Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-31
ADOLPH LUETGERT BURIED
Last of the Sausage Maker Accused of Wife
Murder.
Stnte's Attorney Deneen Has m Son
satfonni Confession Made by Dead
Mans Companion.

A dispatch from Chicago last night saws,
| Thousands of persons attended today the
funeral of Adolph L. Luetsert, the wife
! murderer. who lied at the Joliet peniten-
tiary. Prominent in the group about the
bier at the Northwest Turner Hall were
Luetgert's three children. near floral pill
low, with the Inscription: "our Fathers
Words. I am Ihnocent'
Lawrence Harmon. former counsel for
LuetserL delivered an address. at the close
of which he said:
Hes dead but his Wife lives / call
| upon Louisa Buetgert the missing woman
for whom he suffered without ever utter
ing an upkind word regarding her. to come
| forth and remove the unmerited stain from
| the name OF the father and her innocent
| children"
An Alleged Confession
Adolrh l.. LuetFert's sudden death IN the
| penitentiary on Thursday last has brought
to light the fact that States Attorney
| Charles S. Deneen has had locked up in
the vaults at the criminal court building.
almost from the beginning of the accused's
trial for wife murder two years ago an
implication that is considered the wife
murderer's confession of guilt IL was
made by Luetgert to q fellow prisoner in
the jail and sworn to by the latter at the
tAAtt btlbTe IHe stale attorney. If is
published for the first time. Mr. Deneen
asks that the name of the man to whom
Luetgert told his story be withheld as he
was jailed only for a minor ofrense and he
affidavit follows.
chicago, September 10. 1sH.-State of
IIlnols. County of Cook. SIS: - being
nrst duly sworn, deposes and saws:
was prisoner in Cook county fail at
the time Luetgert was arrested and charg-
go VIII murder OF his wife on May l. 1897.
AFTER ms incarceration in the jail / became
acquainted with him, and we have had
various short conversations regarding his
case. wrote two letters for him al his
request, one to the grand jury and one 10
AT the time the hearing was on harora
Judge Gibbons he returned to fail much
excited and .howed me a letter he had re-
s seos rom ron, his son He asked me the DIFF
iereht Kinds of murder, and said: What
Is the word they use when they claim /
iiao thought a long time about it?'
Killed by Kick.
told him that was what they called
premeditated, and l then explained tn
MIN as we'll as / could what nanslaugbta.
was He said: 'McEwen. the assistant
states attorney, tells the Judge all the
ume L planned this for weeks and weeks.
and ID, he makes it the hanging kind
s,,d men zen ne Sald: Sposing l come out and
ma my little boy with my wife and send
MN 10 ped, and | ask her to go with me
to the office and she refuses Then
X KICK her Showing me how he kicked her
IN the slqe) and find she is dead Then
L dispose of the body in the vat and
just at this point some one came I'm
ana called Luetgert to see visitor
r Inc ne next morning: Sunday, he said:
i talked good deal to you Yesterday
didn't l? l was almost crazy The Law
yers come and never talk about my case
, puC must nave more money and the wo-
man supposed to be Mrs. Christine Feldtt
wouldnt give them that money and | told
them to get me out on bail and | win
saloon and make lots of money
You be good friend of mine and
, When l get out 1 will be a bigger man
than the Cronin men were, and will omen
! saloon S and make lots of money.
conversation he said: L made one ID
mlstake-them bloody rings
told him that if the rings did not
the Jeweler where he got them describe
the ones he did buy He said. L had thar
all hXed once but now | am here and the
PSopIe an go back on me and won't do
what they promised me-
Was Wary Criminal.
He said, tapping his head. IT is all
here, and the judge cannot see that. and
only hears what comes from here ftap-
ping his lips). / can answer every ques-
ton my way, and no one can say differ
ent because no one knows anything He
said: Luetgert is too much for them
never have any one to talk about me-
W hen l want to do something | do 1t with
Luetsert. Three eyes are too many
He told me that Vincent had said. II
you are guilty you must tell me so
Will know what to do, and 1 told him he
was id fool
Il explained to him about the corpus
deficit, and that they must find the body
or a part of it and identify it i'm order 20
establish murder. He said: Then | am
all right, because they cannot do that;
there amt any of it left
These conversations We're at various
times and were more or less Interrupted.
L avoided him to keep him from talking
any more about it. Whenever he spoke
about the rings he showed by gestures
and by words that he had made mis-
take as to the rings, and that he worried
more about them than anything else
When he began to tell me about the case
he started by saying, Suppose j did so
and So but before he got through he put
1t more in the form of a statement and
said: L kicked her in the side showing
how he did it. and then he said, L think
she will come hack, etc, meaning as /
understand it, I think she will come to-
(Signed)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10th day of September A ID 1897