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The Mankato free press., 1905-01-27

ed in the direction of Dr. Koch.
Detectives were set to work on the
case This and that theory was advanc-
ed and exploded Each notion that
any other than DR.. Koch could have
committed the foul deed melted away.
Suspicion grew against DR.. Koch.
Arrest of DR.. Koch.
On Friday, Dec. /, Henry r. Gebhard
Of Black River Falls, Wis, brother of
the murdered dentist, filed complaint
against DIR. Koch, charging him with
murder in the first degree. The doe
tor was arrested that evening and lodged
in the county Jail. DR.. Koch was the
next morning bodnd over to the coming
session of the grand jury. That body
met on the following Tuesday, Dec. l3.
large number of witnesses were eX-
amined. Clues that committee OF citi-
zens appointed at a mass meeting, had
collected, were brought to the attention
of the grand jury and DR.. Koch was in
dicted as charged in the complaint.
County Attorney Hoidale, having been
accused of partiality to the defendant,
as he was the law partner of the ac-
cused mans brother-in- law, relinquished
! his connection with the case few days
before the grand jury convened. He re-
quested Judge Webber to appoint anoth-
er man to take charge of the case in his
stead. The judge appointed General
Childs of st. Paul
The state unfolded to the jury the
long chain of evidence that had beer
woven to show the guilt of DR.. Koch
The state sought to establish that DIR
Koch had hated DIR. Gebhard. Ole Ulen
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CITY CAN REIMBURSE.
Supreme Court Decision OF Interest to
Policemen.

Supreme Court Decision OF Interest to
Policemen.
From Mondays Daily.
A decision of interest to policemen
was handed down by the supreme court
Friday morning in a case involving a
false arrest at Moorhead. The court
holds that the municipality may proper
lv reimburse the officer against whom
a Judgment has been secured for mis-
taken arrest. Such reimbursements are
governed by charter provisions, however,
and the decision may thus not be general
in effect. The syllabus of the case says:
City OF Moorhead, respondent, VS.. /.
L. Murphy, appellant: In the absence
of prohibitive charter provisions, mu-
nicipality has the power to reimburse a
police officer for expenses and attorneys
fees incurred in the defense of an action
for false Imprisonment, it appearing that
the officer was acting in good faith in
the exercise of his official duties.
Order reversed.
or-;e i
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HON0aED THEIR DRAWINGS
Children CT the Public Schools Have {
Fine Display.

Fine Display.
From Mondays Daily
Children of the public schools, who
have their drawings honored by being
placed on exhibit in The public library
are as follows:
Pleasant Grove Malcolm Morehart
Nellie Rardon, Irene Munson, George
Scherer, Ellen Carlson, Louis La Due
Louise Thomas, John la Due, Maude
Barnes, Marjorie Gerlach.
West Mankato-Alice Rhodes, Alice
Snook, Hans Hansen, Grace Yeoman
Dorothy Hansen, Wilbur Shepard, Lula
Slerpenhofer, Warner Zenapolski.
Franklin-Celia Thilgen, Katherine
Thilgen, Tena Evan, Ellen Walstrom
Mabel Lindberg, Hilda Gustafson, Lydia
Weigand, Alice Lundberg.
Union-Lottie Anderson, Rose Mccall
Efie Thomas, Ada Harlin, Sara Multi
gan, Vera Phillips, Blanche Fletcher, Eva
Eckman.
During the month of December all tht
above had drawings on exhibit, and il
addition there was one by Minnie Tren
hauser of the Franklin.
On the mantle in the children's reading
room stands fine specimen of the sag
hen, shot by E. r. Kennedy in Montana
ard mounted by George Klein.
The latest donors of magazines to tht
ipublic library are Mrs. I. J. Hupp an(
Miss Flossy Williams.
John c.. Wise & Sons have just pre-
sented to the library the 1904 bound
volume of The Weekly Review.
Mrs. L. \. Holmes has subscribed fcl
the christian STANDARD" for the Ii
brary.
Mrs. L. n. Weed has donated som,
magazines to the library.
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lUDsOa AND HEBRON.
Collection CT News From These Lively
Places.


