The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-02
THE LUETGERq
MURDER TRIAL !.
What a Witness Found
in. the Middle Caustic
Potash Vat. ..
The Sausage-Maker Told Him "
:. to Scatter the Contents
Over the Yard. | ~. 3
Evidence Which Tends TO show the
Perpetration of a Revolt !: : III.
-. .'' III: +. ing Crime. :. * 4. &

CHICAGO. HI, Sept: l. In the Luet-
CERT trial. to-day Frank Bialk. the watch
nan OF the factory, VINO was on the stand
yesterday giving his direct evidence, was =
turned over to the defense for cross-ex-
amin atom. His testimony was in the :
main unsh AIKEN, although the defense
drew from him the fact:thatit was by no:
means an unusual tlingfor Luetgert to :
be around the factory at all hours OF The
night. i: =, -.s.. ..@ =. ...:::.-: Z. =:
!. The other witness was Fra nix Odorfsky,
an:employe of the factory. who placed the
caustic potash in the vat on the order of
Luet eer!. : = + - >.s. -: =
i 1t was made pain to the. jury in the )
cross-ex animation of Blalk, from his posi-
ton in the boler-room, the witness could
have locked through an opening near the
elevator and have seen Luetgert at the
vat In the basement He did not do so,
he said, and he knewit would not do Tor
him TO be caught. Bialk said that al
though Luetgert had barricaded the door
leading directly from the boiler-room
when ne went. TO the basement there was
another route by which he could have
walked into The basement. He did not go
in, he said because Luetgert had told him
TO go back to his fires after he had dellV-
Grad the second bottle of medicine to him.
Lue tgert d id not at any time tell him not
to enter the basement. The Waterman
said he could have looked from the upper
floors OF the factory into the part OF the
building where the watts are and could
have seen Luetgert and his lantern, but
did not do so. +, :s-t:':. = = - l.
E. The cross-examination of Bialk, which
had taken allthe forenoon, was concluded
chortiy after the afternoon session began.
b Orfs u,aa he "a a
witness. He was an mploye Of Luetgert,
whose duties were around tue vats
Odorfsky said he broke Up the causti
potash, and under Luetgert's direction
put it in the middle vat. The witness
then told what he saw in the basement on
Monday morning, May 3. Beside the
middle vat was mass OF reddish brown
stuff, which had overlooked from the vat
anG had been carried part OF ths way to-
ward the sewer opening on the floor. The
stuff had an offensive smell, the witness
said. and was shiny and greasy. Near the
/ vat were three: doors, which had been
taken from the SIN okehouss near by. Two
OF these doors we're smeared with the
same substance. as though they had been
on top of the vat and the contents of the
vat had boiled up against the doors. He
said he took quantity of the stnff on
shovel and examined it carefully. In it
he could see small pieces of bone and
what appeared to be particles of flesh. :.
Odorisky said Luetgert ordered him to
remove the stuff from the floor aud vat
which he did, and the sausage-maker then
told him TO take it out into the yard and
scatter it all over the yard.
F: Il took it outin the yard )" said the
witness, ''but l. did not scatter 1t around.
Instead | dumped it in one place and put
some dirt over it," 90.
The witness said that after the police
began their investigations OF the case he
showed them where hsd placed the mat
ter from the vat and they took part of it
away. 0dorfsky said the material used
in the smokehouse furnace was sawdust,
and the furnace was cleaned on the
Thursday before the 1st CT May. Luetgert
then directed that new supply Of saw
dust be placed in the furnace and this was
done.
Odorfsky's testimony will be concluded
tomorrow.