The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-16

out in the country six miles on Oct. ~,
and l was after quail, and the horse got
frightened; Isfell and hurt my hand
and scratched my face.
How the Burns Were Received.
"Where were you on Friday, night
after the murderf' asked Mr.. Abbott.
~ stayed home that, evening.
About 1870 1 went out in the kitchen
and sat down by the stove: It was the
I sat there while my hands began to
smart from the heat and I, went and
got bottle Of alcohol, which I kept
in the cupboard, and poured it on my
hands. I did this three times, putting
on enough alcohol each time SO that it
put it on the third time I went to put
some wood in the stove and the alcohol
ignited. My whole hand was afame.
It hurt like the dickens, and my sister
came and put vaseline on the burn.
About that time DR.. Vogel called up
and he said that he would put up some
medicine for my hands: He brought up
| the medicine and found that my hands
were badly blistered.'' ....
! Explains Carbolic Acid Burns.
carbolic acid9'
~ was washing in my laboratory
"Wednesday morning. and discovered
that my bottle of carbolic acid was
nearly empty. I went into Vogel 8
office and got his bottle Of acid and
filed mine. I was then working at the
bench, and in reaching across the bench
Dr.; h KOgel, !, told M. me to put alcohol on
'tDid you get a cot for your finger
| that day2''
"Yeg, I got one from Cleve Fred
ericks in Alwin's drug store at 1880
Wednesday. I paid him S cents for it..
On Thursday I bought enother and on
Friday I was getting a cot when Fred
ericks came up. At that time 7 took
other in my pocket. I did not wear
both Of them at the same time. [ only
wore the cot because carbolic acid had
Iloosened the scab on my finger and J.
was afraid of it. I wore the cot only
when L was out at the house,
Day After the Murder.
Mr.. Abbott then questioned the de-
PENDANT as to his movements on the
day after the murder!
did,
"Where was it held7'
"First at the Zelle residence, and
then at the Congregational church. We
sang one piece at the house and two at
the church,
"Where did you go after the flu
neral9''
Hears of the Kerchief.
III walked down town, and was tolc
that Somsen wanted to see me. / went
up to the office and they told me thai
they had found my handkerchief in Geb
hard's office and that [ was suspected
I did not think much Of it at the time
. my friends about it, / felt pretty bad
, Later they examined my hands.
"When I came down Friday morning
wore the clothes I had worn at thu
, funeral. In the afternoon I wore thu
salt and pepper suit that / wore Tues
day night. On Friday Rydell wanted
| superintend dent, asking if some one coul'
be present. The superintendent sal,
) that the agency could not trust anyone
Somerville said that, he could not trus
the detectives. -< 49, -
Meant Pfaender, Not Gerhard. -.
"Now you remember that Mr.. Hoi
was said to have used toward DR.. Geh
W. ~
about him?''
Ono; not about him.
edo you remember any conversatio:
of the kind9"
cit was on Friday morning after tn
murder. We were talking about oGet
hard Is murder and about Albert Pfaer
der, and the part he was taking. :
used the epithet toward Pfaender."
"Did you ever have any reason fo
!, talking, that way about Gebhard9'
II did not -
Visited by Committee.
"Did a citizens committee call a
Iyour home9'
eyes, committee came up Wedne'
day or Thursday of the week after tn
murder. The committee consisted Q
:, Andrew Eckstein, Andrew Hoffman, D
|, E. B. -Weiser, A: W. Bingham, Ferd
9 nand Crone and Mayor Charles Silve:
9 son. They talked with my father an
a my sisters and asked me where I Wa