, 1897-10-05
|LuBTGERT IS HAPPY.
SAYS HE CAN STAND THE STRAIN
OF THE TRIAL FOR AMIN
DEFINITE PERIOD.
His Nervous Sys.em. However. is TaXel
Somewhar-Soate's Attorney Sage
1t VIII Take at Leas. Three Weeks
Yet TO Dispose Of the Case-Curi-
Gus People Struggle for Admittance.

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Yet TO Dispose of the Case-Curi-
Gus People Struggle for Admitiance.
sererable cigar reached the our room
halt an hour before the opening hour.
The big sausagemaker was clean shaved,
atLired neatly and apparently in the best
OF spirits. He greeted his attorneys and
friends pleasantly and grinned at Police
Inspector Setback. VINO regarde1 him
coolly.
Il can stand this sort of thing q life
time, SO far az physical endurance Is con
cerned.' said Luetgert, when ccmpll,
mented by Attorney Phalen upon his
personal appearance. But | wish it was
over with. IL wears out a mans ner>
you system, especially if the weather is
warm, as n has been during most OF the
time Of my trial. | feel better since I
recovered sufficiently from the INJURY
to my leg to abandon the crutch. The
crutch is an insufferable nuisance to a
person who is not used to it."
The ;rial will last al least three
weeks longer" said States Attorney
Deenen today. When the defense
closes we shall have at leas. a week OF
rebutta. evidence. Then the defense
will come along with another week OF
the same kind Of evidence. If we get
through wiki the speeches in a week's
time we shall be doing well"
The seventh week Of the trial today
wiki an undiminished crush OF people
at the criminal cour building. All kinds
OF schemes were resorted to by the
throrg in their efforts to reach Judge
TuthilIs courI room. The police and
Guilty in handling the crowd Only these
who possessed tickets were admitted.
Less fortunate people tried to squeeze
their way in with the lucky ticket hold.
erS.
This plan brought several enthusiastic
citizens into violent collision with the
officers and hot arguments ensusd in
which the right Of the sheriff to exclude
any one from a public court rooom was
excitedly disputed. But the officers in
charge Of the entrances were memorable
and hundreds Of men and women slowly
fled out when the court room had been
filed 10 The utmost capacity.
Newspaper reporters who have been
reporting the Luetgert trial have organ
lied a "Sasamoid" club. The club men,
bers meet daily at the close OF the after
noon session OF court and shake the
Several dogs around the criminal court
building have teen rechristened Of late
and now answer to the names Of 'Sesa,
mold" "Femur' and "Ar,iculater."
Prot. Eckiey of the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons o: Chicago was re.
called today for cross-examination upon
several matters in connection with his
Identification OF bones. His testimony
was simply a repetition OF that OF o,her
illnesses along the same line and he
was not kept upon the witness stand
long.
Prot. Plummer of the Northwestern
Medical college, the second witness OF
the day, gave evidence much to the lik-
ing OF the defense. Alter a brief examl-
nation Of the temporal bone introduced
by the state, and positively identified by
Prof. Dorsey OF the Field Columbian
Museum as the right temporal Of a wo-
man. DR.. Plummer, with emphasis, de-
clared the bone was no the temporal Of
a human being.
1T bears but a very superficial re-
semblance TO the human temporal" said
the witness. The line here which has
been identified as a facial nerve is simp-
ly a trace which indicates thai two bones
have been Joined or glued together. |
notice what appears to me to be vege,
table matter. 1t is of a somewhat green
ish tint peculiar to vegetable matter
and to no ether matter"
The bone which has been identified
by the experts o. the prosecution as a
human femur, was handed to DR.. Plum
mer and without hesitation he denied
that it was a femur OF the human race.
IL resembles in a slight degree a hui
man iemur," said the witness, but the
bone is much smaller than the average
femur OF a human. There are other dis
tinct characteristics of the human femur
missing"
The battle OF the bones was waged al,
day, n set o: experts disputing the
iden.ihcations and theories of another.
Lue.gert is not likely + go on The
witness stand until next week. The big
prisoner is still Impatient to tell his
story. On this point his enthusiasm
never cools.
I'm three hours time I could convince
that jury Of my innocence" said Luet-
CERT today. Il will give it to them
straight and make liars of my people
when I get on the stand. They can't lie
Luetgert to the gallows. MY story viii,
make everything plain"
One OF the incidents Of ehe trial today