The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-12

PENDANTS father.
On redirect, the witness said that the
Koch residence stands on the peak of a
steep bluff, and the lights are directly
under the bluff. The trees had no leaves
on Nov lst There are only few
single trees near the coward.
A recess was here taken until this
morning at nine o'clock.
Saw No Memorandum.
Chief Klause was the first witness
called this morning. Do not remember
whether the safe door was open or clos
ed when | reached the offices of DIR.
Gerhard the night of the murder. Did
not find or see a scrap of paper on the
floor bearing the words due George
$40 Tor 500 dollars" There was an
account book on the desk. Cannot state
whether there was blood on the book,
but there was on the papers on the desk.
DO not remember seeing a letter in the
office saying "Look out for Ed" There
might have been such letter found.
glanced through some fifty letters in
the office. The sheriff was doing this,
also. | did this partly the first night
and partly the second night. Do not
remember whether Mr.. Rydell was with
us the second night. Saw no scraps or
memorandum picked up from the floor.
On cross examination, witness said ne
was at the office only five minutes the
first time, and three-fourths of an
hour about one o'clock, the second time.
Dr. Fritchie was sworn. Think the
most of those in the room on the eve
ming of the murder noticed the initials
on the handkerchief. We all looked at
the handkerchief and made out the ini-
tails to be sc. R. R." Nobody suggested
that they were SC. R. K.," so far as
heard. The three seals were on the
blue box when it was handed to me
first. Detective Rydell brought an i'm
preston of stamp from some Mime
apolis and st. Louis mail clerk. 1t
seemed at first to have been made by
the same stamp that made the impress
sions on the box, but l could later see
little difference in the placing of the
year mark, that on the box seeming to
be little lower. A few days later Mr..
Rydell brought another impression of
a stamp, and in this the year mark
was in the same place as on the box.
On cross examination, the witness said
that the impressions were brought to
him several days after getting the box,
but he could not remember just how
many.
J. P. Reed testified that he did all
of the correspondence on the wide
guage type writer while it was in the
insurance office. The carriage was
loose and sometimes the lines would run
up and sometimes down. l used the
middle of the roller to avoid this, and
being beginner l struck the keys hard
and the period marks perforated the
roller. / wrote 200 to 300 letters on
the machine. | visited DIR. Koch's lab
oratory. We were in the habit of Wis
iting back and forth i'm all of the Offices
| borrowed some tools of DIR. Koch.
Never saw the hammer in evidence
hanging on the wall in his laboratory.
| borrowed a hatchet and a hammer
from him at different times. He also
had horn mallet. The hammer had a
head about four inches long, with long
spike on the back instead of claw. The
face was Clipped from driving nails.
On cross examination, witness said
that ne used a typewriter for three
months when bookkeeper for the Man
kato Manufacturing Co., and after that
for ten years did not use machine
Fred w. johnson was recalled and
said that week ago Sunday he OBJ
served the two posts at the gate on the
Dahms premises, where people &c
through. The top of the right nand
post had been sawed off about -four
inches, and stood something over foul
feet high. Looked for stains and
saw none. The surface was smooth and
| could have seen stains if there had
been any. The tops of the two posts
are now about on a level. One hat
not been sawed.
DIR. Geo. B. Weiser said that the day
after the murder he had some work don,
on his teeth by DR.. Koch. 1t was in tn,
early afternoon. Noticed no cuts, hruise:
or abraisons on his hands. Was called
to the Koch residence by Dr. Stricklel
Saturday morning after the murder. Tn,
blisters were unbroken and filled will
serum. / saw no abrasions, but stoo,
two or three feet away. Saw a scractl
on the inside of one hand, as though
made by thorn.
On cross examination, the witnes
said that he went to look at the burns
and made no other detailed examina
ton. He was there but fifteen minute.