Show TRIAL wears on a mans nervous system the hot spell has had a depressing effect on more testimony by experts on bones luetgert confident of acquittal chicago oct 4 the seventh week 0 the trial of luetgert the alleged wife murderer opened today with an undiminished mini shed cruel of people at the criminal court building only who possessed tickets were admitted less fortunate people tried to squeeze their way with the lucky ticket holder this plan brought beveral enthusiastic citizens into violent collision with the officers and hot arguments ensued in which the right of the sheriff to exclude anyone from public court rooms was excitedly disputed but the officers in charge of the entrances were inexorable and hundreds of men and women slowly filed out of the court house when the court room bad been filled to its utmost capacity luetgert greeted bis attorneys and friends pleasantly and grinned at police inspector who regarded him coolly ON THE 1 I can baand this tort ot thing a lifetime so far as the endurance is concerned said luetgert when complimented by attorney phalen upon hie personal appearance but I 1 wish it was over with continued lutat gert as he sent a cloud of lobasco smoke in tbs air it wears on a mans nervous system and especially if the is as warm as it has baen most 0 the time during my trial I 1 feil better since I 1 recovered sufficiently from the injury to my leg to abandon the crutch the crutch is an nuisance to a who is not used to it the trial will last at least three weeks longer eaid states attorney deenen today when the defense closes we sha il have at least a week of evidence then the defense will come along with another week of the same kind of evidence if we get with the speeches in a weeks time we shall be doing well MAKE SPORT OP IT newspaper reporters who have been reporting the luetgert trial have organized a club the members meet daily at the close of court and shake the bones for refreshments and cigars 1 prof eckley of the college of physicians and surgeons of chicago wag recalled today for cross examination upon several matters in connection with his identification of bones his testimony was simply a repetition of that of other witnesses alone the same line and be was not kept upon the witness stand long professor ol 01 the northwestern medical college gave evidence much to the liking 0 the defense afdera brief examination of the temporal bone introduced by the state and positively identified by dorsey of the field columbian museum as the right temporal of a woman dr Plu maier with emphasis declared the bone was not the temporal of a human being it bears but a very superficial re to the human temporal said the witness the line here which has beau identified as a facial nerve is simply a trace which indicates that two bones have been joined or glued together I 1 notice what appears to me to be vegetable matter if is of a somewhat greenish tint peculiar to vegetable matter and to no other matter the bone which bad been identified by the experts of the prosecution as a human femur was banded to dr plummer and without hesitation he denied that it was a femur of the human race it resembles in a slight degree a human femur said the witness but the bone is much smaller than the average femur of a human there are no other distinct characteristics of the human fohir LONG TIME A BOXE one of toe incidents of the trial today was the sawing of a temporal bone by dr tue operation was watched by assistant states attorney mcewan tor the prosecution and ex judge vincent for the defense the bone sawing was done in a waiting room near the court room the surgeons were slow and judge frowning impatiently sent a bailiff utter them remarking those fellows have been out there long enough to baw a cord of wood the bitt leof the bones was waged all day oie set of experts disputing the theories of another luetgert ie not likely to go on the witness stand until next week the big prisoner is still impatient to tell hie story on this point his enthusiasm nt ver cools in three hours time I 1 could convince that jury of my innocence eaid luetgert today 1 I will rive it to them straight and make ciara of many people when I 1 get on the stand they cant lie luetgert Luet eert to the gallow fl my glory will make everything plain |