New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-17

was TOO = eAcIteu u lell soiC y q ~.
Weisenborn. said that he had been on
duty twenty hours and was too
tired to tell the truth. Men and women
who will smother evidence in this kind
of a case have no consciences.
r. G. Koch and William Koch are
marked as good men by the God who
gave them birth. They say that the
hammer is not theirs. Other reliable
witnesses tell you that they have never
seen the hammer on the Koch premises
or in Dr. Koch's office.
Mr.. Brooks says hat he had seen an
old hammer in the office of his friend.
Dr. Gebhard. Mr.. Murfn says the
same. DR.. Koch had no use for the old
hammer, but if he mad put IN his Of
| fec it would have attracted the atten-
ton of other tenants in the block.
Then there is Dr.. Reineke, who was
more familiar with DR.. Gebhards office
| than anyone else At the coroner's in
quest Nov End, he said that he was
familiar with everything III DR.. Geb-
hard's office, and tnat the latter had
an old hammer that he pounded cement
with. and that he had sawed off the
handle so that he could pound with it
in a barrel. He had laughed about the
handle being sawed off and said that it
was smooth job. This was five or
six months prior. DR.. Reineke was
shown the hammer and said: "Ihat Is
the hammer, and | remember that he
said it was the first hammer he had
bought after coming to New Ulm."'
There is the hammer that it is
sought to fasten upon old man Koch
identified positively by one who better
than anyone else knew the office, be
fore there were any theories to prove
Out of his lips flashed the ray Of ligh
that illumnes the whole hammer ques
. ton, and it is better than the testimony
of all the Dinglers or Dahms, tina
could be packed into the court room
DR.. Reineke took Druggist Alvin int
DR.. Gebhards office and showed him tn
drawer where he said the latter KEEP
the hammer, and later told this to Ton
Wiesner Why he has changed his ties
;. timony now | do not know.
e The Handkerchief Theory.
d A pocket handkerchief goes into tn
q pocket from force of habit, when on
t has used it. A man who will take HI
e own hammer, known of all men that
is his and has been i'll his office, an
l. commit a murder with it, and then los
1t his head and lay it OH the floor, an
o take his handkerchief and wipe II
L blood off and lay it down beside tt
a hammer, might as well have left h
= business card I will not turn to p
liceman Klause, who takes the star
whenever the state has a blank to Il
Is in. If his story is true, then Ida kot
it has been shielding ncr brother all tn
lie time. If he tells the truth, and h;
+ been keeping the information to himse
y all the time-it is unlawful for Il p
A. liceman to keep such knowledge
l. himself He said he told Mr.. Hoida]
e. but that gentleman comes on the stal
if and saws that he never heard Of it Il
fe til he mad read it in the paper dmil
n this trial.
Is We are charged with replacing pc
III ellis. manufacturing hammers, stcali
f. blue boxes. and have turned over to t
ii state handkerchiefs marked &c. R. /
when they could have been burned.
ed that consistent? I want you to ia
no these handkerchiefs into the jury roc
he and compare them with the one in e
ne dencc All of the evidence that
1T state had was given to the newspap'
er and published broadcast. DR.. koc
ed mouth was open to all to hear III
M his attorneys shut it. My advice
ess any defendant is to keep still, for
zen erything he says is misconstrued d
lei distorted.
10Y The initials might stand for Zero
les R. Knapp, if there was such m
old But they do not. There is nothing
ler the handkerchief that can be connec
ty. with the defendant except that the
vas itials on it are the same as his. If
he knew all that there may to be kno
Id this handkerchief theory might
ice, laughable. There was once Moor, '
a strangled his pure wife, because
The handkerchief became misplaced and
du- suspected her The handkerchiefs W
re- marked by Ida Koch, and produced
us. We could have burned them.
her f. G. Koch and his old German fan
chit are not made of that kind of stuff
his will not protect his son by perjury.
is his son is taken from him he will &C
zen. his grave neartbroken, but without
the stain of perjury on his soul. When