The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-06
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FIGHT FOR A MANS LIFE
Review of the First Week Of the
Luetgert Murder Trial.
Str CircumStantiaI Case Being
Made Out by the state Against
the sausagemaker.

Chicago, H., Sept. 6 The end OF the
first week of the great Luetgert murder
trial slows e; distinct adv antage for the
State, the latter being aided 10y one or
two blunders on tie part of the defense
such as the cross-qGestiOning OF Police
Captain schuettler, which brought out
facts not at all Favorable to the character
of Grotte, the New York man who cialmed
60 have seen Mrs. Luetgert in Broadway
a week after her disappearance from here
The taking OF the testimony began on
Monday. when Luetgert son, Louis'twelve
years old, swO-e that he heard ms mother
moving around the house at mid night
onthe nigntof her disappearance Theprose-
cution declares the woman was dead and
her body in the vat of the factory by that
time. Although Louis was State wit
ness he had never given On intiInation OF
any such Testimony as that. He V IS not
cross-ex auHned, but will be used by the
defense later.
Dietrich BiCkners, ,brothe er OF Mrs Luei gert,
testified as 10 uetgert's indifference a.
the time OF mis- wife's cIsappear1nC'', and 10
tine difficulty experienced IN inducing the
husband 20 take steps TO find her. This
wituess admitted, however. that he had
borrowed nuney from Luetgert and had
nc friendly feeling toward him.
Mrs Agatha TosCh. wife OF a saloon
keeper, whose place is opposite Luet CERT )
factory, told un Tuesday how Luetgert
persistently in-treated his wife, and how
excited and pale he was on the day succeed-
ing her disappearance. Mrs. IOsch asked
the prisoner on Mag ) where nis wife was
and Ee said he did not know and was in
nucent os any desire to put her "ut of
the way.
Mrs Tosch said Luetgert had once told
her with a motion of his fist To COrre-
spond witt. his words: Il could ia Ike her
ana crush her" At another time he had
told her with regret how ne had sent FOR
q doctor wien his wife was III, when, IF
1 had waited a minute longer the dead,
rotten beast would have Croa ked."
PRANK Bialki, an old watchWan, told how
he helped Iuel CERT put the potash in the
vat IN tie basement of the Sausage factory,
and how Luet gertturped steam intOi on the
night Of Mrs. Luetgert's 5 disappearance and
then seat him out for things at the drug
store When the watchman returned he
could not get In. but he could see that Luet-
CERT was moving around with alightcd Ian
tern.
The watchman's testimony wascOntinued
on " Wednesday. He confessed he was afraid
ofLuet CERT, ard hencedid notspy yver yclOse-
ly upon fim through the doors or windows,
and that he had been in charge ofthe police
since Luetgert's arrest.
Tho defense made a good point y hen it
showed that Ldetgert never made any at
tempt to hide the potash; that steam was
used in the factor continually, and that the
pot ash was aningredienti in soap making.
Frank Odorofsky, a smoker" in Luei gert's
emI hoy, found three doors and pieces OF gun
py-saC6 / V the vat the morning after Mrs.
Iueagert's disappearance, and the theory OF
the state is that they were used to cover
the vat while the disintegration OF the tOdy
was eCiirgo on. OdOrofsky helped TO break up
the chunks of caustic pUtash, having mis-
hands and face burned in the operation. He
raw it put into the vat in the basement, and
the next day he saw a red, bad-suelling
sticky slime oozing out of the vat. This
slime had some white pieces in it. The State
kdys they Were parts OF bones.
Mrs. Luctgert's alleged rings, found by
tie police in the vat, were identified Fri
day 10y Mrs. Ida Harris, Mrs. Alvina
Staulser and Sophia Tews. Mrs. Harris
had know n Mrs. Luetgert for thirty years,
and had seen the rings many times.
The States attorney says he has some
thing tEat will be a ha rd nutfor the defense
to crack. lie has a portion OF skull, sew
eral teeth and he first jsint of what is he
leved 10 be the left inoeX finger Of a hu
man hand Testimony has been introduced
10 show that particles OF flesh were found
I'm and around the vat, but 70 far there has
been doubt as 10 the ability of the State to
prove that these Were human flesh.
just " here the teeth and piece of skull
were found the state Will not divulge for
the prosecution does not wish to give the
defense any sort OF advantage whatever
IL is not o large piece OF skull, but States
Attorney McEwen said the bones would be
most convincing evidence when introduced,
along with the expert testimony of Profs.
Delafontaue and Haines that they are hu-
man.