Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-09
LUETGERT CASE TO GO TO THE
JURY NEXT FRIDAY.
STATES EVIDENCE. is ALL IN.
DEFENSE WILL ATTEMPT ON MON
DAY TO IMPEACH A JUDGE.
Attorneys for the Prosecution Well
Pleased Over the Status of the
Cnse-Cost of the Trial
Will he Light-Crim-
inal News.

Chicago. Oct S.-The evidence of the
prosecution in the trial of Adolph L. Luet-
CERT is now before the jury. The state rested
its case this afternoon. The closing testi
mony was of the same impeachinS charac
ter that marked the evidence of the pre-
ceding day.
Professor George Dorsey had his innings
during the afternoon session of court. and
he made matters unpleasantly warm for
DR.. Airport. Professor Dorsey could have
talked for hours upon the subject of oste-
ology. He was primed with bristling facts
concerning bones. but the prosecution con-
fined the young astrological expert to mat
ters tending to counteract and refute the
statements made by DR.. Airport. the chief
expert of the defense.
Professor Dorsey called attention to the
fact that during his examination DIR. All
port had identified the femur of gorilla
as that OF a man: that he had identified a
human femur as hogs femur; had de-
clared that the sesamoid of a buffalo was
the patella of dog and had given it as
his opinion that piece of the temporal
bone of a shepherd dog was the temporal
bone of a monkey. Dr. Airport listened to
this evidence with half incredulous smile
playing upon his lips. But the evidence
was not productive of anything bordering
upon mirth with the attorneys for the de-
fense. Ex-Judge Vincent cross-eXamined
the witness briefly. without material bene-
fit and let him go.
Then Judge Arthur II. Chetlain was called
to the stand to add the finishing touch to
the Impeachment of Mary Siemmering.
A sensation was created in the court
room when woman attired in mourning
garb ascended to the witness stand and
held UP her hand to be sworn. Tears were
in her eyes as she sank into the witness
chair. This woman was Mrs. Wilhelmina
Miller, q sister of Mrs. Luetgert. So firmly
impressed is she that Mrs. Luetgert is
dead that she some weeks ago donned a
garb of mourning in memory of her sister.
Mrs. Miller testified while her brimming
eyes were fixed upon the face of Luetgert.
The big sausagemaker returned the gaze
coolly. Mrs. Miller told of the kindly dis
position of her sister, and asserted that
no mother was ever more patient or more
kind to her children.
Fred Miller. nephew of Luetgert,- and
Diedrich BicknesS, brother of Mrs. Luet-
CERT. testified to having been frequent Wis
itors to the home of the Luetgerts and to
the kindnesses they had witnessed Mrs.
Luetgert bestow upon her children. This
evidence was called out to combat and i'm
peach the evidence of Mary Siemmering
And and Mrs: Mary Charles, who testified that
With this evidence, the state rested Judge
Tuthili at once adjourned court until Mon
Gay morning. ana hurried away 10 eaten
a train for Nashville, Tenn.
Next Monday ex-Judge Vincent an
nounced sur-rebuttal evidence would be put
on. The defense will undertake the un-
usual task of impeaching a judge. wit
ness will be called to testify in rebuttal to
Judge Chetlain's evidence as to Mary
Siemmering's statement to him. This wit
ness will be a newspaper reporter who is,
said to have heard the young womans
statement --
States Attorney Deneen and First As
sistant States Attorney McEwen are both
pleased over the status of the case. 1t
to-day. States. Attorney Deneen esti-
mated tonight that the prosecution of
Luetgert would cost the county about s5-
0O0 Over 5000 was saved by the states
attorneys own corps of stenographers TAX
ing the evidence for him. The cost to the
county in this trial, lasting two months. is
about one-fourth the cost of the Cronin and
the anarchist trials.