The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02
PLOT AGAINST LUETGERT.
IMPORTANT EVIDENCE DIscOTERBD
BY HIs COUNSEL.

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CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-Attorney Lawrence Har
mon. chief counsel for Adolph L. Luetgert, says
he has unearthcd q plot to convict the sausage
maker OF murder. Tho plot, It IL charged, orig
mated with Chicago police officials. and 1t Is In
timated that Inspector Michael J. Setback. 40
cording TO the defence. is one Of the chief con-
spirators. Mr. Harmon also connects Henry
Ulrich. a former Waterman at the county poor
house at DunninE. with the plot.
Reports in possession Of Luther Latin Mills.
the wcll.known criminal lawyer and former
States Attorney Of Cook county. show that in
he boiling vat at the poorhouse laundry were
.ried experiments with human bones and crude
potash; hat the fragments OF bones taken from
the vat after the experiments were delivered To
q man who wore o Doliceman's star, and that
UlFieh. who became notorious through his asso-
citation with the poorhouse morgue robbery two
months ago, was tho main factor In the opera
lions.
Three men at the poorhouse have been In
possession of this information since last May.
The exact date Of the operations in tho poor.
house laundry 10 not known, but 1t
10 known By the witnesses to have been
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CERT for the murder Of his wife. Ulrich
when confronted to-day by the facts ascertained
by Mr.. Mills admitted that they were correct,
| but defed any one to force him TO betray his
friends who were behind him in the matter. He
| intimated that the influence he had gained by
the deal would help him to escape punish
ment for his connection with the Dunning
morgue robbery. He did. however, implicate
Sergeant Stein of the Irvington police station.
whom he charged with being the go-petween in
the plot 10 convict Luetgert.
Three weeks ago Attorney Harmon received a
letter from Adolf Dinkledge, an attendant
at the poorhouse. who represented him.
self as q former detective and news
paper man. In the letter he said that
u g reliable agent was sent TO see
a al@ ne TO w tSe dL ssn sGne aefemee or fHfsan 5mp sent
Andrew MeGarry, a trusted detective. Dink-
ledge introduced him to Adolph Bolstef., night
Knsuss, a eonvalescent patient in the in6rmSry.
Tho revelations substantially were that some
rest, Bolstsf was lying on a couch IL. one
q the small rooms in the laundry buildings;
moving about. It was Ulric6, who was stand;
ing SySr ore Of ,r The Chit, large TSts used used
rorized the employees of the inirmary, he did
not make his presence known. but he told
saw Ulrich and a man who wore no coat and
had a policeman's star on his vest enter the
place.
They brought a eadaver. which they placed in
the vat about 2 o'clock. They boiled II for two
or three hours. When the man with the star
left the place he carried a box Of bones which he
and Ulrich scraped up from the bottom Of the
boiler.
The witnesses have given Mr.. Mills a descrip-
ton OF the policeman who. they say. accompa.
MED Clrich to the laundry and who carried
away the bones. Owing to Luetgert's poverty,
the Investigation OF the story has been delayed
for some time. but Mr.. Harmon says the police
mans Identification 10 now assured.
Bolsteff and knauss were seen to-day, and
| both corroborated the report made by Detective
McGarry. Bolster was positive that Clrich and
the mysterious policeman boiled q body in the
| laundry vat. in which n barrel Of concentrated
I've had been placed. A grave in the potters
field on the poor farm was found TO have been
opened and robbed, and the surmise 10 that the
body was taken TO experiment with in the LAIN
dry vat.
Bolster says he suspected thrt the night work
in the laundry had some connection with the
Luetgert case, but feared Ulrich and did not
dare tell what he had seen until after Ulrich's
arrest for the morgue robbery. After that he
wrote to Mr.. Harmon. Knauss and Dinkledge
told substantially the same story as that mar
rated by Bolster.
Ulrich admitted the truth Of the story. but
refused TO tell more about it., as he wouldn't
60 back on his frienus.'" Attorney Harmon say Is
he believes he will be able to trace the whole
affair and bring the conspirators to justice.