The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-24
HIS FIRST TRUMP is PLAYED.
LUETGERT DEVELoPEs HIS PROM
ISED SENSATION.

Three Witnesses Testify to Having
Seen and Talked With Mrs. Luet-
Eert in a Wisconsin Town Several
Days After the Alleged Conversion
OF Her BOdy Into soap Grease-An
Attempt to Impeach the Evidence
of Witnesses.
Chicago, Sept. 2S.-Viewed from various
standpoints to-days prceedlngs in the
Luetgert murder trial was the most re-
marlSable that have occurred within three
weeks.
In the face of the sensational circum-
stantial evidence that has been produced
to prove that Mrs. Louise Luetgert met
death in her husbands sausage factory
on May 1, three witnesses testified to-day
that they saw the woman alive on May
and 4. one of these witnesses talked to
her and believed, from a description and
a photograph of Mrs. Luetgert, that the
woman he saw was Mrs. Luetgert This
witness was Matt ]. Sholey, a barkeeper
at the Hotel Maple, Kenosha, Wis. He
said he saw a strange woman at the Ho-
tel Maple on the evening Of May 8. He
talked with her nearly ten minutes. She
asked to be directed to the farm of one
Mueller in the neighborhood but as no
one seemed to know of such a person, the
woman left on the following day. Sholey
again saw the woman. lie described her
general appearance and clothing and lden-
titled q photograph of Mrs. Luetgert as
the woman he saw. On cross examina-
ton by States Attorney Deneen, Witness
Sholey at first fixed the weight of the wo-
man he saw at 1870 or 40 pounds. Then
he hesitated, and said he had got mixed
up--and remarked that the woman weigh
ed 115 to 11S pounds, which was about
Mrs. Luetgert weight. This hesitation and
correction was made much of by the pros
ecuuon, which intimated that 1t indicated
that Sholey had forgotten the weight that
had been probably told him at first.
Policeman Henry Feldshaw of Kenosha,
Wis, testified that he saw a strange wo-
man in the police station of his town on
May 3. The witness said he afterward
saw the woman at the Hotel Maple and
the following day at the railway station.
He described the woman as a blonde and
Sttlu SAe wore Il btltAoi lAlt anu SlApDtiS.
One of the slippers she had worn was
found in the police station after she had
left. The witness identified the picture OF
Mrs. Luetgert as closely resembling the
woman he saw.
William j. Grunsten, a clerk in the
Grant hotel, Kenosha, identified the pho
tograph as the picture of a woman he saw
in his hotel on May 3. He said she came
into the hotel and remained ten minutes,
He described the woman and corrobo-
rated the evidence of the other Witnesses
Emma Schimpke came to the court room
in the afternoon to hear Rosa Gleich i'm
peach her evidence given on Wednesday
Attorney Phalen discovered her presence
in the room and called her to the witness
stand. When asked If she had not told
Rosa Gleich she had lied, on the witness
stand, she replied: Il don't remember.
did you not tell Harry Fielder you lied
when you said you saw Mrs. Luetgert
May 1?'
81 don't remember"
did you not tell Rosa Gleich you die
see Mr.. and Mrs. Luetgert the night oi
May IL"
II may have said So
Mrs Matte Sherrer, the last witness OF
the day, testified positively that Emma
Schimpke told her that the testimony the
Schimpke girl had given on the witness
stand was untrue.
Late in the afternoon the witness Sholey
who had testified that he saw Mrs. Luet-
CERT in Kenosha and that she was a wo-
man weighing 14C pounds, announced that
he desired to correct his testimony. He
took the stand and delivered himself oi
the following;
when l said the woman weighed 14C
/ pounds, L meant to say she weighed about
115. / was thinking Of her age when
made my former statements"
whats that?" asked States Attorney
Deneen.
Il was thinking of her age, when I said
she weighed 140 pounds"
"You mean, do you, that she was about
14O years old and weighed ll5 pounds. Is
that it?"
'"Thats it. l was thinking of her age"
That's all,' said the states attorney
and Sholey stepped down.
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