The Portland daily press., 1897-10-09
THE STATE CLOSES.
Defense in Luetgert Case VIII Put Or
Few More Witnesses.

Chicago, October 8.-The closing day
of the rebuttal evidence of the pro-
secutlon in the famous Luetgert tri al
opened this morning with continuation
OF the impeachment evidence produced
yesterday. Prof. Geo. G. Dorsey OF the
Field Columbian Museum. chief Osteolog-
ical expert for the state in this trial, was
called to dispute the evidence of DIR. Il.
W. Allport, the principal expert for the
defense. He had some hot shot for DR..
Airport and the other scientific gentle
men whose testimony, If accepted in full.
practically branded him as stupid nov
ice.
AS preliminary to DR.. Dorsey on
| slaught, policemen were called To-Day to
inpeach certain witnesses for the defense
who had identified picture of Mrs.
Luetgert as that Of a woman seen in
Kenosha, Wis, on May 8, and 5.
Prof. Mark de Lafontaine was called
upon to impeach the evidence Of Prof.
Long of the Northwestern University,
with reference to bones. He expressed
views upon the subject in scientific terms,
directly In variance with the ideas of
Prof. Long.
During the afternoon Prof. Dorsey
called attention TO the fact that during
his examination, DR.. Airport had identi-
he'd the fenur of a gorilla as that of a
man; that no had identified human
femur as a hogs femur; had declared
| that the seasmoid of a buffalo was the pa
tella of dog and had given it as his
| opinion that g piece of temporal bone OF
shepherd dog was the temporal of a
monkey. Ex-Judge Vincent cross-ex-
amined the witness briefly without ma
terial benefit and let him go.
| Then Judge Chetlin was called to the
stand to add the finishing touches to the
! impeachment Of Mary Siemmering. She
told Judge Chetlin she had not been
maltreated at the police station and that
| she had gone to the East Chicago avenue
police station voluntarily and was will
| ing to return there as she knew she would
soon be discharged because she had done
nothing wrong. The evidence demolished
| the story of Mary Siemmering who de-
| clared while on the witness stand that
she had been subjected to indignitles at
| the hands of policemen.
| A sensation was created In the court
room when woman attired IN mourn
ing garb assembled to the witness stand.
Tears were in her eyes as she sank into
the chair. The woman was Mrs Miller,
q sister Of Mrs Luetgert. So firmly i'm
pressed is she that Mrs. Luetgert is dead
that she donned mourning. Mrs. Miller
testified while her brimming eyes were
| fixed upon the face of Luetgert. The
A
law coolly. Mrs. Miller told of the kind
ly disposition 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 Bicknez, a brother of Mrs. .Luet-
! cert, testified to having frequent visitors
to the home of the Luetgerts and to the
Kindness they had witnessed there. This
evidence was called out to combat and
impeach evidence that Mrs. Luetgelt
treated her children cruelty.
| The state rested its case this afternoon,
after prosecution lasting seven weeks.
| Court then adjourned until next Monday,
then the defense will probably put on a
few rebuttal witnesses.
| Next Monday the defense will undertake
the unusual task of impeaching judge.
A witness will be called to testify in re-
| buttal to Judge Cbetlin's evidence as to
Mary Siemmering's. statement to him.
This witness will be q newspaper re-
porter, who is said to have heard the
young woman's statement.