The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-17
us exhibit 50 your handwritingY''

The Burned Hands
'.Yeu. burned your hands on what day?''
"On Friday evening after the homicide.''
What time in the EVENING"" About
quarter before 8.
Was anyone in the room?" "No, not
at that time
What kind of wood do you burn?.'
Cord wood cut from trees"
Did you have litter to take the lid
off?' "Yes"
What did you keep alcohol in?" "a
bottle
How long was it after you had pour
ed that alcohol on until YOU put the wood
In the stoye?" Almost Immediately"
Were there any flames in the stove?''
yes"
what did they come from?'' "The
wood
Didn't you take hold of the wood in
the usual way and push it into the coals?"
"I guess so."
When you were putting it on your
hands how did you do it?'
Here the witness showed the jury how
he had poured It.
Some time before this you had spilled
carbolic acid on your fingers. Where was
this?" ''In my office
You were a dentist for three years and
hadn't you spilled some before?" Eyes.
sone''
'sWhat did you dof'' II washed off my
hands Immediately with a brush
The carboiic acid was the ordinary
commercial kind, was it?'' Yes"
WAS the room cold that EVENING"" ST
was cold"
you don't think there was flame in
the stove?" EYES, there was
'.You say you had arsenic?" yes"
what form?" Powder"
The Old Hammer
"You had an old hammer on the prem
ises. How long ago did you see it?'' 81
don't know"
s.You have seen it frequently?" ssYes.''
"You have used it?" '.Yes."
did the hammer you had look like
this?'' THE handle was not like this"
WAS the claw broken off?' "Yes, more
than this one"
.You say the reason you used the
words against Mr.. Pfaender was because
he sat against you in this case and that
was the Friday after the homicide?"
.sYes''
"who told your "I won't name any
one in particular"
Don't you know Mr.. Pfaender was
only in the city few hours during that
week?" mo"
said shat to you?" Il won't name Them
You, Prof. Remand and Mr. Krook
went into the alley directly, didn't you,
and Mr.. Krook said that that was a long
distance for one to jump without hurting
himself and you replied with a mere
grunt?' 81 don't know
while you were in DIR. Reinecke's
Office, did you converse with anyone about
the homicide?'' .I DON'T know.
You had your cravenette coat stolen?"
"It is gone
.'You never intimated this fact to any
one but Somsen?" NO.
did you ever ask to see that handker-
chief or compare 1t with these at home?''
mo"
box?" Friday after the homicide"
"You have no recollection of seeing Ole
Ulen at Hanska?" mo. SIR
Where was DR.. Wood when you be-
gan to pack your chair in Hanska ?'' ask
ed Mr.. Abbott. 'He was in the country
and came in shortly before train time. !"
''The evening you were sitting by the
stove was the same day as the one when
DR.. Strickler covered you up on the
lounge?" Yes
you remained how long in DR..
Reiencke's Office on the morning after the
murder?'' "Only a few minutes
Tells of Marking Handkerchiefs
Miss Ida Koch was called and testified
as to the handkerchief which she marked
and those which were marked while
George was in Chicago. When shown the
three marked &C. R. K she said those
were the latest ones she had marked.
did you ever mark single handker
chief at timer" NO
do you know what that last letter in
this bloody handkerchief is?'' 1T could
be taken either for an r. or x
Ibid you mark this one?' II don't think
that I marked it,
Mr. Fischer, of Madison, Wis, was next
called and stated he was employed as
chemist in the University of Wisconsin.
81 show you this bottle. Have you ex-
amined the contents of bottle similar
to this one?" yes
'.How many tablets would 1t take to fill
that bottle pulverized?" Seven or eight
hundred
rs a grain of strychnine easily dis
tinguished from grain of effervescent
salts?" Yes
"And a trained eye could easily detect
the distinction?'' Yes
What kind of strychnine must have
been in the bottle to have left particles
in the bottle to stand the test of 10 per
cent strychnine?'' ''Strychnine Of
larger per cent than strychnine tablets of
tenths of a grain
DR. Vogel was called and asked if he
did not go into Dr. Koch's Office and In
ouire where Dr. Koch had his pencil He
answered that he did and that he was
shown pencil upon his work bench.
rs the one I show you like the one
he showed you that day? Yes"
Dr. Koch was again called and asked
If he locked it in the drawer and left it
there and he stated he did.
Sent Gebhard No Package
Mr. Childs asked witness if he sent a
package from Hanska to DIR. Gebhard or
mailed it on the train. Witness said no.
Did not try to put it in the postoffice
in HanSl1a, and failing to because of the
smallness of the aperture, give it to the
mail clerk on the train. and when he in
quired what it was announced that it
was a bottle for Dutch dentist at New
Ulm?" mo, SIR
Mr. Somsen was called and asked if he
had not had the keys to DR.. Koch's Of
fee since his arrest and stated he had.
did you know there was a pencil like
this one in one Of DR.. Koch's drawers ?''
mot at that time"
Where did you first find the blue box
in DIR. Koch's Officer In the lower
drawer of his cabinet"
did you find any other blue box?"
mo"
DO you know anything in regard to
DR.. Koch's overcoate" He told me IT
was gone and 1 asked him who had been
there, and I told him to keep quiet
about it,
Questions Attorney Abbott