New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-21
KOCH TRIAL OPENS TUESDAY
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LIST, he took his customary road home
down Minnesota street as far as Cen
ter street. Alfred Heinz, who works
in Simmet's barbershop, met Koch II
front of Pfefferle's drugstore coming
Iup the street. He stopped him ane
asked concerning Tom Kretsch ane
then according to the boy, walked az
far as Fesenmaier's hardware store
looked in and turned around anG
came back.
PASSED STAIRWAY NEAR $50 P. NJ
i He then entered the barbersh op
according to testimony the state will
offer, at between 9:25 and $50 p. M,
] inquired for Arnold Stamm, and not
finding him in walked out. In pass
ing the Review Office he was seen by
the Baltrusch boys at work at the
cases, and shortly after steps were
heard ascending the stairs.
| This establishes the time DR.. Koch
was in the neighborhood. The state
Twill endeavor to fix the time of the
murder at about 9:45 p. NJ, that is, it
will seek to prove that by that time
the victim was dead and the murderer
had made MS escape.
The now famous handkerchief
covered with blood and bearing the
initials sc. r. K.o is also to play an
important part. It was found lying.
spread out just in front of the door
leading from the operating room into
the reception room. and the state will
try to show that this is the prisoners
own piece of linen and was dropped
there by none other than himself.
LEAD PENCIL AS EVIDENCE
It will again try to convince the
jury that the lead pencil found in the
pool of blood by the men who broke
in the door and found the body of
DR.. Gebhardt was one which dropped
from Koch's vest pocket as he bent
over the body" It was an unsharpened
pencil, so evidently had not been
carried long, and was one of the kind
bearing the advertisement of the A. j.
Vogel Lumber company. The state
will say that these pencils had not
days and that DR.. Koch was one of the
men who were known to have received
one on the very night of the crime.
The bottle of poison sent DR..
Gebhardt a week before the murder is
also to bear an important part. It
has been shown by the testimony Of
chemists who analized it, that the
white powder in the bottle was nothing
other than strychine. DR.. O. G.
Stricken, who occupies joint re-
ception room with DR.. Koch, testifes
that he had missed quantity of the
poison from his medicine chest setting
in the reception room and that as far
as he knows no one was familiar with
the place where he kept it but Koch.
MATTER OF INJURED HAND.
The state will also try to prove that
Koch's hand was injured before he
burned it with alcohol on the Thurs
day following the crime, and that this
latter injury was merely for the pur-
pose of covering up the scratches or
bruises. Koch, it will be remember
ed, first burned himself with acid and
then on the advise of a physician APP
piled alcohol to ease the pain. At
ter such an application he went down
to fix the furnace at his home and
the alcohol caught fire, inficting
burns.
The hammer with which Gebhardt's
skull was crushed is also to be intro
duced as evidence against the accus-
ed. A boy who does chores near the
Koch residence claims to be able to
identity the hammer as one belonging
to Koch. If this can be established,
it will, of course, be a damaging
piece Of evidence.
/. DR.. Koch's own story Of his actions
on the fatal night is to be used against
him. He says that as he was passing
through the park he saw a rabbit and
after stepping into the house he went
at once out into the Woodshed to gel
his gun, but not finding it came back
in a few minutes.
CALLS RABBIT STORY ABSURD.
The prosecution will say that this
story is absurd, that it would have
been impossible to have seen asrabbi
on the night in question as there was
no moon and more impossible still
for any one to have found it again
and shot it. 1t will further claim tina
from the nature of the knife cuts TIT
criminal must have had an intimat,
knowledge of anatomy.
The state is prepared to explain
Koch S action on that night in thi