Places.
From Fridays Daily.
Judson is busy place this winter.
Fifteen hundred cords of wood will be
shipped out. Corn is also being ship,
ped. c. S. Thurston bought six hum
drcd bushels of O. X Door.
What is needed is another separator in
the creamery, so that patrons will not
have to wait so long in the cold.
Charles Peterson has moved his saw
mill to tic Judson side He is invest
ing about thousand dollars in the
business and will be ready for saving
and for grinding feed in about two
weeks. Ee is getting in quite few logs.
Charles johnson is having a flowing
well put down. Seppman Brothers are
doing this job. This will be the eighth
one in this vicinity Mr.. Milsow lost a
valuable cockcrel during the last cold
snap Another is about ready to pass
in his checks. Mr.. AIilsow has the sym
pathy of all his friends.
Dave Davis lost available horse with
lung fever.
A black fox was recently seen in this
locality.
C. S. Thurston shipped two car loads
of hogs to South st. Paul in the last
few days. George McCarger delivered
fifty-f four spring pigs, that cost him
S547. Jim Anderson received $S5 for
five hogs and Llewellan $l20 for one
load of hogs.
Mr.. Jones is making deal for a
farm
Victor jacobson spent few days Wis
iting relatives here.
1t is reported that Mr.. Fuller will re-
turn to Judson soon.
Mr.. Abel Keene and her daughters
Mrs. Witzel and Miss Ida, have post
poned their journey to the coast until
about March /, to take advantage of
the cheaper rates.
Grant Lewis has bought ten crcs Of
timber of his uncle's estate and is MAX
ing the wood fly.
w. I. Tidland has new occupants in
his house on the farm here.
The problem of good roads has been
solved and the farmers are making use
of them.
A farmers exchange is being agitated
here. It might be established if only
a good reliable party could be secured to
manage it.
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Dee. 90 Ian. G-1'.
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS

STATE OF .rINrESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter Of tls estate of JcseI Ii Rock
wood, deceased.
On reading and fling the pet ii n of
Rhoda II Rnckwood. executrIx of the
ta'e Of Joseph lockwood deceased, repre-
senting among otaer thugs that she
has fll]y Administered sail state and
lraying that time and p acs he 6xed for
a,nioing and ali. wing the final ace uat of her
administrations and far the sssignm 1T Of the
residue OF SAID estate TO the par.i les entitled
III IT to by law.
II is ord red, that sal account be examined
aud reii ion heard by this rourt on Monday.
tn 18th day of Janusry. A D. 1908. at o
l'clock, u. m, a. the obate ofc ia The city
Of Mankato in said county.
And 1t l. further ordered that notice thereof
DC given to q persons Interested by publish
ing a copy of this order once in earh week
fer three successive weeks rior to 'id day of
hearing in the Mankato Free Press. weekly
news paper printed and published at Mani alto.
in SAID comfy.
Dated at the city of Mankato the 10;h day of
December, a. D., 1874
BY ths Court
(Probate Court Seal) WM. F. HUGHES,
JuIse Of Probate.
c. j. 5ckwo,d, Attorney.
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a farmer living near Hanska, had heard
Koch say that DIR. Gebhard would not
be in New Ulm much longer, that some
one was going to kill him, and that
Koch had asked Ulen if he would do it
and the latter refused. The state sought
also to make it evident that the de-
fendant had sent the poison to kill
DR.. Gebliard The bottle, box, address
written by a typewriter, and all the
facts and circumstances connected there
with, how the package was mailed at
Hanska, and finally reached the hands of
DR.. Gebhard, who was told by DIR.
Reineke that it was poison and that
he must be careful not to take any of
it, were reviewed in detail.
State Produces Testimony.
Testimony was produced to show that
not only the handkerchief but also the
hammer found in the dead dentists of
flee belonged to Dir. Koch or his family
Furthermore pencil that was picked up
from the floor that evening was exactly
like those that an advertising agent had
given to Dir. Koch and number of
MS companions Oh that fatal night. Fur
thermore, the defendants hands were
scratched and bruised on the morning
after the murder. The state endeavored
to show that this must have resulted
from the struggle. DR.. Koch alterward
spilled carbolic acid on the wounds, and
later burned them with alcohol, osten-
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MAY RETALiATE.
Ben Tupper, Arrested for Illegal Fish
ing, Complains of Game Warden.
.l.n-r,c N,i

Ben Tupper, Arrested for Illegal Fish
inc, complains Of Game Warden.
From Mondays Daily.
Sheriff Williams went to Madison
Lake this morning and placed Ben Tup-
per, laborer living there, under arrest
On the charge of having and using fish
house without permit from the state
fish and game commission. He was ar
raigned this afternoon, and pleaded not
guilty. Jay Henry Long appeared for
him. The trial was set for tomorrow at
D. M, and the defendant was allowed
to go on bond for $780,
Tupper and George Schippel, also of
Madison Lake. consulted Mr.. Long in re-
gard to bringing an action against
Game Warden G. c. Towne Of this city
and Sam Marshall of Madison Lake
for trapping quail there and shipping
them to other parts OF the state. 1t is
understood that the county attorney
will refuse to issue the warrant, on the
ground that AIessrs. Towne and Mar
shall are acting under the instructions
of the fish and game commission, which
wishes to propagate quail in other parts
of the state The Madison Lake people
do not like to have their hunting
grounds depleted in this manner. More
of the residents are expected in the city
tomorrow to complain of the same mat
ter
1t is said that Mr.. Towne has just
prepared a box of quail to be shipped to
one A. d. McRae at Kimberly, MINI.
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Cost of the Trial.

