The Mankato free press., 1905-05-12

two minutes walking to my office, a
| block and one street. Before | got to
my office | heard choking sound at
short intervals, and scuffling. Had
! four daily papers, several weeklies and
several circulars and letter with me
when | got to my office.
"When did you ever say before that
you had read the headlines of the pa
per tnat night?" d
IL don't think l ever did"
did you ever testify to that before?"
"No sir"
"Did the sounds indicate that there
was trouble upstairs ?"~
Il did not think So"
Didn't you testify before that you
heard quite following and anquished
outcry?"
Don't remember that | did,"
''You didn't think that thre was trou
BILE up stairs when you went up?"
''No sir'
."Then, why did you 90 up?"
."To get into the game"
"Did you think that there was a jol-
lifcation going on up there?"
Il thought that there was rough
house"
How long had it been since there
was rough house there before? Was
| it a common thing?"
| at had been about year"
| 'Why did you run up the stairs, Mr..
| Brooks?"
| 1T was my usual way of going"
Didn't you tell Mr.. Vogel before you
went up that you were afraid that there
was trouble up there?"
| II don't remember that l did"
"Did or did you not know that the
man who was above the PROSTATE form
was not Dr. Gebhard?'
II did"
ing at something very extraordinary?
Il thought it was something that |
had no business to see."
did you speak?"
"No SIR"
"Why, didn't you call out at that
time?"
''There was no excuse for it that
could see.''
| "Wnat impression did you have when
you got DOWN."
Il thought that an operation was go
ing on
"How could you think that?"
| 81 am not a philosopher"
"Did you ever see a dentist lying on
his side on the floor with the patient
above him?"
''No, sir?'
'What were your feelings when you
got down from the transom
"My feelings were so mixed that it
| ho riI 10 trxy 70 do
scribe them"
"You were looking over the transom
of the door of your dearest friend, when
the doors were locked, and you saw a
PROSTATE form lying on the floor and a
stranger kneeling over him, and blood
all around, and you are unable to state
your feelings because it would be ri
diculous for you to state them?"
"Yes sir"
| "Are you sure that the man had a
hat on his head?"
| 81 am morally certain of it."
Gen Childs recalled a good deal of the
evidence given by the witness at prev
ious times, regarding the man he saw
having close fitting hat on his head,
or big shock of black hair.
| WOulQ NOt GlV6 1t up.
Mr. Somerville desired to get posses
sion of the record of the examination
of Mr.. Brooks at the Henningsen JUS
tice court at New Ulm, from which Gen.
Childs was quoting testimony, but Gen.
Childs refused to give it up.
Witness said that the man had ca
daverous, pale face, but could not tell
what color his eyes were. There was a
very peculiar expression on the mans
face.
"What was it?"
''It was that of a dog that has been
caught doing something tnat it ought
not to do?"
when did you get that idea, just
now, or when you looked over the tran
som?"
"No, not just now"
"And you got down from the transom
with a sense of shame when you saw
a man with an expression like dog?
81 did not have a sense of shame"
''What did you say, then?"
81 said that | felt as though ! had
looked at something that | mad no busi-
ness to see."
/ "You cannot tell the color of the
mans eyes?"
"No, sir"
"And yet the eyes made very strong
impression upon your"
eyes sir"
''You testified previously that you
looked into his eyes for quite space?'
"Yes sir.''
Gen. Childs quoted from Justice Hen
ningsen where the latter testified tc
Brooks having said that he didn't know
whether it was Koch, that he would
have to see Koch first, that if the man
he saw was Koch he couldn't look wit
ness straight in the face; and that later
in the day Brooks said that he had
seen DR.. Koch and his skirts were clean
and it was not him. Witness admitted
that the evidence had been properly
quoted.
Then you were going to test the iden
tity of the man seen by looking into
DR.. Koch's eyes?"
'You haven't told of my relation to
that statement?"
Gen. Childs read more at length.
Mr.. Brooks said that he had testified
that he had no recollection of such 8
conversation, but had said that he woulC
take Justice Henningsen's word for it
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