The herald., 1897-09-24
: Or Luetgert's Witnesses
Are Mistaken
SAUSAGE MAKERS DEFENSE
Is AS STRONG AS THE CASE
ADMITS OF
Three Witnesses Give Evidence That
Mrs. Luetgert Is Alive-Identi-
fication Not Complete
Press Special Wire.

CHICAGO, Sept 23.-viewed from
various standpoints today's proceedings
In the Luetgert murder trail were the
most remarkable that have occurred
within the three weeks. In the face Of
the sensational circumstantial evidence
Mrs. Luetgert met her death in her hus-
bands sausage factory on May 1st, three
witnesses testified today that they saw
the woman alive on May 3rd and 4th.
Ore of these talked to her and be-
lieves from description and a photo-
graph of Mrs. Luetgert that the woman'
he saw was Mrs. Luetgert This wit
ness was Matt j. Sholey, barkeeper
at the Hotel Maple, kenosha, Wis. he
said he saw strange woman at the
Hotel Maple on the evening OF May oro-
He talked with her nearly ten minutes.
She asked to be directed to the farm OF
one Mueller in the neighborhood, but
as no one seemed to know of such per-
son. the woman left. The following day
Sholey again saw the woman. He de-
scribed her general appearance and her
clothing and identified a photograph of
Mrs. Luetgert as the woman. On cross
examination by States Attorney Deenan
the witness at first placed her weight
at 100 or lao pounds. Then he hesitated
and said he had got mixed up and then
remarked the woman weighed 115 or lis
pounds, which was about Mrs. Luet-
gert's weight. This hesitation and cor,
rection was made much OF by the pros
ecution. which intimated that 1t indi-
Gated that Sholey had forgotten the
weight that had been probably told him
at fret.
Policeman Henry Feldshaw of Ken
osha, Wis, testified that he saw
strange woman in the police station in
his town on May 3rd. The witness said
he afterward saw the woman at the
Hotel Maple, and the following day at
the railway station. He described the
woman as a blonde ard said she wore
4 sailor hat and slippers. One Of the
slippers she had worn was found in the
police station after she had left. The
witness Unidentified the picture of Mrs.
Luetgert as closely resembling the wo-
man he saw.
VIM. Gunsten, a clerk in the Grant
hotel, Kenosha, ider tilted the photo
grapn as the picture OF d WOHldn ue SdW
In his hotel on May 3rd. He said she
came into the hotel and remained ten.
minutes and left. He described the wo-
man and corroborated the evidence OF
the other witnesses.
Emma Schimpke came to the court
room in the afternoon to hear Rosa
Gleich impeach her evidence given on
Wednesday. She was fighting mad when
she heard herself made out falsifier.
Attorney Phalen discovered her pres
ence in the room and called her to the
witness stand. When asked if she had
told Rosa Gleich she had lied on the
witness stand the witness replied: Il
don't remember"
Did you not tell Harry Fielder you
lied when you said you saw Mr.. and
Mrs Luetgert on May 1st?
II don't remember"
did you not tell Rosa Gleich you did
not see Mr.. and Mrs. Luetgert the night
Of May 1st?"
"I may have said so."
Mrs Matte Scherrer, the last witness
of the day, testified positively that EN-
ma Schimpke told her that the testi-
mony the Schimpke girl had given on
the witness stand was false.