The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-24
HALF BROTHERS TO rHE CRIMINALS

HALF BROTHERS TO rHE CRIMINALS.
One Of the crying evils of our day is
the course of the criminal lawyers OF
our great cities, who make it the bust
ness of their lives to set themselves in
antagonism to the government, and
prevent the punishment of murderers
and other great felons; and who resort
to all sorts of ingenious conspiracies,
and even crimes to pervert and arrest
justice.
We had an example of this the other
day in Chicago, when man, named
Luetgert, was tried for the charge Of
killing his wife and boiling up her body
in vat used for the making of sau-
sages. There could be no doubt in the
mind Of any reasonable man that he
had committed the crime. His wife
disappeared at 10 o'clock at night, from
her home. without any preparations for
travel, wearing a pair of list slippers -
three different witnesses swore that
they saw her going into the sausage fac
tory at 10 or IL o'clock at night. with
her husband; and she has never been
seen since by mortal eyes. But in the
refuse, in the bottom of the vat, was
found the two rings which she was in
the habit of wearing-one of them be-
ing her wedding ring, with her initials
inside of it. They also found a num-
Der OF remnants of bones which the
potash had not thoroughly destroyed;
and some Of the first scientists of Chi
cago swore that they were human
bones. and probably the bones Of
woman. The defense set up was COM
pletely knocked to pieces by the prose-
cution; and yet, in spite of all this,
distinguished lawyer and ex-judge.
named Vincent, managed, by specious
devices, cunning and eloQuence, to hum
bug the jury SO that they stood nine
to three for conviction, and had to be
discharged. And now we see that Judge
Vincent is out OF the case-probably te-
cause Luetgert cannot raise the money
for the fee for a second trial.
IT the state of Illinois can isolate the
next jury from Intercourse with any
human being, from the time that they
are first summoned into court until their
verdict Is given, Luetgert will probably
be convicted and hanged. It was
charged, In this case, that one of the
jurymen was tempered with, and that
this was done through the medium of
his own son, who talked with him Sc
cretly at the hotel where the jury
stopped. 1t turned out afterwards
that this juryman had once been in
dicted for some crime, but was not tried.
It. is almost impossible to convict a
man, nowadays, Of any crime, If he
has money enough to hire these intel
lectual athletes, called criminal law
yers
We have another illustration OF this
In trial now progressing in New \ ork
City: A woman named Mrs. Mack. "a
midwife by profession, and, it Is said.
murderer Of little children), had two
lovers, one Of them named Guldensuppe.
and the other called Martin Thorn.
They quarreled over the possession of
the woman, and Guldensuppe gave
Thorn severe beating. It Is charged
that Mrs. Mack had become tired of
Guldensuppe and wanted to get him
out Of the way-and Thorn wanted re-
venge for his fogging. The result was
that Mrs. Mack lured Guldensuppe to
an out-of-the-way house, in Woodslde.
N. Y. and Thorn was secreted upstairs,
with a pistol. She brought her old
lover to the house, to see II It would
be proper place for "baby-farm Al
he entered one of the rooms Thorn shot
him through the back Of the head.
Mrs. Mack had provided, in advance. oil
cloth to wrap up the fragments of the
body; and Thorn proceeded to cut him
up, and tie the fragments in this oil
cloth. The head was covered with
plaster-paris, and thrown into the
river. and has never been found. The
criminals were busy, for two or three
days, carrying away the fragments Of
the victim.
Suspicion was aroused, twenty-five
different witnesses identified Thorn as
the man who was seen at this place:
and Mrs. Mack was identified as the
woman who rented the house, and
bought the oil cloth. The case was
conclusive one-so much so that Mrs.
Mack has since, to save her life, turned
states evidence, and told the whole
story. Mrs. Nack's former husband
testified that she had killed a large
number of infants and burned up their
bodies In the kitchen range.
And yet, when this terrible case came
to trial, eminent counsel, one of whom
was Mr.. VIM. F. Howe, proceeded to
save these wretches from the gallows.
and probably might have done so, If
Mrs. Mack, in her eagerness to save
herself had not turned states evidence