The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-08
HE HEARD A CRY.
Witness Testifies to Hearing Screams
on the Night of May 1.

Witness Testif1es to Hearing Screams
on the Night of May 1.
Chicago Sept S.-The alleged wife
murderer Luetgert seemed pleased at
the comments of the papers today re-
garding his entrance into the court
room yesterday. Accordingly, this
morning when he stepped into Judge
Tuthills court room for the 18th day
of his trial, he repeated his smiling sa-
Lutte to the jury and ignored the specta-
tors, who evinced their disappointment
at the slight.
The prisoner attempted to catch the
eye of the presiding Judge, but the lat
ter dignitary completely ignored the at
tempt of the sausage manufacturer to
bid him good morning.
Luetgert held a familiar conversation
of a few minutes length with the news
paper reporters near his seat and then
settled down to a consultation with his
attorneys. He seemed to be in unuS-
ually good spirits, despite the damag
ing evidence heard during yesterdays
sessions.
The spectators continue to be most
1y of the fair sex and the crowds are
growing larger daily. A greater crowd
than ever before congregated today at
the huge stone entrance of the criminal
court building and a score of bailiffS
and many of Police Inspector Schaak's
officers were required to keep open a
passage way.
Nicholas Faber, an employe of Luet-
gert, was put on the stand. He teSti-
fed to having seen Luetgert and his
wife enter the factory on the evening
of May 1. Under cross s-eXamination,
Faber was forced to admit that he did
not know anything that happened on
any other particular date near May L.
He was also unable to tell whether it
was a moonlight night or cloudy. He
simply stuck to the, fact that he had
seen the woman and heard the two talk.
The defense expects to controVert many
minor points of Faber'S testimony.
An incident occurred during Faber's
testimony that showed that Luetgert
was possessed of high temper when
aroused. Bailiff Reid, the colored Off
Ger in whose custody the prisoner is
placed, attempted to restrain his charge
from crossing the witness stand with
his attorneys for the purpose of watch
ing Faber designate on the map the To-
cation where he asserted he saw Mrs.
Luetgert enter the factory. Luetgert
would not brook the restraint and turn
ed on athe bailiff with his face flushed
with anger and denounced the attempt
to deprive him of what he considered
his rights in the trial. Attorney Vim
cent appealed to the court, and Judge
Tuthi1l permitted the defendant to ex-
anime the maps in company with the
attorneys.
ing German and one of the few wit
nesses who rendered his testimony in
English. He told about having heard
the cry of person. but was consldera-
the attorney as to his testimony at the
preliminary hearing. 1t was shown
from the record of the hearing before
the Justice that HengSt had shown his
ignorance as to whether the cry was of
a human or an animal. Today he said
he was quite positive it was the cry of
a human being.
Fritz Figel. who worked for Luetgert
May 4, told how he had emptied bar
rel of ashes in the alley, and Officer
James Smith testified to having
hone
steels in the pile of debris where the
ashes were emptied.
Frederick Ausgustus Schuetz testified
as to former quarrels between Luetgert
and his wife, in which Luetgert had
threatened to take her life The wit
ness is Il years old and feeble. He is
so deaf that Interpreter Lieb was COM
PEELED to stand close to his side in order
to repeat the questions of the attor-
neys.
dermined his testimony to a large eX-
tent, when they gained an admission
from the witness that he was 100 feet
away from Luetgert at the time of the
quarrel How so deaf a man could hear
low tones 100 feet, considerably mysti-
fed the defense and they felt exultant
over securing the evidence
Eugene B. Palmer, reporter for the
Chicago Journal, testified to having
held a small bottle under the stream of
pinkish matter which flowed from the
sluice way of the vat when the police
ed by w. H. Stuart, also a Journal re-
porter who cOrroborated the testimony
of his conferee and also testified to hav-
ing delivered this same bottle of pink
ish slime into the hands of an expert,
who will be called later in the case.
Policeman Bernard Preuss was called
and identified two bits of steel as the
pieces he found in the ashes where the
supposed residue of bones and other
material which was scooped from the
vat was dumped. Policeman Fred Tai
ortiz testified to having found a hair
pin in the same pile of refuse and the
hairpin was produced as evidence after
an objection by Attorney Vincent.
J. d. Odenbrett, and w. G. Cady,
corset makers, were placed on the stand
in succession and positively identified
the two alleged corset steels as having
been the product of their factory. Ger
tain marks on the two bits of metal
were shown to correspond with similar
marks on new steelS which were pro-
duced in court. The witnesses each
testified positively as to the similarity
and also to the fact that the new Steels
were of the pattern usually sold by
their factory. 1t was considered by the
state to be a great blow to the defense
and was unexpected by the latter who
hoped to prove that the two pieces of
steel were scale bands.
The 6-year-old son of D. D. Knox, the
West Sixth street grocer, was thrown
from a horse yesterday afternoon and
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