The record-union., 1897-10-13
THE LUETGERT TRIAL.
STATES ATTORNEY McEWAN
FINISHES HIS ARGUMENT.
Charges Mary Siemmering With
Being the Primary Cause Of
the Murder.

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-Assistant States
Attorney McEwan finished his argu-
ment in the Luetgert trial to-day, and
Attorney Phalen will make the opening
address for the defense tomorrow. Mr..
McEwan took the entire day with his
argument, and went over the case care
fully. connecting the details of evidence
for the jury, and showing how one cir
cumstance fitted into another, and how
the whole mass of evidence submitted
by the State furnished, in his opinion,
a full and complete circumstantial
chain, proving that Luetgert had muir
dersd his wife in order that his relations
with his servant girl, Mary Siemmer-
ing, might remain undisturbed.
Throughout the entire argument
Luetgart listened to the States Attor-
ney, who was asking for his life, with
the greatest attention. He never took
his eyes off Mr.. McEwan for more than
instant, and the heavy scowl that is
habitual with him, deepened as the As
sstant States Attorney pointed out
circumstance after circumstance that
weighed against his innocence.
1t IS now practically certain that all
of the arguments will be finished SO
that the case will be given to the jury
by Saturday night at the latest.
When Assistant States Attorney Nc
Evan resumed his argument this morn>
ing he took up the subject of sesamoids.
This soon brought him to a considera-
ton of the evidence of DR.. w. H. ALI
port, chief astrological expert for the
defense. Rarely is a witness handled
with the biting sarcasm and scornful
denunciation that was heaped upon
this celebrated expert
He came upon the witness-stand
with all the arrogance and self assur-
ance of a bully shouted the speaker,
and left it as meekly and lowly as any
being whoever entered this building.
He exposed to the medical profession
in open court his ignorance and made
himself the laughing stock of experts
the world over.'
The mistakes DR.. Airport is alleged to
have made in Identifying different
bones were enumerated, discussed and
ridiculed in the most cutting manner at
the speakers command. And this is
the man whom the defense asks you to
believe with reference to the identified
ton of the bones placed before you in
evidence in this case" observed Mr..
McEwan.
Mary SiemmeTing was the subject of
the Assistant States Attorneys re-
marks during the afternoon. He dwelt
at length upon her alleged relations
with Luetgert, and charged that she
was the primary cause of the horrible
murder of Mrs. Luetgert. The woman S
testimony on ths witness stand was
torn to shreds, and she was denounced
in unmeesured terms.
Hour after hour the Assistant States
Attorney continued to discuss the evil
dence in the case, and to comment up
on the conduct of Luetgert and Mary
Siemmering, both before and after the
disappearance of Mrs. Luetgert.
Tomorrow Attorney Phalen will open
for the defense. He will speak all day.
and possibly part of Thursday. Then
ex-Judge Vincent will speak day and
half in closing for the defense. State's
Attorney Deneen. who is a remarkably
rapid speaker, will close the case on
Saturday, speaking the entire day