The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-12

would send a new, clean one. Dr
Koch will 90 on the stand and deny
that he. wrote it.
We will show that DR.. Koch had the
pencil that had been given him and kept
it in his cabinet DIR. Koch's blue box
was preserved and will be presented in
court, together with the identical pencil
that DIR. Koch had. We will show you
that DIR. Koch has mad every opportu-
nifty to abscond, but has conducted him.
self in a dignifed manner and as he
should.
We will place Mr.. Brooks on the
stand early in the case and will show
by him that he went to his office after
the game at Hoidale & Somsen's office,
and went to reading a letter. That he
heard a scuffling in Dr. Gebhard's office
as ne entered, thought nothing of it, as
DR.. Gerhard was strong physically and
often scuffled with his friends. Later
Brooks heard sounds of things tipping
over, ran upstairs, tried the doors and
stood upon a railing and looked over
into the room. Mr.. Brooks then saw
the lower half of a man, lying on the
floor. He saw kneeling beside this body
the upper half of man who was
kneeling beside the person lying and
who seemed to be operating on the man
who was lying. This kneeling party
turned and looked squarely at Brooks.
Feeling that he was looking into some
body elses private operating room, he
jumped down. Up to then he did not
think that anything wrong was being
done, but as he went down stairs his
mind began to work and he. feared that
something was wrong and asked Mr..
! Vogel to 60 up. Vogel, though a strong,
resolute man, did not go, but said ''let's
get more" Cavanaugh was then at once
gotten by Brooks, and they went up and
looked over the transom. Both ran
down and told other men what they had
seen. Brooks says that he could tell
who the murderer was, as he got good
look at him, but the man was not Koch.
The man was understood, black hair,
black moustache. MIR. Brooks, within if
teen minutes gave the description to
Chief Klouse, to be sent out over the
country.
The state not having produced Mrs.
Dahm's husband or grown sons stamps
her testimony about the blood on the
gate as unworthy of belief. As said
at first, if anything less than a human
| life was at stake, the defense would be
willing to sumbit the case to the jury
without further evidence. Mr.. Abbott
spoke until nearly 1880.
Asa P. Brooks Sworn.
Asa p Brooks was called and said
that he is thirty-six years old and lives
in New Ulm. Have lived in Brown coun-
ty about fourteen years, engaged in the
newspaper business. Have been connect
ed with the Sleepy Eye Herald with Mr..
w. r. Hodges, and with the New Ulm
Review alone. With Hodges, we ran
the Morgan Messenger. Father came to
Redwood Falls eighteen years ago, leav
ing six years ago. l lived in Redwood
Falls three years. Have lived in New
Ulm four years June LIST next, during
that time publishing the New Ulm Re-
view. edited the Alexander Republic
an three years. Was in the army nine
months during the Spanish American
war, and correspondent with the Tribune,
Pioneer Press and Globe, of the twin
cities. Enlisted at st. Paul in the Fiji
teenth Minnesota.
did you get very far to the 'front.'"
asked Mr.. Somerville, who conducted
the examination.
Gas far as the rest of them did," re-
piled Mr.. Brooks.
Witness said that he had known DIR.
Koch, but not intimately until he be-
gan to practice dentistry. Saw him fire.
quently. He has scar on his left
cheek. Knew DR.. Gerhard from the time
went to New Ulm until his death. We
lived together in club, there being
four of us. This continued two years
and half We rented rooms and had
a housekeeper and took our meals there.
He roomed there but took his meals out
side. The rest of us slept there. l was
frequently in his office. He did not
come to my office very often. Witness
identified photograph of the Ottomey-
er block. There were two sets of doors
at the foot of the stairs to DR.. Geb-
hard's office. The screen doors were
used, but the others were not generally.
Half of the stairway extends over my
office, and anybody in my office can
hear people walking on the stairs. We
could also hear persons walking across
DIR. Gebhard's floor and could hear his
machine. DIR. Gerhard and his sister,
Miss Gerhard, and l attended the st.