The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-12

TESTIMONY HAS CLOSED Is THE
LUETGERr CASE.
The Attorney. WIN Probably r@Ss
Up the Most of the Week In MAXI
ing Their Addresses TO the JurY
bu, Jury VIII SO o.t ~ sassxsay,

CHICAGO. Oct 1.-THE nnai arguments
have been commenced IL the Lastger,
trial and the case viii be given 70 the
Jury by Tire end O. the week This, az
least. is the expectation % the attorneys.
The defense expected today 70 take most
az the session o. the court In Offering sur
rehuf,al evidence. hgt some o, the W.T.
nesSes were not present when their names
were called. aa6 Il was decided taaf the
case might as well go on. Assistan: States
Attorney McEwan began he address Tor
the state. and be VII speak fer two days
at least lie VIII be followed by Attorney
Phalan. Ter the defense. and Attorney
Vincent VII close IN behalf os Lnstxert.
Then VIII come the closing ~ the STATE,
which VII b. mase 81 states Attorney
Desnsn. Iuetgert expressed pleasure over
the fact that TO-DAY marked the opening
OF the last week q his trial Every enc
connected WIKI the case IS tired & r.
When the court opened. rhe taking OF
sur-rebuttal evidence was begua. Fred
J. Swift. q co III steIographef. vas called
20 impeach Frank odorcfsky. employed
by Luetgert at The sausage factory. SNift
p ported odorofsky' s evidence before JUS
tice Kersten. Then the defense started
TO repulsa the attacks which had been
made upon the reputation q William
Charles. Luc1Eerts business partner y.
3 Brown. resident o. Chicago for forty
eight years said he had kn1wn Charles
Intimately for four years. and his repu-
ta1ion for truth and honor was good. on
cross-examiuatton, the prosecution finally
made the witness confess he never bad
any business relations with Charles. and
oriy met him occasionally.
States Attorney McEwau addressed the
rry for three hours this afternoon. ana
had barely outlined his argument az ire
hour 81 adjournment for the day. he
vii fesu-ne the argument tomorrow morn
ing. and vii take ali day. The state was
conservative in SIS assertions a. 20 what
Il would prove on the witness stand some
weeks age said the speaker
I'VE made 70 ooasf We tod yo1 IN
the simplest language We coaId esnPief
31zs W1as the evidence DUG dAsessr
our promises nave been fulaAed- TIE
testimony given from The witness stand
has been disclosed and 8eTe39p@2 more
ihan we promised you. No stronger case
under similar eYlce1 nee y ~ ever RiFsttt.t9
10 "A Jury Search the law BOOKS the A13i1
over zud you wsM End no E3rrArltst esl.tHt
ease % equal the now waTld-fa-I1ed Aslel-
gers ertzL TIE crime . one q the most
- delsEs are followed up and .lnkec TO-
eaeher IN c.rcurnstanfia3 chain ffe mo-
ike ans the aeE are extremely plain and
r,-ssrfsaEs The cia3m 5&s Been mEn-
hers that ~ have fa..sd - establish pTop-
eriv the corpus ueitct4. and ] suspect va
Vii near uleh ao1at THIS from le
news o. ne osler SIDE Inc oo4F Ct ne
crime nas bean Sufficiently eaowD ~ tae
~srrlrs.snces RA.ca egl99I3sn that Mr@.
I.ssfRar- net her dsath tnreaEh a GRIMM
al agency. There e. 40 enofe necessity 90
urcysrw the corpus deslc0 further t83an
the-e would be 10 profuca q house in co-
20 prove ina. a Berson on tr4at Tor i1yeey
b~sza (nts gr ~ 20 pFgGGce TIE horse oa-
fore The }ury which thief = alleges 20
have srcien-'
The speaker referred 70 The fact th1t
nearly SIX Euoatbs bad elapsed since ATs
I.aetEsrt had disappeared from her bone
she s.gl remains ahss1t ard VIII re-
main missing a. long as the wor.a en-
dsres shouted the assistant safes al
toruey. staring a. LaefEert
Then the case was taken ~ chrono-
ferfraEy. ard al the Incidents trsced
trseay down 20 me Gate % the opening q
the trial
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