The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-08

Chicago, Sept. Two strong points
were scored by the prosecution in the
Luetgert trial today, and unless the
defense is able to tmpeach the testi-
mony Of the witnesses, their evidence
is likely to have considerable weight
with the jury.
The two witnesses were Nicholas Fa-
Der, who testified that on the night of
May he saw Luetgert and his wife
enter the sausage factory, and Charles
Hengst, who swore that on the night
of May / he passed the factory and
heard cry from within, as though
someone was in pain. At the hearing
before the police justice by whom
Luetgert was held 10 await the action
Of the grand juhy. Hengst said he could
not tell whether the cry was of a hui
man being or Of an animal Today he
said, however, that he was confident
that the cry came from human being.
The defense relies greatly on the state
ment made before she trial to impeact
his testimony
FABER WAS RATIFIED.
Faber grew confused somewhat on
DISCRIMINATION and could not tell
whether the moon shone or whether
Luetgert and his wife enter the fac
tory on the night of May l, but ne
stuck StOutly to his story that he had
seen two people enter the factory
shortly after 10 o'clock on the night
of May /.
The reading of the love letters which
had been written by Luetgert to Mrs
Feldt was great fun for the crowd in
the court room and it was very en-
barrassing for the defendant, as in sew
eral of them ne had spoken in a slight
ing manner of the lawyers who are
now conducting his defense. saying
+ that they were greedy" and not able
TO handle a trial of such importance.
He laid particular stress on the in
competency OF Judge Vincent, who is
now the leading counsel for the defense
When these portions of the letters were
read. the lawyers laughed and nobody
enjoyed them more than Judge Vincent,
but it was not pleasant for Luetgert.
who twisted around in his chair,
mopped his face. with his handkerchief,
and seemed to be uncomfortable gem
orally. The defense made strong fight
against the introduction of the letters
and when the court decided that they
We're proper evidence. the defense asked
that they be read in German, as they
might lose some of their original mean
ing by being read in English This
the court everruled, and The letters
went before, the Jury as the translator
made them out, ne, however, swearing
that the translation was entirely cor
rect
a BAD TEMPER.
An incident occurred during -Faber's
testimony that showed that Luetgert
was possessed of a high temper when
aroused Bailif Reid, the. cOlored Of
ficer in whose custody the. prisoner is
placed, attempted to RESTRAIN his
charge from crossing to the witness
stand with his attorneys for the pur-
pose Of watching Faber designate on
the map the location where he as
serted he saw Mrs. Luetgert enter the
factory. Luetgert would not brook the
restraint and turned on the bailiff with
his face flushed with anger and de-
noUnced the attempt to deprive him
of what he considered his rights in the
trial Attorney Vincent appealed to the
court and Judge Tuthill permitted the
big defendant to examine the maps in
company with the attorneys.
Fritz FigeI. who worked for Luetgert
on May 4, told how he had emptied a
barrel of ashes in the alley and Officer
James Smith testified to having found
particles of bone and two corset steelS
in the pile of debris where the ashes
We're emptied.
Frederick Augustus Schuetz testified
as TO former quarreIs between Luetgert
and his wife, in which Luetgert had
Threatened to take her life. The wit
ness is Il years of age and feeble He
is so deaf that Interpreter Liebig was
compelled to stand close to his side in
order TO repeat the questions of the
attorney.
The defense felt that they had I'm
dermined his testimony to large ex-
tent when they gained an admission
from the witness that he was 100 feet
away from Luetgert at the time Of the
quarrel, How so deaf a man could
hear low tones 100 feet away consider
ably mystified the defense and they
felt exultant over securing the evil
dence