The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-11
Wilson Begins His Address

finished his testimony for the defense,
General Childs said, No cross-exami-
nation Then the defense rested.
Wilson Begins His Address.
Mr. Wilson began his address to the
jury at once. s
A neighbor of E. G. Koch, father of
told him soon after the murder that
his son returned home at 10 O'Clock on
that night. This Mr.. Koch had posi-
lively denied on the stand.
The statet then called several wit
nesses who said that Asa P. Brooks
had told them or had said within their
hearing soon after the homicide that
he was uncertain whether or not Dr.
Koch was the man he saw when he
peeked over the transom into DR.. Geb-
hardt's office.
No Blood on Gatepost.
Z DR.. j. w. Andrews, a Mankato physi-
clan and surgeon, said that blood CO.
agulates almost as soon as it comes in
contact with the air and that in his
opinion it would have beer
for the murderer of DR.. Gebhardt to
have left any stain on the Dahms gate
post, which is a fifteen minute walk
from the scene of the homicide. DIR.
Andrews made microscopic and other
tests for blood on the material which
he scraped from the interstices of the
post and all failed to reveal blood in
any form. 49,. .rs- 81.
Among the last witnesses for the de-
the "pepper and salt'3 clothes of the
defendant; Rev. Adolph Ackerman, pro-
fessor in the German Lutheran college
at New Ulm, who said that on the day
following the homicide Dr.. Koch was
wearing a derby hat and a long, loose
cravenette overcoat; Henry. Somsen,
who told. about DR.. Koch s clothes and
tools, and w. D. Abbott, of counsel for
the defense, who said that while DR..
that in his rolltop desk in his dental
office would be found the pencil that
Lumberman Vogel gave him, and that
witness had found it there. 80
:*< The States Rebuttal.
Anton Richartz, neighbor of the
Kochs, was the first witness in rebuff
tai. He said. that shortly after the
murder E. G.. Koch told him that
George returned home ae10 O. clock. on
that night. He said that Mr.: Koch be.
ieved at that time that the murder
was committed at 10 clock. Mr.. Alb
bolt, cross-examining Mr.. Richartz, en-
deavored to show that the witness ha6
confused Mr., Koch Is statement of the
time when George returned home will
the statement of the time of the muir
der. .se%
Martin Penning, juror at the frs
trial, was the states first witness il
|. the Brooks impeachment. He said tina
early in December he was talking will
Brooks in the latter 8 newspaper offic,
| in New Ulm; and that Brooks said tt
him that etHthe man he, saw there LOOKED
very much like Koch. - ~ .
The witness said he told Brooks tina
he ought to know, because he had
good look at the murderer, and tina
Brooks replied: "The reason why
think it. was not Koch is because
I couldn It. believe he could do such
thing" .~~, =.
! Cross-examined by Mr. Abbott, MI
Penning said that he had never spokel
of this until after the first trial, afte
he had visited = the office of Mayo
| Silverson. s->S~- - - 2
Ie.i1y. Other Impeaching Witnesses.
Other witnesses for the state VIII
said that Brooks had told them b
could not tell whether or not the ma
Fhe saw bending over. DR.. "Gebhardt wa
Koch, were. William Mather, men
Der of the boarding club: to which D;
| Gohhordt ha1onOed. CA Zella 9