The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-05

Witness said that he looked at the
hammer at Koch's barn compile of
times. He admitted that at the New
! Ulm trial he had said that he had just
glanced at the hammer and did not
look at it long
On redirect, witness said that he
stood foot from Mr. Koch when he
pulled out the nails.
| Answering Mr.. Abbott, witness said
that he did not know how many nails
were pulled out. Was not watching.
The evening recess was taken.
Disliked DR.. Gerhard.
Hjalmar Hoidale of New Ulm, a
brother of County Attorney Elmer Hoi-
dale, light complexioned young man
wearing gold bowed spectacles, testified
about the offices on the second floor of
the Stricken block, where DR.. Koch's
offices are located. He works in Hoidale
& Somsen's law office in that block.
He said that DR.. Koch visited the Off
ces of the Interstate Insurance COM
pany about every day. There was a
wide carriage Smith Premier typewrit-
err in these offices. Had a conversation
with DIR. Koch about Dr. Gerhard in
October last in DIR. Koch's laboratory.
Nobody else was present.
The defendant objected to the intro
duction of this conversation in eyi
dence. The court overruled the OBJ
lection.
| Witness said that DR.. Koch said that
he 'sthought that DR.. Gerhard was a
double faced -
On cross eXaminatio witness
said that DIR. Koch was arrested about
Dec. 9th. He was in New Ulm all of
that time, carrying on his dental bust
ness except week or ten days. Wit
ness brother, as county attorney, hired
Detective Rydell to get evidence, and
the latter was frequent visitor in the
Stricken block The insurance offices
are across the hall from the offices of
Drs. Koch, Vogel and Stricken. The
Smith Premier typewriter was in the
fire insurance company's office. There
was another, entirely different type
writer in the other insurance office, but
both insurance offices are under one
local management. Dr. Stricken had
a Smith Premier typewriter. The wide
carriage machine was large and not
used much for correspondence, but for
filling out policies. It was the only
one that had purple ribbon. The ma
chine was gotten in August or Sep
TENDER, and was kept in roll topped
desk that locked automatically.
On redirect, witness said that the
doors to the insurance office were oft
en- OPEN The desk containing the type
writer was generally left open. Witness
had seen Detective Chandler, who was
employed by the defense.
| On second cross examination, witness
said that he had seen half dozen de-
tectives in the building.
! County Attorney Hoidale.
Elmer Hoidale was sworn. He is a
little darker than his brother, also
smooth faced, and is also specialized. He
said that he has been county attorney
of Brown county for over three years
His partner is Henry n. Somsen. Wit
ness said that he conducted the exami-
nation at the coroner's inquest over the
remains of DR.. Gerhard.
The defendant objected to all testi
mony descriptive of or in any manner
referring to the bottle. the box, the
label or the wrapper of the box on a
number of grounds. one of these be-
ing that they tend to prove another
and independent offense than the one
upon which the defendant is being tried
The objection was overruled.
The witness testified in regard to the
exhibits named. The bottle was not
opened, that he remembered of. If ii
had been opened he thought that he
would have known it,
On cross examination, witness said
that there were a number of persons in
the room at the inquest. Don't know
who or how many had the bottle in
their hands. The bottle had the APP
pearance of containing bromo caffeine
1t had one small kernel and several lit
tie ones. The largest one was as big as
flax seed and the others as big as pin
heads.
What Miss Wiedeman Saw.
Miss Lena Weideman, sister OF
George Weideman of this city, who re-
sides at Ne wUlm. said that there is
an open porch at the rear of the sec
ond floor of the Krone building. DR.
Koch's dental offices are about thirty
feet from this building. There is a
window in tine Koch offices facing the
porch From the porch person can
see into the office. The night of the
murder / was on the porch between
eight and nine o'clock and between nine
and $3.50 o'clock.
The second time she was taking some
fowls down from the back porch, and
she noticed light in the Koch office
She saw DR.. Koch standing in the win
dow. Then ne stopped and reached
over with his right hand. That was
all | saw He kind of faced toward the
south. The light continued only very
short time. After Strengthening up, he
turned and then the light went out
DR.. Kocli's left side was toward me-
Then he turned to the right and the
light went out. Only saw the part of
the body from the waist up. Guess he
was dressed in dark. He wore a round
soft hat, that l had frequently seen
him wear before His hat and coat
were dark. Saw movement of his
right arm.
Cross examined, the witness said that
she keeps house for three persons, one
of whom is member of the citizens
committee. Ferdinand Krone is the
member of the committee. l knew that
the committee was appointed to find
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