Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — ARTIFICIAL BONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARTIFICIAL BONES.

Dr. AUport, an Expert, Creats a Sensation in the Luetgert Case. Public interest in the Luetgert murder trial at Chicago continues with unabated intensity. The testimony of Dr. Allport, an expert, Wednesday afternoon w r as greatly to the big sausage maker’s liking. Dr. AUport declared the femur, which Prof. George Dorsey of the Field Columbian museum identified ns that of a human, was the femur of a hog. Dr. Allport is a professor of descriptive and comparative anatomy in the Northwestern University. The dispute between these two eminent authorities as to the bones has brought about a crisis in the case. If the jury believes Dr. AUport the conclusion can hardly be escaped that no human body was boiled in the vat in Luetgert’s sausage factory. When Dr. AUport went on the witness stand again Thursday he created another sensation by declaring that the temporal bone which Prof. Dorsey identified as human-and from its formation probably the right temporal bone of a female, is not human. Dr. AUport emphatically remarked that there were no indications upon which to base the conclusion that

the bone was from the skull of a human being. He believed it came from the skull of some lower animal, He also declareij that the phalanges in evidence belonged to the lower animal kingdom. Dr. Allport made a statement on tlxe witness stand Thursday that caused a profound sensation for a few minutes. He was examining the temporal bone which had been identified by Prof. Dorsey and pronounced by the latter not only a temporal bone, but the temporal hone of a woman. “That bone is not a temporal bone either of a human or of the lower order of ani-

mals,” declared Dr. Allport, gazing at the exhibit intently. “It is a composition of bones put together lw artificial means. The trace here which Prof. Dorsey said was the outline of a facial nerve is a fiber of animal matter with which the bones arfe stuck together.” The statement was received with something akin to dismay by the prosecution for a moment. Luetgert leaned back in his chair and laughed.

PROF. ALLPORT.