The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-15
LUETGERT'S TRIAL.
Progress of This Noted Murder
Case in Chicago.
Witnesses for the Prosecution Tell
Some Startling Stories-Summary
of Testimony Given from
Day tn Day.

Chicago, Sept. SIN the Luetgert
trial yesterday Nicholas Faber, an eX-
employe of Luetgert, testified 10 having
seen Luetgert and his wife enter the
factory on the night of May /. Under
REORGANIZATION Faber was forced to
admit that he did not know anything
that happened on any other particular
date near May 1. Fritz Figel, who
worked for Luetgert May 4, told how ne
ha6 emptied barrel of ashes in the
alley, and officer James Smith testified
as to having found particles of bones
and two corset steels in a pile of de-
bris where the ashes were emptied.
A BIood-stained Knife.
Chicago, Sept. o.-In the Luetgert
trial yesterday knife, on the blade
and handle of which are stains that
the state will try to prove are blood,
was introduced by Mrs. Feldt. 1t is
the property of the man on trial for
the murder of his wife, and Mrs. Feldt
swore that he gave it to her the day
he was arrested, asking her to keep it
for him. DR.. Charles b. Gibson told
the jury about the solution in the vat
and stated that it would have disinte-
grated a human body in 2H hours.
Emma Schimpke testified to seeing the
defendant in the alley back of the fac
tory on the night of May 1, corroIborat-
ing her sister and Nicholas Faber. The
different finds made by the police were
identified and introduced, then traced
into the hands of the experts, who told
of experiments made with them.
Expert Testimony.
Chicago, Sept. 10.-Both morning and
afternoon sessions of court yesterday
in the trial of Adolph L. Luetgert were
consumed in taking expert testimony.
Through chemical analysis the state
must establish not only the possibility
of human body being dissolved by the
action of caustic potash heated to a boil
ing point, but also to the fact that the
bits of bone, hair and flesh and scrap
ings of pinkish brown material from
the interior of the vat in the sausage
factory are portions of the body Of
human being. Prof. Delafontaine said
that the bits of flesh might be human,
but they might also be the flesh of an
animal. The bones, he was sure, were
human bones, but regarding the flesh
he was very guarded and careful in his
statements.
Calls Bones Human.
Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE experts who
testified in the Luetgert trial Friday
were Prof. Delafontaine, teacher of
chemistry in the Chicago high school;
Prof. Walter S. Haines, professor of
chemistry of Rush Medical college, and
George Vincent Bailey. psychologist of
the Field Columbian museum. 1t was
shown by testimony that the matter
collected in the crevices of the pocket
knife given by the alleged murderer
TO his former sweetheart, Mrs. Feldt,
on the eve of his arrest, consisted of
blood and particles of muscular It's
sue.
Prof Delafontaine told the jury that
certain small, round substances found
in the sausage vat are bones from
human hand and foot. There was no
qualifying preface of II think" or ut
is my opinion" to the witness state
ment. 1t was direct answer to di-
rect question; and an interesting point
about the incident was that the qucs-
ton was propounded by Judge Tuthill
himself and that the evidence elected
was even more than the state hoped to
prove by the expert chemist.