The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-06-30
WILL DR.. GEO. KOCH BE
'sSAVED BY AN EYELASH?'
Striking Gebardt Murder in Which CircuI-
stances, Many of Them Identical With Those in Koch
Case, Pointed a Young Man Who Was Proved limo
cent by q Second Sherlock Holmes.
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FROM THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.


Of Dudley Mackery of Walsol, New
Stafford county, England, in which the
saving saved by an eyelash' was made
true. for it was one of his own lasnes
that saved Mackey from death on the
gallows Between the cases of Maclrey
and DIR. Koch there is remarkable
similarity. Indeed, features of the muir
Ter of which both were accused were
Identical The Resemblance are so strik-
ing that one is prompted to ask wheth-
er or not there was not some strange
connection or association between the
two crimes committed only six weeks
apart.
Both crimes were done in a doctors
| office and in the evening The persons
| accused-both young men-were seen III
| the immediate vicinity just before the
murders In both cases the noise of
scuffling was heard by a man on the
| first floor below. Both of these men ran
| upstairs, found the doors locked, peep
| cd over the transom and saw both the
murderer and his victim. The perpre-
traitors of both crimes broke through
wire mosquito netting of the window
hat opened upon, the alley and lowered
themselves to the ground by clinging to
aectric- light wires, which was the same
| in hot
| cases.
In the Gerhard murder a hammer and
4 handkerchief bearing the initials &c
| r. X" were found in the other there
were found near the body of the muir
| lered man a pair of steel-rimmed eye
glasses and a handkerchief bearing the
initials I'D. NJ"
When arrested, both Dudley Mack
rey's and Dr. Kocn's hands were burned
and bandaged. The prosecution sale
that DIR. Koch sustained his injuries
while getting through the screen on The
window; that the injuries on Mackrey':
had been caused by grasping the electric
light wire in swinging to the ground.
Also there was poison theory il
both cases-Mackey had bought arse
mic early Gon5 the evening of the muir
der
The main point of difference in TIL
two cases was as to the motive, it hav
ing been shown that Macllrey and hi
victim had been keeping company will
the same girl. s
case the Chicago Tribune pronounce
r it one. of the greatest mysteries in tn
+, criminal history of England, indeed, Q
! the world. 1t was solved by physician
; DR.. w. Bruce Sheppard of Shrewsbur!
7 who, by it, acquired wide reputation a
second Sherlock Holmes"
The Doggett Murder.
Mackrey's victom was DIR. Enos Dol
gett, a physician in Walsol. He wa
Young and promising practitioner,
bachelor, university graduate, a har
worker who paid strict attention to hi
business and entered but little into mic
de class social affairs of that tow
Mackrey was the younger son of
prominent family of landowners, wa
had been educated for the law. Bot
we're paying attentions to Nettie Hill
bon, handsome young girl, whose fail
or was a bookkeeper in moderate circm
stances. The crime was committed @
the evening of Dec Ia, 1904. On thu
evening DR.. Doggett was in his offic
which was over a bakery. There wei
three rooms in the suite, the rear OF
being store room. There were the o
binary reception room and private col
sultation room. The scene correspon'
ed almost exactly with the scene of tt
Gerhard murder.
The time was seven in the evenin
: and at that hour Dudley Mackrey W.
seen going along the street in the dire
ZION OF the DOCTOR 5 Office. lie SUOppt
into the chemist snop, purchased a sma
quantity of arsenic and stepped on
starting north along the street in tt
direction of Doggert's office. He W:
not seen to return, nor was he seen
far as is known after he left the sho
Picked Over the Transom.
j About 1880 Jem Fenner, who was
: his oven at the rear of his bakery, heal
the scuffle upstairs. He listened al
thought he heard stiffled cream T
. listened again and was certain he heal
4 stealthy footsteps. He waited perhal
- five minutes, then, concluding that som
}. thing was wrong upstairs, he ran up
- the door of DIR. Doggett's office. He Ii
! tened and was certain he heard son
one moving around inside. He tri
the door and it was locked He rappe
md there was no response. Then
.e lifted himself to the edge of the ira
e som and peered in. He saw the fran
t If man at DIR. Doggett's desk, appa
M nntly riflling it, and he saw the on