The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-26
WILL Or. GEO. KOCH BE
11SADED BY AN EYE LASlzS',
Striking Parallel Of The Ge6harat Murder Which Circum
stances, Many of Them Identical uiM Those Koch Case
Pointed to Young Man Who Was Proceed limo
cent BY Second Sherlock Holiness

Will DR.. George R. Koch, twice tried
for the murder of DR.. Louis A. Geb
hardt, be saved by an eyelash?'
The question is suggested by the case
Of Dudley Mackrey Of Walsol, New
Stafford county, England, in which the
saying saved by an eyelash' was
made true, Tor it was one Of his own
lashes that saved Mackrey from death
on the galloWs. Between the cases of
Mackrey and DR.. Koch there is re-
markable similarity. Indeed, features
cused were dentica The pes mp c
are so striking that one is prompted to
ask whether or not there was not some
strange connection or association be-
tween the two crimes committed only
six weeks apart. ~.
Both crimes were done in doctors
office and in the evening. The persons
accused-both young men--were seen
the murders. In both cases the noise
Of scuffing was heard by a man on
the floor below. Both Of these men
ran upstairs, found the doors locked,
peeped over the transom and saw both
the murderer and his victim. The per-
petrators Of both crimes broke. thru
wire mosquito netting of the, window,
SNs
themselves to the ground by clinging
to electric-light wires, which was, the
same distance above the ground in both
cases.
In the Gebhardt murder hammer
and handkerchief bearing the initials
&C. r. k were found; in the other
there were found near the body of the
murdered man a pair OF steel-rlmmeG
eyeglasses and handkcrchief bearing
the initials cd M ',~' .@- 3.
When arrested, both Dudley Mack;
rey s and Dr.. Koch s hands were burned
and bandaged The prosecution salo
that DR.. Koch sustained his injuries
while getting thru the screen on the
window; that the injuries on Mackrey s
had been caused by grasplng the ne e1 tbt
tric-light wire in swinging to the
ground. :t@
Also there was a poison theory IN
| both cases-Mackrey had bought ar
senic early on the evening OF the muir
| der. - 80 r.. .. =,
The main point Of difference in the
| two cases was as to the motive, 1t ma!
ing been shown that Mackrey and ms
victim had been keeping company Will
the same girl. .s--
Relating the story of the Mackre3
case, the Chicago Tribune pronoounc,e'
| it one of the greatest mysteries IN tht
criminal history Of England, indeed, o!
the world. 1t was solved by ,physi
clan, Dr. w. Bruce Sheppard OF ShreWs
bury, who, by it, acquired wide TIeputf
as "second Sherlock, Homes.
The Doggett Murder.
Mackrey's victim was DR.. Enos Dog
=gett, a physician in Walsol. lie was
y1oun.g and promising practitioner,
| bachelor a university graduate, a marc
worker who paid strict attention to HI
business and entered but little int
| middle-class social affairs Of the town
! Mackrey was the younger son OF a prom
inent family Of landowners, who ha'
been educated for the law: Both Wer
paying attentions to Nettie Hlbbo'n,
handsome young girl, whose father wa
a : bookkeepeerr 81 IN :, moderate circum
stances. The { Grimes was COMMITTEES
on the evening of Dec. IA, 1904
| On that evening DR.. Doggett was IL
| his office, which was over a bakery
There were three, rooms in the suite
the rear one being store. ROOM Their
were the ordinary reception room AM
! private consultation room. The seen
correspondent almost exactly with tn
scene Of the Gebhardt murder. =
/ The time was in the evening, an
at that hour Dudley Mackrey was seel
going along the street in the direction
Of the doctor s Office. He dropped int
the chemist shop, purchased small
quantity Of arsenic and stepped out
starting north along the street in tn
direction of Doggett IS office: He wa
not seen to return, nor was he seen s.
/ far as is known after he left the shop
Picked Over the Transom.
About 1880 Jem Fenner, who was a
his oven at the rear of his bakery
heard the scuffle upstairs. He listene
and thought he heard stifed scream
He listened again and was certain h
4 heard stealthy footsteps. He waite
perhaps five, minutes, then, concluding
ran ram up Spi to ths doc door Of Br. Doggett
office. He listened and was certai
4 he heard some one moving around in
side. He tried the door and it wa
| locked. He raped, and there was n
: response. Then ne lifted himself t
the edge of the transom and peered il
He saw the frame of a man at DR.. Dos
gett s desk, apparently rifing it, an