New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10

There are Cd in the city. They are arc.
lights of nominal 1 200 candle power. 1
investigated at midnight, two hours
after the moon went down.
Gen. Childs objected to further testi-
mony, because the inyestigati ton was
made when there was snow on the
ground in winter, and there was none
on the ground Nov lst. The court
thought that it would be better to have
a witness who could testify as to the
effect Of the lights when there was no
snow on the ground.
The witness said that the lights make
the Koch premises lighter for their be-
ing there, to Judge from the one obselv-
alton that he had made. The effect of
all the lights in town is to make the at,
mosphere lighter out as far as the Koch
premises.
On cross examination the witness said
that the barn is between the coward
close by. The light by the creamery
is the nearest to the Koch premises, and
is on much lower ground, with grove
of trees between it and the Koch prem
ises. There are also trees between the
next light and the Koch premises The
next light is two blocks further on, and
| the next one near the Koch premises is
by the hospital. There is grove of
trees between it and the Koch premises,
and the Koch house is between the
light and the coward. A half sister Of
mine is married to brother of the de-
PENDANTS father.
On redirect, the witness said that the
Koch residence stands on the peak of a
steep bluff, and the lights are directly
under the bluff. The trees had no leaves
on Nov lst. There are only few
single trees near the coward.
A recess was here taken until this
morning at nine o'clock.
/ Saw NO memorandum.
Chief Klallse was the first witness
called this morning Do not remember
whether the safe door was open OF clos
ed when I reached the offices of DR.
Gebhard the night of the murder. Did
not find or see a scrap of paper on the
floor bearing the words sDue George
$40 Tor $500 dollars" There was an
account book on the desk. Cannot state
whether there was blood on the book
but there was on the papers on the desk
DO not remember seeing letter in the
office saying ''Look out for Ed" There
might have been such letter found.
glanced through some fifty letters in
j the office. The sheriff was doing this
|also. [ did this partly the first night
and partly the second night. Do not
remember whether Mr.. Rydell was witi
us the second night. Saw no scraps OF
memorandum picked up from the floor
On cross examination, witness said ne
was at the office only five minutes the
first time, and three-fourths of an
hour about one o'clock, the second time
DR.. Fritchie was sworn. Think the
most of those in the room on the eve.
ming of the murder noticed the initials
on. the handkerchief We all looked at
the handkerchief and made out the mi.
tails to be Sc. R. r. Nobody suggested
that they We're sc. r. H. so far as
heard. The three seals were on the
i blue box when it was handed to me
first. Detective Rydell brought an i'm,
preston of stamp from some Mime,
apolis and st. Louis mail clerk. II
seemed at first to have been made by
the same stamp that made the impress,
sions on the box, but could later see
La little difference in the placing of the
year mark, that on the box seeming to
be little lower. A few days later Mr.
RydeH brought another impression of
a stamp, and in this the year. mark
was in the same place as on the box.
On. cross examination, the witness said
that the impressions were brought to
him several days after getting the box,
but he could not remember lust how
many.
j. P. Reed testified that he did all
OF the correspondence on the wide
guage type writer while it was in the
insurance office. The carriage was
loose and sometimes the lines would run
up and sometimes down. I used the
middle of the roller to avoid this. and
being beginner 1 struck the KEYS hard
and the period marks perforated the
roller. I wrote 200 to 800 letters on
the machine. I visited DIR. Koch's lab
oratory. We We're in the habit of Wis
ting back and forth in all of the offices,
borrowed some tools of DR.. Koch
Never saw the hammer in s. evidence
hanging on the wall in his laboratory,
borrowed a Ratchet and a hammer
from him at different times. He also
had a horn mallet. The hammar b,d