The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-07-28

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"Yes, sill, always"
Mr.. Brooks examination was colnpet
ed about the middle of yesterday after
noon He chung to the account of the
events of that terrible night, that he
had given so many times before, and
the state could not shake him.
Koch Called to the Stand.
The defendant, DR.. George r. Koch. |
was then called to the stand, but his di |
rect examination was not completed be
fore the evening recess. He spoke in
low voice, but his answers were
prompt a nd expressed in as few words
as necessary. His account was precise
" as he gave it at the second trial.
Koch held the closest attention of all.
The Jurors seldom took their eyes from
his face.
DR.. Koch stated that he was twenty
four years old Oct. 18th last. He out
lined his life up to last fall, and eX-
planned the position of his offices. He
traced his movements on the evening of
Nov. lst last In going home, he never
went by the pasture path after dark,
because it is through a pasture and mob
clean Before going to supper on Nov
| lst. he had had his hair cut and a shave,
so he had no streak on his upper lip
nor long black hair. He identified the
pepper and salt coat and vest and brown
striped trousers that he wore that eve
ming, and they were offered in evidence.
The witness told how he had taken a
bottle of perfume to Miss Fitzpatrick
at the residence of S. ID. Peterson. He
had gone to his office at 7:l5 p. m. to
get the package, and turned on the cleo
trio light in his laboratory in order to
oct it. The box was in the southeast
corner of the room. 1t was intended
as a birthday present for Miss Fitzpat-
rick. After delivering it, the witness
had returned to his office. having an
engagement with Mr.. Stuebe. The lat
ter had gone, and the witness had tele-
phoned him and made a new appoint
ment. He had lighted the light in the
operating room, and passed on to the
Hodale & Somsen offices without put
ting out the light The witness and DR..
Vocel had sung and talked there, and
the former had received an advertising
pencil from A. j. Vogel. The witness
had not worn a black soft hat for two
years.
DIR. Koch told how he had left the law
offices ana started for home, and how,
when he reached Blanchard's residence
on Center street. he remembered that
he had left his light burning, and re-
traced his steps to his offices and turn
ed off tho WIT He then started for
home again, the same way. He stopped
at the Simmet barber shop at 9:l5 to
800 and in about three minutes start
LIT is a fifteen minutes walk from the
shop. The witness said that he did not
know exactly what time it was when he
got home, but it was shortly after 9:3C
p. III. He returned by way of the Her
man monument grounds and his fathers
coward He noticed a rabbit near the
corn crib, and after hanging his coat
on a nail rear the kitchen door he had
gone out and looked in an old shed and
the granarv for some shells for an ole
sixteen ouage gun in the shed. He die
not find any and went in again three
minutes later The grounds are lighted
by the reflection of the city lights. Or
going in, the witness said that he hao
read by the dining room table ten min
utes, then had gone down to his room il
the basement to 90 to bed, but haC
changed his mind and took book anc
gotten an apple and read in the dining
room until after 80 p. m. His father
had gone to bed at l0:39, w. f. Kocl
and Paul Hippauf, the college student
had gone to bed
The next morning Will had asked wit
. ness whether he had heard that DR.. Geb
hard had been killed. He had replied
: that he had not. and Will had told hin
all that he knew of it, After break
fast the witness and his sister Ida haC
walked down town. He wore the same
clothes that he had the evening before
He had gone up to the offices of Dir
Reinecke. as the door to Gebhard's of
fee was locked. He attended to severa
patients that day, including the one
that DIR. Strickler had brought in in tn,
morning He had placed the pencil that
had been given to him by A. J. Voge
on top of the desk in his labora tory, a:
he never carried long pencil in hi:
pockets, they being in the way. Tha
evening he had gone down town with hi;
sister, Ida to the Alvin drug store