New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-09

While the two men on the outside
were running for more help, the MUIR
derer seems to have been on the watch.
| His first act was to shake as much of
/ the blood as possible from his reeking
hands, for the mirror in the waiting
room and the wall on both sides of the
outside door of the room are spattered
4 with small drops of crimson.
The outside door has panel Of
! frosted glass through which it is inn
possible to see, but running around
! the edge are two lines of clear glass,
and through these lines the murderer
watched for the return of his pursuers.
He was on his knees or bending over
for on the glass of the door are marks
of a CORY hand.
Those in the party which returned
with Brooks and Cavanaugh believe
that when they came up the stairs the
man was still looking through the
door, and that he made his escape
while they were breaking in, the noise
of kicking in the door covering the
the noise he made in getting out the
window
IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE!
There has been much criticism of
the police and the citizens in the crowd
for their failure to act decisively at
this crisis, and it is true that had they
rushed around to the rear of the build
ing and guarded the alley the criminal
might never have got away. Still
there is perhaps only one man in a
thousand who can rise to an emergen-
cy of this kind and to say that men
failed in this crisis is but to say they
are not one in thousand.
i Besides, it is doubtless true that
even while the party was entering the
room, the murderer was making good
his escape. The first thing done wa s
to enter the operating room where the
murdered man lay. There he was on
his side. literally weltering in blood F,
and SO frightfully hacked and disfg-
ured that even DR.. Reineke, who was
in the crowd, did not recognize the
features Of the man before them as
those of his neighbOr. Mr.. Brooks
had remained outside not caring to
gaze upon the CHASTITY sight again,
but he had to be called IN to identity
his friend. He could not distinguish
the features, but recognized the clothes.
/ Meanwhile the criminal was escap-
ing, but just what course ne took is
not known. There was a story in cir
culation to the effect that he jumped
over the picket fence just back of the
Ottomeyer block and escaped across
r. L., Hellriegel's and William
Gieseke's back yards, and Mrs. Giese-
Ike says that she was out ia. the back
yard ON the fatal evening at about
| the time of the crime, and heard some
thing rushing through the bushes. She
was frig hbened and ran into the honse.
nHAT BLOODY TRAIL.
There are no footprints ne2r the
fence, however, which would bear out
the theory, nor are there any bloody
prints on the fence. The most natural
course for the fugitive to have taken
would have been to have followed the
| opening until he came to the alley and
then make his way to Broadway The
police at first thought they had traces
of bloody trail on Bro aGMay between
Center and Second North streets. on
Second North street for "a short dis
lance and also from BroadMay to the
Indian monument on Center street.
They have since concludes that this
trail was partly paint and PARTLY maade
by wounded dog.
In the early days of the mystery
Sheriff John Mcmillan of Nieollet
county took an active PART in the
search for the criminal, and within 9
couple of days had at least three diff.
ferent suspects for whom he wanted
warrants issued. It was Sheriff Me
MILAN who is credited with being re
sponsible for the charges against DR.
Koch, mentioned before, and it was h
J who demanded warrant from tn
county attorney The evidence was 81
foundationless that the county attor
/ ney refused to issue it, and gave tn
Nicollet county official to under
/ stand in no uncertain terms tina
i Brown county did not need his inter
ference in this case. The sheriff evi
e IDENTIFY took the hint for he left 500
n afterward and has not put in an az
j. pearance since.
Friends of DIR. Koch believe that
}. was the Nicollet county official s intel
d ference that was responsible for tx