The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-04

Koch premises and they Illuminated the
premises. The nearest light affecting the
premises is three blocks away
Charles A. Hers said that he had ac,
eompanied Prof. Fischer and w. f. Koch
when the experiments were made as to
the effect of the city street lights on the
Koch premises. He corroborated what
Prof. Fisher had testified to-
Koch Good Listener.
Prof. A. f. REIN, a teacher in Martin
Luther college since 1884, said that on the
morning of Nov 2nd he had noticed DIR.
Koch entering the alley to the rear of
the Gebhard offices, and that they went
together to the rear of the building and
then up to Dr., Reinecke's offices. where
the witness left the defendant He did
not see Postmaster Krook until they
had gotten into the alley. The defend.
ont wore long, black overcoat. Cross
examined the witness admitted that at
the HenEingsen examination last fall
he said that he could not say anything
about the defendants overcoat and was
not positive as to his other clothing
The defendant did not talk any in the
alley, for the witness had theory and
did all the talking, He had always found
the defendant better listener than
talker.
Prof. Adolph Alderman of Martin
Luther college, New Ulm, testified to
meeting the defendant the morning after
the homicide. He wore long, loose
overcoat
Prof. Herman Helm. instructor in
Turner hall, said that he had met the
defendant Nov. End between 10 a. m.
and IL a. IN. and he wore brown strip
ed trousers and blueish gray coat and
vest. The witness identified the clothes
in evidence as nearly as he could re-
member.
Chairman Andrew Eckstein of the
Brown county commissioners, a druggist,
gave the minimum temperature on the
night of Nov lst as 35 degrees. Gen.
Childs sought to bring out that the
slough is lower than the surrounding
land and therefore more liable to have
frost The witness said that he took his
nf cto hn
night was clear.
C. f. Schram, bookkeeper for the
Minnesota Mutual Fire Insurance COM
pany, which had its offices last fall
close to DR.. Koch's offices, said that
he was frequent visitor to the latter,
sometimes three or four times a day.
Dr. Koch had no claw hammer the mid
die of last September, when he wanted
one to pull nails. DR.. Koch let him
have a Ratchet. Gen. Childs brought
out the fact that the witness had not
testified before about pulling nails.
The evening recess was taken.
His home is in North Mankato, and he
is connected with the Minnesota Mu-
Ulm last fall and frequently borrowed
tools of DIR. Koch, to open boxes. He
never saw the hammer in evidence there
nor any similar to it.
vogel Was Distributing Pencils.
Fred Epgelbret, who conducts the sa-
hard's office, gave some new testimony
when he said that A. J. Vogel was in
the evening of Nov. LIST and gave him
one of the advertising lead pencils.
Some time in November, Edgar Ding
Ter, spoke of seeing the states detec-
tive. had said that he wanted to be sure
of the reward before he said anything
about what he knew of the hammer. Mr..
Abbott brought out the fact that the
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witness for the state but not put on
The attorney had then learned of the
pencil matter.
Henry Goede said that three weeks
before the New Ulm trial Edgar Dingler
had said to him in Sittaur's saloon that
there is $500 in it for me-" referring
to his testimony about the hammer.
Cross examined. the witness said that he
had thought Dingler Dragging and did
not believe him.
E. A. Epplund of Wells testified that
during the winter of 1904 he worked
for his board at E. G. Koch's house.
While there he had seen no old hammer
with broken claw.
Mrs John Muhs. wife of the cream
cry man. was a new witness. She lives
over the creamery and has two dogs.
She was up until ii p. m. the night of
the murder, and heard no dogs bark
ing or any noise as of a person in or
about the creamery. The next fore
noon she went through the creamery
doors several times, and twenty five or
thirty people with milk drove by eight
h. -.