The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-11-27
k!aaherz Goes on Stand to Testify in
His Own Behalf.
Says He Was at Home on The Day
Of the Forgery.
ehNdres Also Give Testimony Favor
able to Their Father.
State Offers Rebuttal Evidence-.-Case
in Jury's Hands.
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George Nugherz took the witness
stand at two o'clock yesterday afternoon
to testify in his own behalf and to
answer with an alibi the forgery charge
preferred against him by L. G. NJ. Fetch
or. Mr. Klugherz stated that on the
day on which the forgery was committed
he did not go further from his home than
to the vacant lot adjoining his own
premises, except to go to Lorentz's groc-
cry store in the afternoon for a very few
minutes, until the evening. During the
morning, which was cloudy but not
rainy, he cleaned up his yard and car
ried the weeds and other rubbish to the
vacant lot adjoining with the intention
of making bonfire. Thus he occupied
himself until about dinner time. After
dinner he read for while and then took
q nap. About four o'clock he awoke and
was requested by his wife to go to the
grocery to get some bread, sugar and a
few other articles. He was just putting
on hi. coat to go when his daughters
came home from school and taking an
umbrella that one of them had brought
he went of to Alonzo NJ. Lorentz's groc-
cry, made his purchases and returned
after an absence of about ten minutes.
He then remained at home until after
supper when he went down town. Thus
it was that he spent the memorable elev
enth day of September. AS has been
previously stated on several occasions
the forgery was committed at the bank
about four o'clock on the afternoon of
Sept. IL, 1908. 1t follows irresistibly
that if Mr.. Klugherz told the exact truth
he is not the man who committed the
crime.
Josephine Klugherz, the nineteen year
old daughter of the prisoner, was next
called upon to testify. Miss Klugherz
said she was a student at the normal
school and expected to graduate next
Wednesday. She was preparing to fol-
low the vocation of school teacher. She
was graduate of the high school at
GAINESVILLE. She went to school as usual
on Friday, Sept. II. On that day she
was at home for dinner as was her
custom. The morning was quite cloudy
but it was not yet raining when she
left home to return to school after din
ner. It was raining hard, however, when
she got to school. The model school
which she teaches was dismissed as usu-
al at three o'clock and the teachers
meeting was dispensed with on account
of the bad weather. Miss Klugherz and
little Pauline Buchholz waited on the
normal school steps until Miss Klug-
herz's little sister came with umbrellas
and all three went to the Klugherz home
together. They just got there as Mr..
Kugherz was putting on his coat to go
to the store. He took one of the UNI
brellas and was gone about ten minutes,
after which he returned home and staid
until after supper. Little Pauline also
staid until after supper.
Ten year old Pauline Buchholz was
called to the stand and told the same
story. Mrs. Klugherz also testified in
sorroboration of all that her husband
and the girls had said, as did also Mr..
Klugherz's seventeen year old daught-
Or, Annie.
Alonzo M. Lorentz, the grocer of North
Sixth street, told story about Klug-
herr coming to the store and making GER
tain purchases on the afternoon of the
eleventh. What Mr. Lorentz said was in
perfect accord with the testimony of the
defendant. When questioned as to how
he remembered the exact date Mr.. Lor-
entz said that he remembered consign-
ment of plums that had been sent out
just about the time Mr.. Klugherz made
the purchaser of that afternoon. A
written memorandum had been kept of
the date on which this order had been re-
eeived and filed.
Herman Ziegler, foreman at the cooper
shop of Dowd Sons & Co., at GAINESVILLE,
testified that Klugherz worked under
him last fall from August II to Sept. S.
At the end of this period he went home
and was not working at the shop on
Sept. IL.
Adam Klugherz, brother of the defend
ant, and Officer Klugherz, his half broth
sr, both testified that the prisoner had
always been hard worker and borne
an excellent reputation.
John Diamond, called by the state in
rebuttal, testified that on the morning
Of Sept. IL, about eight o'clock he had
seen the defendant walking on north
Sixth street about block away from
his home. This evidence was introduced
to controvert statement that Klugherz
had made on the stand to the effect that
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