The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

| desire for a glass Of beer to abject
terror and soul tortures.
AT a recent session, an OutlandiSh
! street band, short on melody and long
| on breath, stopped beneath the court
| room windows and turned loose a
| stream of popular airs. Luetgert, with
| everybody else present, was amused al
| the temporary interruption, but, in the
| incident, a melancholy correspondent
| or two saw a scene of morbid interest.
Out of the ravishing strains Sweet
| Rosy O. Grady and . My Gal Is. a High
Born Lady they eonjured funeral
! march, and, with narrowing minute
ness of detail, described the convul-
sion Of fear which swept across the
prisoners paid countenance. To the
average spectator the countenanCe
was rather red and moist, as a result
of the high temperature of the crowd
ed court room. But, for all that 1t
was none the less paid in the CORE
spondents' reports The big defendant
reads these graphic tales with great
interest and seems to be highly
| amused with them, frequently indulg-
ing in hearty laughs at the discovery
that he has broken down" or is ION
the verge of a collapse"
State Attorney Deneen, it was said
today, has a sensation to spring on
the defense in the Luetgert. trial next
week, which WILL he believes, clinch
the fate of the accused sausagemaker.
1t is nothing less than a portion of a
skull. a number of teeth and the first
joint Of what is believed to be the left
index finger of human hand, which
it is claimed were found in the vat in
the basement of the sausage factory.
Already testimony has been introduced
to show that there were particles of
flesh found in and around the vat by
= .fr,rr
state witnesses, but so far there has
been doubt as to the ability of the
state to prove that these were particles
of human flesh.
BONES ARE HUMAN
Gruesome as these small particles of
bone are, it is believed by the attor
neys for the state, that the jury will
be convinced, when they are introduce
ed as evidence along with the expert
testimony of Profs. Delafontaine and
HaineS, that they are human. These
two experts as a result of experiments
recently conducted, will, it is said
state this as positively as is possible
under the circumstances, under which
it is alleged by the state, that Luet-
CERT worked to destroy and disinte-
CRATE human body. If. as is stated
By a man closely associated with the
prosecution, a portion of skull is in
troduced, and the experts testify that
it is human, it will be hard for the
defense to shake the effect it will have
on the jury. 1t is known that a part
of a false tooth was found near the
vat in the sausage factory during the
search by the police. This was intro
duced in evidence at the habeas cor
pus proceedings before Judge Gibbons.
It was shown by the witnesses that
Mrs. Luetgert had such a tooth. A
lot of flakes and small particles of bone
were introduced by Mr.. Delafontaine.
The police collected them on a gunny
sack when they flushed the vat, but
the experts could not say they were
human.
These leave a doubt, but when the
prosecution introduces, as it is claimed
natural teeth or pieces of teeth, to-
gether with the testimony of the ex-
perts that there is no doubt they came
from a human skeleton, it will go
long way towards supplying the link,
now missing, in the corpus deficit, the
inference being that a human body
was destroyed in the vat where these
portions of bone were found.
The headlong rush of people anxious
to hear the Luetgert trial almost re-
suited in a tragedy today. On account
of the great crowds which have been
gathering in the criminal court build
ing all week, the elevators nave been
forbidden to stop at the second floor.
Today the floor near the elevator shaft
was packed with people, who had just
been denied passage up the stairway
to the court room, and eXaSperated by
the firmness of the big deputies they
made rush just as an elevator was
passing. AS the car slipped by the
level of the floor, the heavy iron door
fell into the elevator. with a crash,
carrying several people with it. The
elevator conductor stopped the car
with a jerk. and the would be passen-
gers all badly scared and more or less
bruised, were picked up. Had the car
assembled few feet further some
fatalities would undoubtedly have re-
suited.
LUETGERT'S LETTERS.