The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-01-06
SEVEN OF THE DOZEN
Jurymen Being Secured for the
DR.. C. R. Koch Trial.
Another Special venire Order
ed BY judgs Weber.
What the Defense Proposes to
Show Up Later.
Who Owned the Hammer Still a
Burning Question.
Especial to The Free Press.l

New Ulm, Dec. 50sw7Up To noon today
the seventh juror had been secured to sit
in Judgment on Gaprge r. Koch.
The fourth JURORS Martin Penning OF
Home township. The others are August
Jaehn contractor Of Springfield; Will
f. Runck, a hardware and machinery
dealer of Springfield; Thomas Addy,
farmer of the towa 81 Home.
OF the special vastire ordered on Tues
day, but thirty remain to be examined
Judge Webber teday instructed the
coroner to bring III l25 more veniremen,
and to secure theirs from the country.
The following are the names of the
witnesses who &,ia be called for the
state: "a
DR. G. F. Reinekes Eugene A. Pfef
ferle, George ,Lzfs;cbmidt, Alfred Frank
Heintz, JosepkGaihler, Anton simmct,
Joseph Polta, Enesne KoehIer, Adolph
Klause, HermansI .admeyer, Miss Fran
ces Roeseh, Miss cecilia Martinka, Al
fred Kellsr, Anton lIorsak, Albert Hoeg-
Gle, Ascar Day Balausch, Herbert Bal
crusch, Alfred j.. Nogel, William F.
Cavanaugh, Franz II. Behnke, Frank
Kiesling, Miss Jnllnia Alex, Arnold J.
Siam, DR.. G. B. 3Teiser, Edgar Bingler,
Gustav Bahns. Mis- Emily Muhs, Pro-
lessor Adolph Ackerinan, Professor Otto
Montgomery, John Il Muhs, Mrs. j. H.
Pappe, l.. b. Krpox, Professor Adolph
Rein, Mary j1t4,Ie. z, Sdiss;n I1oiiilia4z,
DR. j. H. Vogel, Asa z. Brooks and DR..
o. c. Strickler.
While the state will make desperate
effort to prove that the hammer with
which Gerhard was killed belonged to
DR.. KOCH it will be confronted with the
testimony of DIR. G. T. Renicke, who had
an office with Dr. Gerhard, that the
hammer belonged to DR.. Gerhard.
at was his hammer" said DR..
Reincke. u remember the day that he
brought it in and showed me that he
had cut off the handle. He asked me if
it was not good job. He used it for
breaking cement and said that he was
going to keep it because it was the first
hammer he had bought in New Ulm."
In addition, there will be the testi-
mony of two or three other persons
who remember the hammer and will
swear that they say it in Gebhard's Of
flee before the night of the murder.
This testimony, it is thought, will do
much toward breaking down that of the
state, which is simply the remembrance
of two persons who claim to have seen
the hammer at the Koch residence, and
the statement that the piece of the ham
die and the saw were found by de-
tectives.
The defense, it is intimated, will have
no trouble in explaining the presence OF
a leadpencil, supposed to be the prop
erty of DIR. Koch, in the room of the
murdered man. 1t will be asserted that
it fell from the pocket of one of the
men in the crowd that surged into the
death chamber after the alarm was
sounded.
While this may not be true, the state
will have no little difficulty in disprov.
ing this claim. Whether man who
dropped the pencil can be found is
question.
Attorneys for the defense say that
there will be little trouble in explaining
the finding of the handkerchief with
Koch's initials in the room. 1t will be
contended it was placed there by some
one who wished to fix the crime upon
him. While the defense is silent as to
the identity of this person, one of the
attorneys has ventured to say that he
the proper time comes.
The allegation that blood was found
on the creamery door is fatty denied, so
far as it has any connection with the
case.
DIR. Koch's sister, Mrs: Henry N.
Somsen and Miss Emma Koch, entered
the court room quietly about half-past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon and sat
in the seat reserved for attorneys inside
the railing. They looked toward the
brother, who in his customary post sat
facing the witness stand; his left ell
bow on the counseFs table; his face
resting ON the open palm. Miss Koch
had removed her winter coat before he