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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
NEW ULM MURDE
Dr.. Koch on Trial for the Murder 81 Dr. lebhardt

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5.It developed yesterday that when DR..
Koch was seen on the evening Of Nov.
Il with bundle under his arm, he was
carrying a bottle of perfumcry to Miss
Fitzpatrick. The jury was told he did
not have the murderous hammer under
his arm, but a. friendly offering to the
young lady, on the occasion of her
birthday /, .s3 II.
The scratches on DIR. rKoch's hands
were received, the Sunday before the
murder while the doctor was driving
with the young lady.
koch's Father on the Stand.
The defense then called the defend
ants father to the stand. Mi. Koch
testified that on the night OF the muir
der he was sitting in the house when
his son George came in.
The witness was certain it was TWEEN.
ty-two minutes to 10 o'clock, for the
Saturday before he had talked to his
son about spending more of his even
ings at home. When the SON came in
that night the father looked at the
clock and noticed the time This evil
dence of the father is important, as it
is the basis of the alibi which the de-
Tense expects to prove. DR.. Koch, ac-
cording to the fathers testimony, did
not appear excited. nor was his man
ner out of the ordinary.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Stranger Seen to Enter the Stairway
Leading to Gerharit's Office.

Stranger Seen to Enter the Stairway
Leading to Gerhardt's Office.
New Ulm, Mimi, Jan. 14.-Thc de.
Tense began it's inning in the Koch
murder trial yesterday, and the foun-
dation was laid for evidence, which DR..
koch's attorneys claim not only will
acquit the accused dentist, but also
will exoncrate him in the eyes of the
public.
The ,t-ee"sc had on the stand two of
the star witnesses, F. G. Koch, the
aged fatt or OF the defendant, and An
ton Horsak, the shoemaker who
claimed he saw middle.aged stranger
who held u handkerchief to his face
enter the Gebhardt stairway about
9:15 o'clock the night Of the murder.
Another important witness was Miss
Gertrude Fitzpatrick. daughter Of
Senator Fitzpatrick OF Winona. Il
Miss Fitzpatrick, according totthe
testimony yesterday, unconscions!y
had part in creating Two
Suspicious Circumstances
connecting DIR. Koch with the murder.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Editor Brooks Says He Did Not Rec
onnizc Murderer.

Editor Brooks Says He Did Not Res.
ognzc Murderer.
New Ulm. Mimi, Jan. 49, - The
states case against D.. G. r. Koch, on
trial for the murder If Dr.. l.. A. Ger
hardt on the evening Of Nov. ], came
to a dramatic close .ihortly before 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The state has produced all its wit
nesses against Dr.. Koch and is really
10 rest. A. P. Brooks, the editor, ana
the only eyewitness to the murde:
was on the stand nearly all day Ho
was called by the court. The state
and the defense had the benefit of 'he
cross-exanlination.
Brooks insisted that he Gid not rec
ognize the murderer while looking
through the transom over the door 10
DR.. GebharGt's Office while the crime
was being committed, The cross ex-
animation by Gen. Chi.ds was severe:
but Brooks held to the essential points
of his testimony.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
SATURDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Handwriting and Typewritng Experts
Combat the States Claims.

Handwriting and Typewriting Experts
Combat the States Claims.
New Ulm, Mimi, Jan. 1G.-A mass
of expert testimony relating to hand
writing and typewriting machines
Saturday prevented DR.. George R.
Koch from telling his own story on
the witness stand.
He will tell it, however. to-day and
he will tell it all. Nothing will be
kept back by fearful defense appre-
hensive of trouble from full ex-
ploitation of the case
Every fact connected with the hon.
icide will be laid bare, and if DR.. Koch
can clear up any obscure points, he will
do it, Nothing will be concealed.
Saturdays testimony was feature
less. The defense attempted to prove
to the jury that there was no doubt
that DR.. Koch severely burned his
hands by an accident at his home.
There was some expert testimony
tending to show that the. address on
the poison package was not written on
the typewriting machine in the insur-
ance Office; also expert evidence de-
nying that DR.. Koch wrote the word
sample" on the poison bottle.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Members Of Koch Family Testify as to
Time Dentist Arrived Home.

