The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-31
THE TRIAL OF LEUTG ERT.
Mrs. Leutgert's Brother Makes an Inn
 pressiye Witness,

pressive Witness.
 Chicago, Aug. 30-The trial of Adolph L. Leutgert for the murder of his wife began in earnest to-day, the prelimi- nary work of securing a jury having been completed. Five minutes after the doors were opened the room was packed to suffocation.
 Contrary to the expectat tion of the state, the jury will be asked by the de- fence to witness an experiment In the vat in the basement of the sausage fac tory. This is to be the result of an ex- pertinent conducted by Leutgert's at torneys Saturday and yesterday. by which they claim to have proven the prosecutions theory of disintegration of the body of the victim impossible.
 When the afternoon session began the first witness called was Diedrich Bicknere, brother of Mrs. Leutgert. He told the jury of his visit to the house of Leutgert, May 4, to see his sister. There he met the sausage maker and talked with him for some time before he was informed that Mrs Leutgert had disappeared. Bicknere said Lieut. gert told him he did not know what had become of his wife He had last ming previous. Leutgert said he did not believe she had gone away with some other man, but thought she had wandered away.
 | The witness said he asked the prison | CT what he had done to find his wife 1 and was informed that he had not told the police of her disappearance h.
 stead, he said he had paid two private
 detectives $5 each and they would dc more than the police could accomplish 1 The witness said Leutgert told him he
 had not looked to see if his wife had taken any clothing with her except the l dress she had on when he last saw her He had not visited any place or made l any inquiries.
 1 Bicknere told his story in a simple straightforward way that made him an 1 impressive witness.
 i Louis Luetgert, who is a remarkably 1 bright lad for his age, caused some ! thing of a sensation in concluding his l testimony, and it is believed that he made counsel for the prosecution regret l having placed him on the stand The boy had already been examined twice as to his knowledge of his mothers dis ] appearance, and in neither case did he refer to having heard his mother about | the house after he had been sent tc bed.
 To-day he recounted how he had gone
 to a circus on the evening of his moth CTS disappearance He returned home
 about 10:30 and found his mother. tc whom he described what he had seen at the circus. While engaged in this
 conversation, he said, his father enter | ed the room and ordered him to bed
 Later he heard his father descending
 the stairway This portion of his tes. timony was identical with that given at the preliminary hearings. l But to-day he continued by saving
 that after he had been asleep for a | long time he was suddenly awakened | by hearing 8 rustling of skirts in his
 bedroom. He called out, 'Is that you
 father?" but his mothers voice replied
 ''No it is me-
 The lad declared that he was sure it
 was his mothers voice which replied to his query, and he soon went to sleep The state attorney asked Louis why he had not told this part of his testimony
 before, and he replied that no one had asked him if he had seen his mother af- | ter retiring.
 l Court adjourned for the day, the de- fence refusing to cross-examine the l boy.