
| said that at a picnic which Mrs. Luete.rt
attended "a year ago the wedding ring was
the SUBJECT Of conversation, in which it
was remarked that Mrs. Luetger. wore no
other jewelry except her wedding ring. On
cross-examinafion the witness said she had
never seen the wedding ring of Mrs. Lue:-
gert's hand. knew nothing Of the initials
! in 1t, but identified it from it's size ana
| general appearance.
MIS-. Anna eGeisser Of Chicago Heights
was a servant in the Luetgert household
up to the fall of 1889. She identified the
wedding ring and the small guard ring
duced q photograph Of herself. taken in
lSSS. when she wore the two rings Mrs
Luetgert she said. offered her the rings
to have her picture taken.
Mrs. Feldt Causes a Sensation.
There was sensation when Mrs. Chris
| tine Feldt of ISL Claybourn avenue was
called as a witness for the state Mrs
Feldt is the widow whose name has been
| SO often mentioned in connection with the
case. 1t was believed she would be one
of the main witnesses for the defense. bug
| she had not been before the jury two min
utes when it became apparent that she
| had gone over to the prosecution She
produced a bundle of letters written to her
| by Luetgert in his cell in the Jail, and
| carried to her home by Luetgert's son
| dearing- terms. They began, Beloved.
dear Christine" or Beloved Christine
and i'll them Luetgert told of sufferings he
was enduring as an innocent prisoner IN
| the Jail. -
Inspector Setback and his officers were
referred to as the gang that was after
him. and the poll. police were frequently re,
over again, assured his correspondent that
| he would overcome the police and "be with
her again free man.
Asked Her for Money.
Mrs. Feldt testified that Luetgert told
her months ago that he cared more for
Mary Simmering. the servant, than he dio
for his wife. She said she visited his house
! May s. and asked Mary Simmering where
ina hat CHI.
had gone down town, and would be back
shortly. The witness then asked Luetgert
about it, and he told her Mary had lied to
her and that his wife had disappeared
Luetgert said his wife had On former occa-
sions left him for several days without any
explanation. and he did not know where
she had gone. He then made the state
ment that he cared more for Mary than he
did for his wife
The witness told of a visit to Luetgert
at the jail. The prisoner sent her a re-
quest through Judge Vincent, his attorney,
to come to the jail. Luetgert then endeav-
ored to persuade her to loan him money to
pay for his defense. He asked her, she
said, to put mortgage on her house in
order to raise the money.
Witness Has Iynterfcs
The next witness was little Gottiieb E.
Schrimpke. She is fourteen years old, and
her testimony was that on the night of
May l, shortly after IL O'Clock, she and her
sister Annie, returning from a dance in
Belmont avenue, passed the Luetgert
house. Her own home is opposite the Tasch
saloon and is close to the sausage factory.
The girl said she saw Luetgert and his
wife walk around the. corner Of the factory
in to the alley in the rear of it,
This evidence sustains the theory of the
state that Lustgert took his wife into the
factory by way of the furnace room in
the absence -fothe Waterman. whom he
lad sent to sthe. drug store While being
cross-examined the girl became hysterical
and had to be removed from the witness
chair. ca
After her composure had been restored
the cross-exafnination proceeded. and Gott-
Heb saidztsheoiwas taken away from her
home blythe police and locked up as wit
ness. She pQinted out Police Captain
SchuetteF. as the officer who told her she
would be paid money IL she remained with
the police. This was when she cried and
wanted to goshome to her mother. On the
cross-examination the girl said she knew
nothing about the Luetgert case except
what the officers told her. Then the court
took herein hand, and said she did not
swear that she did not see Luetgert and
his wifelG SD
subsequently she said it was her sister,
twenty years old. who saw Mr.. and Mrs |
Luetgert that night and told her mother
about It,
The state put In evidence a statement in
IN, h.xy