The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-22
STATE IS ABOUT
READY TO REST
Witnesses Tell of DR.. Koch's Ap
pearance the Days Following
the Murder.
Special to Tho journal.

Special to The journal
Mankato, Mimi, July .22.-John G..
sGronan testified this morning in the
Koch case that the morning after the
AGAINST table in DR.. Reinecke g office,
/ and that he had MO overcoat. The de-
PENDANT turned and walked away when
Hooked at. .s
W. G. Sheperd, city editor of the
minneapolis Daily News described the
defendants hands and general physl-
scal condition the Sunday after the mur,
der. He appeared to be suffering, and
This head was bowed. Sunday or Mon
day the witness saw the defendant in
his office and was told about the CO.
scaine fend taking HIS handkerchief;
SKoch $ face was pale and indicated
Smental and physical suffering.
"Such as an innocent man WOULD
sshow if accused for four days of killing
shis friend9 - asked Mr.. Abbot.
The cross examination lasted some
stime, being along the lines indicated
A new witness was called, Theresa
.Gulden, II years old. The girl said
ashe spent several months last fall at
aJohn Guggisburg's farm at Lafayette.
sOn the Sunday preceding the murder
sof Dr. Gebhardt she saw a lady and
Fgentleman in buggy stop and the
Natter get out. She ala not know him,
ibut the lady was Miss Fitzpatrick. a
steacher in the New Ulm schools. The
oman walked away and a threshing ma
Ichine frightened the horse. The lady
Jcried out and man ran up. to the
.horse. Some willows We're. along, the
3road, but he was not in the willows.
sHer memory was not very good as to
On ross-examination Miss Gulden
said that she was employed by the SUI
sperintendent of the Eagle elevator
owned by Mayor Silverson at New
pUlm: Her view of what transplred ., on
Athe hillside on the Sunday was had be-
tween some trees.
Albert H. Quandt and J. L. Bushard,
the former farmer of Lafayette and
5the latter of West Newton, members
fof the crew of the threshing machine
which frightened the horse mentioned
the horse stood four to eight rods out
in the stubble field from the willows
that lined the roadside, and that the
man whom they saw was hunting IN
the stubble between the willows and
the horse. When the horse became
frightened the man walked rapidly to
ward him. Mr.. Bushard said that the
threshing machine, ten minutes before
had scared up a convey OF quail which
had flown into the willows. Both of
these witnesses are new ones In the
case.
DR.. strickler's Talk with Koch.
DR.. O. G. Stricken Of New Ulm was
on the stand for some time. He said
that the defendant kept 2 gasolene
stove in his laboratory and that the
room was lighted by an electric light
hung from the center Of the ceiling
At 5 O'Clock on the morning after the
murder the defendant had entered his
office wearing a cravanette overcoat
The witness had said to him:
81 have just been to Blnger s
morgue, and I hope that the party who
committed that dastardly deed will be
punished
DR.. Koch made no reply to that. On
Thursday afternoon the witness had had
another conversation with DR.. Koch in
the latter's laboratory. DR.. Koch was
lying on sofa. The witness had said
.tWsh{y do they suspect you OF this
Dr.. Koch replied: sEBecause I was
in the vicinity at the time
The witness had said: "The party
who committed the deed must have
had some injuries on his hand. Show
me your hand.' DR.. Koch took hi:
hands from his pockets and extended
them palms upward and had replaced
them in his pockets. The witness hat
noticed three fine scratches on the pain
Of one hand about one-sixteenth of al
inch apart and practically parallel
The witness had said: "You did no
asfe up there lad dh1 reped No anf
not been up there since September
The defendant seemed agitated ant
his face was pale. DR.. Stricken hat
visited the Koch home on Saturda!
morning, together with Drs. Weiser ant
Vogel, and had examined the. injuries
NJ, tnn- nfo 3c how o,,I 4 ~
them in detail, using the memorandum
which he had then made.
On the Monday following, DR.. Strick
Ter had seen Dr.: Koch in their reception
room. The defendant was walking III
and down with his hands swinging owe
his head and appeared to be very mucl
agltated, and was saying, "Oh, Lord! ,
When the witness had come in, Dr.
Koch had sunk into a chair and said
Doc, [ am almost daffy." -.....
The witness took the defendant t.
DR.. .Vogel's Offices and advised the lat
ter that he had better take the youn
man home, as it would not do to lie
him go home alone. DR.. Koch was.the
in a condition of extreme agitation f0
lowed by a collapse. -. !.
Some days later. after DR.. Koch
work again in his office, he had com
to the door Of the witness office an
had asked whether the witness coul
not tell about when the cacaine aend ha
been there. The witness had told hi1
about when he thought it was. d.
Koch had said that he believed tina
this find was the party who took hi
handkerchief. The witness had sai(
fYoup don It know that it is your hant
kerchief9' and he had replied, sOl
yes, that IS my handkerchief The wi
ness had then said, You owe it t
yourself and your friends to go and Sc
the handkerchief and have this matte
cleared up. DR.. Koch s reply was 6
am not going to-. -
When cross-examined by Mr.. Abbot
the witness said that on the day TO
lowing the murder he had noticed n
injuries on the defendant s hand Will
the latter was working over patier
taken to him by the witness. The d.
ferse offered in evidence the memo
andum from which DR.. Stricken ha
been testifying.
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