The trial of DR.. Koch has cost a nice
sum of money. 1t is estimated that it
has cost Brown county between $lo,-
900 and $4,000. The Kochs have ex
pended in the neighborhood OF $4,000 in
defending the accused dentist.
A regular panel of thirty veniremen
and two special panels of one hundred
and twenty each were called before the
jury was secured. The state called nine
ty-two witnesses on direct testimony
and five on rebuttal The defense call
ed ninety witnesses.
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Dec. 3o-Jan. GLIB
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE on FILING Pc
TITION TO MORTGAGE LAND.

STATE CT MINNES 3TA, County of Blue
Earth.-s,. In Probate Court.
IN the matter OF the guardianship of Otto 4.
ia {. minor.
On reading and filing the petition of Anna
lust, guardian of said mino-, setting forth the
amount Of personal estate that has come into
her hands. the disposition thereof and W
much rem aims unolspOSed OF; the amount of
IL BITS outstanding against said minor, as far as
the same can be ascertained with he charges
of administration and the taxes, assessments
aud Other charges which all existing lien
upon hi estate, and tile improvements which
are necessary for the preservation of his real
estate; and description of the tracts Of land
F.. + said minor which it is proposed 10 mortgage;
and pr yidg that license be TO her granted to
MORTGAGE the tracts of land SO described
Add 1t appe ,ring by said petition that the
pers nal o tate of said minor is Insufficient 10
pay his debts. wi II the charges of admlniStra-
ton and to psy an taxes. as ,essments, or 9TH
tr charges which arc All exlsiIog lien upon his
estate. r to pay for any Improvements which
necessary for the prescrvaflon OF ms real
estate. or any part thereof
L is therefore ordered, that all persons in
terested n .aid estate a spear before this court
on Friday the 18th day of jat uary, a ID 1s0o,
mt 10 o'cit ok a. IN at the probate office in the
court house in Mankato in said county. then
and there 10 show cause tif any there bel why
lie ause should not b. granted 60 said guardian
mortgage the SAID real estate OF SAID minor
or hG purpose Of obtaiuing funds for the psy-
mant of such debts. ch rges. taxes, assessments
and liens and for the IN zking of such Eecess airy
improvements.
Aud it is further ordered that this order shall
be published ouce in each week, for three sue
cessive weeks prior To said day of hearing in
the Mankat. Free Press. weekly newspaper
printed aud published at Mankato IN said
Dated Mt Mankato the 18th day of December,
\. D., 1901.
Ry the Court:
Probate Coart seal.) WM HUGHES.
Judge of Prob to.
Pfau Pfau. Attorneys.
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Especial to The Free Press.l

mediately closed the iackknife, with
which he had slashed the neck and face
of his victim, and then made quick
move as if to draw a revolver. Mr.
Brooks hurried to the street in search
of assistance.
Murderer Had Disappeared.
By the time the office was opened
and an Investigate tion made, the murder
er had disappeared lie had made his
escape by cutting the screen to rear
window, and seizing a telephone wire,
he had lowered himself to the ground,
and made away in the darkness of the
night. A bloodstained hammer was
found in the room near the body OF the
victim.
A handkerchief bearing the initials,
G. r. X, was found in the dead dentists
office 1t was called to mind that an
other young dentist in the city bore
these initials, his name being George
r. Koch. He closely resembled the de-
scription of the murderer as given by
Mr.. Brooks. However, it was thought to
be certain fact that DIR. Koch was at
his home at the time that the murder
was committed.
The fact was soon established that
some one had few days before mailed
a bottle of poison to Dir. Gebhard, as a
medical sample for headache. Plainly
some one had sought the life of DR.. Geb-
hard. Suspicion slowly but surely drift
The Mankato free press., 1905-01-27

The Blue Earth County Telephone
company of Lake Crystal, Mimi, offer
for sale $4,000 in preferred telephone
stock, bearing s per cent interest, re-
deemable at the option Of the directors
of the company, in three years. Offers for
the purchase of said stock or any part
thereof, should be sent to the secretary
on or before February lst, 1905. David
E. Bowen, secretary, Cambria, Alinn.
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SINGERS ELECT OFFICER S
Philharmonic Society Has Had
PROSPEROUS Year--The Future.

