Show 7 = 7 TIE DEFENSE nESTs Sausage Mel Does Not Go on the Willis s Stand After All HIS ATTORNEYS ADVISED AGAINST IT 11hPot 0 frIlde1 hn I gel from Hones to wr1 Presevibet lln Eights rll V III Chicago Oct Gbe defln11 t In the Luctgert murder trial rest d Us case today after two wllneas had tcU fled Luclgcrt did nol g on the wU nea stand In his own defense Soon after court convened exJuds VIncent end Attorney Phalen liked Permission to consult with their cal < nt privately Judge Tuthllt told they inlxht do so and Luetgcrt od hlu lawyers retired to discuss hether oP not Luelgert mould all on the wit ness stand ExJudgu jncent viol ously opposed the suggtstlon Ho pointed out to Luetgtrt that Won Charles his business partner had told practically tho story Luulgert would tell You cannot add to It anything thai will benefit you said Judge Vincent I You go upon the witness stand ou will be subjected to u crossexamlna than lasting data and covering the entire en-tire period of your life You wIlfgTt c idled and i OU 1 say things mlich nlll Injure your case My advice 10 you Is Ilp mum Attorney Phal n was Inclined to favor fa-vor Luctgeils desire to go upon the wItness stand He thought tho big sausage maker might bo able to e id lain mom things more satisfactorily than other witnesses had He case hellaved that the absence from tho mitnesm stand of the principal 1 actor i In the great tiiigelr might Prejudice bin In hthd eyes or the Jury Hut Attorney Phalen was vvllllng to admit the logic of cxJudce Vincent a Iopoilon and Luetgert said ho would abide by his counsels advice her the lavvyus and Luetgert returned re-turned from their ccnsultallon Luc < Lu-c > i couHlcnanie bum the expression expres-sion 01 k martr The greatest dis appolrtment of tile trill to him a aWUf the I loc a t hot Ile mas not to bi prmittttL to wittily Ia him ovon be halt ard uddrsx till Jury I as h < had said be vculd The first witness Called today was Hirr J Cox if the United Stales 411e burvu le fill Cards vl nnd ilala to iiiivu that the nleht ot Xoy 1 1J7 wilt cloudy In Chicago onyv INtuclIdItiTty I nnd vlclnlt INtucl AKIIIJ was brought out by the Oefirnn to counteract the I ho had sworn lealolnoiny olbv dn t n tlncy stood ncrris the street at I 11 nrlock I at right cf May 1 and saw i elxerl and his wlfu ualklnj toward fiat lauingo li clcry 11tv first wllrew culled after the consuKtlon of urtgert and his attorneys attor-neys vvnn Mrs Mull Charles wife of Mon Chuilob Luctgerts business lartner Mrs Charles said that upon sevenl oceagltnx MrK Luelgert had paid to tier 1 am Feing I away My husbiml has failed In business and leeile will now i < lnt their linger af me and sn > fcbi la the wife of the sausage maker who failed 1 cannot stand final On May I the witness said she now Mrs Lucleirt the last lime It wns about 11 oclork In the noinln Mrs Luelpcrt again said she vitua going anny and itpoaled that she could nol Bland the dlMincu the failure hal brought eiin lair family She turned away and 1 never saw her asln concluded the vvltneps A dramatic scene followed U has been agreed that Iuetbcrt has offered of-fered un explana t Ion of the evidence of the provitcution except the rings found In the vat In which the body ot Mrs Luelgert Is alleged to have been disintegrated The rings were stuck logelhcr o according lo the story of n Swan whe found them Epcrts who examined them said the rings were glued together hy human ff I lit one of these rings vvere on graved the letters L L the Initials of Sirs Louise Luetgert The theory of the prosecution was that they had dropped from the dissolved finger ot Mrs Luelgert In the vat and had been glued together by flesh tissues about the missing woman s threats to finger rings asked Attorney Phalen after Mrs Charles had finished tclllns about the rollsing mormans threats to leave home I have replied the witness Ilow many She wore two Wers they gold finger 2heywra You eve them oftenr Yc eryo ten DeZribe You Both were plain gold rings nearly equal In blaaeas to that width I novall Of them f ant sure Perhaps both Contained Mn Lcutcerfs In lllals Did you ever see this ring I now he 1 Val u 7 it to one of the rings found In the vA up In the courtroom stood oil ant Crated heir 4uthItti Intereiii while be witneloa Yamlnd the ring The courtroom vsu butbcd an the cru wit of speCta for stialit thell cars to Catch the reply ot Mrs Charles req1yot liars never raw that ring be for Ibu finally answered It Is onarrowir thLn otithcor of thosa Mrs Luelgirt wvre The other ring was handed to her and the Witness 931ed at It for sometime some-time This ling is about the size of one of th finite she wom Cold Mrs Charles i flonally but I cannot tellI do not think It Is one of t ham htaie s attorney iivtuuii n T sex entitled the witness tv1IPL arked her why she did not tell this story to late police or to Justice Kcrst long ago She replied 11 a taft had told It to Luetgeits attoineB and was not isked to toll It Ag Dakedl oui n6vw Fnd Miller of Luetgeltv who had worked for the latter It the rrry tie NAIti ant of his eanalf actry ttifled that he had the nrtch of Mra Iu tg < Tt Ila Pr lured It on the w lln 1 is stand I I said Mrs Luetgeit guv It to I him to rr saying I Luct 1 ag It frnn It its he scoldo d about her h vlng a much jow try t bell as a mailir of fuet h r Rich and lingo ero all the jo welrY she hall Tit unexpectet c mention of the C e d na fair d then I Ban iprepared to go the-n with It r u art ndjo tied until I in air IV Btndjo moining Stats AttofnV Den a ad ijiyhV would Put on eighty I lit irbuttal and ton of theon Vtlle Iafrmi Kenosha Wis where it NN3 by Vltndssa Alex Laos art ttn May s 4 and < 5 |