The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29
WOMAN SAW HIM
VISIT HIS OFFICE
Bright Light Suddenly Appeared
and He Stopped and Reached
for Something.
WORE A BRoAD-BRIMMED
SOFT HAT AT THE TIME
Postmaster Testides that the Pep
per-and-salt Coat Was Re
placed by a Brown.
BY w. p. Mcclure.

BY w. p. Mcclure.
Mankato, Mimi, April 2s-Mfss
Lena Weidermann and Mrs. Wilhel.
nina Dahms, on the witness stand to-
day in the trial Of DR.. George r. Koch
for the Gebhardt murder, told stories.
damaging to the defendant, which they
confessed they had kept entirely to
themselves thruout the first trial.
Two other witnesses also gave tes-
the crime nearer to Dr.. Koch. They
were Hjalmar Hoidale, who testified as
to an insulting name which he said DR..
Koch had used toward DR.. Gebhardt,
proving, as the state claims, his en-
nifty, and u. B. Krook, postmaster at
New Ulm, who swore that on the morn
ing following the murder, DR.. Koch
which he had on the night before, but
| a brown coat.
! Miss Weidermann, responding to
questions by General Childs, said that
she was housekeeper in the home OF
Ferdinand Crone, who lived over his
store few doors from the Stricken
Stricken building extends several feet
farther back than the place where she
worked, and standing on her porch she
could see the window in Koch s work
shop. She had known DR.. Koch by
sight only for about two years.
Looked Into Koch's Office. s
On the night of the murder Of DR..
/ Gebhardt, she said, she went out on.
her back. porch twice, the time being
] described indefinitely as between 8 and
o'clock. On the second trip, she said,
she reached up to take a chicken from
q a! nail on post where she had hung
it earlier in the evening, In doing
this, she said, she faced DR.. Koch s Of,
General Childs.
"Dr1: Koch lit the light in his work.
room, : the witness answered.
4 ssWhat did he do9v
HE just stood there q minute, then
ne stopped and reached over with his
How was he standings,,
dow - - = 'io, 80
. Ills R'1 tight ddh 6a nd he e1tend'
lhand9n - -
s1:He just reached for something
4 How long did the light continued"
ust short time. He stopped over
, and Strengthened up. Then he turned
and the light went out. !"
When he stopped over and straight
s ses5, g!p, did you see the motion Of hi.
ellis arm moved,'' said the witness.
, and she swung her right arm around ID
circle about her body.
' Do you know how he was
{ dressed9''
E.He had round soft hat and dark
! Mr.. Abbott Cross-Examines.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Abbott, Miss
T whom was a member e Of the ci tie
committee, and all Of whom had fre4
| quently discussed the Gebhardt muir.
der and the investigation Of it, within
her hearing. She also said that Albert
l Pfaender, one Of the counsel for the
"You knew what was claimed BY
notqO asked Mr.. Abbott. 7sYes. ;,
"And you did not say, anything
about what you now say, You saw cld
4No, I did not
. "You knew this young man was on
' trial for his life; that he claimed that
! he went back to his office about $50
. and turned out the light; and you
{ knew: that # you said what you now
say, it would cOrrObOrate him, and yet
you never said anything7" HNo.
You, knowing Mr.. Koch might bd
7 hanged unless somebody corroborated
! him as to his return to his office, kept
this 5 5;S GER which ySg say yoa havs
. Wore Big, Soft Hat.
d Mr.. Abbott stopped short and afters2
20
: room was in absolute silence, took aAs
i other line.
}. Cat all times, when you saw DE-.
!; Koch before the night Of the murdess
s what hat did he wear3O
! He always wore black soft hat. -
) tfAnd that night, when you say you
saw him thru the window, what hAt
did you say he wore9'
It was black soft hat and had &
big, round rim, quite wide.
The several men who saw DR.. Koch
in Hoidale & Thompson's Office that
evening, when Mr.. Vogel gave him one
y Of his pencils, and those who saw him
I on the street and in the barbershop, all
4 testified that DIR. Koch wore brown
derby hat then.
Heard Someone Running. 81
Mrs Dahms was called and told, thru
an interpreter, that she had known
Koch for fifteen years and that her
husband had been tenant Of E. g.
Koch for nine years. She described
the pasture between her home and tho
- Koch IS and the fence and gate which
= enclosed it.
= "Where were you on the night of
:, Nov. L, 19O49o asked General Childs.
e At home," she answered.
HWhat time did you 60 to bed that
r night"
v III do not know exactly, but it was
le before 81
re "Were you disturbed by any noise
Sc after you had gone to bedq', yes y
What time was it when you swere
,e disturbed"
If nTen minutes before ten. - 81
1T HWhat were the noises you heard ~
cit stamped awfully, it ran aw'
N fully.
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