The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-01-27
ST. JAMES FAVORED
DR.. G. R. Koch Trial May Be
Held in This District.
In That Event Judge Loren
Cray Would Preside.
Defendant Makes Statement;
Says He's Innocent.
State Has Some New Evidence
In lis Possession.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Especial to The Free Press.1
held late yesterday afternoon, participant
ed in by Judge Weber and the attor-
news for the state and defendant, it
was decided that the matter of where
and when the next trial of Koch should
take place will come up for consideration
on Saturday, Jan. % at 9 a. III. 1t had
previously been planned to settle this
question today. The application for
bail for Koch will be considered on the
2Sth 1t is not at all likely that the
application will be granted, however.
1t is thought that the trial will take
place in st. James although Redwood
Falls has been suggested. 1t is argued
that st. James, being out of the dis
trict, would not necessitate the presence
of Judge Weber on the bench In the
event of its going to st. James Judge
Loren Cray would act, as st. James is in
his district. st. James is near at hand
and not great deal of expense would be
entailed in the change of venue.
Statement From Koch.
The following statement was furnish
ed The ST. Paul Pioneer Press by Dr. G.
r. Koch
''The failure of the jury to come to
an agreement is, of course, a keen dis
appointment to me. | fully expected an
acquittal for the reason that | did not
see how there could be any question
about my innocence in the eyes of any
fair minded jury. | am confident now
that the jury would have had no trou-
BILE in arriving at verdict of acquittal,
had it not been for the heavy pressure
brought against some OF them by the
people who wanted to see me hanged for
crime which L did not commit, nor
have had anything to do with.
Il am anxious for an early retrial, and
feel certain that the verdict will be for.
acquittal. The only thing | ask is that
men who have made up their minds that
1 am guolty be kept off the jury
Il am told that amang all who heard
the evidence presented against me no.
body has been heard to say that there
was a probability of conviction. The
best my accusers expected was dis
agreement, which they got. Perhaps
they were well informed as to some of
the jurymen. 1t looks that way to me.
Il have no criticisms to make. / ex-
pect to be vindicated in the end L
hope that no other young man will
ever be pursued as. | have been pursued
by men who are bent upon his life, at any
cost, guilty or not guilty.
Il think / am entitled to fair trial
before an impartial jury, not jury
with some men who made up their minds
before they were sworn.
81 feel that if all the twelve men who
went into the jury box had been unpre
JUDGED and had based their opinions
as to my guilt or innocence upon the
evidence presented in court, they would
have all been of one mind"
Peculiar Coincidence.
st. Paul laundry whose employees
have been closely watching the Koch
trial at New Ulm has been astonished to
find that in the list of regular patrons
are two whose handkerchiefs are mark
ed &c. r. X" and one marked &C. r. r.
This happens to be the peculiar con
fusion which the attorneys for the de-
Tense tried to make at New Ulm.
Singularly, too, it happened that this
confusion occurred in the regular course
of laundry work, the employees mixing
the handkerchiefs marked &c. r. r.
with those marked &c. r. K''