members of Koch Family Testify as to
Time Dentist Arrived Home.
New Ulm, MINI. Jan. Is. = At the
close of court yesterday Senator Som
crvil1e announced that G. r. Koch will
go on the stand as a witness in his
own defense in his trial for the muir
Ger Of Dr.. l.. A. Gcbhardt.
Strongly Arrays Testimony.
Yesterdays proceedings in court
can be separated into three phases
the attempt of the defense to prove its
alibi; to prove that DR.. Koch conduct
cd himself in the ordinary manner at
ter the murder, and to establish that
the hammer found in DR.. Gebhardt's
Office after the murder did not belong
to the Koch family and may have be-
longcd to the murdered dentist.
The hammer evidence was the most
striking produced. by the defense yes
terday. First. there was an attempt to
create reasonable doubt in the minds
OF the jurors as to the ownership of
the hammer, and, second. an attempt
~ prove tudl IuC HdlnlNCi ulu llOL DS-
long to the elder Koch. as claimed by
the state. M
Several witnesses who We're treated
professionally by DR.. Koch the day
after the murder testified that no
scratches or injuries were seen on the
Defendants hands, and that there was
nothing strange or unusual in his CON
duct or appearance. -
Build Up Strong AIibi.
Members; of the Koch family took up
most of the morning session in giving
the testimony which, if uncontro-
verted, will go long way toward saw
ing DR.. I.och from the gallows. With
out contradiction, they told their
stories and stood by them, even when
tiercely assailed by the cross-examina-
!ion of the state.
The father. brother and sisters OF
the defendant testified as to the time
when Koch arrived home the night of
the murder. and as to his appearance
and conduct, which they all agree. was
calm and unlusaed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
Crimes and Criminals.

Sing Low was hanged in the peniten
tiary at Folsom, CAL, for the murder
Of Jong Him at Walnut Grove in Octo
Der, 1902. The tragedy was the result
of gambling game.
1smund Erickson, a sailor of the
revenue cutter Dexter, has been stab.
bed to death by Porto Rican in a
quarrel at San Juan. Erickson was a
native of Norway and enlisted at
Charleston, S. c.
Mrs. Lena NJ. Lille Of David City,
Neb., youthful and highly educated.
convicted of the murder of her hus-
band to secure his life insurance, has
been taken to Lincoln to enter on a
life term at the penitentiary.
William Rapson, after family quar-
rel at the Higginbotham farm, near
Joliet. ILL.,, fatally shot his son Her.
bert, after which the old man called
Herbert's wife out to the barn, shot
and killed her, and fatally wounded
himself.
Throwing himself on couch to
which he set fire, John Noveritzski, so
years old, was burned to death at his
home in Chicago. Nine other occu-
pants of the building barely escaped
death in the flames. Noveritzski had
separated from his wife and since then
had been respondent.
Christian Wolmsdorf, aged 80 years.
living at Brighton, Jefferson county,
Iowa, was found dead as the result of
a blow on the temple, inflicted with a
blunt instrument, presumably an axe.
as the dead mans axe was found late:
in the usual place, covered with blood.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
of death at the hands of an unknown
person.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
EXAMINATION OF DEFENDANT.
GOES INTO EVERY PHASE OF
THE CASE.
MAKES A GOOD IMPRESSION
BEARING AND TESTIMONY a
SOURCE or SATISFACTION TO
HIS FRIENDS.

The state rested Wednesday in the
Ulm for the murder of DR.. Gebhardt.
Six days were taken up by the prosecn-
ton in presenting evidence against the
accused man. Briefly summed UP, the
states case is as follows:
DR.. Koch was in the barber shop I'M
der Gcbhardt's Office less than fifteen
minutes before the murder was COM
mitted.
Ee passed the window of the Re
view Office, adjoining Gebhardt's stair
way just before, a man was heard to
stalk heavily up the stairs.
A handkerchief bearing the initials
&C. r. k was found stained With
blood in the murdered dentists roon,.
A pencil, such as l.och received .e!S:;
than an hour before the murder wa,
committed, was found in a pool q:
blood at the dead mans side.
Koch's father had q hammer similar
to the one with which the dentist was
killed. and one witness positively iden-
tilted it as the actual hammer
LII. VIC W ISCCiVCl Il UClIlC
posed to contain poison the week be-
fore he was murdered. The state has
proved that this was strychninc.
The poison was sent in box suci,
as DR.. Koch received from the Parlle-
Davis company shortly after Oct. :.
The package was addressed TO Dir. Gcb-
hardt on II typewriter that was kept in
room adjoining the Office OF DR.. Koch.
D.. Stricken. DR.. Koch's o1iccn,a!s,
missed strychnine from this bottle dur
ing October.
The word Sample" on the poison
/ box is in koch's writing.
DR.. Koch told a farmer that SOME
one was going to kill DR.. Gobhardt.
He told Young man in New Ul,n
that Gebhardt was two-faced -
of ---.
Dr. koch's hands were seen to have
sores upon them the day after the MUIR
der, and were seriously burned on the
Friday following the murder.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
Washington.

