The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-28
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WlAY'Ill HAMMER

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WAYl0 HAMMER
Continued 4 '. fr 81 First Page.
moss when after hasleft the, Koch home
he next saw the hammer. He said it
was last. fall and that Detective
RydelTsof the Pink erton agency. EN-
-ployed by the state. had shown it to
s UWhat did you tell Mr.. Rydell9'
81 told him I didn Y know the hi ham
.Ycu did not; know the hammer
did,
N3You say to the jury that you knew
the hammer belonged to, the Kochs,
and that you deliberately lied to De-
'sYes, SIR, The Witness answered
calmly and with no sign of confusion
Silent at First Trial.
Mr.. Abbott then elected the state
ment that the witness heard Of the
hammer at the first trial. read about
it IN the paper, and knew that an ct
and yet he did not say that he knew
the hammer was Koch2s. 94i
The. witness also said that in con-
versation with A.. F.. REIN, professor
in the Lutheran college at New Ulm,
and Rev. G. j. Albrecht, about April
"a, he told them that he, did not know
the hammer belonged to the Kochs.
In answer to questions of Mr.. Alb
/ hot a hYo COZ a m
Koch, brother of the defendant, came
| to the Dahms home at the last trial
and asked him about the hammer.
| Mr.. Abbott wanted to know it Will
! liam Koch had not asked the witness
if he did not know that the hammer in
evidence was not the hammer the Kochs
to ao0V william Ill Koch asked Mr.. Abbott,
"that you did not use the hammer very
much; that you, always used the other
and that you didtno knowq'
81 never made that statement, de-
clared young Dahms lin: loud tone.
II told William Koch that the ham
mer looked justplike their hammer. "
| and you knew all the time it was
their hammer9''i asked Mr., Abbott. /,
ssGYes' 90 ~. - -. 80.
"Why did you tell him that it
looked like their hammer when you
knew positively it was their hammer?'
IT thought it was enough to tell
him it looked like it. -
RI A Test fof the witness.
| Then Mr.. Abbott arose, laid some:
thing on the stenographers'' table and
cation He then picked up the hammer
found in DR.. Gebhardt's Office and held
two hammers up. Dahms showed no
I sign Of confusiofi. He was asked if the
l new exhibit were mot the hammer he
used when he worked & at the Koch
home, and he said it, was not. The
hammer he used had the right claw
broken. ~
ssAfter four years Of separation from
4 The hammer you could pick out which
one Of these was the one you usedY'
49," You will swear positively now that
this one, the a:ones jim evidence at the
ak at Ke eca! %s tHe 81 ST. ou nA0 'S''
! "You recognized it. as certainly as
Eyou, would your2own father and moth.
= e. :,,.., state Not Impressed.
Counsel for the state laughed at the
it that ths G t sbs toe i'in n5
Gated plainly that in its present form
It was "a newly manufactured article
He said that where theagend@ of ). the
handle projected thru :, then head, il
| looked exactly as tho lampblack OF
something like that had been rubbed
upon it to give it the appearance Of
age. p =
/. The hammer was not introduced ir
evidence, but Wasf: merely marked FOL
| ~
dered the state lawyers took it from
the stenographers' table, showed it int
the bottom of a grip, covered it witt
papers and locked it up. They woul(
make no explanation and would not per
nit an inspection >,-.... ........ r. .
| Hammer at Koch's Office.
Mrs. Kaess. will give her testimony
thru an interpreter some time today
Before the murder she was at work IL
Koch 8 office, and needed something, t.
which she was cleaning. She looked
about and found hammer hangins
on two nails driven into the wall. She
tried to pull off the easement with it
but: could not do SO because the claw
were broken. The hammer found il
Gebhardt 3 office will be shown to he
and she will declare that it was the on
Koch office.
Mrs. Kaess will describe the condi
of the wall where the hammer hung
It. was. near an oil stove and the smok,
from the stove had made the wall dar]
all around the hammer. She notice.
. where she took the hammer down tina
there was an outline of it on the wall
When in the office Of DR.. Koch, dom,
similar work, shortly after the murder
she looked for the hammer and say
that it was not there. The wall wher
the hammer had hung, she said,' ha'
been cleaned and the. smoky outlin
rubbed off.
. Sheriff Julius came over from Ney
Ulm this morning and will be placed o.
Z the stand today. The state. says h
Klause's testimony of yesterday tina
Ida Koch told, him the. handkerchief
found in Gebhardt g office was" one o
{ George So 49,.