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

Tor writing letters. Very lew policies
We're written upon it. | wrote every
policy that was written. The alignment
of the machine was poor when it was
sent away
The witness was shown two small
machine rollers. One of these was. used
about ten days in the office, and the
other about two weeks. Il took them
from machines in our office. They are
Smith Premier rollers DIR. Koch wore
brown derby hat and black craven
nette overcoat. DID not remember
what kind of hat he wore after the
homicide. Was frequently in his labor.
atory. | never saw the old hammer "
ing on mis- benches or hanging on his
wall. | borrowed tools from him.
| Wanted to borrow hammer from him
about Sept. 18th to pull NALL and he
had nine suitable for that purpose and
let me have a hatchet. / occupied the
stenographer's room forenoons, and af-
lternoons it was generally autographed
| The defense offered the two rollers in
| evidence.
| just before the noon recess, the court
informed the jury that it could go to
church tomorrow in case it would agree
upon what church it wanted to attend.
Mr.. Schram was cross examined by
Mr. Pfaender this afternoon. He said
that he took his position in New Ulm
Sept. lst, and his acquaintance with
the defendant began then The offices
might have been left vacant for short
periods.
DR.. Vogel was recalled and said that
he was frequently in DR.. Koch's labora
tory prior to Nov. lst last, and often
borrowed tools. The rack was on the
south wall, running east from the win
dow to the corner Dr. Koch had horn
mallet, tack hammer and another old
hammer. The hamer in evidence was not
in DIR. Koch,s office to my knowledge.
w. n. A1nrlndson of st. Peter, vo-
cal teacher, said that he had appoint
ments at New Ulm in September last
and later and met DR. Koch. On the eve
ming of Nov. lst I saw DR.. Koch as he
came down stairs from his office. This
was about 9:l2 or 0:l5 p. m. He stood
with us three to five minutes and tnen
walked toward his home. Messrs
Higgs and Schanau We're there.
Cross examined, the witness said that
the next morning he had told this to
Chief Peterson of st. Peter, who had
been instructed from Netw Ulm to ask
him about the matter. Heard that our
sheriff was mixed up in the case, and l
beard then that Koch's name was men
toned and I laughed about it. I told
Mr.. Peterson that Koch had left the
drug store at 9:l5 or 9:ls p. m.
On redirect, witness said that he
knew about the time because he and
Mr.. Schanan had compared watches. |
was eight minutes out of the way.
Compared my watch later with the Da-
kota House clock.
Henry G, Davis of Chicago, q newspa-
per man, was sworn. Have lived in
Chicago a week. Lived in Minneapolis
three years before that Am employed
as a copy reader in the Inter Ocean.
! Was employed by the Journal in No
vember, and went to New Ulm Satur-
day evening, Nov. 5th, to write up the
case. Saw DR.. Koch about noon, Nov
6. Have known Shepard, a reporter for
the Minneapolis News, for four years.
He, | and Mr.. Baker, representing the
ST. Paul Dispatch, went to the Koch
residence together. We were invited in
and told Miss Ida Koch and Dr. Vogel
that we wished to talk to. DR.. Koch. Dr..
Vogel telephoned to Mr.. Somsen for
permission for DR.. Koch to talk. DR..
Koch then told all of his movements.
MIR. Shepard and Dr.. Vogel took the
statement down and compared them af-
forwards [ published an exact copy of
it in the Journal. Dr. Koch had lust
been having his hand dressed He APP
peared like one who had lost sleep. He
seemed to be suffering some from his
hand. He talked freely and voluntarily
on all points. Had no trouble in UNI
Outstanding him. His voice was natur-
al and he frequently laughed. On Mon
day, | saw DR.. Koch, with Dr. VogeI.
Dr.. Nogel told him that he might lose
his hand if he caught cold in it. Dr..
Koch said that he did not care if he did,
that he was going. down town, for he
was tired of being shut up like Grim
inal and people would think that he
killed Dr.. Gerhard if he stayed home.
a pepper and salt coat, brown striped
trousers, brown derby hat and black
cravennette overcoat. We went to his.
Office LOOKED TO see whether there
were any marks of cleaning on his
clothes and saw none. Mr.. Shepard
came to the office. [ was working all
day on the handkerchief story, about
the cocaine fiend, getting up what is
called in newspaper parlance "a pipe"
looked all over the office. DR. Koch
did not say that he had missed a nand-
kerchief. | tried to get him to say
that he had, as it would have made the
story read much better, but he would
not. | made all the statements about
that story, because Shepard and / were
working together on syndicating it,
DR.. Koch made no statement about it.
We were not in DR.. Koch's office Sun
day. This happened on Monday at.
about II a. m. On Sunday the back of
his right hand was white, as though
blisters had pulled up and gone down
again. Some of the skin appeared loose.
There was only one place where it look
ed as though it had been gouged. and
that was on one knuckle 1t did not
then impress me as having been groug-
ed.
On cross examination, Gen. Childs
asked: "9ou went to New Ulm to report
the case for your paper, the Minneap-
oils Journal?''