The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-18
Neither Is Carnes, the Fellow
Arrested in Minneapolis.
An Old Potato Knife Found in
the Dentists Office.
Bloody Finger Marks on Win
dow Sash a CIeW.
Especial to The Free Press1


New Ulm, Nov. l5.-Sheriff Julius and
Asa p. Brooks have returned from Os-
ceola, Wis, where they sized up the dope
fiend held there as a suspect in con-
nection with the Gerhard murder. The
fellows name is Thompson and he is
physical wreck. Brooks could see no
resemblance between him and the muir
derer, and the man was released.
Carnes, the dopey individual arrested
at Minneapolis, is not the murderer of
Gerhard. Carnes gave an account of his
whereabouts on the night of the tragedy.
The people of New Ulm are wondering
where the next dope fiend will be located.
The opinion is general that the authori-
ties are wasting their time and the peo-
ple's money running about the country
sizing, up cocaine and morphine fiends,
when on the other had if they would
confine their operations to the city of
New Ulm they would have no difficulty
in locating the criminal There is
great deal of dissatisfaction expressed
over the manner in which the hunt for
the fiend who committed the deed has
been carried on.
Three bloody finger prints on the un-
derside of the sash raised by the murder
Ell of DR.. L. A. Gebhard, when he fled
from the apartments of DIR. Reineke' af-
ter committing the murder, have been
found and that portion of the, sash cut
away for use if the assassin is run
down. The indications are that the muir
derer threw up the sash part way with
his right hand and then grabbed it I'M
derneath with his left hand and gave
it a further shove upward.
A knife found on the work table in the
laboratory of DR.. L. A. Gebhard's office
is receiving some attention from the de-
tectives. They are trying to have it
identified, and connect it, if possible,
with the murderer. The knife is plain
potato peeler, old and rusty, and there
are no traces of blood upon it. But it
evidently was not the murdered dentists
and did not belong in his office. Miss
Lydia Schapenham, the office girl, and
all of DR.. Gebhard's close friends who
visited frequently in his office, say they
never saw it before. Brooks has always
maintained that the murderer used a
pocket knife.
Carnes has been identified as George
Creighton, veteran of the Spanish Ameri
can war, son of an Omaha railway Of
fetal at st. James, and university
graduate. He was a member of the
Twelfth Minnesota Regiment.
A plan to take DR.. George r. Koch to
the Minnesota Wisconsin football game
Saturday, was frustrated by the young
doctors heart broken father
Several of DIR. Koch's friends had
planned to ask him to attend the game.
Mr.. Koch heard of it before DR.. Koch
had been approached, and requested the
young men not to propose the idea. 1t
is said that Sen. George Somerville, DIR.
Koch's attorney, also took steps to pre-
vent the carrying out of the trip.
81 think it would have done George
a lot of good" said one of his friends,
today. 'He didn't commit the murder,
L am sure of it. But of course, he is
suffering mentally under the suspicion
and we thought the change would do him
good"