New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10
The noon recess was taken here.

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The noon recess was taken here.
Mr.. Brooks examination continued
this afternoon. Had frequently heard
lscuffiing up there. He took lessons
! with the Turner's society, and he and
Ibis friends often went through gymnas-
ties at his office. A number of the
young men were in the habit of drop
ping in there evenings. He was as near
lily perfectly developed physically as any
man I knew Of.
After read my letter went out on
to the sidewalk and met A. j. Vogel,
who wanted to know what was going
on upstairs. ! said it sounded like a
rough house and said let's go up and
|get into it. He didn't want to, and I
went alone upstairs.
Witness identified a plat of the Geb-
hard offices. I went to the door to the
reception room, which was always I'M
locked, but found it locked Had not
heard any noises from time I began to
.lgo upstairs. Tried the door to the
Operating room and it was locked. This
door is two and half to three feet
from the banister at the top Of the
stairs, and the banister was about three
feet high. The doors were locked, so ]
|got up on the banister thinking to at
tract attention of the parties inside 50
they would let me in. The operating
room was well lighted.
Looked Through the Transom.
/ When I looked through the transom l
Isaw the lower extremities of men ~
ling on the floor, from the chest down
Gould not see his face His left arm
was thrown over his chest. The body
Hay diagonally across the floor, the head
toward the safe. It was not over twelve
feet from me. 1t was lying on the right
| side. Saw the upper part of the body
of man kneeling on one knee and
seeming to be sitting on the right foot
The other knee was raised, but don't
know whether it was on the body. Saw
an up and down motion of the right
arm, and at the same time he straight
ened up. Do not know what he was
doing with his hand, or what the mo.
ton was for. He looked up and we
/ looked into each others eyes. He had
either very heavy head Of hair or a
close fitting SLOUGH hat. 1t was black
am morally certain that he had such q
hat, we'll back on his head, but may
be mistaken. [ was attracted entirely
by the appearance of his face, so cannot
tell for sure. He did not have der
| by hat. He was understood, with q
caderverous face, and had small mus
tache or something on his upper liz
that looked like it. It was such a mus
tache as very young man might wear
The man had dark coat and no over
coat
Was Not Koch.
"Was the man that you then anl
there saw, George R. Koch, the defend
anti"
mo, sir, he was not" ...s.
"Haye you always given this same
description of him."
eyes, SIR"
"What did you then do?'
II got down from the banister anG
started down stairs. ! had at first
thought that it was a dental operation
and that the person in the chair hac
gotten down out of the chair. As
went down stairs began to think thai
it was something more serious"
| Witness went on to say that he went
down and spoke to Mr.. Vogel, telling
him that Their eseemed to be trouble
up stairs, and asking him to come ur
and we would investigate. He sug
gfested that I get more people. I ther
went across the street and got Mr.. Cav,
|anaugh. We rushed up the stairway and
III got up on the banister and looked
through the transom and got up high
enough that time to see the entire
body. I saw cvast amount of blood
and jumped down and told CavanaugI
that I thought there had been murder
and told Cavanaugh to get up and look
He did and said "There is a live man in
there. [ am not going to be shot at,
and he got down at once and we both
ran. down stairs. Two railroad mer
were coming up stairs, but they went
down when they heard Cavanaugh say
that ne didn't want to be shot at. Five
men were at the foot of the stairs, Po
liceman Weisenborn was coming across
the street and I notified him that there
had been a murder. He went up with
me, and said for him to look over the
transom He said he would 90 down and
get stool. He went, and when he got
back ne looked over and said "Oh, ia,