New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10

tnen he exhibited any signs Of guilt.
| That afternoon Koch was called to
| Hoidale & Somsen's office and informed
| by DR.. Vogel and Mr. Somsen of the
suspicious pointing toward him. It was
!, the first time that he had heard of it.
He went back to his office and lay
down in his office and thought about the
charge against him. Drs. Stricken and
Vogel tenderly covered him with his
oVercoat-his cravenette overcoat which
counsel for the state has had the inso-
ence to charge him with destroying.
We will show you that Sheriff JUL
JUS and Chief Klause went to Koch's
office and talked with him, and that
later Detective Rydell sought an inter-
view with Koch Mr.. Somerville saw
that these men-whose regulations de-
pend upon their success in ferriting out
crime-and insisted that he or some rep
utable citizen of New Ulm be present,
to see that DR.. Koch was not charged
with having made confession, when
no confession was made. Mr.. Rydell,
not being willing to have fair play, de-
clined the proposition. Dr. Koch was
broken down, Inundated, and in a GER.
tain sense crushed by the accusation
against him. He went to his home and
remained there the next day, and sat by
the stove, thinking of the misfortune
that had fallen upon him. His hand
smarted little where he had spilled
carbolic acid upon it, and he got some
alcohol and poured it upon the burn,
then put some wood in the stove at
the request of his sister, and the alec
hol took fire and mis- hands were blister
ed DR.. Vogel came over; desired to have
a record made then and there of the
condition of Koch's hands, in case of the
accusation being pushed. He got two
other doctors and the next morning
went with them to the house and made
a minute record of what they saw.
These doctors will testify. The noun
tain built up by the state was made out
of the little mole of the scab from the
old injury. This is enough for the
counsel to use in weaving a chain of cir
cumstantial evidence about the defend
| is strongly in favor of DR.. Koch
Koch Walked the Streets.
DR.. Koch walked the streets of New
Ulm until afteh the converting of
court in December, in spite of the
charges. We will show that he wore the
overcoat for several weeks after that
murder That six detectives prowled
around his offices. We will show that
a citizens committee was formed at
which that man Silyerson stood at the
head. proceeding was started, not
against DR.. Koch, but against sup
positions person, and a drag net put out
| to gather evidence Then it was that
DR.. koch's cravennette disappeared DR..
Koch told men that his coat hung in his
office, and gave them keys to his of
flee. Dr. Vogel and others went to the
office and examined it thoroughly, in
side and out, and went away and left
| it,
Inc state referred to a pencil having
been found in the blood. Pencils had
been given all around town as an adver-
tisement. They were intended to be
passed around They were made of
course graphite, and a man took one
like a man who don't smoke takes eli
gar-to give it to friend. Nobody at
first gave any thought to the pencil in
this case, because it was lying on top
of the blood. The pencil has no light
innate place in this trial.
Claim Hammer Was Gebhard's.
We will show that the hammer be-
longed to DR.. Gerhard and nobody else.
Inc state, in its effort to smear the
crime upon DIR. Koch, has secured evil
dence that it belonged to the Koch fam
lily. One of the states witnesses told.
at the coroner's inquest, that the ham,
mer was Gebhard's. In spite of such
testimony as that of the old lady who
said the hammer in evidence was not the
one in kochs office, and the testimony
of the young man who failed to identi-
fly the hammer at the police station,
and did not Identify it until he had
heard of a reward being offered, we will
show that the hammer was DR.. Geb-
hard's. The latter belonged to tennis
club, the property of which was divided
up. Brooks took the saw and Gebhard
the hammer to keep for time. A man
will be put on; man who will swear
That he borrowed an old hammer from
Dr. Gebhard, and also other evidence to
this effect.
Mystery Surrounds the Murder.
There is some mystery surrounding