The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-25

said regarding General Childs' speech
s- He didn t divulge anything we
didn't already know. We believe we
have made adequate preparations to
meet and down all Of these new
T5s new s,5 route s thssry' /, Rsh ".
Just shows the absolut .pa absurdity W Of cir cir
cumstantial evidence. In the first trial
the state had the defendant going
around by way of the creamery, and
stopping there to wash the blood from
his hands. They even. produced the
creamery door in evidence, with it's
stains that were described by them as
stains of human blood.
One would think from the state
ments they have made that the man who
murdered DR.. Gebhardt went about
plastering blood on everything he
passed. It's long way from DR.. Geb-
hardt's office to the Koch i; or Mrs.
Dahm Is gate, and yet they say the
defendant swiped his blood lowered
hands all over that post blood on the
top Of it!-blood around It'll , as General
Childs said. No, there's nothing more
we care to say s
Klause Hurries to New Ulm.
General Childs had not finished his
address to the jury yesterday afternoon
when ENJOYS Of the defense were dis
patched from the courthouse to begin
the work Of multiplying the new fea,
lures of evidence which were outlined
| for the first time in that speech.
Before dinner last evening there
came from New Ulm by wire the in
| formation that representatives Of the
attorneys for DR.. Koch, who evidently
had been held in readiness, with COM
plete preliminary instructions, to act
upon any hints which might be dropped
in General Child's address, had been
seen to enter the homes Of those wit
nesses whom the state said yesterday
that it would summon.
There was hurried consultation of
attorneys for the state, at which this
news was discussed. An hour later it
was learned at the hotel office that
| Chief Of Police Adolph Klause of New
| Ulm was ssnot in. The; key remained
in his box behind the desk all evening
and finally it transpired that the chief
! vator, with a small grip in his hand
pass; out of the hotel at the side exit
! and go on dogtrot to the railway
4 station.
1 Aslittle after midnight he made his
first report from New Ulm, using the
telephone wire for nearly ten minutes
and presumably telling counsel for the
1
New Ulm and how much the defense Is
representatives had accomplished, i
anything, in their interviews with wit
nesses whom the state said it would
/ place on the stand. ~. -
! Real Battle In Hotel.
| Much has been said Of the t'battlt
for the life of George R. zKoch.' The
I real battle for the life of this young
l In I, ,Inc mn ~fF. Nf H. On
/ being fought in court. The strategy
4 of it is devised in the Saulpaugh no
4 tel. Yesterday afternoon, when Gen
Z eraI Childs had made his speech an(
court had adjourned, counsel for boil
sides walked leisurely back to the no
tel and lounged about the lobby unit
dinner; After the meal they, wan
cigars and talked about the weathe
with anyone who would listen.
Senator Somerville was engaged il
! conversation with two friends from
Sleepy Eye. General Childs was seate'
: by Judge Lochren Of The United State
federal court, who came to Mankat
yesterday afternoon. Attorney Clark
of counsel for the defense, was watch
ing some friends trying to win on ;
Two Councils Of War.
Half an hour later, however, Their,
was not lawyer engaged in the Koc]
case to be found doFnstairs in tn
! for a while with 1his visitors on !, tn
!: balcony and, then had dropped int
suite A., on the balcony floor. The sen
ator, Il. L. Brown and W. D. Abbot
have rooms 2, and 6, adjoining suit
A, which is reserved for counsel for tn
| M ho frio1 pc
J. sages were sent out. Men who know
about the case and are allied with tn
defense began to drop in. A bellbo
i: was called and carried several chair
into the suite from the diningroom a
) the other end Of the balcony. Thes
were drawn around the big table in tn
: middle of the room. Papers and ma
] Of New Ulm, showing every street an
> house, and several law books ,wer
Far into the night these lawyers ha
: their heads together, going over i
> minutest detail the "tip PSF as to tn
states case as given in General Childs
} address.
: In room "a, on the floor above, ther
3 was another council. That is the ROOF
!, reserved for General Childs-a lare
9 one on the front corner. Several Of tn
! attorneys who disappeared from tn
9 pers and books and a map of New Uln
4 Piece by piece the evidence was gon
Y over and outlines of questions designe
{ to elicit convincing information fro
T witnesses were made. ... =
A hotel guest, seeing men enterin
I and leaving those apartments quickl.
: mysteriously, and knowing that in or
were being made plans to convict D
Koch Of murder in the first degree, an
: in the other plans to prove him inn
> cent and save him from the gallow
could not but have been strangely in
pressed by this battle, not every featul
of which, it must be naturally SUI
posed, will come before the court an
T to the knowledge Of the public.
+ State Wants to Quiz Brooks.
S The state is eager to get at Asa ]
Brooks. 1t was declared today tn:
8 the New Ulm editor who peeked ovt
g the transom, saw the murderer at worl
q and ran down stairs to summon he'll
t would be called to the witness stan
9 if the court would grant the request {
! the 9, state, for the state would NAL
(, What will happen when Brooks &c
:. on the stand again is problematica
Rumors about Brooks are more hume
V Gus and sensational than those concer
q ing anyone else connected with II
. intention Of the state to impeach b
Is testimony if possible, and to have hi
7 punished for perjury, but whether
q not this will be. done is not known.
u is certain, tho, that the state is Gag
a to have him called by the court, al
y that it already has outlined it's proc
dure, which promises a sensation