Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-09

chicago, october S.-Ihe evidence OF
the prosecution in the trial of Adolph
l.. Luetgert is now before the jury. The
State rested its case this afternoon. The
closing testimony was of the same inn
peaching character that marked the
evidence of the preceding Gay.
Prof. Geo. Dorsey had his innings
during the afternoon session of court,
and he made matters unpleasantly
warm for DR.. Airport. Prof. Dorsey
could have talked for hours upon the
subject of osteology. He was primed
with bristling facts concerning bones,
but the prosecution confined the young
astrological expert TO matters tending
to counteract and refute the statements
made by DR.. Airport, the chief expert
of the defense.
Prof. Dorsey called attention to the
fact that during his examination, DR..
Airport had identified the femur of
gorilla as that of man; that he had
identified a human femur as a hogs
femur; had declared that the sesamoid
of a buffalo was the patella of a dog,
and had given it as his opinion that
piece of the temporal bone of a sheph-
erd dog was the temporal of a monkey.
DR.. Airport listened to this evidence
with half incredulous smile playing
upon his lips. But the evidence was
not productive of anything bordering
upon merits with the attorneys for the
defense.
Ex-Judge Vincent cross-examined the
witness briefly without material bene-
fit and let him go.
Then Judge Arthur F. Chetlain was
called to the stand to add the finishing
touch to the Impeachment of Mary
Siemmering. When this young woman
was first arrested and charged with
guilty knowledge of the disappearance
of Mrs. Luetgert, her attorneys applied
to Judge Chetlain for a writ of habeas
corpus. Judge Chetlain, sitting in
chambers, had Mary Siemmering
brought before him and questioned her
I.--~-Is.y-,--r- tc5tfii--tiT JUsr.uy that she
told him that she had not made the ap-
plication for release, but that her law
yer, Arnol Trip, had done so and had
set up the charges in the petition. She
told Judge Chetlain she had not been
mistreated at the police station and that
she had gone to the East Chicago ave-
nue. police station voluntarily and was
willing to return there, as she knew she
would soon be discharged, because she
had done nothing wrong. Owing to
this state of facts, Judge Chetlain dis
missed the petition and the young wo-
man returned to the police station.
This evidence demolished the story
of Mary Siemmering, who declared
while on the witness stand that she
was subjected to indignities at the
hands of Inspector Setback Captain
Schuettler and other policemen
Angelica Schrader, nurse who was
a member of Luetgert's household for
three months, said that the missing wo-
man was most affectionate mother
A sensation was created in the court
room when a woman. attired in Innu'r-
ing garb, assembled to the witness stand
and held up her hand to be sworn.
Tears were in her eyes as she sank into
the witness chair. The woman was Mrs.
Wilhelmina Miller. a sister of Mrs.
Luetgert. She is so firmly impressed
that Mrs. Luetgert is dead that she
some weeks ago donned a garb of
mourning in memory of her sister. Mrs.
Miller testified while her Drumming
eyes were fixed upon the face of Luet-
CERT. The big sausage maker return
ed the gaze Of his sister-in-law cool
ly. Mrs. Miller told of the kindly dis
position of her sister and asserted that
no mother was ever more patient or
more kind to her children.
Fred Miller, a nephew of Luetgert,
and Diedrich Bicknese, a brother of
Mrs. Luetgert, testified to having been
frequent visitors to the home of the
Luetgerts and to the kindness Mrs.
Luetgert had for her children. This
evidence was called out to combat and
impeach the evidence of Mary Stem
mering and Mrs. Mary Charles, who
testified that Mrs. Luetgert treated her
children cruelty. With this evidence
the State rested
5 The day opened with a continuation
of the impeachment evidence produced
yesterday States Attorney Deneen
furnished cap sheaf in the shape of
the impeachment evidence of Prof. Geo.
Dorsey, of the Field Columbian Mu-
scum, chief astrological expert for the
1tabO III Ills LIldi. fDIOl. DOTS6E WAS
called to dispute the evidence of DR.. H.
W. Airport, the principal witness for
the defense. The youthful appearing
professor was loaded to the muzzle with
information upon sesamoids, metacar-
pals, femurs, temporals and other bones
which combine to form the human and
animal physical structures. He had
some hot shot for DR.. Airport and the
other scientific gentlemen whose testi-
mony, if accepted in full, practically
branded him as stupid novice AS a
preliminary to DR.. Dorseys onslaught,
policemen were called to-day 10 i'm
peach certain witnesses for the defense
who had identified a picture OF Mrs.
Luetgert as that of a woman seen in
Kenosha, Wis, on May 8, and 5.
Detective Edward Wallbaum testified
that Matt Scholey, of Kenosha. had told
him some weeks ago that the picture
did not look like the woman Scholey
saw in kenosha. According to the wit
resses Scholey said, he had not noted
the appearance of the strange woman
he saw in Kenosha on May sufficiently
to be able to identify her, much less a
photograph
Detectives DeCelle and Dean gave i'm
peaching evidence with reference to
other Kenosha witnesses who had said
the woman they say was. to the best