The herald., 1897-09-30
The Question for Luetgert
Jurors
THE OPPOSING PSYCHOLOGISTS
STAKE REPUTATION ON THEIR
DIAGNOSES
The Now Famous Femur Belonged to
Pig and Potash Never
Touched It
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
CHICAGO Sept. 29-"Hog or human"
that is the issue in the Luetgert case,
and according to the view of the case
adopted by the jury is the fate of the de-
fendant likely to be. If hog, he will in
all probability 60 free;. If human, there
Is no telling what will happen to him,
or rather what may not happen to him.
The defense proved today that the bone
which DR.. Dorsey, the osteologist Of the
Columbian museum, declared was the
femur Of human being. or woman.
and of woman Of delicate physical
structure. as was Mrs. Luetgert, is
nothing but the bone Of hog. 1t came
from hog Of delicate organization so
said the witness for the defense, but it
was nothing but hog after all. The
femur was rather small for the usual
run of hogs, but this was smallboned
hog, and there was no doubt of the orr
gin OF he bone. The witness who de-
ciared all this for the defense was Dr..
W. H. Airport. professor Of descriptive
and comparative anatomy in the North
western university He declared in the
was that Of hog and that there was no
chance Of his being mistaken in the
matter. Dr. Dorsey, who proved for the
state that the femur was that of a wo..
man, was in the court room when DR..
Airport was on the stand and his face
flushed when the expert for the defense
declared that the bone came from a
hog.
The declaration Of DR.. Airport clearly
defines as issue between himself and
Prof. Dorsey. They are the respective
leading experts Of the defense and pros
ecution.
Both pride themselves on their repu-
tations, and battle royal will be the
result. DR.. Airport drew pictures of
what he said represented a human fe-
muir and hogs femur, and explained
to the jury the difference between them.
The difference was principally in the
socket Of the hip joint, according to the
witness. He declared that the knob. or
joint end, of the femur in evidence was
much smaller than that Of the average
woman and that undoubtedly the bone
was the femur of a small-boned hog.
Tomorrow DR.. Airport will be cross
examined after he has testified further
concerning metacarpal, sesamoM and
temporal bones. Previous to DIR. All
ports testimony, Prof. ]. A. Weisner
gave evidence in support Of DR.. Riese's
testimony in connection with te expert
ments with human bodies made in the
vat in the Luetgert factory early in the
present month.
DR.. D. l.. Riese said that the bones
produced by the prosecution had never
been subjected to the caustic soda test.
He said that the surface and general
appearance Of the bones indicated that
they had never come in contact with
potash solution
States Attorney Deenem smilngly de-
clared that Prof. Dorsey would settle
the question of the identity of the bones
beyond question when he next appear
ed on the witness stand.
Luetgert and his lawyers were we'll
satisfied with the showing made, and
ex-Judge Vincent said he could rot see
the necessity of Luetgert going on the
witness stand.
There's nothing for him to deny" re-
marked ex-Judge Vincent