Prosperous Year--The Future.
From Mondays Daily.
The Mankato Philharmonic society
held its weekly rehearsal last eve
ming at which time officers were elected
for the ensuing year as follows: +. a.
Fisher, president; w. r. Crandall, vice
president; Miss Eva Schoyen, treasurer;
Miss Amelia Kleinschmidt, secretary. Mr..
j. f. Seidel, who has so ably conducted
the Philharmonic heretofore, was unan-
imously reelected director and he III
turn chose Mr.. Louis Ambrosch, con-
certmeister. There is, perhaps, no better
musical organization in the state than
the Mankato Philharmonic society. The
society is growing numerically and in a
short time will number thirty pieces.
The society is working hard on the music
! to be rendered at its next concert which
occurs March Sd, and it is bound to be
musical as we'll as financial success.
The Mankato free press., 1905-01-27
The System Lives
On Good Rich Blood
People Who Lack the Proper Quantity
and Quality of Blood Fall Victims to
Every Disease That's Prevalent.
m W, (snhSE'S
nerve PILLS

The blood is the medium through which
every tissue, every organ is supplied with
the material il feeds upon and rebuilds
itself with. Take away that nourish-
mcnt by letting the blood run down in
quantity and quality and you take away
the power OF an organ or tissue to re-
supply waste or rebuild itself. In other
words, the system starves; color, appe
tite, steadiness, energy, vigor, vitality
all are lost and a condition of mental
and physical prcstration sets in. This
condition Dr. 4. w Chase's Nerve Pills
positively cure by their power to manu-
facture good, rich, nutritious, oxygen
carving blood, a blood that carries to
every organ the very material it lives
and thrives upon.
Mr.. George Hcrkins of Westinghouse Av-
enue, wilmerding, Pa, says:
81 began to use DR.. A. W. Chase's
Nerve Pills in Pittsburg, / was at the
time badly run down, weak,-nervous-
could not eat-cold all the time, as my
blood was thin, and did not sleep well.
The medicine put me in splendid shape
rapidly and easily, giving me steady
nerves fine appetite restful sleep-a
general feeling of energy and vigor and
good rich blood that showed in the way
my color came back. The medicine is
certainly grand one and | am only too
glad to say So" 50 cents a box at deal
ers or Dr.. \. W. Chase Medicine Com
pany, Buffalo, Y. Y. Portrait and sig
nature of A. W. Chase, NJ. d., on every
package.
For sale BY
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sibly by accident, so the state claim
ed, but really to cover up the marks of
the fracas. Dr. Koch's movements were
traced on that night up to within about
five minutes before the murder. He pass
ed the door at the foot of the stair
way, leading up to DR.. Gebhard's office.
The defense by the testimony OF a
number of members of DR.. Koch's fam
ily and boarder, tried to prove that
the doctor came home at 9:3S o'clock.
The witnesses could not tell, however,
at what hour he came home on the pre-
vious night or the night following. This
greatly weakened the defendants alibi.
Furthermore, another witness testified
that he had heard DR.. Koch's father say
that the son had come home on that
night at ten O'Clock. This would just
about tally with the theory of the
state.
Claim OF the Defense.
The defense made no attempt to fas-
ten the crime on any other person, or to
explain the murder at all. The defense
accounted for the injured hands by
/ bringing in young lady to testify that
the doctor had fallen while chasing a
runaway on the Sunday previous to the
murder. The theory that the hammer
belonged at the Koch residence, the
pencil theory and the poison idea all
attacked by witnesses for the defense,
but the main stronghold of the defense
was the testimony of Brooks, who look
ed the murderer squarely in the face
and declared that it was not DIR. Koch
The case was given to the jury on We'd
nesday at 4.35 p. m.
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FARMS.

improved farm homes at prices and terms in
reach OF Of ell We have just purchased an
other tract of I60 0 acres OF hardwo- timber
lanf, tinbar cl insists Of maple. basswaod Dir. Ii
and hemioek. no riue slasnipgs or sand. Lands
are all within to miles of railroad, near COED
market town, sch OILS. churches and C eameriss,
good wagon roads 10 all Cnr lands. With
every purchase Of land we build good log
house Is TT. wide, 2S f. loi &, II it, hig'i. with
good roof. floor, windows and doors all cem-
plete reads move into at pIlccs with house
complete, SIS to SIS Per Acre.
Terms, 4 cash. balance 10 eqoal annual pay
ments, at per cent interest.
SAW MILLS WANTED.
TO cut one hundred million feet hardwood tim
ber. Hero il chanse FOR man with a small
portable mill TO buy sm N tract of timbs and
do custom saving for tlis neiehbois. We own
veral Thousand acres ot timber that will cut
from to 10 Thousand feet per acre
buy yonr tickets To Gable, op G e Y. W. BY.
Low rate- to land seekers, r X. fare refunded
to purchaser Of and. For maps and further
particulars address
UECkE'S LAND AGENCY.
CUMBERLAND, WIS.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure: r. W. Groves signature is on
each box. G3c.
The Mankato free press., 1905-01-27

