Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-11
Is 1T MRS. LUETGERT
Alleged Letter From Her Received by
Chicago Police.
DATED new YORK, OCTOBER 8
Little Credence Placed in lt--Case
Comes to Abrupt Close.
ARGUMENTS BEGIN TODAY

CHICAGO. October 11.--A letter address,
| ed to Chief of Police Ripley. and purport-
| ing 10 be from Mrs. Louise Luetgert. was
| received at police headquarters today. The
| letter was dated October ., and was sent
| from New York city.
Little If any attention will be paid to It
| by the police. The signature is spelled
Luetrigart." and this alone they saw. is
enough to brand the letter as q fraud The
letter is quite long, and is written in Eng
lsh, which it is said the missing woman
was unable to speak. Ii states that the
writer is now living with family at 3O4
Palisade avenue Jersey City, and that she
was doing chamber work at the Mctropole
Hotel.
The writer implored Chief Kiplay to save
LuetSert. as she said he was innocent of
the charge against him. The letter stated
that Mrs. Luetgert woud never return fo
her husband, because she was afraid he
would Kill her, and that she was going "a
1ermany as soon as she could earn money
enough to take her there. Her where
abouts since her disappearance last Nav
Is also given. According to the letter Mrs
l-uetgert first went to Wisconsin then 10
tiint' Mich. then to Detroit. and from
there to New York city.
Sudden End of Trial.
The Luetgert trial came to a sudden and
unexpected close today. Witnesses which
tiie utltNse ndC called IN Surrebuftal failed
to respond when their names were called
and finally ex-Judge Vincent announced to
the court tfat the case of the defense was
all In.
When court opened the taking of sur
rebuttal evidence began.
Fred j. Swift, court stenographer, was
called to the s~itnesse stand to impeach
was employed by Luetgert at the latter's
sausage factory. Stenographer Swift re-
ported Odorofskys evidence before Justice
kersten He testified that Odorofsky tes-
titled before the justice that he was not
at the Luetgert sausage factory on May
l. but on the day prior to that. During
the present trial Odcrofsky testified that
he was there May |.
VIM. Lester and Fred I.estar were callaa
successfully and testified that they saw
tallow and grease lying beside the ice box
In Lutgerts sausage factory. IL was
brought out on crosse xamination that The
grease was observed on Nav Il and the
evidence of these two witnesses was of lit
tie value. Then the defense started IN to
repulse the attack which had been made
upon the reputation of William Charles.
Luetgert's business partner and one of
the strongest witnesses the sausage maker
had D. H Brown. resident of Chicago
Tor forty-eight years. said he had known
Charles intimately for four years and
that the reputation for truth and honesty
OF Charles was good. The prosecution took
the witness through a lively cross-exami-
never had any business rela tions with
Charles and only met him occasionally.
Argument Begins Today.
After a brief consultation by the counsel
in the case it was agreed to begin argu-
ments to the jury this afternoon. Assist
ant States Attorney McEwen opened. He
will be followed by Attorney Phalen. Ex-
Judge Vincent will close for the defense
and States Attorney Deneen will close for
the prosecution. The case VIII go TO the
jury probably next Saturday night
Luetge-t expressed his pleasure over the
fact that today marked the opening of the
last week of his trial. He was not alone in
his appreciation of this fact. Every one
connected with the proceedings is tired of
1t. ii has been a long-drawn-out and
hard trial. said States Attorney Deneen
Il am positively elated over the fact that
We are SO close to the date When the case
will be gwen over to the jury"