Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-04-27
JURORS SECURED
FOR KOCH TRIAL
Last Man Has Been Obtained to
Complete the Panel in
Mankato Case.
MUCH SENSATIONAL TALK
All Sorts of Evidence is Said to Be
Developing, Most Of 1t Probably
Being the Purest Fiction
Of Imagination.
MUCH SENSATIONAL TALK


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Mankato, NM iaPfii -o.r " me-
Attorney General Childs, counsel lof
th.a state i'm The. case. ag INST DR.. George
d 1.aoh far ,h.. .,nrs.. of DIR Geb
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niirue' III ms ol'N'''S
jury TINS ;ellefllooh alNulseu l"ui e
tirey new points OF evidence. which,
he says the state will introduce, prov
ing, as he declares. beyond amy ques-
ton that the young dentist is guilty.
First there is To be the testimony OF
!, Young man who has lived in hoch's
home for six winters. He will positive
ly identify the hammer found by the
murdered dentists side as hammer
that had been in the Koch home Tor
many years. Ii is hammer OF pecu!ler'
appearance and could have no duplicate.
He will say this hammer disappeared
from the home u few weeks before the
murder Then Mrs. iIias. scrub Woih-
am. Will tell of having seen and used
the hammer While cleaning Koch OF
flee lust before tire murder The han-
mer she says. hung near an oil stove,
the smoke from which made its outline
on the WALL This; smoke had been
rubbed off when she next cleaned the
office lust after the murder.
In the first trial Koch claimed that
while going home ne remembered that
,ba li.sht in his office was still ON, nnd
he returned to exlingusll 1T. Now the
state says Lem, Wiedenan, hou5ekeep-
er for the Crone family, living about
forty feer to nne side OF koch's office.
will testify that while standing ON tn"
rear porch ON the night of the muider
she saw Koch enter mis- office. which
WAS dark, turn on am electric light, take
a hammer from the mail ON which it
hung, place il in his pocket, eXtinguish
the light and leave the building
Further General Chill Is said Mrs.
Dahan. who lives near l<och's and at
tho t,,r;, of 1he road where persons go
ing ia the Koch home pass through q.
gale. and across !, lot would testify
that on the evening of the murder u
,,a,,1,, ,,,a,, ran s,vittly MAST her house.
,r,ehed through tb,. gate and ON toward
Iso ,,l While her docs pursued him,
hawkins. tierraly
Nay1 .,,,o,.,,i,n che will declare she
ro,,nI blooa on mo cate post which
the MAN ,n,,st have .,rnspea in passing
ti,rnmn.r
TN ,.,,. a,.;,ienre with The STRENGTH
ening of several poin1s made by the
/ state previously, the state says, will
i surely convict the young defendant.
Koch heard the whole address, with
I all the implications against him With
out a sign of relnolse. The brother
and sister of the murdered man, who
We're in court cried throughout
The last juror WAS secuted yesterday
afternoon He is the exact age of tho
defendant -, and the youngest man
on the jury He is a farmer
The taking of testimony Will begin
! today.
A sensation WAS created today when
i 1t was announced that County Attorney
Wilson has been directed by q falinei
Z to Il man Who. he says, saw the MUIR
te.cr Of C;cbharet aroi from the Win
dow of his office after the homicide
was done Wilson is looking for him.
i No Proof as to Woman
4 pa.,,,,i,,. IN, ,.s,,,r+ tl,,t :, women
Y NM, .5nf.,,i, ~ Lnri, = lawyer asso-
4 ,,itad ,,iih IN. defense snid this morn
inc.
4 I'VE are morally certain that there
is ,yo,n.In in inc case hui w. win MOI
I,,in,, nor. i,ito II because We lac,S proof
IF ,loof were ol,tainabio we onr,;ainl,
would present ii, fol snen proof would
doubtless acauii.
This story OF woman IN inc case
is an OLD, old ono " W;iS norm peiof'
The last trial. sprnging probably iron
an apnlication OF the plo saw fhat thef'
is "a woman az the bottom Oh every
thing Had W" llati the lnaltef IN pre-
sentable .orm, II would nave peer
brought out ~ the lasl lflal. i6Nl. W.
did not, and nave not now, so II Is
merely rolilec tllfal