The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-08
BLACK FOR LUE7GHR7.
Metal Found i'm His Vat Iden-
tilted as Corset Steel
His Wife's Teeth.

CHICAGO, Sept. s, 1S97.-The alleged
wife murderer Luetgert seemed pleased at
the comments of the papers today regard
ing his entrance into the court room yes
terday. Accordingly when this morning
he stepped into Judge Tuthill's court room
for the thirteenth day of his trial. he re-
peated his smiling salute to the jury and
ignored the spectators, who evidenced
their disappointment at the slight. The
prisoner attempted to catch the eye of
the presiding Judge, but the latter dig
nitary completely ignored the attempt of
the big sausage manufacturer to bid him
good morning.
Luetgert held a familiar converse
ton of a few minutes length with
the newspaper reporters near his seat and
then settled down to a consultation with
his attorneys. He seemed to be in IN
usually good spirits despite the damaging
evidence heard during yesterdays ses-
sions.
The spectators continue to be mostly of
the fair sex and the crowds are growing
larger daily.
A greater crowd than ever before con-
gregated today at the huge stone entrance
of the Criminal Court building and a
score of bailiffs and many of Inspector
Shaack's officers were required to keep
open a passageway.
The first witness called was Eugene B.
Palmer, a reporter for the Chicago Jour
NAL" Palmer testified to having held a
small bottle under the stream of pink
ish matter which flowed from the sluice-
way of the vat when the police opened
H. Stuart, also a Journal reporter,
who c~orroborated the testimony Of his
conferee and also testified to having de-
into the hands of an expert, who will
be. called later in the case.
Policeman Bernard Preuss was called
and identified two bits of steel as the
pieces he found in the ashes where the
supposed residue of bones and other ma
terial WHICH was sseooped from the vat
was dumped. Policeman Fred alwor
WITT testified as to having found a hair
pin in the same pile of refuse and the
hairpin was produced as evidence, after
effect that it was improper to introduce
as vidence any and every object which,
owing to its similarity to objects worn by
any and every woman, could never be
identified as having been the property OF
Mrs. Luetgert.
Then came the sensation of the day.
j. H. Odenbrett and w. G. Cady, corset
makers, were placed on the stand in sue
alleged corset steels as having been the
product of their factory. Certain marks
on the two bits of metal were shown to
correspond with similar marks with new
steels which were produced in court. The
witnesses each testified positively as to
the similarity and also to the fact that
the new steels were of the pattern usually
sold by their factory. 1t was considered
by the State t be a great blow to the
defense and was unexpected by the latter
who hoped to prove that the two pieces
of steel were scale bands.
Carl Klein, Jr.. who is employed by {
dentist. described a set of false teeth
which he had sold to Mrs. Luetgert. Kleir
seemed to be burdened with a sense o.
the Characterization by Attorney Vim
| cent, chief counsel for the defense. hi
continually objected to the questions
asked and refused to answer several OF