New Ulm review., 1904-11-23
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der OF Dr. G6DldrQb Gldu u6 Will sbc1A
and these papers persist in holding up
to the people the false impression that
Mr.. Brooks saw the last struggles of
the dying man and saw the murderer
withdraw the bloody knife Hreeking
with blood' from the gaping wounds
and then the News after recounting an
imaginary scene of the actions of Mr..
Brooks says:
This must have taken eight or ten
minutes, which permitted the red-hand-
ed criminal to escape, when there never
was a better opportunity to arrest such
a crime stained man almost IN the
bloody act. The public cannot there
| fore be censured for believing and say
ing that Brooks knows the criminal or
knows more than he has told, however
innocent he may be ab1et to prove he IS.
Now, the truth of the matter is that
from the time Of Mr.. Brooks first
appearance on the scene until the
| policeman was there was not more
than five minutes, reasonably less.
There was every reason to believe and
scarcely any reason to doubt but at
the time the policeman arrived on the
scene the murderer was still in the
room. What did he do? First looked
for step ladder, then for a dark lam
tern and disregarded any advice about
putting an officer in the rear of the
building.
AS to the first sight OF the scene in
the room, Mr.. Brooks has always said
that there was no movement of the
body on the floor and from the view he
had of it, not seeing the head and neck
and but little of the bloody shirt, he
had little idea murder had been COM
mitted and his return to the street the
first time was to get someone to go
with him to see if there was trouble
there. Not a fraction of a second was
lost, no unnecessary crossing and re-
crossing ofthe street. Mr.. Cavanaugh
was on his way over and came running
at the call of trouble.
| Then would any reasoning man, if
he knew that murderer was in the
room, climbup and again look through
that transom with a bright light be-
hind him, in perfect range Of gun?
This was done by Mr.. Brooks to salts
| fly himself that there really was trouble
of some kind there. It was then that
he took a full view of the body and
saw the blood on the floor, and it was
then he told Cavanaugh that a man
was murdered. He did not know then
and not until after the physician had
arrived that it was DR.. Gebhardt.
| The fraction of time occupied in the
second look and in getting to the street
Ito give the alarm could not have been
great. Five or more men standing
there were told and policeman COM
/ ing across Center street was hurried
to the scene and in that time others had
congregated. Was there any use for
| a fire alarm? Was there any need OF
crying 'murder?'' If the men who
we're there had not been so dumb
founded and fear stricken there were
enough to capture dozen murderers.
] 1t was between twenty and fifteen
minutes of ten when Mr.. Brooks went
up the stairs the first time and after
the door was broken in and the fact
was known that DR.. Gebhardt was
murdered it was still eight minutes OF
ten, so that the reasoning of the News
as to the time is sadly inaccurate.
4 The writer makes this statement not
in defense of the murderer but because
of his being unjustly accused of being
an accessory by parties who seek his
injury as much as they seek the appre-
shension of the man who committed the
deed. No man in this city is more
anxious for the apprehension and pun
ishment of the murderer of DIR. Geb-
hardt than is the writer, and that these
lies eminating from the source they
do should be believed and credited is
and amounts to the same thing as if he
were accused of the murder itself.
A republican popular majority ot
more than 2,O0O,0 convinces the
guessers that the art of forecastins
ELECTIONS is still in its fancy
Mr.. Bryan was the best prophet or
the democratic side. He said the nom
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