The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-25

SAW kOUH kEAUH
FOR The HAMMER.
Continued from First Page.
Witnesses agree that the murder oc
Cured between $3.50 and 9:40 CLOCK
that night. #
Four New Features.
The state has four new features Of
evidence against DR.. Koch, as indicated
by General Childs address to the jury.
Except the one relating to the scrub
woman, who will swear that she saw
the fatal hammer, or one almost lden-
tical, in DR.. Koch g office, all were new
and startling. 1t is difficult to say
which will prove the most important,
AS related by General Childs, the
who will swear that the fatal hammer
had been possession Of the Kochs for
several years, and. that it disappeared
from the home a short time before the
murder.
Next the woman who saw the ham
| mer in DR.. Koch IS office will be called
The third will be the testimony of a
| Zee shortly after 9 O. CLOCK on the night
| of the murder, turn. on the light, take
the hammer from the nails upon which
| it was hanging, lift the skirt of his
coat and place it in his hip pocket, and
| then turn out the light.
The fourth will be the testimony Of
woman who heard man running past
! her house, across the street, thru the
| gate and OH across the field toward
| the Koch home; and that, next morn
ing, she saw blood on the gatepost, evl
| the post for support while the man raj
thru the gate.
Reinhold Dahms' Testimony.
| In his address General Childs men
! toned no names, but it has been learned
! that the witness whom he referred tt
as the young man who would swea
that the hammer belonged to the Koch
is Reinhold Dahms. He is a son O.
house nearest Koch's. Referring to thi
| feature, General Childs said:
: 7"We shall: place on the stand ;
young man who lived at Koch's during
the winters of five or six years, ant
| who has used that hammer time ant
again. He remembers the time the OLE
handle was taken out and the new on
put in. He will tell you there is NJ
doubt as to the identity of the hamme
with which DR.. Gebhardt was killed. ,
General Childs said that this wit
ness would tell when the hammer dis
appeared from the Koch home-a few
months before the homicide-and the
said the next witness would sfbring th
hammer closer than ever to the de
fendant.' u las .s... III
He referred to Mrs. Kaaes, the &c,
man workingwoman. He said that sh
1 had seen the hammer in Koch Is office
short time before the murder and tina
she had used it in her work of clear
ing the office. To the story of +thi
Identification, General Childs added
i new phase. He said: +;{a sssv
sz-'1 = Smoky Outline Erased.
FfThis hammer hung upon the wal
in DR.. Koch IS office and near an OF
lamp or stove, the smoke from whicl
was waited to where the hammer wa
hanging. When the hammer. was take,
down there was found to be clea
outline on the wall-the hammer ha
been there so long that the smoke ha
discolored the wall all around it, leav
ing clear imprint where the hamme
hung. s..e1 :.
"A few days after the murder, thi
scrubWoman goes again to the offc
to clean it. She goes where the ham
n was only Snd the eeh hamms
gone, but the wall has been cleaned
and there is an outline Of the hamme
upon it. - :%.r -"
Koch's Return to His Office.
, In the first trial DR.. Koch declare
that, after he started home on tn
evening of the murder, he recalled tina
and that he returned to extinguish il
4 The state. General Childs said, woul
admit that he returned to his office
= but fol. another purpose-to get til
hammer! -. .na.s.
b 1t is learned that Miss Lima Wiest
: man will be the witness to give thi
s new Interpretation of the return. Mis-
: ,Wieseman1. is housekeeper in the Cron
home, which stands little north Q
t the window in DR.. Koch g office. GEL
j eral Childs made his forecast Of th
:. testimony thus: .....5
t "We shall prove by a witness VIII
8 cannot be impeached, that the defend
; ant, between 9 and $3.50 clock on til
i night OF the murder, entered his offc,
d lit the light, went into the back offc
l. where this hammer was kept, reache
j to the hammer, drew his right hand t
his pocket and then turned out til
light. A lady stood on back pore
just thirty feet away and saw plainl
8 every move the defendant made in thu
a office. She had prepared fowl fc
= the morrow's meal and had stepped oil
~ to hang it on the porch to cool, whe
q the quick flash of light from the de,
. lists office attracted her attention. ,
y General Childs went on to say thu
. the state would prove that the defen,
ant had not told the truth about h
: second time. .E
What Mrs. Dahms Heard.
= Mrs. Gustave Dahms will be the 9th.
a, important new witness. She is Germs
4 and will have to tell her story thru g
4 interpreter. General Childs made tn
~ forecast: .Et..
:. eve shall also prove by a witne
= that some eight or ten minutes befo
T. 10 on the night of the murder, a ms
70 ran by the last house on Second sire
"a north before you reach the home of tt
~ defendant. Now walk with me up Mi
< nesota street, turn to the left into Sc
= ond street, take the right-hand wal
4 Dahms, a tenant of the defendant
father for dozen or fifteen years. TIL
3 road leads almost in Decline, and
4 path continued to the residence Of 81
L defendant s father.
= Now a few rods beyond the Dah1
y house is rude gate, made of posts f
81 enough apart to permit team al
y wagon to pass thru, and equipped wi
l, barbed wire gate which swings on
"a bolt. It is fastened on the left end
y rope loop which drops over the post.
l. T., H. L L 4 q NJ