The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-04

DR.. Koch had the advertising pencil
at that time.
Brooks says that he was the close
friend of Dr. Gerhard He was also the
close friend of Mr. Somsen. During the
funeral service of DIR. Gebhard a most
extraordinary scene transpired. Brooks
seeks Somsen in the audience, whispers
in his ear and the two passed out of
a side door.
Sheriff Mcmillan had told Brooks
that he was going to have DIR. Koch ar
retted. We don't know what was said
ternoon came the consultation with a
lawyer, less than day and half af-
ter the murder. There was close re-
latioEship between Brooks and the Koch
family
When Brooks said that he was going
upstairs to get into the game he was
committing mblushing perjury, accord
inc to the evidence of A. j. Nogel, who
said that Brooks told him that he was
going up because there was trouble
there. Brooks knew that there was
trouble Brooks not only tried the doors
but raped loudly before looking over
the transom His statement that he did
not rap is absurd When he looked in
the room was brilliantly lighted When
the impressions were fresh on his mind
in the early days his mind was full of
doubt as to whom he saw. When he
sat in his office the night after the muir
der, with barred head, and exclaimed,
in communion with his maker, because
there was burned into his soul an image
that he couldn't get get out.
The noon recess was taken.
Court Room Packed.
The court room was packed to its full
est capacity this afternoon, by an au
dience anxious to listen to the .oratory
of Gen. Childs.
Gen Childs continued his arraignment
of Mr. Brooks testimony. and compar
ed it with the statements that witnesses
soon after the murder. He comment
ed upon the fact that the defendant had
never shown any interest or sympathy
about the murder.
Asa p. Brooks saw no blood on the
hand of the murderer, when he look
ed through the transom-no blood on
the hand that had left its stain in many
places about the offices. But he saw
stain as big as a dollar on the sleeve,
yet he saw none on his hand, that was
thick with blood.
Brooks says that he was not excited,
that he was perfectly calm when he
looked through the transom and after
wards. / say that when he stepped
down from the banister he was the most
excited man in all Minnesota. He knew
that he was looking on a scene Of muir
der-on the very face of Moloch in the
midst of his feast of blood He was
looking into the face of man who was
in the midst of murder. Would you
have expected to see the countenance
of the murderer looking as it ordinarily
Nn i,ll
the height of his rage, his countenance
distorted and disguised by the passion
that was sweeping across his soul.
If Brooks had said first, last and all
of the time that the man looked like
DIR. Kock, but that his face was SO dis
torted that he did not want to testify
that it was him, we would have more
respect for him.
What other sane man could have stood
at the transom without saying or doing
something looking into the room of
his dearest friend and seeing man
bending over a PROSTATE body and with
an expression on his face like that of
dog caught doing something that it
ought not to have done-and having
no feeling other than that he was tres
passing. He was as silent as a tadpole
SO far as his testimony shows.
State Not Bereft of Reason.
One fact rises out of this evidence
like mountain peak above us, when
Brooks says that the man whom he saw
resembed the defendant Here is pos
tive evidence of an eye witness, if the
circumstantial evidence is not enough
Suppose the state had to depend on him,
as you know him, it might as well have
rested its case on a broken rod. He
was not called by the state. The state
is not bereft of reason, and was not 90
ing to have its case ruined by such
witness.
From Mondays Daily.
Continuing his argument Saturday af
ternoon. Gen. Childs referred to the pen |