The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-09
, EVIDENCE ALI. IN.
state Puts the Finishing Touches on
LuctEert's Witnesses

LuetSertS Witnesses.
chicago. ILL.,. Oct. S.-The evidence of
the prosecution icl the trial of Adolph l..
Euetsert IS now before the jury. The
STATE rested its case this afternoon. The
closing testimony was of the same i'm
peaching character that marked The eSi-
aence OF the preceding day.
Hrof. Dorsey had his innings during
the afternoon session of court. and he
MADE matters unpleasantly warm for
Or: Airport. Prof. Dorsey could have
taiked for hours upon the subject of
osteoiogy. He was prfmed with bristling
iacts concerning bones, but the prosecu
tion confined the young astrological eS-
pert to matters tending TO couut era OF
ana refute the statements made by DR..
Airport, the chief expert of the defense.
Then Judge Arthur II. Chetlain was
called to the stand to add the finIsbinr
louches TO the impea chment of Mary
Slemmering. When this young woman
was ilrst arrested and charged with n
guilty knowledge OF the disappearance of
Mrs. LuetScrt, her attorneys applied to
Judge Chetlain for II writ of habcas
corpus. Judge Chetlain, sitting in cham
ocrs, hau Mary SiemmcrnE brought he
fore him and questioned her. His Honor
teStiiled to-day that she told him that
she had not made the application for
release. but that her lawyer, Arnold
Iripp, had done so and had set up the
charges in the petition. She told the
Judge she had not been mistrcaIea nj
the police station and that she had gone
| 10 me East Chicago avenue police sta
tion voluntarily and was willing to re,
| turn there, as she knew she would soon
De discharged because she had done
nothing wrong. Owing 20 this state of
facts Judge Chetlain dismissed the pcti-
t!"n and the young woman returned -
| the police station.
| This nVi1aOcp -I,o ,t >,,.
! Mary Siemmer!mg, who declared while
| on the witness stand that she was sub
Jected to indiSnit!es at the hands of
Inspector Schaak, Captain Schucttler
ana other policemen. Angelica Schrader
| Il nurse who was a member of Luet-
Eerts household for three months, said
that the missing woman was a most
ancctionate mother.
Mrs. William Miller, a sister Of Mrs.
Luetgert, was the next witness SO
ilrm!y impressed is she that Mrs. Iuet-
gert is dead that she some weeks aCo
donned garh of mourning in memory
OF her sister. Mrs. Miller testified while
| her eyes were fixed upon t&e face of
| Luctgert. The big sausage maker re-
turned the gaze of his sister-in-law
| coolly
Fred Miller. nephew of Luetgert, and
Deidrich Bicknez. ~ brother of Mrs
Luetgert. testified to having been fire.
| pueht Visitors to the home Of the Luct-
Serts and to the kindnesses they had
witnessed Mrs. Luegert bestow lpon
her children. This evidence was callch
| out to combat and mpeach the evil
| dcnce of Mary SiemmerinG and Mrs
Mary Charles, who testified that Mrs.
| Luetgert treated her children cruelty.
With this evidence the State rested.
| Judge Tuthill at once adjourned couri
until Monday morning and hurried away
| to catch train for Nashville, Tenn.
Next Monday eX-Judge Vincent an
nounced sur-rebuttal evidence would be
put on. The defense will undertake the
unusual task of impeaching Judge. A
| witness will be called to testify in re-
buttal to Judge Chctlain's evidence as
| to Mary Siemmerings statement TO him
This witness will he a newspaper re-
porter who is said to have heard the
| young woman'S statement
States Attorney Dcneen estimated TO-
| night that the prosecution of Luetgert
would cost the county about $1,000 Over
| s",OoO was saved by the States Attor-
neys own corps OF stenographcrs taking
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