The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-10-12
At THE END OF THE WEEK
The Famous Luetgert Case Will
Go to the Jury.
ARGUMENTS HAVE BEGUN
McEwan VIII Take Up Two Days In
Making His Address Witnesses for
the Defense Were Not Pres
ent When Called.

Chicago. Oct. 1.-THE final argu-
mcnts have been concluded in tho
Luctgert trial. and the ease viii be
given to the jury by the end Of the
week. This. at least. is the eNpecia-
tion NJ the attorneys. The defense cN-
pcCted to-day To take most of the srs-
sion of court I'm offering sur-rrbuttal
evidence. hut some OF the witnesses
were not present when called and II
was decided that the case might as
well 60 on Assistant States Attorney
McEwan began the opening address
for the state. and he Will sIs'ak for
two days al least. lie will be followed
by Attorney Phalen for the dcirnsr
and Attorney Vincent will close for
l.urtgert. Then will come the closing
of the state. which will he made BY
states Attorney D"encn.
Despite the downpour of rain to-day
there was no diminuiion "f the crowd
al the criminal court building Ia bc
present AT the opening ni the eighth
wcrk Of the l.u.tgcrt trial. Luctgert
expressed pleasure over the fact that
to-day marked the opening OF the last
week of his trial Every one connect
ed with the case is tired ~ II, When
cnurt opened the taking of sur-rcbut-
tai evidence was ", gun.
Fred j. Swift. court stenographer.
WAS called to impeach Frank odorof-
sky. employed by l.uetgert al the
sausage factory. Swift reported odor-
ofskys evidence before Justice kers-
ten.
Then the defense started To repulsr
the attacks that have been made upon
the reputation of William Charles,
Luctgert's business partner. II. III.
| Brown. a resident of Chicago for "
years. said he had known Charles in
/ timatelN for four years. and his repu-
taiinn for truth and honor was good.
! on cross-eyaminatiou the prosecution
! signallv made the Witness confess thai
h. n,Nrr had business relations with
/ Charles. and only met him OCCASION
I ally.
states Attorney Mcl.wan addressed
| the Jury for three hours this after
noon and barely outlined his argument
at the hour of adjournment for the
/ day. He will resume the argument TO-
/ morrow morning and viii talk all day.
''Th, state was conservative in its as
scrtions as TO What IL would prove on
! the witness stRnd and some weeks
! ago" said the speaker In his opening,
we made no boasts. We told YOU IN
IN. simplest language We could EN-
/ ploy just what the evidence would dis
/ close. our promises haN" been full
filled The testimony given from the
witness stand has been disclosed ana
/ develop, a more Than We promised you.
| No sirungcr ease under similar evil
dpnce Was ever presented to a jury.
! Starch the law books the world over.
and you viii find no circumstances io
/ equal the nov world-famtd l.uctgcrt
| trial The crime is on" of the most
| =, markablc in criminal annals. YET
| when IN. details are followed NJ and
! linked together in n cirrumstaniial
I chain, the motive and act are extreme
~ plain and und.niabie. The claim
mas bc,n made here that We have failed
to establish properly the corpus deficit.
and ! suspect you viii hear much about
this from the attorneys on the other
side. The Grim. has been sufficiently
shown 10y the circumstances which 's-
ia ahlish that Mrs Iuetgert met her
] ath through criminal agency
There Is no more necessity of proving
the corpus delicli further than there
would b, Ia produce "A house In count
Ia prove that a person an trial for lar.
ceny broke into IL or Ia produce tht
horse before tn. jury which thief IL
alleged to have stolen"
The speaker referred Ia the fact tina
nearly six months had elapsed sine,
Mrs. I.uetb.rt had disappeared from
her home, she still remains absent
aud will remain missing as long as III,
world .ndures. shouted the assistant
states attorney. staring AT LurtEeri
Then the cas-, Was taken up chronolugi'
cally and all IN" incidents traced brief
" down 10 the date of the opening ul
the trial