Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-04
BONES YET THE THEME
osteoIogist Is the Big Man in the
Celebrated Chicago Wife.
Murder Case.
D0RSEY's CLAIM AGAIN DISPUTED.

Three More Professors Declare the States
Collection Of Bones . Job Lot and tho
Alleged Temporal Bone . Piece Of
Gaseous Stag. So to Speak-Fight to Go
on This week-Comment ON the Evil
dence So Far Given.
Chicago. Oct. 4.-The close Of the
sixth week OF the celebrated trial Of
Adolph L. Luetgert for the alleged MUIR
der Of his wife showed the case far
from completed. Luetgert's story has
not been heard. The big sausagemaker
may be on the witness stand a week.
1t will take him over one court day to
tell his story under the lead OF his
counsel Then will come the cross-ex.
animation. Luetgert will be carried
through the history Of his life. Luet-
CERT has all along expressed an intense
desire to talk. He has repeatedly de-
olared that he wanted to tell his story
to the jury. Saturday was q field day
for the defense and II weight Of evil
dence Is number Of witnesses the state
mas no human bones in its collection.
Depends on the Sesamoid Bone.
Three other PSYCHOLOGISTS entered the
arena, and they fixed the identity of
the femur, the alleged rib and the sup
posititious temporal bone as something
else than human. The only thing left
then in the states collection Of bones
which they did not positively identify
as something else than the remnant Of
q human being was the sesamoid. None
OF them. however, said the sesamoid
was human. They left it's ancestry in a
shadow OF doubt from which it may be
difficult to lift it. According to their
testimony 1t will be as easy to believe
IL Is knee cap Of q little dog or a
sesamoid from the hind foot Of a hog as
1t Is to conclude it is a bone that grew
on the bunion joint of q woman whose
whereabouts, living OF dead, is an un-
settled question.
Alleged Rib Traced to Its Home.
Two OF the experts were veterinarians
DIR. L. A. Merillat and DIR. 7. Hughes.
the third was DR.. w. T. Eckley, pro-
ressor OF anatomy, connected with the
Northwestern university. The most i'm
portant part Of the astrological combat
was where DR.. L. A. Merillat recognized
the alleged rib. That queer looking
piece Of bone which was called a rib
from a human was trailed to its lair by
DR.. Merillat and there it was found in
the foot OF an OK. which he said was
Its proper abiding place ever since the
first OK. This piece Of bone he named
the navicular bone. DR.. Hughes agreed
exactly with DR.. Merillat, and Dr.. Eek
ley declared that he could not possibly
place the alleged rib in any particular
animal, adding that cit would REQUIRE
the most extravagant speculation to do
co.. TIE court ordered this stricken
out.
Alleged Piece of Temporal Bone.
Possibly the fight has ragged around
the identity Of the alleged temporal
bone as hotly as any other state ex-
hibit. All the experts for the defense
have declared that 1t lacked charac-
teristics that would place it anywhere
and that 1t Is the temporal bone of
nothing. but simply a lot Of bones fused
together. This is why DR.. Merillat re-
Jects 1t as human: 1.-THE chief reason
FOR arriving at this conclusion is that
We have on the upper border of this
specimen a compact tissue between two
layers of cancellated tissue. Now, there
Is no such thing in the organization OF
any animal-a layer Of compact tissue
lying between two layers Of cancella.ed
tissue-no such an example. consequent
~ II Is not a true organization. In or
DER to Identify this as a temporal bone.
should want to see some familiar
structures" None Of such structures he
said, were present.