The record-union., 1897-10-22

lected in front of the Criminal Court
building. and also to get away from
reporters.
But the latter were fully posted on
exits and entrances to the big building,
and met the jurors as they emerged
from the Jail yard. 1t was reluctantly
admitted by several of them that the
disagreement was brought about by
wide difference of opinion regarding the
rings found in the vat, the testimony
of the Schimpke sisters, and the testl-
mony of the Kenosha witnesses, VINO
positively testified that they saw Mrs.
Louisa Luetgert alive in that town on
May Sd, 4th and 9th.
Juror Harley did not believe the rings
found in the middle vat of the Luetgert
factory were Mrs. Luetgert's rings
Holabird was inclined to believe the
story of the Kenosha witnesses, despite
the impeaching evidence introduced,
and Barber would not believe the strong
evidence given by the Schimpke SIS
ters These were considered the strong
features of the trial by the jurors.
The other nine jurors reached an
agreement on the evidence shortly after
noon Tuesday, and voted together sol
idly from that time to the close. Alto
gether over thirty ballots were taken,
it is said.
| The Jurors shook hands with each
| other as they separated at the LIE
| Grande Hotel, whittier they went IN a
body to procure personal effects tney
had left in their rooms. For his services
! each Juror drew SIG.
Fx-Judge Vincent was rather pieaseo
than otherwise over the verdict, though
he declared that his client was a per-
fectly innocent man, and should nave
been acquitted.
1t is quite probable that some prose-
cutions for perjury will result from Tue
I,uetcert case While the State Al
| tornev refused to affirm or deny thlS'
If is given out on first-class authoFlty
that the testimony of two OF the prln-
cipal witnesses for the defense Will De
| laid before the Grand jury Tor an ln-
vestigation. The two witnesses against
whom it is said indictments VIII pc
asked are William Charles, Luetgert
business partner, and Mary Slemner-
ing. the domestic in the Luetgert house,
hold.
| STATEMENT FROM LUETGERT.
! CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-The Associated
Press tonight obtained the one great
| feature missing in the famous Luetgert
triaI-the sworn testimony of the de-
fendant himself, Adolph L. Luetgert.
| Standing tonight in the gloomy jail
adjoining the grim looking gray stone
| court building, in which his remark
able trial had at last been brought TO
a finish, the burly sausagemaker capped
the climax of the extraordinary series
| of events which began with his sem
sational bankruptcy and the alleged
| frightful diabolism of boiling his VIE
| to death at midnight in a vat in his
| factory cellar.
| Tonight. closely following the final
result of the trial which has attracted
worldwide attention, Luetgert made
under oath a statement for the Asso-
ciated Press concerning the fearful
crime charged against him. the first
sworn statement yet made by him, and
the irst statement of such a kind ever
known in newspaper annals. The affi-
davit was put in writing in due legal
form, and is certified to by a Notary.
| Ex-Judge William A. Vincent, the
| leading counsel for the defendant in
| this celebrated case, gave consent to
| the affidavit made.
The affidavit explicitly declares Luet-