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Edgar Dingler, the young teamster of
New Ulm, said that while hauling gravel
to E. g. Koch's barn in the fall of 1908
he had noticed an old hammer, and iden-
titled the hammer in evidence as the one
he saw there. 1t was lying on the win
low sill, and later E. w. Koch used it
pull some nails from a plank to re
place one broken from his wagon. He
aw it again six months later in a
'<itchen slanty in the Herman monu-
nent park.
Cross examined by Mr.. Abbott, the
witness said that when subpoenaed fol
his trial he was at Red Wing, having
zone there with circus with the idea of
securing employment He said that a
OF of New Ulm boys had gone with
he circus. He had travelled ION the
Dad" before that, but not tramped. He
'lways paid his way. He worked a day
md half for Mr.. Koch in October, as
lie had learned from referring to his
book after the last trial. He saw the
hammer at the park at a picnic six
months after October. When asked
what month the picnic was held, the
witness replied that it was in July.
vt the police station, soon after the
murder, the witness had been shown the
hammer and he had said that he had
never seen it before A week later, at
he Dakota House, he had identified it
is the same one He did not tell En-
gelbert that he wanted to be sure of
he reward before he testified. He didn't
want to get mixed up in the case, but
his father told him to tell what he
knew. He never said to Goede that
here was $500 reward in it for him.
Said 1t Was Koch's Hammer.
Mrs. Catherine Kasz of New Ulm was
examined by Mr.. Pfaender. H. L..
Schmitt acted as interpreter. She had
lived in New Ulm twenty -one years.
md does washing and scrubbing. She
is forty nine years old. She has a
son named DIR. Andrew Kasz. She clean
ID the windows three weeks before the
murder She had used an old hammer
with part of the claw broken off to
take out a window. She had found ii
hanging on the WALL two and a half
opposite side of the laboratory from the
,lley. 1t had a short, rough, home
he hammer in evidence and identified
it as the hammer she had used in Dr.
same hammer, only that it did not have
the paper on it placed there by the court
ed how she used the hammer. Back
Of the hammer the wall was clean, but
oline stove that was there. She had
visited the office three weeks after Dr.
Gebhards death, and looked for the
hammer but did not see it. She could
see the mark on the wall where it had
hung. A week later she went to the
office again and the wall had been clean
cd She did not clean it, She had call
ed at the office each week after the muir
der, but it was locked the first two
times.
Senator Somerville. She had not tes-
tilted at the first trial, but was a wit
ness for the state at the last trial.
'This hammer was shown to you
them" aswer the attorney.
eyes," replied the witness.
'You took it in your hand and look
ed at it, did you not?"
ut had piece of paper on it,
"It has paper on it now"
"But it was larger then
"And it was in the same place."
"No, it was further toward the iron
part"
"You were asked to describe the iron
part of the hammer that you saw in
DR.. Koch's office, were you not?"
"Yes"
"The hammer was placed in your
hands AMI you were asked whether 1t
was the hammer you saw hanging on
the wall, and with which you removed
the window, and to that did you not
answer that it was not the hammer"
eyes, because the paper was on it."
"And then did not General Childs
say: What, is that not the hammerP
and you said that it was not?"
Eyes"
"And then was not this question. ask
ed you By Gen. Childs: Now look at
it and see. | have removed the LABEL
and did you not answer that it was not
the hammer?"
mo, they didn't take it off,
Here the attorneys got excited, those
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