The Mankato free press., 1905-05-19

here to say that his wife told him
The Pinkerton detectives were on the
looking at every pebble and especially
at every gate. The blood on the post
escaped them. 1T escaped the chief of
police, VINO is be tier on the witness
stand than on the trail. Where is Dahm
got up that night Where is Reinhold
Dahm, who passed through the gate ev-
cry day? Why did they not come for
ward? The six thousand population of
New Ulm refutes the story-unsuppOrt
ed, unbelievable, unnatural, wept in her
bosom until it was needed in this case
If George Koch was guilty, then Will
liam Koch knew it, for they slept to-
gether that night. He passed the post
the next morning, and do you suppose
that he would have left it there to be-
tray his brother, if there was blood up
on it? Here is this little piece of post
sawed off by Klause. 1t is little
George Wasnington-it cannot tell a lie
Tests have shown that there was nc
blood upon it. Did the state show by
tests that there was blood upon it +!
1t was left for us to do that. Science
OF ctr ay,I Intn tnat
blood hundred years old. 1t can find
the blood on that map until the map
has rotted into dust, and then can find
it in the dust If the doctors who said
there was no blood on the post, did not
tell the truth, where is the eminent
Carel, to prove that? So another the
ory is shattered.
We are told that the man put his
hands on various parts of the wood
work, wiped them on the handkerchief
and grasped a wire to get out. Then
after running two thirds of mile in a
81 degree temperature, there wouldn't
be blood enough left on the hands to
make, a spot.
The Poison Proposition.
If there is anything to the poison
proposition, / want to know it. There
are assumptions, and that is all. If
Strickler lost any poison, Koch could
have gotten it. That is all there is to
that. But he did not. The sulphate of
strychnia and tablets contains ten per
cent of strychnia and, ninety per cent
of harmless substance. They say that
the greater part of the contents of the
bottle went into the waste basket. Why
did they not have the court appoint an
examiner to analyze the balance? There
were two little granules in the bottle
When Prof. Carel got the bottle, there
were no granules in it, but little pow
dered substance, about as much as a
pin head. Prof. Carel examined for
strychnia and found some, but not for
sulphate of strychnia. There may have
been sulphate of strychnine. DIR. Strick-
Ter said he lost 90 to l2O tablets. If
all had been ground up and put into the
bottle, there would have been less tnan
one per cent of strychnine. That leads OF
the conclusion that it was not Strick-
ler's tablets that were used. 1t would
take 800 to l,600 tablets to have filled
the bottle, and that would have given
ten per cent strychnine. If DIR. Koch
stole DR.. Strickler's tablets he must
have stolen some 800 other tablets.
At the same time he had enough ar
senic- in his office to kill forty men.
The blue boxes were sent all over the
northwest, by Park, Davis & Co. 1t
wouldn't do to stop on that, so they
say DR.. Koch wrote the address on the
box on this machine. The evidence
condemns beyond the possibility of re-
demption the statement that the ad-
dress was written on this machine.
Expert evidence in scientific and me-
chanical lines is absolutely accurate if
the witnesses are honest But who
ever heard of such an expert as Mr..
Baird? The mcahine must stand now
as it did in October if the writing is
to be the same. If not, then Baird's
testimony is doubly reckless Accord
ing to the evidence the carriage has
been frightened up, and new roll put
on. When machine goes back into
the office it is put in repair, of course.
Mr.. Baird. says that he can identify
any one of the 295,OOO Smith Premier
machines. What recklessness! / tell
you, gentlemen, that theory has been
erected in this case and the facts twist
ed to fit it. If one circumstance is so
palpably fallacious, why may not an
other one be, if we only knew it We
submitted to Mr.. Baird sixteen sheets
with the address written on by Smith
Premier machines, four written on this
machine. He picked out one or two,
and missed two. Then we submitted
a sheet with fifteen samples, with six
of them made on this machine. and he