New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-09
DETECTIVES HOT ON MURDERER'S TRAIL
sleuths the Officials Working INCREASINGLY Day
and Night Unraveling Mystery Surrounding
Gebhardt Murder--Arrests May Soon Follow.
TWO DENTISTS FRIENDS.

LII. 0oUudiut > DOOkS pear GeSIl-
mony to the fact that he and Dr.
Koch often did work on each others
teeth for which they made no charge.
Their relations we're always cordial,
as their friends will testify, and to
anyone's knowledge there was not the
slightest ripple in their friendship.
Found also in the rooms, but in the
pool of blood in which the dead man
was lying, was a pencil, unsharpened,
one Of those issued for advertising
purposes for several days previous by
J! Alfred Vogel. How came the pencil
there? It may have dropped from the
pocket of the murderer, it may have
belonged to DR.. Gebhardt, and again
one of the men who rushed into the
room and picked up the mutilated
form may have had it in his pocket
and in STOPPING over lost it.
A common door key, polished as
though it had been carried in the
pocket, was found on the screen which
had been knocked over in the struggle.
So far no doors have been found which
the key will fit.
Crumpled up and thrown in one
coroner of the room was found piece
of paper on which is the notation
George S76." Whether this has any
significance on the case remains to be
seen. The murdered man has brother
bearing the name George.
WHENCE CAME POISON?
/ The bottle of supposed poison re-
ceived by DR.. Gebhardt about a week
before his death and referred to in the
last issue of the Review, is considered
by many valuable clue and is doubt
less being investigated by the detec-
tives. The bottle was small and of
blue glass and contained what seemed
to be headache medicine. 1t was
mailed on a Minneapolis & ST. Louis
train and stamped by a railway postal
clerk whose route is designated Win
throp 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 and
been taken to the cities and returned
DR.. Gebhardt is said to have remarked
to Miss Lydia Schapekahm at the time
that he thought some person not far
off ho1 r + II,
they poison people down East. Still
he had no fear, as he said he did not
know of soul who would wish to kill
him.
Another story which turned suspic-
ions in certain channels was that told
by Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Neumann.
They were returning from friend
. house about $3.50 p. m. on Tuesday
night and when they reached the door.
way leading upstairs into the Ottomey,
er block they saw two men standing on
the edge of the sidewalk conversing
just as they came up with them one o.
them, the taller of the two, entered the
doorway and said to the other:
eff you hear anything let me know
SEES MAN 60 UPSTAIRS.
E He then started upstairs and his
companion started across the street
They saw no more of them. The one
who went upstairs, Mr.. Neumann says
he thought he recognized as Alfred
Keller, a clerk in Eugene Pfefferle's
drugstore. He spoke to him but the
man did not answer. When Mrs. Anna
; Wing was returning from church a
about the same time she saw a mar
standing on the edge of the Sidewalk
facing the street on the east side.
William Edwards, a brakem an in tn
Northwestern yards, is young Keller
, brother-in-law and suspicion at one
pointed his way. The detective
have looked into the matter thorough
ly, however, and have come to the con
clusion that Mr.. and Mrs. Neumanl
were mistaken in the doorway and tina
the one young Keller went up was tn
one leading upstairs in the Masoni
: block several doors upstreet. Thi
frees the young drug clerk from an
connection with the affair.
! Mr.. Edwards is also free from sus
q picion. Sensational stories regardin
i shooting affair in which he was th
: principal actor appeared in the cit
papers and the facts were badly twis
ed. In the first place Mr.. Edward
did not shoot at anyone, he shot int
: the ground at his feet. In the secon
= place the affair occurred before hi
! marriage and jealousy had nothing t
do with it.
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