The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-17
JUROR IS DISMISSED.
Alleged to Have Said Luetgert
Was Guilty.
MORE SENSATIONS ARE PROMISED.

The Prisoners Lawyers Claim To he in
Possession of Information Which VIII
Reveal a Huge Conspiracy Concocted by
the Police and Relatives of the Defend
ant--Assert the Rings Belonged to Mrs.
Luetgert's Niece Who Died Insane.
Chicago, Dec. 17.-Juror Henry Boas-
berg, the last man accepted to try
Adolph Luetgert, has been challenged
by the defense on the ground that he
had expressed decided opinions against
Luetgert previous to being accepted for
jury service. 1t is claimed that while
seated in a restaurant with some of his
fellow workmen during the former trial
Boasberg declared that Luetgert ought
to be hanged. He is also represented
as having at that time referred to the
laws Of Holland, his native country,
where a majority of jury decides the
fate of a prisoner, and that he thought
such ought to be the law in this coun-
try. He is said to have closed his talk
with this declarations:
Believed Lus ,gert Guilty.
Il believe Luetgeft is guilty and he
ought to be hanged. / would like to be
the one to put the rope around his
neck. If j were on the jury / would
hang him."
The charge was presented to the
court in the form Of an affidavit signed
by Luetgert nd Attorneys Harmon,
Riese and Kehoe. The party making
the charge is Albert j. Mallory of 762
West Forty-third street, who is a press
man at Donohue & Hennebery's print
ing establishment. Boasberg is a nom
union pressman and is also employed
by Donohue & Hennebery. The state
asserts that the charge against the jur-
or is the result of fight of union press
men against Juror Boasberg.
Juror Boasberg was dropped from
the Luetgert jury at 2:15 o'clock and a
special venire OF fifty men ordered
Adolph l.. Luetgert's lawyers claim
to be possessed of information which,
if substantiated, will reveal huge
conspiracy, concocted by the police and
him of wife murder.
Factors i'm the Plot.
Louisa Low, a niece of Mrs. Luetgert.
who died at the Kankakee insane asy-
lum, two detectives, two relatives of
the niece and the rings now in posses
sion of the state are the immediate fac
tors in the alleged plot. 1t is alleged
the two gold rings claimed by the state
to have been found in the middle vat
| of the sausage factory by Detective
! Dean were the rings of Louisa Low,
| andqwere placed in the vat by the po-
I lice. Luetgert's attorneys claim the
| ring worn by Mrs. Low up to the time
of her death contained the initials IL.
L." being identical with the ring pro-
duced by the state. More startling still
| is the allegation that two relatives of
Mrs. Luetgert surrendered to two of In
spector Schaack's detectives the rings
} of Mrs. Low, which subsequently were
discovered in the vat.
Information Was Volunteered.
Information concerning the alleged
| plot reached the defense from an unex-
| pected source, being volunteered by in
! terested parties, to whom 1t was dis
closed by Mrs. Lows relatives, who are
\ also relatives of Mrs. Luetgert. At
| torney John Kehoe, associated with
( LAWYERS Harmon and Riese, and De-
! tective McGary, employed by the de-
| fense. were busy all morning looking
up corroborative evidence. Mr.. Kehoe
( found the persons accused of giving
! Mrs. Lows rings to the police, but the
| latter refused to divulge any informa-
! ton. They did not deny the accusa-
| ton, nor would they confirm 1t. Mr..
Kehoe. however, is convinced, and will
probably subpoena the police into court
where, under oath, they will be COM
| palled to sneak the truth.