Show IR46IDY IN TilE map Evidence So Far Directly Against Luetgert TWO EMPLOYEES TESTIFY ZOLD MAN BIAIiKS EVIDENCE WAS UNSHAKEN Nothing Unusual Tor Luetgert to Roam Around the Factory at All Hours of the Night Gruesome Discovery Made By Prank Odonrf sky In the Vats the Homing Alter Al-ter the Disappearance of Mrs Lu otgert How He Didnt Scatter the Stuff Around the Yard Chicago Sept 1Buil two witnesses were on the stand in the Luetgert trial today and when the court adjourned the testimony of one of them vas not completed and will be resumed tomorrow tomor-row The first witness was Frank Bialk the watchman of the factory who was on the stand yesterday giving his direct di-rect evidence and today he was turned over tothe defense for crossexamina tion His testimony was in the main unshaken un-shaken although the defense drew from him the fact that It was by no means an unusual thing for Luetgrt to be around the factory at all hours of the night He said in his direct examination ex-amination that he thought Luetgert was acting in a suspicious manner on the night of the alleged murder and today said that he was In a position from which he could have seen everything every-thing Luetgert did at the vat on the night the murder is said to have taken place but did not look at him THE SLIMY STUFF The other witness was Frank Odorf sky en employee of the factory who placed the caustic potash in the vat on the order Qf Luetgert He had been working around the vats for a lone H u time out inai nioiit wan > uv un l1ll that he had overseen any caustic potash pot-ash in the factory He testified to finding in the morning in the vat into which he had put the potash on the night a mass of slimy brown matter In which he found pieces of bone and pieces of a substance which he toolc to be flesh Luetgert told him to take the stuff away and throw it around the yard but instead of doing this he dumped it all in one place and afterwards I after-wards showed the police where he had put it When the court was called to order Assistant States Attorney McEwen announced an-nounced that he had authorities at hand on the questions which were left undecided yesterday1 as to whether the visit of Mary Simmering the Luetgert family servant to Iiuetgert In the > factory fac-tory was admlssabfe evidence but the state would prefer to argue the question later Judge Tuthll said Blalk could be recalled later In the trial and the question decided BIALKS ROSj3XAMINATION AttorneY Vincent then began the crossexamination of Bialk and put to him questions regaffling his connection connec-tion with the police since May 16 Mr McEwen objected but Attorney Vincent declared it would be shown that Bialk had not been out of the sight of a policeman for five minutes since the arrest of Iluetgert and the defense had not been able to get a minutes conversation with him The crossexaminaSfon proceeded and Balk testified that since May 16 he had been with Officer Klinger living at the latters nbuse and paying no board He had done no work but Inspector Schaack had provided means for his wife to live and pay rent Mr Vincent brought out the fact that previous to May 1 the watchman had met Luetgert in different parts of the factory at all times of the night Bialk said he regarded the actions of his employer On the night of May 1 as suspicious because he turned the steam into the basement at 9 oclock This was unusual It was made plain to the jury in the crossexamination that Bialk from his position in the boiler room could have looked througH an opjlning near the elevator ele-vator and have semi Luetgert at he vat in the basement He did notdo so he said because he knew it Would not do for him to be caught at it Bialk I said that although Luetgert had bar ricadcd the door leading directly from the boiler room when he went to the basement there was another route by whIch he could have walked into the basement He did not go in he said because Luetsert had told him to go back to his fires after he had delivered the second bottle of medicine to him Luetgert did not at any time tell him not to enter the basement The watchman 1 I watch-man said he could have looked from the upper floors of the factory into the part of the building where the vats are I and could have seen Luetgert and his lantern butdid not do so I The crossexamination of Bialk which had taken all the forenoon was concluded shortly after the afternoon session began ODORFSKY WAS CURIOUS Frank Odorfsky was then called asa as-a witness He was an employee of Luetgert whote duties were around the vats Odorfsky said lie broke eup the caustic potash and under Luetgerts directions put it Into the middle vat The witness then told what he saw In the basement on Monday morning May 2 Beside the middle vat was a mass of reddish brown stuff which had overflowed over-flowed from the vat and had been carrIed car-rIed part of the way toward the sewer opening on the floor The stuff had an offensive smell the witness said and was slimy and greasy Near the vat were three doors wnidh had been taken from the smoke house nearby Two of these doors tveid smeared with the same substance as though they had been on top of the vat and the contents of the vat had boiled up against the doors He said he took a quantity of the stuff on a shovel and examined it carefully In it he could see small pieces ofbone and what appeared ap-peared to be particles of flesh Odorfsky said Luetgert ordered him to remove the stuff from the floor and vat which he did and the sausage maker then told him to take it out into the yard and scatter it all over the yardI I took It out into the yard said the witness f liiit I did not scatter it around Instead I dumped It in ona place and put some dirt oVer it The witness said that after the police began be-gan their investigation of the case he showed them Where he had placed the matter from the vat and they took part of it away Odorfsky said the material ma-terial used in the smoke house furnace I was sawdust and the furnace was cleaned on the Thursday before the 1st pf May Luetgert then directed that anew a-new supply of sawdust be placed in the furnace and this was done When court adjourned for the day Odorfsky was still on the witness stand and his testimony will be econciuded tomorrow e = |