Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-23
The [ED1G[R1 GHOST
Shade Of the Murdered Woman
Haunts the Old Sausage
Factory.
Residents in Vicinity Of Build
inf Have Seen II Many
Times.
Two Detectives Have Also Wit
messed the Apparition. Their
Stories.

Nhlcago, March ~ Nearly four years
rave passed since The murder of Mrs.
Louisa Luetgert by her husband, and
just now her ghost is appearing in the
factory building Gu Diversey avenue
where she was slam. Several persons
who live across the street from the
structure are willing to testify TO this
fact John Seifert the Waterman at the
factory, August lseck, saloonkeeper
directly across II street from the
building, and Gusta. Haas, who lives in
the house formerly occupied by Adolph
Luetgert, are three Of the many persons
who have seen ths apparition, and no
one can convince them that there is no
such thing as a ghost. Beck was the
first TO see it. He called the attention
Of Seifert to it and the two men watched
the form from the window of the sa-
loon.
The locked door WAS thrown open, ac-
oording to the story of the two men. and
the shade of the woman entered the
factory. Seifert declares that he imme-
ciately went to the door, thinking some
one had gone into the building. and
tried the door, but 1t was locked He
became frightened and hastened back to
the saloon to tell Beck. Scarcely had
the two men begun discussing the mat
ter when Haas appeared and said that
lis children had been frightened by a
Woman who was in the rear of the fac
tory.
5 Ssifert is only boy, and he feared to
go into the place. He watched with the
other men, and lights flashed before the
windows. One moment light would
appear on the ground floor and the next
II would be in the cupola, where Lieut.
CERT once had bedroom
Sefert reported the occurrence to the
police on Wednesday, the ghost having
appeared for the first time on Tuesday
right. Wednesday night Captain
scheuttler, of the Sheffield avenue sta
ton. sent Detectives Quinn and Blaul
10 the factory. A light soon appeared
IT one of the factory windows, and the
officers decided on an investigation.
With their revolyArs drawn and each
With lantern they entered the factory
with Seifert
Immediately light darted before
them. as if it were a streak of lightning.
j. seemed to pass from the first floor
Gown the stairway into the basement
The officers followed, and when They
got 10 the basement they saw the light
again. Il was in the very place where;
steod the famo0s middle vat in which
the body OF Mrs. I4uetgert is thought TO
have been disintegrated. Quinn rushed
for II, but II vanished, and In less time
than could be realized was in a corner
fifty feet away The officer again app
preached it. ana this time was able to
get within few feet of the apparition,
Which all the wBile was distinctly that
cf a woman, arids the officer sprang for
IL His arms were thrown about a
small keg and his head went thru a
window pane. The light disappeared.
.t.ut crowd of men and women who
we're outside the hEilding watching said
they had no sooner heard the crashing
rear in the top Of the factory. The Of
l.evers in ghosts.
People are greatly concerned about
the affair. and women keep their chill
dren off the streets after nightfall. Sci
fert walks about the factory on tiptoe
curing the DAY even, ana al night ne
contents himself by watching from
across the street, to see that nobody en-
tiers the building He declares he has
left tables and chairs arranged In such
a way that he would know II they had
been moved at all. He did this on
Wednesday night. and Thursday morn
ling he declares the chairs We're thrown
about and the table was overturned but
he is satisfied there was no burgla,
there.
Agatha To<h. whose notoriety in the
trial of Adolph Luetgert Is we'll remerl.
bered, has not seen the spirit. She
| conducts saloon a block east OF tbs
factory. and declares that Beck has
started the story in order to draw 1
crowd about the building with the ides
| Of helping his business, The latte
stamps this as a falsehood and make.
Ibis word stronger by declaring that HI
will move away if the apparition con
tinues to appear.
Carl Laeisz, chairman OF the Ham
burg Ship Owners Association, is dead