The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-04

NO, SIT.
"That is ALL
"You said nothing about the matter
at all did you?" asked Mr.. Abbott.
"No, sir"
This Mornings Opening
Gen. Childs stated that he had nc
more rebuttal.
The defense called Albert Keaster
an employee of the Eagle Mill company
to the stand. He said that he and Otto
Rinecke, another employee of the com
pany, had been playing pool in a saloon
in the evening of Nov. LIST and then
walked to the Berndt corner together
where they stopped and talked for five
minutes. They then separated and went
to their homes. The witness lived a
block and a half south of the Dahms
residence. He heard no one run by OF
heard the dogs bark. 1t was nearer ten
than nine o'clock when they left the sa-
loon, but he could not say just when it
was.
Otto Reinecke told the same story
He lives six blocks north of the Dahms
house and passed there on his way
home. When he passed there the
Dahms dogs came out and barked at
him and followed him half a block. He
heard no dogs bark at any other time
These dogs always bark when he passes
the house. He got home at about ten
o'clock, for when he looked at his clock
when he went to bed it was 1910.
John Wanke, clerk in the Plymouth
Clothing Co.'S store, at Minneapolis and
for six months clerk in the Model
Clothing store III this city, some six
years ago, identified the overocat that
he sold to Henry n. Somsen Nov 18th
last. He corroborated Mr.. Somson's
statement, given couple of days ago
Cross examined the witness said that
he rooms with Henry Koch, cousin of
the defendant.
Both sides rested.
Gen. Childs Makes His Argument
Gen. Childs opened his closing argu-
ment to the jury at 9:35 a. m. 1t was
brilliant oratorical effort. He spoke
of the jurors being busy men, but how
ever important their private affairs:
they had no business that compares for
a single moment with that which now
engages their attention. However busy
their lives might be, however white
their heads may become with flowing
time they never would have work OF
so much importance to the state as that
now confded to them.
Gen. Childs spoke of the wide inter
est felt in the case. The public press
had taken it up and day by day had
scattered throughout this and other
states the proceedings that transpire
from day to day at the two preceding
trials. The state had realized at the
outset that it would be most difficult to
ing of the case. 1t had, therefore, come
prepared to have a jury, some of whose
members knew more or less of the facts
and had some notion going to the ques-
ton of the guilt or innocence of the de-
PENDANT. The state consented to voul
becoming members of the jury because
it had faith in your manhood and in
tegrity. 1t ought to be easier for the
Russians TO retake Port Arthur than foI
any prejudice or bias or improper mo-
tiveS to scale that invisible wall that
surrounds this jury. If he thought that
a single man in the jury was not pre-
pared to give his undivided attention
as a splendid minded man the speaker
would take his seat and not say anoth-
Ell word.
The purpose of an argument is that
all of the facts and circumstances NAV
be taken together by one trained in the
work, their live relations shown, and
the truth that they disclose be made
manifest.
This is cause where splendid man
hood should characterize the Jury; ii
is one where you will look back ten
twenty, forty years; one where the YER
dict must be just and the expression
OF heavens truth. Each juror should
bring to bear on the facts in the case
his individual Judgment. Everything
should be weighed and considered. The
state wants nothing rashly done, no in
justice perpetrated, fair, deliberate dis
cussion of the evidence had, and then a
fearless verdict rendered.
Drew Picture of the Murder.
Gen. Childs drew a picture of the
scene i'll Dir. Gebhard's office on the even
ing of the murder There was health
in every fibre of the splendid young
dentist, and as he looked out at the flu
ture that night, filled with the bright
visions that beckon on, he had no more
thought of death than we have at this
moment. He had just embarked in his
profession and prosperity seemed to be
smiling upon him. In his offcie order
reigned
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