Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-10
LUETG[RI TALKS BITTERLY.
The Big Sausage Maker Claims That
He Is Being Prosecuted.
He Declares the Police Bulldozed
Mary Siemmering by Threats,
But When They Tried the Sweat
box on Him He Stopped Them IN
Short Order--rhinks Airport quite
a Bone Expert - Believes Ills
Wife Is Alive, and Her Return
Would Not Surprise Him.

Chicago. October 9.-Adolph L. Luet-
CERT, inspired by memories OF Chlcago
Day, this morning gave out a fiery es-
innate of the case the prosecution mas
made out against him. He grlpped the
bars of his cell and swung his body 10
and fro as he talked of police persecu-
ton and 1.-The lying evidence" OF those
who testified against him. He was bitter
in his denunciation Of the police and
Prof. George Dorsey. the chief osteo-
logical witness against him.
II have kept quiet about what l
thought of the case that was being
made out against me-expresseo NO
opinion during the trial because L
thought by so doing l might 1nJure
my case" said Luetgert. But now
will say that in my opinion the case
of the State is weak. 1t is built upon
lies. Why, Frank Odorofsky and Frank
Lewandowsky, those two 'Polacks,
would swear to anything. Neither OF
them worked for me the week ending
Nav 1. Odorofsky came to my factory
on Friday, April 80. I had nothing for
him to do and told him to come back
on Monday. He was not at the factory
again, and all the evidence he gave
about what he saw and did at the fac
tory on Saturday, May /, was manufac-
tured. / did try to make soap in that
vat. That is the absolute truth OF the
matter. The soap washed out of-the
vat and / gave up the job. l had in
tended to hire thirty men to scour the
sausage factory from top to bottom
and put it in first-class shape to be
sold.
1.-THE police treated Mary Siemmer'
ing shamefully. They prosecuted her
bulldozed her, and threatened her
They tried it on me when / was first
placed under arrest, but l stopped then
in short order. They could not put me
in the sweat box. l knew my constitu
tional rights and informed Inspector
Schaak that he was not acting in the
capacity of trial court and that L die
not have to answer any of his ques
Luetgert was upstairs in bed, is a bast
falsifier. That fellow has not seen
sober day in years. He used to come
into my factory intoxicated. and wher
| ordered him away he'd say Don't
drive me away, Luetgert; thrash me.
He is an migrate.
Some people seem to think thai
Luetgert's brain is no good They are
foolish. / remember things we'll Peo-
pie who are under obligations to me
went on the witness stand and swore
against me. Some time in the future ]
may have something to say to these
np0n1o NTrc Jnh
Ter and Diedrich Bicknese deliberately
falsified when they testified that Mrs
Luetgert always treated her children
well. How could they know? They
only called at my house occasionally
Dr. Dorsey, the bone expert, is a very
fresh young man. He thinks he knows
all about bones, but in my opinion DR..
Airport has forgotten more about osteol-
ogy than Dorsey ever knew.
las | have often said before, I believe
my wife is still alive l should not have
been surprised if she had entered the
court room any day during the long
trial now nearly over. She will be heard
from yet, and then all the people who
have lied about Luetgert will be shown
up to the world in the proper light. 7
am an innocent man. Ny health an !
happiness have been DESTROYED by an
unjust prosecution and my fortune
the result of years of toil-has been
swept away. To-day, verging upon go
years of age, l find myself almost pen-
niless and in the deepest trouble that
can come to man. | would like to have
told my story to the jury. but my coun
Gel thought it better that I remain off
the witness stand. Reluctantly 1 fol-
lowed their advice That is all have