The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19

is held in high respect. The law says
that at the start the presumption of
innocence shall be wrapped around
him.
The state produces box which it
claims was addressed on Il typewriter,
mailed on train and received by DR..
Gebhard The state starts in with an
expert, and yet makes a point against
experts. Like the counsel, | will say
that you should use your own judg-
ment.
Mr.. Pau went into the typewriter
evidence He asked the jury to search
every little circumstance in the case,
and not to acquit the defendant merely
because one little point was disproved.
After it has all been gone over it will
be found that the defendant mas not
been found guilty beyond reasonable
doubt.
The counsel says that Providence and
the postal clerks are helping the state.
| never knew the state to refuse to call
witness who would do it any good,
vet it did not call the postal clerks.
The box, the state claims, was mailed
Friday, and received the Wednesday be-
FORE according to the office girls testi-
mony.
Some of the testimony in this case, |
will ask you to believe, some is
mistaken, and other parts l will
say is absolutely false. The
blue box could not have been
mailed the week before the HON
icde, because the postal clerk, Ray, laid
off that week and took his stamp with
him. Take the sand from out our eyes,
that the counsel says has been thrown
in them, and let us see. Ray says the
stamp was locked up at the depot or
at his home that week. The other two
clerks were not mis- substitutes and had
their own stamps
That a man does not live who can tell
upon what typewriter piece of type
writing was done, unless there is some
radical defect in the work. The types
that are out of alignment will some
times strike in one place and sometimes
in another. The letter sc" is used more
than any others and therefore gets loose
the soonest.
Mr.. Pau grilled the testimony Of
Baird, the states typewriter expert.
Not for Defense to Do.
We have heard the silent cry from
time to time: ''Wno is the man, if it
is not KOch?" 1t is not any part of the
duty of the defense to produce the
right man. Every energy of this great
state of Minnesota has been bent to get
evidence against the defendant and tc
suppress all evidence favorable to him.
The counsel says that the murder was
committed by someone who knew
ana tony, and DIR. Koch had learned it
at college. The state forgot DR.. Rein
exc, and the other physicians of New
Ulm, who knew anatomy.
"NIr. Pau, do you intend to charge
DR.. Reineke with this offense?" asked
Gen. Childs
1--WE are saying that the defendant
did not do it. Yes, we will say that
there is as much evidence that DR..
Reineke knows anatomy as DR.. Koch.
We are not saying that it was DIR.
Reineke"
Is it any wonder that some of the
thousands of people that Brooks talked
with tell the story little differently,
or that he told it little differently =?
He has testified that he did not know
the man he saw, but that it was not
Koch Brooks, instead of acting strange
Iy or trying to conceal anything, goes
and gets Cavanaugh.., The murderer
was in no hurry. He was still in the
room when Cavanaugh arrived. His vic
tim had been long dead and the blood
had CONCEALED. Cavanaugh was man
of ordinary courage, but he did what
many of us would have done, and what
some of us would not have done. We
cannot Judge of mans actions under
such circumstances.
DIR. Koch left his office and went to
call on the young lady he was keeping
company with, because it was her birth
day. Perhaps the state will construe
the latter peculiar circumstance Then
ne went back to HoidaIe & Somsen's
office and joined in singing popular
songs. Then he started for home, then
went back to the office and put out his
| light, and again started 70 rhome. On
his way, he stopped to talk with peo-
pie and recollected to ask about trivial
matters. Not content with having
shown himself to everybody, the state
holds that ne stamped up the stairs to
| DIR. Gebhards office All was silent
then for five or ten minutes If | was
to go into the realms of imagination
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