President Roosevelt has withdrawn
a letter which he wrote last March ex-
tending to the American Newsboys
Magazine his wishes for it's success.
1t is expected that a constitutional
amendment will be proposed at the
present session of congress, prohibit
ing polygamy anywhere in the Union.
The vice consul at Alcazar reports
that there has been serious inter-
tribal fighting and that one protected
American subject has been killed and
much property belonging to Europeans
looted.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
List of Casualties.

Harry Dunkellserger, telegraph op-
orator at Weigh Scales, Pa, near which
fatal train wreck occurred, said that
he was thinking of his invalid wife
and forgot orders.
A gas explosion at the home of
Frank Parsons at Munice, Ind, wreck
ed the house and fatally burned Mrs.
Parsons. seriously burned her hus-
band and two-year-old baby.
The Academy of Music, together
with the Park and Savoy hotels, adj
joining, were destroyed by nre at Chel-
sea, Mass. The buildings occupied the
entire south side of the square. Loss,
$250,000.
A fire at the Atlantic Refining COM
pany's plant at Philadelphia destroyed
three large paraffine agitators and sew
eral small lubricating oil tanks and
storage sheds, with loss of more
than 100000.
Arthur Glyeck, Is years old, died at
Marshalltown. Iowa, from injuries re-
ceived while coasting with number of
playmates few days ago. The rope
on the steering apparatus broke, the
sled becoming unmanageable. The
boys head was dashed against a tree.
Fire at North Fond du Lac, Wis,
damaged the Babcock block and de
stroyed the postomce the shoe store
of Burt 4 stahl, the drug store Of u.
p. Koehnick 4 Co. and two flats. The
loss Is $40. 600. about two-thirds ii.
sured. 81. &; ~
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Fire of supposed incendiary origin
destroyed the business section of Arts
pc, Iowa.
Seven survivors of the Norwegian
ship Marpesia, wrecked at sea on
Christmas day by an explosion OF
naphtha, resulting in the death OF
eleven members of her crew. have ar
rived at New York.
Three Italian laborers on the Long
Island railroad were struck and In
stantly killed by passenger train at
Dunton, l.. l., and four others were
badly hurt, one probably fatally. The
men were in gang Of snow shovelers
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

The Pasteur Institute has at las,
succeeded in Transforming radish in
to a potato. They should now try
their hand at turning boarding house
steak into a small porterhouse, With
mushrooms on the side.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
Frozen Rodxl El:jo;und =

Pierre. s. D.. Jan. IFS The body 81
an unidentified man supposed to have
frozen to death, was found near the
forks Of the Bad river, sixty-fiye miles
west of Fort Pierre, and is being
brought here for an inquest.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

The cables tell of an American lady
abroad who is ''the life and soul of a
house party-always full of fun, with
never a disagreeable word for any
one.'' There is fine recipe for pop
ularity in the last seven words.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
Farmer Burned to Death.

Maple Lake. Mimi. Jan. Is. - God
fried Neumann, aged sixty. was found
burned to death at his farm home,
five miles west Of here. All the mem
bers Of the family were at church
and on their return they found him
lying on the floor badly burned and
dead. Nothing burned in the house.
Flow IT occurred is not known.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
Guilty oy VII, Y 1, Murse,.

sMilwaukee. Jan. 4 William Not.
ten was last night found guilty 81 muir.
der IL the firsts degree " ~, q Jury ii
Judge Braces court. Molten was
charged with the Inurde 81 III his VIE.
ot, Sept. IL last 81
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

An Ohio dentist is doing some
work for the sultan of Morocco The
sultan has ta,.en precautionary meas
ures by having eunuch stand by for
orders, with an ak; the dentists sim.
pie but diplomatic reply was q rub.
her dam. Il
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
From Other Lands.

Two more Trappist monks, making
total of four since the recent biz
+, card in the Alps, are dead from the
cold in the mountain monastery near
] Bresci.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Rome announces that the pope has ap-
pointed Bishop William H. O'Connell
OF Portland, Me-, as prince assistant
to the papal throne.
The London Leader reports the dis
covery at Lund, Sweden, of book
containing The text of Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus," printed in London
in 1894. The oldest edition hitherto
known is the 1900 quarto.
An official report says that altogeth-
err twenty persons were killed during
the labor disturbances in the oil re-
gion at Tiflis, and that forty-four oil
; towers were burned.
An encounter between strikers and
Cossacks took place at Balakhany,
Transcaucasia. Six strikers and one
Cossack We're killed and many persons
were wounded.
The porte is in state of alarm bor-
dering on panic by the report that Bull
garian revolutionists have planned the
destruction of Constantinople. 1t is
said that great quantities Of explosives
have been concealed in the district OF
Salonica.
1t is said that twenty-four persons
lost their lives in the mountains dur
ing the recent blizzard, fourteen of the
casualties being on St. Bernard pass.
Lieut.. Gen. Won Trotha, commander
in-chief of the German forces in Ger
man Southwest Africa, cables that
Maj. Meisler had stubborn fights Jan
2, and with thousand Witbois
and occupied Grossnabas after fifty
hours fighting. The losses have not
yet heen ascertained
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

