Schofield brought to light the story involving a woman staying at the home of Clara Moss in Boston. Schofield believed the woman, who called herself Millie Barker, was actually Mrs. Luetgert. He told the Record: "I still believe that she is somewhere concealed in Boston, and that the man who called upon her during the three or four days that she was at 7 Bulfinch place was none other than a man with whom she was acquainted before her marriage and who for a long time after her marriage resided in Chicago. This man is believed to be at the bottom of much of the trouble in the Luetgert family. It is the belief of intimate acquaintances of Luetgert that the man in question led Mrs. Luetgert to leave home and family."

A conspiracy, he claims, exists to ruin Luetgert and to have him hanged, if necessary, to keep him out of the sausage business. He was written a letter to (Luetgert's defense lawyer), that he will produce the woman for a consideration of $5,000.

According to Detective Seligsohn Mrs. Luetgert is working as a servant in Summit County. He claims to have received this information from two female detectives that he has working in that part of the State, and who accidentally learned the facts.

Mrs. Luetgert, Seligsohn claims, is being paid a large sum of money to remain away from Chicago, by enemies of Luetgert in the same business that he is in. As the big German sausage-maker was fast absorbing all the business in his line, and would within a short time have had a monopoly of the trade, others in the same business decided that the only thing to do was to get him out of the way.

According to Seligsohn, he refused to sell, and they made a deal with his wife, having learned that they were not living happily together. After many conferences between Mrs. Luetgert and the rival sausage-makers, they agreed that she should disappear and a large sum of money was promised her if she should remain away from Chicago indefinitely until Luetgert is prosecuted for doing away with her.

"The men back of the conspiracy have thousands of dollars," said Seligsohn, "and every cent of it will be spent to bring about a conviction, if possible, of the big sausage-maker.

"Not even the proprietor of the boarding house knows that Mrs. Luetgert is domiciled under his roof, and the only way my detectives learned that she was in this town was by the frequent visits that are made by representatives of the sausage-makers to encourage Mrs. Luetgert to remain away from her home, and to pay her the monthly allowance agreed upon."

Mr. Smith at the time of death was publicty director of the Willkie Campaign in Wisconsin. He was formerly a newspaper man and had served as a reporter and city editor on three Chicago newspapers as well as papers in other parts of the country.

He was famous as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune during the World War and was the first American newspaper man into Berlin after the Armistice. To accomplish this stunt, he slipped away from a group of newspaper men being escorted behind the lines, hooked up with a German flyer and flew into Berlin.

Another scoop of Smith was the rescue of a American missionary, who had been captured by Chinese brigands. Smith organized a rescue for the missionary. While in China, he was stricken with typhoid fever and nearly lost his life.

One of his earliest feats as a newspaper man was his uncovering of the gambling-politics hook-up in Chicago while he was a young reporter on the old Chicago Journal.

Shortly after Adolph Luetgert was arrested in 1897, a Chicago police official, speaking anonymously, told a reporter: "The number of Mrs. Luetgerts that will now be seen at all points from Maine to California will possibly rival the number of missing Tascotts that were seen everywhere for years after the murder of Millionaire Snell. Unfortunately Mrs. Luetgert in the flesh will never appear." (Chicago Daily News, May 20, 1897.)