The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-29
CHEMIST CALLED IN
He EXPLORES TIE VAT IN LUET'
GERT'S SAUSAGE FACTORY.

Iestshes to Eaving Made Discoveries Which
Indicate That the Vat, In Mrs. Luet-
gert's Case, Answered All the Purposes
OF q Cemetery - Sensational Testimony
on the Wsntcrsteen TriaI-Two Colored
Murderes Hanged In Chicago San
Quentin Convicts = Strike - Banker
johnson Gets Ten Years.
Chicago. Nay 2S-Professor Mark De
la F'ontaine. the expert chemist, has
made discovery in his investigations
into the contents of the vat in the Luet-
CERT sausage facotry which is considered
by the prosecution 10 be Of a nature most
damaging TO the defense. In the sedi-
ment not only has he found traces OF
teeth but also large number Of fakes
of composition only found in the hui
mar tooth.
This. together with the broken false
tooth found by the police near the vat, is
looked upon by the prosecution as the
strongest kind Of evidence to establish
The corpus derelicti which the defense
has maintained was wanting in the
states case.
The state rested its case today with
the evidence Of Professor De la Fon-
taine and Dentist Kline. No effort will
be made to call any other witnesses. ex-
cept in rebutta-. and then only in case
an effort is made by the defense to go in
10 expert testimony.
THE WINTERSTEEN TRIAL.
Bloomsbury. Ia. May 2S---The fourth
day OF the trial OF L. S. Wintersteen,
VINO is charged with attempting to COM
nit murder by conspiring to blow up the
residence of I. E. Waller, was begun this
morning
Mrs. Sallie Cast of Reading testified
that she met W'intersteen about three
years ago in Reading. Clifton Knorr
was with him. Witness told of a trip in
1896 over the Neversink road, the third
time Winte-steen was down. AZ .his
time Knorr exhibited what the witness
said looked like an electric wire, had
white stuff Or it and smered like tar.
Wintersteen said THAT would do.'' In
all WiEterstean was there three times be-
fore the explosion and four times after
wards. After Wintersteen's third visit
letter came containing money. Witness
opered the envelope and then gave the
letter 10 Cliff" who told her It was
from Wintersteen. 1t contained ten dol
lars, and knorr said ne must go away.
This was just few days before the ex-
plosion
ION The evening of the following Mon
Gay Wfntersteer came TO my house. Cliff
and Wintersteen had a meeting in nv
Kitchen. Wintersteen seemed to be ok
cited. esaid he had not been feeling well
and that there was hell up in Blooms
burg" (This statement created a. mild
sensation in court)
"Wintersteen had previously told me
that ne was suspected of blowing I'D
walters house. He was anxious to get
away. After Wintersteen had gone Cliff
showed me fifty dollars which ne said
Wlntersteen had given him. l saw Win
sersteer again short time afterwards
COLORED MURDERERS HANG
Chicago, May 2S.-William T. Powers
and John baltimore, both colored. were
hanged in the county jail today. the first
double execution since the hanging of the
anarchists in 1857 and the first double
colored execution ever in Chicago. Roth
aper were cool and walked Unassistea IN
the scaffold. Neither had ANYTHING TO
say The drop fell at fifteen minutes past
~ O'Clock. Powers hung perfectly mo-
tionless after the drop, his neck having
been broken. baltimore, however. drew
mis- legs up convulsively several times.
Powers was executed for the murder of
John j. Murphy, a saloon-keeper by
whom Powers was employed as a porter.
On the hight of December %, 1896. Pow
ers stole into Murphy's bedroom and beat
MS head to pulp with a stove pnker.
The object was robbery. Powers was %
years old. baltimore and Henry Rucker
were convicted Of the murder of Iouis
Marvec on the tow path of the drainage
canal near Summit, November 20, 1896.
Rucktr confessed when arrested and was
given 25-year sentence. In this case.
too, the object was robbery. Lattimore's
age was %.
SUICIDES AT SEVENTY.
Milwaukee. Wis, May 2S-John Mick
OF Chicago, aged 20, an inmate Of sani-
rarium, huns himself here this morning
CONNECTS ON a STRIKE.
San Francisco, May 2S.-In view Of the
determined attitude assumed by the
striking eo4victs at San Quentin peni-
Tertiary yesterday, Warden Hale made
70 attempt TO start the jute mill today.
The malcon.ents. 400 in number. are in
solitary confinement and will remain GO