The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-20

Chicago, Oct 19.-Another night of
suspense is ahead of the defendant in
the Luetgert case. At o'clock the
jury had gone to bed on cots. which
were placed in the court room, and il
was announced by Judge Tuthill that,
even though by one chance in a mil
lion the jurors should wake up and
agree upon verdict, there would be
no announcement, and the court room
would under no circumstances be
opened until 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing
A few minutes before o'clock Judge
Tuthill appeared at the criminal court
building and, being admitted alone by
the bailiffS at the entrance. he passed
quickly up stairs, giving positive in
structions that nobody should be adj
mitted to the building under any cir
cuInStanceS. Within a few minutes df-
ter he had issued these instructions, At
torney Phalen, the junior counsel for
the defense. put in an appearance and
demanded admission. He was promptly
refused, and it took all his powers of
persuasion and argument to get past
the guard at the door.
Judge Tuthil went directly to the
court room, where ne was told by the
eral of the iurymen were
ALMOST EXHAUSTED
by the ordeal to which they had been
subjected during the last "a hours. and
if they were not allowed some rest it
would certainly result in some of them
becoming i'll The jury also sent word
that there was no Immediate prospect
of an agreement, and under the Cir
cumstances the judge gave orders that
they be permitted to drop the case and
go to sleep. The cots were quickly
dragged into the court room, and with
in a few minutes every juror was
stretched out at full length and all
consideration of the case was Off until
they should wake in the morning
Judge TuthiIl, after giving directions
that all things possible should be done
for the comfort of the jury, left the
building for his home
"They have not agreed as yet" he
said, when he left the court house,
and when L became convinced that
there was little prospect of their doing
SO, and saw how weary some of them
were. 1 told them to go to sleep and
try to agree in the morning. There
would be no use in keeping them up all
of the night, because, in the first
place, two or three of them would. in
a short time, be utterly incapacitated
by fatigue, and no agreement could be
ever obtained from men who are ner-
Vous from loss of sleep and exhausted
from argument. When L came to the
court tonight I had no idea that a YER
dict could be reached, but Eyas anx-
fous to do all I could for the comfort
of the jurors
States Attorney Deneen remained in
his office until all hope of verdict to-
night had been abandoned. and then
he closed up his rooms and went home.
He is still hopeful of a verdict, but nat
urally looks Gpoa a disagreement as
the most likely outcome.
RUMoRs AFLOAT.
There were rumors of all kinds ahoat
during the evening. all of them being
! to the effect that the friends of Luet-
J CERT on the jury were weakening. 1t
was known during the day that the
| vote stood S to 4. and tonight the ru-
mors tonight were that it was ten for
! the death penalty and two for acquit-
| tai. a later story is that it stood II for
| hanging and one for acquittaI Juror
Harley is admitted to be the stout
! friend of Luetgert and he it is who is
| leading the fight for acquittal-
| Over in the Jail Luetgert was, during
| the evening, anXiously awaiting word
! from the jury room. He tried as usual
to keep up an appearance of indiffer-
ence. and. as usual. made a failure OF
| it.
LuETGERT BOASTS.
eff they don't agree" he said, Il
get bail and I will be out of this. I can
! give bail for million dollars II
! they want that much. My wife is liv-
! ing somewhere, but I admit she is
having lot of fun with me at pres
| ent. There is one thing sure" the