Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-04

sixth week Of the celebrated trial OF
Adolph L. Luetgert for the alleged
murder of his wife shows the case
far from completed. Luetgerts story
has not been heard. The big sausage
maker may be on the stand week.
It will take him over one court day
to tell his story under the lead Of his
counsel. Then will come the cross
examination of States Attorney De-
neen, who is recognized as one of the
best cross questioners at the chicago
bar. Luetgert will be carried through
q history of his life in whirlwind
fashion. Then he will experience a
cyclone sweep through the important
matters brought out by his direct ex-
animation. Luetgert his all along ex-
pressed an intense desire to talk. He
has repeatedly declared that he want
ed to tell his story to the jury. 1t is
predicted that the anxiety Of the ac-
cused man to talk will
BE FULLY SATISFIED
before his cross-examination is closed
if he goes on the witness stand, and
ex-Judge Vincent, chief counsel for
the defense, has promised that Luet-
CERT will be heard.
The greater part of last week was
devoted to threshing over old straw.
1t was another battle of the experts
fought along the old line with vary
ing results. The concensus of opinion
at the close of the week by close OBJ
servers of the trial since the opening
was that the prosecution had the
better of the argument as to sesa-
moids, metacarpals, temporals, pha-
langes, phalanx, femurs and other
bones of the human body as well as
the lower order of animals. Experts
of the defense have contradicted each
other on cross-eXamination. They
have also made plumbers in the identi-
fication of bones, which amused the
jurors and apparently weakened their
testimony DR.. Airport made
TWO BAD MISTAKES
on Friday, when he identified the fe-
muir of gorilla as that of q man and
a piece of skull Of dog as belonging
to a monkey Yesterday Dr. Merillat
added to the confusion of the defense
by identifying hog femur in a man.
ner in direct confliction with the iden-
tifcation of Dr. AIlport of the same
. Doffc- on Friday DIR. Airport said the
bone in evidence was the upper or hip
joint portion of the femur. DR.. Meril-
lat testified positively that the bone
was the lower end of the femur.
Prof Eckley, instructor of anatomy
and physiology in the Chicago College
Northwestern University and the
University of Illinois, proved to be
the most
ENTERTAINING WITNESS
produced. The professor is the pos
SCISSOR of a peculiar voice. Ex-Judge
Vincent handed the witness a bone
and asked:
"Is that human bone?"
81 am unable to say" replied the
, expert
What is this bone?" asked the law
yer, passing UP another specimen.
at is the articular surface of the
head Of bone. l am unable to say
whether human or from lower ami
NAL
"Have you ever examined this bone
I hand you?"
81 have"
SIS it human or not?"
81 could not possibly place that
bone in any animal to save my soul.
1t would require the most absolutely
extravagant speculation to do So"
This
PROFOUND AND SCHOLARLY
admission created a roar Of merri-
ment which the court bailiffs found
some difficulty in restraining. AS
sistant States Attorney McEwen pro-
duced further laughter by gravely re-
questing the court to strike the soul
from the record
"You must only give your own con-
clusions from personal observations"
8 remarked Judge Tuthill, addressing
the witness. The bone which had puz-
zled the expert was a portion of a rib
which had been introduced by the
prosecution.
Both of the hands of Charles Boos.
a stenographer in the States attor-
ney's office, are swollen badly and
much infamed. Boos has been report
ing the Luetgert trial and has handled