The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-05-05
THE KOCH TRIAL.
The State Introduces Some New Testi-
mony that was Entirely IN
ts expected by Defense.

Manl<ato, Mimi, April 2s.-Chief of
Police Adolph Klause, on the witness
stand just before noon Thursday, de-
clared that Miss Ida Koch, sister Of
George r. Koch, had told him that the
handkerchief found in Dr. Gebhardt's
Office on the night of the murder was
| zone of Georges" and that sit was
one she had marked with the initials
G. r. K.'
Joseph Weisenborn, who admitted at
the first trial that he twas afraid Of
the dark" declared in an injured tone
that he was greatly misunderstood
man. He admitted time and again
under cross-examination that he was
not scared" that night when he went
into the office. When asked if it was
not true that he had testified at the
first trial that he was afraid of the
dark, he replied: ''Oh, said that just
in fun The court room laughed up.
roariously.
Brigadier General Joseph Bobleter
of the Minnesota National Guard
came over from New Ulm and was
called by the state. The important
feature of his testimony related to the
pencil found near the dead mans side.
ManIzato, April 29.-The hammer was
paramount in the Koch trial yester-
day. The state has planned to prove
positively that the instrument of
death belonged to the Rocks. To do
this several new witnesses are in court.
Mr.. Abbot, of counsel for Koch,
stood in front of the witnesses and
held in front of Reinhold Damns, a
witness, two carpenters hammers
one having the right claw broken, the
other the left claw-and asked young
Dahms to tell the jury which was the
Koch hammer.
! When Mr.. Abbott held the hammer
in front of him, Dahms, without hesi-
tation, positively declared that the one
which was found in DR.. Gebhardt's Of
flee, and which has been in evidence
throughout the new trial was the one
he had used many times in the six
winters he worked as choreboy at the
Koch home This is the hammer that
has the right claw broken. At the
first trial the members of the Koch
family described their missing ham
mer as having the left claw broken.
Mankato, Mimi, May 1.-The first
week in the second trial of DR.. George
r. Koch of New Ulm for the murder
of DIR. L. A. Gebhardt came to a close
Saturday night with the state still in
Producing evidence, placing on the
stand two of its star witnesses, Miss
Lena Weidermann, who testified that
she had seen DR.. Koch in his Office one
half hour before the murder was COM
mitted, wearing a SLOUGH hat and APP
parently taking something from the
wall and placing it in his pocket; and
Mrs. Wilhelmina Dahlns, who testified
to hearing the sound of running feet
on the night of the murder, after she
had gone to bed, and of finding blood
stains on her gatepost the next morn
ing.
Hialmer Hoidale was the first wit
ness called and was questioned closely
about the typewriters in the Strickler
block, where DR.. Koch and his brother
had their offices, and about 'he gibbons
on each machine.
Finally Gen. Child's reached the i'm
portant part of the young mans tes-
timony.
"Did you ever have conservation
with the defendant about Dr.. Geb-
hardt?''
Eyes, sir, did. 1t was some time
in October in Koch's laboratory, when
only he and were present.
"What was said in that CONVEX
tion?"
''He said that Gebhardt was