| Show THE LUETGERT CASE wonder what this country would do it if it dian didn it have hava a huge criminal coo cage e always alway on hanu there to IB no BO need to speculate peculate very much as aa to how it would then deport itself or what the probable consequences of each a hiatus for the very tory simple ample reason reabon abat ILC arlod to IB dog likely ever to arrive J judging of the future by the past pad sino ano the present one woo woe doth tread upon an others beele so last fact they follow f says shakespeare a Op ophelia holls and so eo it to la with our criminal causes celebre oe lebre one of them to la no sooner disposed ol of another is read reada v to take its ite place and absorb the attention of a world which through the tyranny ol of cue tow torn no longer looks uron bar rowing details of gury gory deeds deede but ex peat deett and in some eom comes even jonge for them each bach presents prea ente some new some fresh developments in criminology end and herein is ie found the needed variety to prevent the whole situation from growing stale ahr uati 0 presentation the calof now on trial in chicago Is ie not altogether new as to methods and outcome of the alleged crime but bui it novel luetgert a wealthy maker was wae eg ea from his hie wile wife and bt tae roni from him he slept and partly lived in hla his office at the factory while hie big wife remained at home one oce evening ahe vasilou his office at his instigation aud and that abat la Is the leaf laef ay one in the neighborhood ever saw of her a far an ae known after a thorough search by the police suspicion ri on the husband sud aud he be won arrested exam ined and commit tou without bail to await indictment and trial the theory of the prosecution to ie that last gort gert strangled hie ble wife and add then log ing her bet body in a vat in the factory vaulta valvil tas red bot d it to a small email quantity pulpy III py raid impossible ol of idec r by means meace of a heated oln tian of caustic potash such pulp was wa found perhaps a quart ot of it altogether with two wo or three small mail fragments of abne and some rings which were wen tally fully identified as s the missing wo manc manss to got all doubts at rest ael as to the possibility of such a thing being done donette donet the be prosecution resorted to the revolting performance of subjecting a abdy bi dy to such treatment the result being exactly the adous residuum as was previously round found in the vat this is horrible enough to la all conscience but now the defense propose to do likewise to prove otherwise they claim that in the case asse or oi the experiment by the state a casaver ca javer which had been ucb such for some time was wae used whereby disintegration was wag not only facilitated but bat made possible and they will undertake to lo low abow that in the case of a human body from which life has just juet departed no du such results can cad be obtained as are bad under the other conditions the defense also claim that mrs luetgert is in still alive but for put pur loea 0 her own remains under cover detectives have been employed and tnt put on the trail almost everywhere at au u enormous enor moua expense but they have oot so go tar far been rewarded by so much as a clue thus the case stand and ana thur with the customary and inevitable elaborations reiterations and ex tons lobs will the jury have to pase pas uon it thlu this bony body to is not yet in existence and is not likely to be for several days the state of the public mina in the neighborhood of the pro coa oe edings dings being such that it will re quire a great array of tal lemen to make possible the th selection of twelve men who have formed no BO opinion and are not blamed biased it is quite likely that we shall be well along in september before a verdict la reached it if indeed one shall be reached at all |
