The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-29
FOR A TIME 1T WILL BE A FEAT
URE OF THE LUETGERT
CASE.
FIRST FOR THE DEFENSE.
AN IMPORTANT POINT IN THE
STORY OF THE PRISONER
SUSTAINED.
TROUBLE IN STORE FOR MARY.
A Charge Against the Sfemmering
Girl May BE Preferred by the
States Attorney.

| C11lCAGO, sept. Zo.-Iu pdtIlS OS-
tween the experts has begun, and from
now on there will be denials thrown
at the evidence of the medical and
| chemical wise men who testified for the
state in the Luetgert case. The de-
Tense put it's first witness in the expert
| line on the stand today, and he will
be followed by a long string of others.
| The witness of today was Dr.. B. l..
REESE, who boiled two bodies in caus-
tic potash in the vat in Luetgert's sau-
sage factory, and obtained results diff
ferent from those who boiled bodies in
caustic potash in behalf Of the state.
| Another witness of the day was Ar
madele Opdyke, a peddler, who testi-
| fed that long after the murder is said
| to have been committed, he saw Mrs.
Luetgert in the neighborhood of James
VILE, Wis. He said that there was no
chance of his being mistaken, and he
| identified the photograph which he
was shown in court, in the most posi-
tive manner. Two girls were placed
upon the stand to impeach the testi-
mony of Emma Schimpke, who said
that she saw Luetgert and his wife
enter the factory on the night on which
the murder is said to have been COM
mitted.
There is a strong probability that
Mary Siemmering will be called upon
to answer charge Of perjury. In her
testimony she gave evidence rejecting
on the manner in which she had been
treated by Inspector Setback and AS
sistant States Attorney McEwen be-
fore the trial, and, as she gave sworn
evidence on the witness stand directly
| contrary to the sworn evidence she
gave at the preliminary hearing, the
ass;s ant state attorney says that lie
will bring a charge of perjury against
her.
H. Wade Gillis an attorney of Teke-
mah Neb., claims to have seen the wife
of Luetgert long after the Woman's
body is supposed to have been boiled
in the sausage factory. He says the
woman came to him in the latter part
of May and consulted him about get
ting a divorce He says: 'It never oc-
CURED to me that the woman I saw
was Mrs. Luetgert until I entered the
court room in Chicago Wednesday and
heard the woman described by one Of
the witnesses. She had come.to Ne
braska from some point to the north.
she said, either Michigan or Wiscon-
sin"
| Attorney Vincent, of the defense, Is
| elated over the news from Tekemah,
| Neb. He has not decided whether to
have Attorney ellis make deposition
in Burt county, Neb., or have him come
to Chicago, as witness, to testify re-
| gard1ng the woman he believes was
! Mrs. Luetgert
FOR THE DEFENSE.
The court proceedings opened today
| with the appearance upon the witness
| stand Of DR.. Clarence Rutherford, the
Luetgert family physician He testi-
fed as to Mrs. Luetgerts physical con-
clifton, stating that she was in fairly
good health. Attorney Phalen inquired
as to the womans mental condition
States Attorney Deneen objected to
the question, unless the witness quail
fled as an expert upon mental diseases
DR.. Rutherford could not do this, and
after stating that he visited the Luet-
| CERT family twice each month and
never saw any unpleasantness in the
family, he was released from the wit
ness stand
An interesting witness was Armo-
| dale Opdyke, fruit vender, from near
said, that on May 9, he was in the
vicinity of Lake Zurich, near James
Vile, with horse and wagon. On the
night of May 9 he camped out Sleep
| ing in his wagon. In a small grove
near him he saw two women. They
were lying on the ground, and said
they were going to remain there dur
| ing the night Opdyke said he carried
all armful of hay from his wagon to
the women. and they made a bed of
! it. The witness positively and uncon-
ditionally identified photograph of
Mrs. Luetgert as one of the women he
saw in the woods. Opdyke said he
could not be mistaken. He was abso-
lutely sure that one of the women was
| Mrs. Luetgert. On cross-eXamination,
| he acknowledged that his identified
| ton was based purely upon the re-
| sembiance of Mrs. Luetgerts picture
! to one of the women.
Maggie Shaughnessy, of 1913 North
Robey street, was put on the witness
stand to strengthen the impeachment
! evidence against Emma Schimpke
! Witness was with Emma Schimpke
and Rosa Gleech at the dance in Wes-
| tig hail. opposite Luetgert'S sausage
| factory, the night of May 1. She said
she saw Luetgert in the barrOom of
the place, and that she and Emma
Schimpke left the hall about 9 o'clock
and went home. Consequently Emma
Schimpke could not have seen Luet-
CERT and his wife at II o'clock
Marcus Heinneman added the weight
of his testimony to that of others who
| have told how Mrs. Luetgert had fire.
quently said she was going away from
home, because Luetgert had failed. On
April %, the witness said Mrs. Luet-
CERT told him she was going away.
BATTLE OF EXPERTS.
The defense introduced it's first medi-
cal expert witness this afternoon. Dr..
| Riese was called to the stand to tell
| of the experiments he had made in dis
migrating human bodies with a 10
| per cent solution of potash. DR..
| Riese first experimental in the middle
vat-the one in which the body of Mrs.
Luetgert is alleged to have been disin-
! tegrated. He said that the first eX-
| pertinent was made with the body of
| woman five feet two inches tall and
| weighing ninety pounds The crude
potash was emptied into the vat in the
| manner Luetgert is alleged to have
! acle On May 1, and the steam was turn
ed on. In a few minutes the body was
put in the vat. The boiling process
was continued for several hours with
1 the result that very little of the flesh
was left The skull, femurs and the
| large bones of the arms still remained
| intact, or nearly so.
| DR. REESE also testified that he had
experimented with hairpins and cor
| settle latter, one from Mrs. Luet-
! gert's wardrobe. Different kinds of
| hairpins were used. Those that were
! Japanned came out of the test minus
| the Japan. Bone celluloid and rubber
| hajrpins were tested, and it was found
| that they were utterly destroyed by
the solution A hard rubber button