New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-26

thata chicken thief had made the dogs
bark. Mrs. Berndt said that her hus-
band is a timer and has worked for
ten years past for the New Ulm Hard
ware Co., of which the only proprietor
that she knew of was Dr. Fritsche.
Answering Gen. Childs, the witness
said that the reason why she did not
wish to testify in the case was because
she is a friend of Mrs. Fenscke, who is
the defendants sister. There were no
other dogs around except Mrs. Dahms'.
She was frightened as she had never
heard the dogs bark like that before,
and she ran into the house and looked
at the clock to see if it was not time
that her husband should be home. 1t
was $50 by the clock, but the clock
was five minutes slow.
August Berndt, husband of the last
witness, told about the same story as
she did. He was moving to another
housein the block, and moved evenings
for three or four evenings. 1t was one
of these evenings that the occurrence
happened, but he did not know which.
He was moving the last of October and
first of November. He heard the ducks
and the dogs. It was nothing unusual
for the dogs to bark.
Mrs. Dahms was put on the stand
Thursday and gave substantially the
same testimony that she gave at the
preceding trial, with the exception that
she added that she saw the dogs run
ming with their noses to the ground.
On oss-examination Mr. Abbott
tried to bring out the fact that at the
last trial Mrs. Dahms said nothing
about the dogs putting their noses to
the ground and smelling. The only
answer he could get was that she would
have said it if she had been asked. Mr..
Abbott questioned closely as to the
blood on the post. Mrs. Dahms said
that there were as many as twenty
spots of blood on the post. She could
not tell the size of the spots, but got a
little on her fingers when she went
through and wiped it Off on her dress.
Next day there we're black spots but
no blood. The third day she saw no
blood, nor again after that, as she
paid no attention to the matter. She
made no memorandum of the date
when she saw the blood.
Mrs. Dahms said that she knew OF
the different proceedings and trial of
DR.. Koch, but she did not tell any Of
ficer about it until before the Mankato
trial. The wide gate, the other side
of the post, was open the morning of
November I'd. Cattle were pastured
there.
Gen. Childs asked why she did not
want to tell about what she knew, be-
fore she did, but Mrs. Dahms broke
down and shed tears and the attorney
withdrew his question.
Answering Mr.. Abbott, she said that
she told no officer or attorney until
shortly before the first trial in Man
kato.
The testimony of Ole Ulen was sub
stantially the same as that given at
the last trial, and he stuck to his story
though the defense tried hard to get
him ratified and succeeded in a way
in creating the impression that his
memory is not as good as he would
have it appear.
Mr.. Abbott, in addressing the jury,
said that the states sudden termina-
tiOn of the case had taken them by
surprise and they were hardy pre-
pared to meet it. He hoped they would
not occupy as much time as the state
did in presenting it's case. But this is
no trivial case most serious case,
when the state wishes to convict George
r. Koch for murder in first degree,
and we cannot pass over it too hurried
ly. These attorneys tell you that the
state of Minnesota is too great to do
this and that. The state of Minnesota
is just as big or as little as these men
who represent it in this case. The
state of Minnesota can also stoop Just
as low as the men that represent it,
No matter how big or great the state
of Minnesota is, George r. Koch is
entitled to just as much consideration
as it is.
The state has not produced one single
motive why that defendant should com
nit this murder. Their case lacks pos
tive evidence, but they have the one
eye witness to the crime, and refuse to
place him on the stand
Continuing Mr.. Abbott outlined the
case as it would be presented, giving
| a digest of the evidence to be produced.
He said, we will prove that DR.. Koch
wore the same clothes after the muir
| der thai he did before. We have proved
that he wore the same cravenette an6
after it was stolen from his Office, the