The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-11-16
MR.. BROOKS STORY.
Gives Some Further Details Regarding the
Murder of Gebhardt.
New Ulm Review.


it was first supposed to be nor that
the general public thinks it is at the
present time. The work of the de-
tectives and the local police has not
been in vain and the county attorney
IS in possession of clues which,
while he is not giving them away, be
believes are valuable.
Motives seem to have been occu-
plying the attention of the detectives.
Who could wish 70 murder DR.. Geb-
hardt and what possible motive
could be back Of the deed? Was 1t
robbery, jealousy, revenge, or was
it an unprecedented crime? Was
1T the work of an insane man, or OF
a morphine or cocaine fiend? These
questions and many more the detec-
tives are working on.
The theory that there is woman
in the case seems to be the one on
which the detectives are working
the hardest and in which they place
the most faith. Just who the woman
is and what the relationship between
her and the doctor were cannot be
known until they lay bare their
findings, but they seem to have come
into possession of some valuable ev-
idence along these lines. This will
be revelation to great many who
have been inclined TO jump at con-
illusions and have pinned their faith
only to clues that are shallowest.
There are few clues which are
plain and from which the public has
drawn hasty judgments, but these
are only few. The one which has
been receiving the greatest amount
of attention is the bloody handker-
chief found in DIR. Reineke's office
near the window through which the
murderer escaped. 1t has received
attention out of all due proportion
to it's Importance and because the
initials &C. r. K" were marked on
the piece of linen, it has thrown sus-
picion on DR.. George r. Koch, one
of the murdered mans business
rivals.
A thorough search of the suspect
ed man S Office and home has been
made and nothing was found that
would deepen the suspicion. DR..
Koch has been able to account for
his time convincingly to the authori-
ties before, after and at the time OF
the awful deed, and can call upon
reliable witnesses to prove his
whereabouts. Not only this, but no
possible motive can connect DR.. Koch
with the crime. He and DR.. Geb-
hardt were friends.
The bottle of supposed poison re-
ceived by DR.. GeOhardt abouta week
before his death and referred to in
the last issue of the Review, is con-
sidered by many valuable clue and
is doubtless being investigated by
the detectives. The bottle was small
and of blue glass and contained what
seemed to be headache medicine. II
was mailed on a Minneapolis & st.
Louis train and stamped by rail
way postal clerk whose routeis des
ignated Winthrop and Storm Lake
This bottle may have been sent from
the Twin cities or from any station
along the st. Louis line, or it may
have been mailed in New Ulm anC
been taken to the cities and re
turned. DIR. Gebhardt is said tx
have remarked to Miss Lydia Schape
kahn at the time that he though
some person not far off had sent i
and that it was the way they poison
people down East. Still he had M
fear, as he said he did not know o
soul who would wish to kill him.
There are two theories advanced
as to the murderer; hehaditplannec
deliberately, or he did not. Thos,
believing in the latter theory stat,
their belief in this way.
He went there either as a mar
wishing to have friendly talk, o.
else he went intending to THRASH
the dentist for some real or fanciet
wrong, which cannot at present b.
known.
1t was at an early hour of the ev
ening shortly after $50 o'clock tina
the man walked up the front stairs