Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — LUETGERT IN TEARS. [ARTICLE]

LUETGERT IN TEARS.

gobs Convulsively os He Tells the Jury His Story. With a smile on his face nnd the utmost confidence in his manner Adolph L. Luetgert took the witness stand in Chicago. The court room was packed nnd 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. 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 07 cents per tom on an importation of coal which he claimed was entitled to fr»a an try.