The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-01
A MONKEY
FACED DOG.
The Testimony of a Wit
ness For Luetgert. .
HEESCAPED A BAD CORNER
An Explanation Which Made Every
body Present Laugh.
HEESCAPED A BAD CORNER
WARM CROSS EXAMINATION.

Chicago Oct 1.-There was but one
witness on the stand in the Luetgert trial
yesterday. and at the conclusion OF the
session, the state announced that 1t
would in all probability keep him on the
stand for the greater portion of today
The witness was DR.. w. II. Airport, the
expert. who testified for the defense that
the femur claimed by the state as that
of a woman is in reality the femur of a
hog. The state had prepared warm
cross examination for him, and toward
the latter portion of the session it sue
ceeded in confusing him and gaining
from him several contradictions of his
own testimony. He identified the skull
Of dog as being the skull of a monkey
and was neatly trapped by the state in
doing so.
Hour after hour answered ques-
ucns suggested in the main by Professor
Dorsey and propounded by Attorney
McEwan. The sensational statement Of
lDr. Airport at the morning session TO
the effect that the temporal bone iden-
nified by Professor Dorsey as being the
right temporal OF a female was in reality
not a temporal of a female, and not a
temporal bone at ALL aroused the prose-
cution. The experts conclusion, that
the exhibit was several bones glued to-
gether in the form Of a temporal bone.
suggested fraud and an attempt to
manufacture evidence which the prose-
cution did not relish.
The result was that McEwan went at
Dr. Airport with a firm determination
TO learn If the witness really knew what
he was talking about. Questions were
fired at the expert with such rapidity
that he became bewildered. Confusion
led to contradiction, and this developed
sharoer ross-questioning. so that the
Last two hours of the expert upon the
witness stand were fraught with nerve
testing anxiety for him.
Professor Dorsey, whose evidence Or.
AlpCrt fatty contradicted. listened at
tentively 20 the cross examination of
the expert for the defense. He heard
his own story and those of Professor
Bailey and DR.. Pierce punctured by DR..
Airport with a smile of scorn lowering
about his lips. Later on Professor Dor
sey will go on the witness stand TO sub
stantiate his original testimony If he
can.
The expert was required TO name a
portion Of bone handed him. After a
brief examination he said ii was part OF
the skull Of a monkey. McEwan inn
mediately asked another question, which
led DR.. Airport 10 believe he had iden-
titled the exhibit at the first guess. and
the expert confidently entered upon a
long dissertation relative TO the SINH
larity of the skull in some portions TO
that Of a human skull. After he had
finished the state attorney reached for
the bone the expert held and remarked:
"Well, the bone is from the skull of a
dog
DR.. Airport looked surprised. but re-
covering himself suddenly. he observed:
"Well. IL might have been a monkey
faced dog"
This was greeted with a laugh, in
which Luetgert Joined. There was
long wrangle between counsel and the
witness over bones and phalanges. This
part OF the examination became so
technical and scientific that the ma
jority of the spectators became tired
and many of them left the building 1t
is likely that the crossfre Of the experts
will be kept up for nearly another week