The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-10-06
BONES YET THE THEME
OsteoIogist Is the Big Man in the
Celebrated Chicago Wife.
Murder Case.
DORSEY's CLAIM AGAIN DISPUTED.

Three More Professors Declare the states
Collection of Bones job Lot and the
Alleged Temporal Bone Piece OF
Osseous Stag, 80 tai speak Fight tn 6o
on This week-Comment on the Evil
dence so Far Given.
Chicago, Oct 4.-The close of the
tixth week OF the celebrated trial or
Adolph L. Luetgert for the alleged muir
der Of his wife showed the case far
from completed. Luetgerts story has
not been heard. The big sausagemaker
may be on the witness stand a week.
II will take him over one court day to
tell his story under the lead OF his
counsel. Then will come the cross-ex-
animation Luetgert will be carried
through the history of his life. Luet-
CERT has all along expressed an intense
desire to talk. He has repeatedly de-
clared that lie wanted to tell his story
10 the jury. Saturday was a field day
for the defense and If weight Of evil
dence is number of witnesses the state
has no human bones in its collection.
Depends on the Sesamoid Bone.
Three other PSYCHOLOGISTS entered the
arena, and they fixed the identity Of
the femur, the alleged rib and the sup
posititious temporal bone as something
else than human. The only thing left
then in the states collection of bones
which they did not positively identify
as something else than the remnant Of
q human being was the Sesamoid. None
of them however said the sesamoid
was human. They left it's ancestry in
shadow of doubt from which il may be
difficult to lift it. According to their
testimony IL will be as easy to believe
il is a knee cap Of a little dog or
sesamoid from the hind foot of hog as
il is to conclude il is bone that grew
on the bunion joint of a woman whose
whereabouts, living or dead, is an UNI
settled question.
Alleged Rib Traced tn Its Home.
Two of the experts were veterinarians
DIR. L. A. Merillat and DR.. j. Hughes,
the third was DR.. w. 7. Eckley, pro-
fessor Of anatomy, connected with the
Northwestern university. The most inn
portant part Of the astrological combat
was where DIR. L. A. Merllat recognized
the alleged rib. That queer looking
piece Of bone which was called a rib
from human was trailed TO its lair by
DR.. Merllat and there il was found in
the foot of an OK, which he said was
its proper abiding place ever since the
first OK. This piece of bone he named
the navicular bone. DR.. Hughes agreed
exactly with DR.. Merillat, and DIR. Eek
ley declared that he could not possibly
place the alleged rib in any particular
animal, adding that lit would require
the most eXtravagant speculation to do
So" The court ordered this stricken
out.
Alleged Piece of Temporal Bone.
Possibly the fight has ragged around
bone as holly as any other state eX-
hibit. All the experts for the defense
have declared that il lacked charac-
teristics that would place it anywhere
and that il is the temporal bone of
nothing but simply lot Of bones fused
together. This is why DR.. Merllat re-
jects it as human: The chief reason
for arriving at this conclusion is that
we have on the upper border Of this
specimen a compact tissue between two
layers of cancellated tissue. Now, there
is no such thing i'm the organization of
any animal-a layer Of compact tissue
lying between two layers Of cancellated
tissue-no such an example, consequent
ly il is not a true organization. In or
der 10 identify this as a temporal bone,
i should want to see some familiar
structures" None of such structures, he
said were present.