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

On redirect, witness said that she
first told Peter Folkers about the mat
ter, after the New Ulm trial, and tnen
her brother law, Herman Pfaender.
She looked first, when she went out.
and the office was dark. Then she
looked at the fowls, and then toward
the office again and the room had been
lighted up.
| Miss Weidemann was a new witness,
and she gave her testimony in de-
cided manner, and could not be shak-
en-. Her appearance was the sensation
of the forenoon.
| The Next Morning.
After the usual fifteen minutes re-
cess, Postmaster L. B. Krook was call
ed He is large, smooth faced man.
He had known DIR. Koch since he was
little boy. Met him the morning after
the murder near the old court house. 1t
was at $3.50 and he wore no overcoat,
but brown sack coat. We walked to-
gether through the alley leading to the
windows of the Gerhard offices and
looked at the wires. l said / did not
suppose that man could jump down
so far without getting hurt. He made
no reply except "h-m." We then
went around to Minnesota street.
went up the stairs to DIR. Gebhard's Of
fees, but Koch remained below.
| The witness was not cross-eXamined
Had Sore Fingers.
Cleveland Frederick of New Ulm,
pleasant appearing young man, said
| that he had known DIR. Koch as friend
for two and half years. Was a clerk
at w. g. Alwin's last fall. Saw the
defendant the day following the murder,
between 1880 and l p. M, in the drug
store where l worked. He was behind
the counter, half way back, and was
behind the prescription case at the rear
of the drug store. l approached him
and saw him helping himself, putting
rubber cots on his fingers. l noticed
scratches on his hand and asked MIN
how they got there. They were on the
second joints of the index and second
fingers, and were reddish and of the size
of an eight penny nail, and the depth of
the cuticle. / assisted him in putting
on the rubber cots. He said that ne
had accidentally poured carbolic acid
over the hand that morning
On cross examination, the witness
said that DR.. Koch was frequent call
er at the store, and had the liberties of
the place, to go as he pleased, like other
doctors. Cots are used for covering
finger wounds. They are an inch and a
half long and tan colored. Can't state
which hand the cot was placed upon.
Saw q cot put only on one finger
Recovered His Memory.
At the New Ulm trial, the witness
had testified that he could not swear
on which finger the injuries were. He
now said that he was certain that one
of the injuries was on one of the index
fingers. He couldn't say why he had
sworn as he did at New Ulm.
"Did DIR. Koch pay you for the cots?"
asked Mr. Somerville.
Il can't remember" said the witness.
"Do you let goods go out of the
store without being paid for?"
'If the price is only two or three
cents, we do sometimes"
"You say you saw DIR. Koch behind
the counter looking at cots?"
"Yes, sir"
"He was not trying to steal them,
was he?"
objected to.
/ I|You do not mean to say that he was
trying to conceal the fact that he was
trying on cots?"
81 did not say So"
"Well, do you say SOL"
"No, sir"
"He frequently went behind the coun-
ter, didn't he?"
eyes, SIR"
"You wouldn't have Thought anything
of it if he had taken the cots without
paying for them, would your"
''No, sir"
'Will you swear that there were any
scratches on his fingers, or weren't they
discolorations
'They were Sores"
"Where were they located?"
"Above the joints"
did DIR. Koch's fingers look as
though carbolic acid or any solution
been spilled upon tnem?"
"They did not"
"Did you say anything to him about
this?"
mo, SIR"
"The sores must have looked as
though they had been made by carbolic
acid, did they not, or you would have
said something to him about it,"
81 took his word for it."
Didn't you look at his fngers?"
81 did not examine them carefully"
"Why did you not?"
81 had always known MIN as a truth
full man."
On redirect. witness said that cots
are made of thin rubber tissue and are
transparent. They are made to resem-
BILE flesh, and are made to hold their
place on the fingers, and are not notice
able.
! Heard Someone Running.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Dahms was called
and DR.. A. G. Leidloff was sworn as an
| interpreter | am the wife of Gustaf
Dahms and live on Second street north
| My husband has been a renter from E.
! G. Koch for eight years. The place is
| about four blocks from the Koch resi-
dence, and there are no houses between
| The land between is used as a COW pas
ture, and there is fence. There is a
road from our house to E. G. Koch's,
and gateway between, made of wire
and wood. The gate is fastened with
rope put over post. Went to bed be-
| fore p. m. the evening of Nov. LIST.