The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-01
.GEBHARDI KNEW
LIFE WASSOUGHT.
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med the contents and DR.. Reineke had
remarked that it looked as tho some
body had tried to kill DIR. Gehhardt.
The dentist, however, had laughed at
the remark at the time, saying that he
knew of no one who might want to take
his life.
His resurrecting and preserving the
blue box, however, showed that he had
pondered DR.. Reineke s sinister obser-
or was intending to investigate, the
source Of the poison.
Gebhardt's Officemate on Stand.
DIR. Reineke went on the stand just
before noon today and told of seeing
DR.. Gebhardt ten or fifteen minutes
before 9 on the night of the murder.
At that time, Dr.. Reineke said, DR..
Gebhardt was at work at his lathe pol
ishing plate. All of the lights were
burning except the one in the reception
room. The witness also described the
circumstances surrounding the poison
package as he knew them, and of the
investigation following the homicide.
A. w. Barnes, president Of the Inter-
state Accident and Relief association
Minnesota Mutual Fire Insurance COM
pany, identified the Smith Premier
typewriter, introduced as an exhibit, as
one owned by the fire insurance COM
pany. He was shown the label on the
poison package and said that the type
writing of Dr.. Gebhardt' IS name and
address was in purple. He wrote a
word on the machine and said that the
color was the same as the address on
the label. -. ..%T =
Vorel's Evidence =, S,1rnrise.
DR.. J. H. Vogel, who is college chum
of the defendant, and had known him
many years, was called by the state tt
Koch borrowed from him on the day
following the homicide. He described
the sores on the defendant s hands
when he and DR.. Stricken examined
| them on Nov. 4; also the three knives
which he knew Dr.. Koch owned.
A surprising feature Of the cross-ex
animation, was DR.. Vogel's declaration
that the marks described in the palm Of
DR.. Koch s hand, and a scratch under
day before the murder Of DR.. Gebhardt
On cross-examination DR.. Vogel sale
that DR.. sStrickler IS bottle of strychnine
was kept sometimes in the cabinet il
his office and sometimes in the doctor Z
grip. In both places, he said, it wa:
accessible, and the witness had on foul
or five occasions helped himself to tab
let's from that bottle.
Regarding the sores on DR.. Koch y
hands, DR.. Vogel said that one of them
either on third or fourth finger of thu
right hand, was there on Monday before
Gebhardt was killed. DR.. Vogel sale
that, in his opinion, there were NJ
scratches or scars covered by the burn
Scratch ITnder T,eft Eve
At the opening of court today W. P
Eckstein was cross-examined. He saie
that when he saw the defendant talking
to Einar Hoidale on the afternoon o.
Nov. 2 he looked at his clothes to ascer
tain whether orFfnot they looked a
tho water had been used to remove
stains, but noticed nothing.
DR.. Eckstein said that when he say
the defendant on the afternoon Of Nov
2 there was a small scratch about tw
inches long under DR.. Koch g left eye.
!. -. Koch Annoys His Counsel.
DR.. Koch's frank. declaration yeste1
day that Chief of Polics Klause had lie
when he said that Ida Koch had ad
.mitted that the bloody hand kerchie
| was Zone Of George 81 was annoying
, to his counsel. a. II a
, On the day Chief Klause made tina
t statement, Senator Somerville was aske
} what the defendant said about. the tes
timony. He said that the defense, o
/ course, denied the statement attribute
t to Miss Koch, but that the defendan
: would make no statement, his counse
| having advised him to say nothing ez
| cept thru them. =
When Chief Klause read the Koch II
? terview, which predicted a sepsations
: scene when the defendant and he me-
, he laughed heartily. =. =,
, The state still maintains that Sheri1
, julius, who was with Chief Klaus
when the handkerchiefs at the Koc
home were inspected, will give test
mony that will amply corroborate tn
testimony of Chief Klause. !,
day with his brother, Henry, and 81:
ter. Emma. He is dentist at Blac
Rirer Falls. WIS.