The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13

The attorney discussed the handker-
chief at great length, and said that the |
evidence and the handkerchiefs of the
defendant, which were submitted in evil |
dence, proved that the bloody kerchief
found in Gebhardt's office was not the
defendants.
DR.. Koch's Silence.
Discussing the silence of the defend
ant ever since suspicion was cast upon
him, Mr.. Brown said that it was be-
cause his counsel had forbidden him to
speak, or to go look at the handkerchief
and hammer. "When a man is accused
of crime, he said, everything he
says and does is misconstrued and dis
torted by those who think they have in
that man the perpetrator of the Of
fense.o
He limited at the possibility that, if
the handkerchief was Georges, he had
lost or misplaced it and added: " Zone
of the greatest tragedies IN history was
and enraged Moor strangled to death
his pure, innocent wife, because Of
misplaced handkerchief. :"
No Blood on the Post.
| Mrs. Dahms' story about hearing
| footsteps hurrying past her house on
the night Of the murder, and of finding
| DlOOd on -the Sd1epoSt leaHng 10 the
Koch premises next morning, was rldi
culed. Mr.. Brown said that this
woman, who keep her secret thruovt the
first trial. had not brought into court
one witness to prove that she had heard
and seen what she described, nor to
prove that she had ever discus sed it,
until just before the present trial
He denounced the state for having
removed the top of the post ind then
not Introducing it in evidence. It
proved, he maintained, that the state
had had the post.top examined by
every known scientific method to deter
mine the presence of blood there and
that, having failed, it could not put it
in to bolster up the testimony of the
woman. He said that the testimony of
DR.. Andrews that his thoro examination
had revealed no blood should be care
fully weighed, because science can de-
tect blood that has dried FIVE or even
100 years ago. 57'~
Poison Theory Assailed.
The poison testimony he attacked as
he did at the first trial, declaring that
DR.. Stricken might have lost his poison
in some other way the chances of this
having been demonstrated by the testi-
mony, and anyhow the expert testimony
of Chemist Fischer of the university Of
Wisconsin had proved that the test
made by Chemist Carel of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota was necessarily
inaccurate and proved, if anything, that
} the material in the bottle was not of
the same per cent of strychnine as that
which DR.. Stricken had
He also argued against the probable
: ity of the label having been written by
the defendant and Of the box being
mailed in Hanska when he was there,
He pointed out, too, that the handwrit-
ing experts, uncontradicted, had said
"sample' on the bromo bottle was not
, the hand that wrote the accounts in Dr.
| Koch 8 books.
! Defends Brooks.
Mr.. Brown made strong defense OF
Asa P. Brooks, and criticized severely
! the attitude Of counsel for the state an(
| of others toward that witness. :
l "Who is Asa P. Brooks?' asked Mr.
Brown. GA man thrown upon his owl
resources at the age of IA; who learned
his trade, that of a2printer; has gone
!. from his trade into the editorial chair
and from the editerial chair to the posi-
: ton of proprietor, Of his. own IVY news
s paper; a man who is serious in his view
s of life; a man who hurled back at coun
e sci declaration that he never took TIN
: name of God in vain!
q tsUntil the night Of Nov. / no maj
e ever whispered breath Of suspicion
h against Mr.. Brooks. go man in Nev
,. Uim was more than his peer. IN char
e acter. -.
d NHe goes to his office on the nigh
n Of that tragedy and hears some nois
Il in the room above-and right here tn
l. counsel does not treat him fairly. II
l. did not testify at the Justice court Pre-
It ceedings that he heard agonizin
is screams. There was no call for sue
e a statement from counsel. He went W
Us stairs that night with no other thougiil
E. than that DR.. Gebhardt was engaged
a playful scuffling with a friend.
r. HBut this prosecution has gone t
7, this man and threatened to send him
S. "'There is not the slightest eVldenc
II of ANYTHING Of that kind, y shouted Gel
"a eral Childs. as.s
y, Often Threatened.
e. ooh. yes; there is, - said Mr.: Brow
I'd HNot that counsel here have done an
n such thing, but others who were int
ld against the defendant have. And M
ne Silverson, mayor of New Ulm, and
as prominent business man, threatened M
On Brooks with withdrawal Of his patr,o,
,,g age from his newspaper. PUT M
DIO'hS SCtlu w ILL ~. An'oJ
at $50 or $1O0-I know that the man sa
in DR.. Gebhardt' IS office was not Geor'
az Koch .s@
he "Others in New Ulm threatened N
rs, Brooks similarly, because he would n
en- say that he was uncertain. What HI
es' Brooks to gain in the position which
took? Had he altered his testimony
would have sent this young defenda
to the gallows, and would have be
49,, lauded as hero by certain men, a
NV Tv would have had no one to answer to I
~. what he had done save the Almlgh1
~. who looks down into the depths of
~ souls.
ne! ne Three Out of Thousand.
1t "Brooks has talked to thousa
In men about what he saw that night VIII
lis, he looked over the Stransom, and out
that thousand. three could be broue
lat here to express their misunderstandi
as of what he said. There was Sheriff .
DR.. lius. The state asked Brooks if he {
aid not say to Julius, My God, I cam
IS; get over it! He looked more Ii
,m- George Koch than any man [ kno'
lad Then Mr.. julius comes upon the sta
die and offers no confederation for
the statement.
md HfBrooks says that many persons
9th gued with him, and that Mr.. Math
IT, whom the state produced here, urs
Of him to say Brooks, say that you do
uld