The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
STATE CHARGED, IN EFFECT,
WITH MANUFACTURING EVIL
DENCE.
DR.. ALLPORT is AUTHORITY.
SERTION OF THE EXPERT IN
PSYCHOLOGY.
KEPT ON THE STAND ALL DAY.
Witness Trapped Into Contradict
tions by the State During the
CrOss-Examination.

CHICAGO, Sept. 30.-There was but
one witness on the stand in the Luet-
CERT trial today and at the conclusion
of the session the state announced that
it would probaly keep him on the stand
for the greater portion of tomorrow.
The witness was DR.. w. H. Airport,
the expert, who testified for the de-
tense yesterday, that the femur
claimed by the state as the femur Of
woman is in reality the femur of
hog. The state had prepared warm
cross-examination for him today, and
toward the latter portion of the after
noon session it succeeded in confusing
him and gaining several contradictions
of his own evidence. The attorneys
for the state have considerable feeling
against DIR. Airport as his testimony
more than once has been to the effect
that. evidence was manufactured by
the prosecution and they will leave
nothing undone to break him down.
When DR.. Airport went on the wit
ness stand again today he created an
other sensation by declaring that the
temporal bone which Prof. Dorsey
identified as human, and from it's for
nation probably the right temporal
bone of female, is not human. DIR.
Airport emphatically remarked that
there were no indications upon which
to base the conclusion that the bone
was from the skull of a human being
He believed it came from the skull of
some lower animal. He also declared
,@I,o l,.a
lorged to the lower animal kingdom.
Dr.. Airport made a statement on the
witness stand today that caused a
profound sensation tor few minutes.
He was examining the temporal bone
Dorsey, and pronounced by the latter
not only a temporal bone, but the tenn
poral bone of a woman.
That bone is not a temporal bone
either of a human or of the lower Or
der of animals declared DR.. Airport,
gazing at the exhibit intently. 1T is a
composition of bones put together by
artificial means. The trace here which
Prof Dorsey said was the outline of a
facial nerve is a fibre of animal matter
with which the bones are stuck to-
gether.''
The statement was received with
something akin to dismay by the pros
ecution for a moment. Luetgert
leaned back in his chair and laughed.
HOT CROSS EXAMINATION.
The cross-eXamination to which DR..
Airport was subjected was more severe
than that which any previous witness
has undergone. Assistant States At
torney McEwen did the questioning,
and when court adjourned for the day
he announced that he was not through
with the witness and would recall him
tomorrow morning. Privately. he said
he would probably keep DR.. Airport on
the witness stand the greater part OF
tomorrow The expert was the only
witness of the day. Hour after hour
he answered questions, suggested in
the main. by Prof. Dorsey and p:o-
pounded by Assistant States Attorney
NcEwen The sensational statement
oe the court, to the effect that the
temporal bone identified by Prof Dor
sey as being the right temporal OF
female was in reality not temporal
here at all. aroused the prosecution.
The experts conclusion that the eX-
Ll.lr Was several bones glued together,
in the form OF temporal bone, sug-
gested fraud and an attempt TO manu-
facture evidence which the prosecu-
ton did not relish.
The result was that Mr.. McEwen
went at Dr. Airport with a firm de-
tel elimination to learn if the witness
really knew what he was talking
about Questions were fired at the eX-
pert with such rapidity that he be-
came bewildered. Confusion led to
and this developed
sharper cross questioning, so that the
two hours spent upon the stand were
fraught with nerve-testing anxiety
for the witness.
Prof. Dorsey, whose evidence DR.. All
port fatty contradicts, listened atten-
lively to the cross eXamina ton of the
chief expert for the defense. He heard
his own story and those Of Prof. Bal
lev and DR.. Pierce punctured by DIR.
Airport with a smile Of scorn. Later
on Prof Dorsey will go on the witness
stand to substantiate his original tes-
timony, if he can.
Mr.. McEwen neatly caught DR.. All
port mapping during the afternoon ses-
sion. The expert was requested to
name a portion of bone handed him.
After a brief examination the expert
said it was part of the skull Of a
monkey. Assistant States Attorney
McEwen Immediately asked another
question which led DR.. Airport to be-
lieve he had identified the exhibit at
the first guess and he confidently en-
tered upon long dissertation relative
to the similarity of the skull in some
portions to that of human skull.
After he had finished, Assistant States
Attorney McEwen reached for the
bone the expert held and remarked:
''Well, that bone is from the skull of
a dog"
DR.. Airport looked surprised. but re-
covering himself suddenly he observed:
well, it might have been monkey
faced dog" This was greeted with
laugh in which Luetgert joined
1t is likely that the cross fire of the
experts will be kept up for nearly an
other week After they have finished
Luetgert will be called. Attorney Vim
cent does not believe that Luetgert's
evidence is essential. In the opening
statement he told the jury that the big
sausage maker would talk to them
from the witness stand, and he said
Yesterday he would not disappoint the