The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-05-12

ululutreF penang over MS NiCliiI.
"Describe the murderer was the
request which led up to the dramatic
! statement of the witness when he said
| Or. Koch was not the man.
He was an understood man with a
small black mustache. and with either
bushv head of hair or a small SLOUGH
hat which fitted closely to his head
Brooks answered.
Was the man You are speaking OF
the defendant DIR. koch?' Attorney
Somerville asked.
Murderer Was Not Koch.
The man saw bending over DR.
Gebhardt as | sazed through the tran
som was not the defendant, DR.
Koch"
Mankato, Mimi, May Z. - A sensa-
ton was created yesterday in connec
ton with the Koch murder trial by q
report that an attempt was made by
certain interested persons to reach
the jurors with a written argument
county court house.
This report gained credence imme-
diately after the adjournment of court
last evening, and it was fostered by
instructions Of Judge Cray to the jury
few minutes before the close in
which the court ordered that the jur-
ors remain in their secluded room az
ter the adjournment of court until all
persons had left the corridors Of the
court house
In Effort to mpeach.
The defense launched it's heavy ar
tillery yesterday, in the testimony Of
several witnesses put on the stand in
an attempt to prove that the poison
package mailed to DR.. Gebhardt was
not sent from the village of Hanska
on the day DR.. Koch visited that town.
The two principal witnesses to this
were l.. Leech and Nels Nelson, rail
way mail clerks who have been rum
ming on the Minneapolis & ST. Louis
road between Hanska and New Ulm
for several Years. These men, accord.
ing to their evidence yesterday, were
the only two mail clerks on the run
between these two stations the week
The Poison Package
was said to have been received by DR..
Gebhardt. Both declared that, in their
opinions, the blue box produced by
the state as the exhibit which con-
tanned the bottle of poison when it
was sent to DR.. Gebhardt was not
mailed from Hanska to New Ulm at
the time alleged. They said the post
mark on the blue box was not the i'm
preston left by the stamp of either
clerk. AS the box, were it mailed
from ianska to New Ulm. must have
been stamped on the train, providing,
as claimed by several witnesses of
the state, it was mailed at the depot,
the defense evidently could convince
the jury through these witnesses that
the states testimony regarding the
mailing of the poison package is i'm.
peached.
Mankato, Mimi, May Git is prob
able that in five days more the jury
| in the trial of DR.. George R Koch,
! charged with the murder OF DIR. L. A.
| Gephardt at New Ulm, viii receive
| the instructions of Judge Cray and re-
tire to find q verdict. The defense
has already introduced about forty of
| its Witnesses, and as there are less
than hundred in all to be produced,
it is very likely that the arguments
will be made Thursday or Friday of
! this week
Good Day for Koch
Dr.. Koch left the court house Sat
urday evening a happy man Through
| the pushing crowd OF curious. morbid
men and women who had come to get
/ a glance at hi.n. he made his way
! with the elias step Il a man who
had suddenly cen reliel ed of tor.
menting cares
For it was 4 e defense's day in the
| murder trial witness after witness,
twenty in all. were Introduced by the
/ defense and que tiol ed in ar appar-
emily successful ATTEMPT to show that
| the accused man was not the owner
of the hammer found in the office of
| the murdered man; that he Wore the
same clothes for many days after the
murder that III had worn on the night
! il occurred; t'79t lie had never shown
enmity for ardcrcI man, and
that it woul Haze been impossible
| for him to send the poison package.