The county auditor has turned the de-
linqucnt tax list over to the clerk OF
court to be collected in the usual way.
The Mankato free press., 1905-01-27

The will of The late Ellis w. Jones
was admitted to probate today.
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j
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15

and Joseph Mccormick. expressmen, had
put that box on the dock. They got It
from foreign looking gentleman who
paid them quarter 10 deliver IL in a hurrys
The foreign looking gentleman vas traced
70 the theatrical boarding house kept by
Mrs. Currie at $3.50 West Thirty first street.
The boarder. who was called Mr. Rosseo'
az the Currie house. had been there a week.
On the morning of the mix up, Mrs. C1irrie
said he moved just such a box downstairs,
went back aid wrote a letter, handed the
box over 10 the e1pres-men and went his
way He never came back, not even for
his clothes.
Afterward the police found that p. F.
Dillon and F. Butts. eIproesInen having
a stand near Thirty-first street and Ninth
avenue, had moved Rosseo's trunk into
Mrs Currie's house
There they lost all trace. although they
hunted for many months Par OF the
internal machinery was n camera case.
Detective Arthur Cary followed that ca-s
10 its manufacturers in Rochester, 70
wholesale jobber in Seattle and at last 10
a retailer in Butte, who could not remember
to whom he had sold IT, Certain facts led
20 n belief that -Rosseo' once lived in Chi
cago. That was all II was found. though.
that his real name vas NJ. Gessler Rosseau
Last week n foreign looking person wear
ing u Vandyke beard drove up In cab TO
the Frederick the Great monument IN
Washington and hung a small Satchel.
which gave forth a slight pun OF smoke,
on the paling about the statue. his Was
at the noon hour, when no worEmen were
about but q private OF marines saw IT,
He Lieutenant and a workman between
them heayed the thing about fifteen feet
Then it blew up, ploughing track like
wagon nut and destroying the m6 chinery
Of the bomb II it had gone of against the
statue il would hardly have denied 1t.
Friday. a. told in yesterday mornings
sun, one NJ. Gessler Rosseau, a foreign
looking gentleman, was nabbed in Philadel-
phia while be was in the act Of demanding
$500 TO reveal the whereabouts OF Owen
Kelly, an IrishrnAn who has been missing
for some weeks. Rosseau told Of deep,
dark, Irish plot, by which Kelly was being
held by his enemies in New York. Owen
Kellys relatives had him arrested. he
was carrying a satohel. The ear Test re,
vealed ticking like that which proceeded
from the mysterious Umbria box
The satchel was opened II was run
sential dynamite Then Rosseau volun-
teered the cheerful information that he
WIS an Irish patriot, the asenGng angel
of a band sworn to blow up British ships.
That statement made tho police re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-15
RAREST SHAKESPEARE FOUND.
Disputed 1904 Edition OF Titus Androni-
Gus" Discovered In Sweden.

Spread Cabis Dsipnfeh 10 TIM Sun.
LONDON, Jan. 14.-0ne OF the most in-
terestin romances In literature has just
been announced, II is nothing less than
the discovery In the house Of a country
man in Sweden OF an almost perfect 1894
quaTto Of Shakspeare's Titus Androniclls "
The very existence Of this edition has hitler
TO been discredited
In Arher's transcript Of the registers Of
tho staHoners Of London the edition is
recorded. but most photographers, in tho
absence Of proof regarded il as sham
entry. The only other evidence ia in Lang
baine's Dramatic Poetry. 1891 in which 1t
is stated that Titus Andronicus' was
Arrt printed in quarto IN London in
'5s', adding that no copy survived OF
that edition. Yet n LONDON bibliographer
heard on Dec. from the librarian Of the
Lund University who had been intrusted
With the care Of the extraordinary find
above described
The only bemish in the quarto is that
about ten words have been erased from
the text Assuming that 1t is genuine
the photographer thinks IL will probably
come 70 England and be sold at auction
at Sotheby's where II will probably fetch
from E6O0 to 81 600. He expresses regret
that the British Museum is unable to al ord
TO buy the rare volume Others suggest
that tho quarto viii bring much higher
price probably from e go TO 900.