The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-17
JEALOUSY AS
MURDER MOTIVE.
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hard was double faced 49, of
The defendant says that he was friend
Of Louis A. Gerhard and member Of
Hjalmer Hoidale the words have Just
repeated.
Intended to Kill.
"The state has presented evidence to
show that at some time not long time
prior to the death Of DR.. Gebhard, the
defendant sent him a bottle of deadly
for the purpose Of trying Dr.. Koch for
the crime of sending the poison, but for
the purpose of showing that at short
time before the murder he had an inten-
ton Of killing him.
The learned counsel for the defense,
IN his opening address, said that the de,
tense would admit that the man who
think IT was very proper for the coun-
Sc! to admit it, for it would be very
difficult for anyone to believe that
where a man some time in the month
OF October had received poison and a
few days afterwards was murdered-it
would, | say, be hard to believe that the
two things were not done by the same
man. 81. "5.-
Fact Behind Fact.
NOV, someone was intending to kill
DR.. Gebhard. In the search for The
TRUTH, a chain Of circumstances was
brought out, all tending to show that
the defendant, and no other, sent the
poison package to DR.. Gebhard. The
poisoning DR.. Gebhard overlooked the
great truth that every fact in his life
is related to all other facts. There is
not a fact of the human life that is not
related to some other fact, and it was
because OF this great truth that the state
mas been able to trace back to the hand
W w B Gt ehs pdackage of Poison
the people We're set to, thinking. What
enemies did he have9 What circum:
stance was there in his life that would
cause anyone to murder him? Dr.
he1necke remembered that DR.. Gebhard
had shown him a bottle which had come
IN a blue box and which had aroused
pr. .Gebhard 8: suspicion. {, DR.. Reinecke
knew in what form samples come to
physicians. They do not come in bottles
with a label in that form and when Dr.
Relnecke saw the bottle his suspicious
were aroused. Now, someone was design.
ing SOLO ethlng.
Important Links.
After the murder a search was made
ana TINS bottle was found standing on
Of the contents had NOT been removed
:Ihe bottle became precious in determin
ing who killed DR.. Gebhard. It was sent
TO the chemist Of the state university
and was found to contain sulphate OF
strychnine.
CDR: Koch is under suspicion, and
When the chemist revealed the contents
OF the bottle were sulphate Of strych-
nine, then the question arose, did DR..
Koch have access to strychnine9 e The
OFFICERS go to Dr.Strickler 8 office and ask
him II ne had any sulphate of strych.
nine. Yes, he kept it in cabinet
near the door of DR.. Koch's office,
The combination Of the lock. on the
cabinet was known to the defendant, to
DR.. .vaogel and to DR.. Stricken. So it
was found that the defendant had &C
cess to sulphate of strychnine. :.
:The next question which arose was,
tie like the one in which the poison was
sentQ' The state went to DR.. Strick-
Ter s and he had, several'of them. Thus
we proved that the defendant had &C
cess to a bottle like the one in which
the poison was sent. And that was
not all. Did DR.. Koch have access to a
blue box like this one? The officers
went the rounds Of the box factories in
the city, which make. paper boxes and
made for the Parke-Davis company of
Minneapolis. DR.. Koch had received
such box early in October. :.
Doubt Thrown on the Box.
tfThe defense produced a box like
this. Whoever heard of it before the
witnesses appeared upon the stand
Now, if this defendant had been limo
cent Of this crime, the first thing that
he would want would be to have the
board. The box was brought into court,
by Henry Somsen, his brother-in- law,
and they tell you that it was taken from
Koch g office on Friday after the muir
der. Do you believe that Mr. Somsen
has had this box in his possession all
this time and not spoken about it?'
General Childs next took up the dis.
cussion of the address on the box of
poison. He told how the officers had
the address WAS written and ridiculed
the experts sworn for the defense.
The handwriting on the bottle also
received attention, and the bottle as
| we'll as samples Of DR.. Koch 8 writing
We're presented to the jury.
1--WE will submit, - said General
| Childs, "that the evidence shows be-
You'd a reasonable doubt that the pack
age Of poison was prepared by the de-
PENDANT and sent by him to the dead
| man,
r. Will Disown the Kerchief.
| Perhaps the greatest surprise of the
| whole trial will come this afternoon
| when L. L. Brown is summing up the
! case to the jury for the defense. He
will deny emphatically the ownership
| Of the handkerchief found in Gebhard IS
| office and will hand to the Jury the
bloodstained handkerchief and Dr.
Koch's handkerchiefs which have been
introduced in evidence as all that he
| had. He will ask the jurors to com
| pare the handkerchiefs and will con.
tend that the blood-stained handker.
chief is not of as fine fabric as the
Koch handkerchief, and that the hem
of the blood-stained handkerchief is
fully one-sixteenth Of an inch narrower
than those Of the other handkerchiefs
He will ask them to compare the hand.
writing of the laundry marks and note
the differences 49,
| The foundation for this was laid YES.
terday, when Ida Koch swore she had
not marked the handkerchiefs in cues.
| ton.
Brown to Plead for Koch.