The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-28

anu icit tHciC dC o. 20. l. W. UoyS III IHc
Review office saw and heard foot steps
at once 60 up the stairs, heard the door
open and the footsteps cross the operat
ing room. The state can account for
part of the time from to 9:2O, but
not for all of it. The defendant claims
that ne started for home, but remem-
bered that he had left the light burning
in his office and went back to put it
out. The state win prove to certain
ty that this was fabrication. 1t viii
prove by witness who cannot be i'm
peached that the defendant between 0
and $3.50 went to his office, turned on
the light, went to the corner where the
hammer was kept, and put up his arm
as if to take the manner down, and then
reach mp and put out the light. This
was on her back porch, looking toward
the office.
When Koch came down onto the
street, ne was seen by boy crossing
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 a mortal enemity toward
DIR. Gerhard. 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
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. 1t also relates to
the testimony of the young woman
who claims to have seen DIR. Koch enter
mis- office shortly before the murder and
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
after the murder, along pri
vate path frequently used by the Koch
family, as she is 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 for
the defense, when asked by Free
Press reporter last evening what he
thought of the states new evidence re-
piled: "The whole city of New
Ulm was interested in any light that
could be thrown on the case, and it
is strange that Mrs. Dahm should allow
three or four months to pass before she
would tell of so important thing as
this. Why did she not tell of it at
once? She never noticed her dogs bark
ing or that somebody was running un-
til months afterwards.
Gas to the girl who is to testify that
she saw DIR. Koch enter his office and
take something down, she was employ
ed as domestic in the family of
member of the citizens committee. This
man was for four months securing the
city of New Ulm for evidence against
DIR. Koch. 1t is very peculiar that he
did not learn of this bit of news in his
own family until after the first trial
of the case
Regarding the story now told by the
washerwoman; she was taken to the po-
lice station shortly after the murder
and shown the hammer that was found
in DIR. Gebhard's office, and she then
declared that she had never seen it be-
bore.
"The state has abandoned its cream
cry theory and its hat story, and has
selected an entirely different route for
Koch to go home. At the New Ulm