New Ulm review., 1905-05-03
STORY OF THE GERHARD MURDER IS TOLD TO THE JURY
Witnesses Who Give Testimony Touching Var
Feaures--ammer Handkerchief Bottle Of Poison.

northerly, and he asked questions about !
where people were, and stood in the |
barbershop saying almost nothing, then
going out and going up the stirway to
DIR. Gebhard's office. The state will
thus show that Koch was on the prem
ises when the homicide occurred.
The states case will be brought out
in detail, and will be straight-let the
defense explain it as it may-that there
was but one man near the premises,
and he had mortal enemity toward
DR.. Gebhard He had the hammer, the
handkerchief, the pencil, the tell tale
marks on his hands.
The court addressed the jury and said
that its work would be somewhat tire
some, but it would be given as much
exercise as possible. He said that the
members must not read or discuss the
case with anyone, and should not form
ulate opinions or discuss the case among
themselves. They must go in COM
pact body, with a couple of deputies,
wnen they were around. The members
can consult with people about their
private affairs in the presence of a
bailiff.
The court made an order that the
three triers should receive $40 a day
each for the five days that they have
served.
A recess was taken until this morn
ing.
The New Evidence.
The new evidence which Gen. Childs
promised that the state would intro
duce relates to the seeing of the ham
mer in DIR. Koch's office prior to the
murder, by the scrub woman, and its
absence from it's place there few days
after the murder. It also relates to
the testimony of the young woman
who claims to have seen DR.. Koch enter
mis- office shortly before the murder and
apparently take down the hammer and
then put out the light. The third point
is the testimony to be given by Mrs
Dahm, to the effect that she heard a
person running past her house a few
moments after the murder, along pri
vate path frequently used by the Kocf
family, as she is a tenant of the senior
Koch. These three points tend to ma
terially strengthen the states case, un
less they can be successfully contradict
ed. :-..
Eleventh Hour Testimony.
W. D. Abbott, one of the counsel fol
the defense, when asked by Free
Press reporter last evening what hi
Thought of the states new evidence re
piled: "The whole city of New
Ulm was interested in any light thai
could be thrown on the case, and i
is strange that Mrs. Dahm should ALLOW
three or four months to pass before sh
would tell of so important a thing a
this. Why did she not tell of it a
once? She never noticed her dogs bark
ing or that somebody was running un
til months afterwards.
AS to the girl who is to testify tina
she saw DR.. Koch enter his office an
take something down, she was employ
ed as a domestic in the family of
member of the citizens committee Thi
man was for four months securing th
city of New Ulm for evidence agains
DR.. Koch. 1t is very peculiar that h
did not learn of this bit of news in hi
own family until after the first tri;
- of the case.
% Regarding the story now told by til
!, washerwoman, she was taken to the pc
:, lice station shortly after the murde
:. and shown the hammer that was foun
4 in DR.. Gebhard's office, and sne the
! declared that she had never seen it b.
bore. ~
:, The state has abandoned it's cream
cry theory and its hat story, and hi
selected an entirely different route fl
Koch to go home. At the New Ul
n trial the state held that Koch wei
as nome by way of the creamery and lie
20, bloody marks near the door, and int
he mated that he washed his hands ther
ps Now all this is abandoned, and a ne
or story is sprung about Koch runnil
Vt through Mrs. Dahm's yard. The pla
or where the brown hat was found was ,
nut another road, SO the state will probab
ms not try to connect tnat with the cas-
M sThe defense is not worrying at {
ng about t he new evidence in the case, a.
it will be prepared to take care of it I
in when the time comes"
,iil Testimony Taken.
M When court opened, it was agreed |