Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — LUETGERT IN TEARS. [ARTICLE]

LUETGERT IN TEARS.

Sobs Convulsively as He Tells the Jury His Story. With a smile on his faee ami the utmost confidence in his manner Adolph L. Luetgert took the witness stand in Chicago. The court room was packed and the stern eyes of Judge Gary roved constantly over the breathlessly expectant throng, commanding silence as they fixed face after face. A small army was denied entrance to the building. Slowly, impassively, Luetgert weighed the questions and gave back his answers until he was asked of his first wife—the first love of his strange career. Then to the astonishment, the utter amazement, of the great audience, the iron-hearted prisoner burst into tears. Covering his face with his broad palms he sobbed convulsively; his shoulders shook with emotion, and his tones choked in his deep chest as he tried to go forward with his story. At the afternoon session the examination of the witness by Attorney Harmon was so slow that when court adjourned nothing pertaining to the alleged murder of Mrs. Luetgert had been brought out. Walter Nash of the West Hoboken, (N. Y.) police found $92,600 worth of counterfeit money in a vacant house. It was all in SIOO notes on the Bank of Montreal. The house was the one formerly occupied by William Brockway and his confederates, Abbie L. Smith and William E. Wagner. They were arrested in August, 1895, charged with counterfeiting. The United States Board of General Appraisers in New York has overruled the protest of Charles P. Coles of San Francisco against the assessment of a duty of 67 cents per ton on an importation of coal which he claimed was entitled to free entry.