The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-05


does not change with change of rollers.
The broken appearance of the face OF
the type depends upon the roller. Don't
, know what became of the purple rib
| bon. Brown county now owns the ma
chine, having paid $50 for it. 1t is
| not true that / made the sale condi-
ton upon my testifying in the case.
The roller has pnnctures made by the
punctuation type.
Mr. Somerville showed the witness
different sheets of paper with typewrit-
| ing on them, to test his ability to iden-
| tify writing done by, the machine in
! question. The writing on each sheet
| was the address on the box. After ex-
| amining quite number of the sheets,
the witness finally picked out one that
ne said was written by the machine in
another. After fifteen sheets had been
presented to the witness, the court sus-
tanned an objection by the state on the
ground that the examination had gone
| far enough in this line. This method
of testing the witness was not followed
at the New Ulm trial, some other meth
cd having been pursued there. Another
sheet was shown the witness and he
| was unable to say how many machines
were used in writing upon it. He did
| not find that any of the writing was
done ON the machine in question.
On redirect, the witness said that he
based his judgment upon the identity
| by the machine that was used in writ
| ing the address on the box by the entire
| combination of letters and not upon
any one letter.
The recess was taken here.
| John G. Gronan of New Ulm, testi-
fed to seeing the defendant on the
morning after the homicide in DIR. Geb-
hard's office. His clothes were not
black, and he had on no overcOat. This
/ was about a. m, and many people
were present. Koch was leaning against
table. and when witness looked at him
he turned and went away.
On cross examination, witness said
That he had been employed to make
some repairs to the building by Mr.. OF
| tomeyer the owner of the building. Mr..
Pfaender had employed him to remove
certain pieces of woodwork containing
the blood spots. This latter was three
Tor four weeks after the murder
| On redirect, witness said that ev
erybody else in the room was talking
and examining things in the room ex-
cept Koch.
| Told Mayor Silverson of it two or
| three weeks before the New Ulm trial.
This witness was a new one who was
not called at New Ulm.
| Sister Baramea, of st. Alexander
assists surgeons and physicians at
operations She hands the medicines and
instruments. She fixes hypodermic in
Elections of strychnine and sometimes
gives it. DR.. Strickler keeps his stryeh-
mime in bottle in his valise No one
except the doctors or herself would get
the strycnnine from the valse. Wit
ness said that she had not taken out
more than half dozen tablets from the
bottle, and none after Oct. 4th, 1904.
Witness identified the bottle.
On cross examination, witness said
that any of the doctors can bring pa
tients to the hospital. The hypoder-
mics are usually preferred where there
are to be operations, and if they are
not used they are thrown away. The
Sisters do not buy it, but get it of the
doctors. The doctors borrow from one
another when they get out. DR.. Strick-
Ter leaves his satchel for a day or two
or three days at the hospital, occas-
ionally, so that witness can clean the
instruments and place them in. Did not
take any strychnine from the valise
unless the doctor was there and request
ed it. Generally used whole tablet
in preparing an injection.
E. G. Hage, banker of Hanska, said
That he saw Dr. Koch on Oct. 2Sth last
at the depot at Hanska and also on the
train. 1t was the day that Dr. Koch
moved his dental office away from
| there. Dr.. Koch wore a black craven
nette coat. Witness mailed some let
tiers, placing them on cabinet where
the agent kept the mail to be put on the
train. There were two or three let
ters and small package on the cab
met. The box being on the letters
Did not notice the address. The pack
age was about the size of the blue box
in evidence. This was about 1855 pm,
and the north bound train arrives at
l:4 p. m. DIR. Koch had his dental
outfit and small grip with him. Wit
ness took the train and went to Minnea-
polls. The defendant boarded t1e train