There is a good deal of mstletoe
that might as we'll not have been hung.
Girls who don't know enough to hang
their mistletoe behind the doors can
blame only themselves.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Closely following Chicago's I'm.
kissed professor comes Chicago's I'm.
smiling school principal for a brief
run through the newspapers of the
country.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Richard Parker, aged II, and Grace
Morris, 13 years Of age, were married
the other day in Stewart county, Ten
nessee. Think OF what's coming to
them before they reach middle age.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

1t is reported from the East that
somebody has invented an automobile
sleigh. Some people are never salts
fled unless they are adding to The
worlds troubles.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
SUFFERS in / SILENCE.
Musician and Nobleman Too Proud to
Tell Relatives OF His Trouble.

Tell Reiatives Of His Trouble.
S los Angeles, Cal. Jan. is. Comte!
Valiant dc Ia Crolx. formerly musical:
director IN the Illinois conservatory at
Jacksonville, and the Knicke rbockcr
cons rvatory Ii New ~. Il 1Y1orls. ais
tinghished for his work in grand
aopera, and the last male survivor 81.
the famous titled French fanil So illf
md in poverty here because he IS too
proud to let his rich relatives Ia
France know Of his eond tiop.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

A Cleveland dispatch asks "Where
did Mrs. Chadwick's money go?" which
should be framed and hung alongside
the poetical query, Where are the
flowers of long ago."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

In this country there are, according
to the census, fifty-one girls to every
forty-nine boys. Yet in spite of the
census almost any boy will tell you
that there is only one girl.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Those three Russian generals who
were wiped out by a single stroke of
Tokyo officials lead pencil have
ror1e 20 life again.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Here is chance to say fair word
for Mrs. Chadwick. She has refused
an offer of 5000 week to go on the
vaudeville stage. Cassie, too, has he,
good points.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Are the American people growing
shorter?' asks the Medical Record.
Those who have had dealings with
Cassie Chadwick will probably join
in the opinion that they are.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

The Birmingham Age-Herald says
that "the country is infested with the.
atrical advance agents." Well, isn't
the walking good in Alabama this
time of year?
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

A Massachusetts preacher has gone
on the stage, and the "drommer" may
now consider itself elevated sure
enough.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

The editors and proof readers de-
voutly hope that the diplomats are
right in their belief that there will be
no TurkoB Bulgarian war.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Father Angelo of Pennsylvania says
lovers should not sit on the same
sofa. AS they have experience in
such matters and he has not, his pro.
test lacks power.-Grand Rapids Her.
aid.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Threats are being made that partic-
'pants in future French duels will be
punished. Why should there be any
objection to innocent sport?
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

After a long and unaccountable de.
lay the man who licked Theodore
Roosevelt when boy at last has
made his appearance on the scene
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Concerning the secret of old age"
IT isn't a secret any longer. The peo-
pie have been told '.How to Live a
Hundred Years."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

There is a woman in Germany who
has become the mother : Of triplets
twice this year. The present where
abouts of her husband are unknown.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

A lock of Thackeraya hair was
sold at auction for $3.50 the other
day. If some barber had saved the
tonsorial clippings of the novelist, he
would have left rich heritage to his
children.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

It's 4 woman's imagination that
keeps her young. She imagines her
friends cant rec through q coat 81
paint II.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

The, Mikado promoted a Japanese
naval officer after he was killed. AS
a post-mortem decorator the Mikado
beats fashionable undertaken.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

Up in Connecticut they are making
butter from the juice of the milk
weeds. This beats nutmegs from
wood.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20
MONDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Examination Of Defendant Goes into
Every Phase OF the Case.

New Ulm, Mimi. Jan. IS. DR.. G. R.
Koch, whom the state charges with
numbering DR.. I. "A. Gebhardt, was on
the witness stand nearly Ave hours
yesterday, and at the conclusion Of
his cross-examination by Gen. Childs
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-01-20

An expert says Noah was a million.
aire. Yes, we also know that he car.
ried lot of watered stock.