The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-01

Judge Gibbons court in the habeas cor
pus proceedings.
She said Mrs Luetgert once mad an al
rack Of throat trouble and Luetgert toll
kne witness in a conversation that il h
ead delayed a minute longer in calling
P doctor, the rotten BEAST meaning
his wife, would have been dead. In he
previous testimony Mrs. Tosch did no
use these words.
She said that in her examination Of
May 10 she asked him what caused tn
smoke from the factory furnace on tn
morning Of May 2, and he asked her no
20 say anything about it. In her forme
testimony she said Luetgert once tolC
ner he sometimes became SO angry witt
MS wife that he could take hold Of her
ana, indicating by gesture, crush her
i MS morning she swore he said he could
crush her, using the word crush in tht
German and not merely indicating it By
gesture.
The witness said Luetgert had told hel
mat ne had great deal of trouble witt
his wife and had ceased TO live with her
She objected TO the presence Of Mary
Simmering, the servant, in the house
Out Luetgert told the witness that if hi:
wife turned Mary away he would take
her into the factory with him.
Mrs. Tosch was subjected to a severe
cross examination, during which she was
asked if she did not know Luetgert was
0S ri MI .aIr
sick with the throat trouble Judge
Vincent asked her if she did not say 10
Luetgert on May 10 that if he knew his
wife as well as she (Irs. ToscD knew
her, he would lei her go and not worry
about her. She de clared she did no:
make this statement. she was then ask
ed if she did not suggest o Luetgert that
he could come to her house with the two
children 10 live and she would be a moth
er 70 the children. Her answer was an
emphatic no.
THE WATCH3IAN'S STORY.
Frank Bralk, the old Waterman who
was employed al the sausage factory,
was the next witness. Bralk told about
the arrival al the factory in March last
OF several barrels which were stored on
one OF the upper floors and shortly be-
fore May l removed 10 the basement.
These are the barrels which il is alleged
contained caustic potash, and the wit
ness said the stuff was emptied into the
middle vat in the basement shortly be-
fore May l and dissolved by steam. At
this point the court took a recess.
Watchman Bialk, continuing his testi-
mony, said that there was steam under
one of the two boilers in the furnace
room when he arrived at the factory al
6 p. m, May 1. Luetgert turned the steam
;nto the vat in the basement. and in
structed him TO keep up steam during
the night, as he would need il in the
basement. At a quarter past Luetgert
sent him to a drug store 10 purchase a
patent nerve medicine He was gone
over half an hour and gave the bottle 10
Luetgert through the gate 20 the sausage
makers office, which waz locked. After
10 o'clock he was again sent to the same
drug store, but the second trip consum-
ed more time. He returned with a bottle
Of mineral water, which Luetgert had
directed him to purchase He did not see
Luetgert again that night. The sausage
maker was in the basement where the
vat was and the door between him and
the boiler room, where the witness was,
Temoined locked About o'clock in the
morning the steam to the val was turn
ed off. Bialk left the factory at I o'clock
Sunday morning, and before he left he
went 10 the Office, where ne saw Luet-
CERT sitting with his feet on a table. He
did not know whether Luetgert was
asleep or not. The next evening when
ne returned 10 work, he found the vat
running over. A hose was pouring cold
water into Ii. Besides the vat on the
Hoor was a Shiny substance. Near the
vat was chair from the office. The wit
ness said three large doors which had
been removed from the smoke house
were beside the vat, as though thew had
been used to cover the vat while its con-
tents were boiling.
Blalk said that after the factory was
seized by the sheriff and he learned tina.
Mrs Luetgert was missing he was afraid
10 remain there. He said that on Sunday
evening, al 9 o'clock, me saw Luetger,
in his office and asked him if he wanted
the steam turned into the vat that nipbt
Luetsert' he said, turned pale and sank
down.
AT this statement Of the witness Luet-
CERT laughed heartily.
Bialk told of his visit to the factory
with police officers. Officer Dean discov-
cred two rings in the vat and. the wit
ness said, officers carried away with
them bones found in the vat and SMOKE
house
Inc witness said that since Nav he
mad lived part of the time with Officer
hhnger and part of the time at his own
home. On May l6 Officer Klinger was
concealed under a bed in the bousa ~
the witness when Luetgert called 70 see
alaik Luetgert asked witness what the
0fiicers found in the factory. and Bialk
said they had discovered nothing.
mat is good" said Luetgert. The
after advised him not 10 tell the noIio.
anything and said that in a short limo
he would start the factory and give thu
witness and his son employment.
The court adjourned for the ds,, nil,
hid-ks testimony unfinished.
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