Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-19
WILL NOT DISCUSS
KILLING OF WIFE
LuitWeiIer Closely Watched TO
Prevent Another Attempt
to End Own Life
sECo:lD VICTIM RECOVERING
Slayer May Attend Coroner's In
quest Over Woman
He Killed

Closely watched by special guards
lest he should attempt to carry out his
attempt at self destruction which was
frustrated by the prompt action of
physicians. George c. Luitweiler, who
murdered his wife and shot his sister,
in-law twice in an attempt to kill her
Sunday morning, occupies a cell In the
city Jail. His condition was reported
Improved yesterday morning by the
police surgeons, and he was removed
from the receiving hospital, where he
was confined after he was taken from
the county hospital, to the city Jail.
All Sunday night and ever since he
was taken in charge by the police he
has been kept under surveillance.
Three guards, each for the different
watches, have been detailed to stand
guard over him and not allow the
slightest freedom. He still refuses to
talk of the tragedy, either to the de-
tectives or newspa permen who visited
him in the Jail yesterday.
Repeated efforts have been made TO
get a statement from him regarding
his wife's murder and his attempt at
suicide, but without any results.
MAY ATTEND INQUEST
When he was led into the jailor's
office yesterday afternoon for an in
terview with newspaper reporters he
at once assumed an Indifferent attitude
and repeatedly replied that he had
nothing to say. Several times during
the interview he cast a furtive glance
about the office as though seeking some
weapon he might turn on himself.
Although said to be q victim of
tuberculosis, Luietweiler appears to be
strong and healthy. Aside from the
effect of the poison he took following
his wife's MURDER. he appears to be
in perfect health.
Tho i11nI1pCf 11ig Tyrifa'a hO6Nr will
be held at the morgue of Bresee Bros.
this afternoon at 2 o'clock. When
Luitweiler was extended the privilege
of attending the inquest yesterday aft
ernoon by Detective Ben Mccain, he
replied that he would consult his at
torney, Paul Schenk
Miss Agnes Dillingham;, his sister-in-
law, who was shot twice through the
shoulder, was operated on at the Cali
fornia hospital yesterday and both the
bullets extracted. She is reported as
being out of danger
Luitweiler will be arraigned in
court until after the inquest.
FATHER MAKES STATEMENT
w. C. Dillingham;, father Of the wom-
an slain by Luitweiler said last night
that the first stories of the tragedy re-
fiected unjustly on his daughter in that
they intimated that she had been un-
kind in her treatment of her husband.
"The reverse was true" said Mr..
Dillingham;. "A kinder-hearted girl
never lived than my daughter, whom he
killed. She endured mistreatment and
abuse at his hands, but despite all of
it she did all that a good wife could do
for him, and more"
Mr.. Dillingham; said that his daugh-
ter and Luitweiler were married about
six years ago. His father gave him a
tract of between five and six acres at
Moneta, with a four-room house upon
it. Almost Immediately, said Mr.. Dill
lingham, mistreatment Of his daughter
began. He charged that Luitweiler
moved his wife and baby to a shack
on the rear Of the lot at SiXty-first
street and Slauson avenue, to be in
town, and that during the rainy season
even the bedding on which the wife
and baby slept did not escape the leaky
roof and the downpour of rain.
To give them shelter until the rainy
weather ended, Mr.. Dillingham; took his
daughter and her babe into his own
home. Finally she instituted proceed
dngs for divorce, but after she and her
husband had lived apart five months
he pleaded for another chance, and they
became reconcied. To show his good
faith, he homesteaded the Moneta
property. Later it was mortgaged, and
he built an upper story on the house in
which the tragedy occurred.
1t was finally agreed that Mrs. Luit-
weiler's sister should live with her
and that they should occupy the upper
part of the house and rent the lower.
Mr.. Dillingham; believed the trouble
between the couple practically had been
ended. The morning of the tragedy
there was no hint, he said, that his SON.
in-law planned murder.