New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
Did you unlock the door?'

| Yes, sir.
did you go right into the center of
your office and turn on the ight?"
'.sYes, SIR
! did you think that the murderer
] was there then?''
| 81 didn't know
"You looked Immediately at your
window, didn't you?'
81 did,
Sand Immediately made the state
ment, ''That is where the murderer
gotta out 2"
81 made that statement"
ssHad there bee nanybody in your
office before your" =
i 81 don't know
"When you turned the light on, the
people who were in DR.. Gebhard's Of
fee the invent into your office for the
first time, didn't they?"
eyes, SIR
/ after you had told them THAT the
AiuAoOlCl Aau Soue aouC VI sCuo VIII
4 dow?'
"They could see that
4 Witness said that the hammer that
| was found was not DR.. Gebhard's. Had
been familiar with his tools for several
months. Mr.. Abbott asked the witness
whether, at the coroner's inquest the
i 4 81 -
day after the murder, he had not tes-
titled that DIR. Gerhard had an old
hammer and that he sawed off the han
die SO that he could pound cement in
a barrel, and that witness had COM
mented upon it and DR.. Gerhard said
that it was a good job. Witness ad-
mitted that he had stated that the
/, hammer found in the Gebhard Office
!, fafter the murder was the hamer. Wit
}, ness now said that DR.. Gerhard did not
E Ishave a hammer that looked old. He did
J. fnot have one tina twas old. Never saw
eilithis hammer in his office before his
r death. Witness now said that Dr..
) IGebhard did not have hammer with
the handle sawed off so as to pound
Ieement in a barrel, that he did pot
: laugh at the hammer because it was so
5 old, that DR.. Gerhard did not smile
E and said that he had done a good job
lDr. Reineke said that he was under
4 oath when he testified at the coroner's
j inquest, and that he had signed the
transcript of the evidence that he there
i gave. Did not say to Tony Weisnel
; that the hammer. was DIR. Gebhard's and
:, that he had sawed off the handle SO as
s to pound cement in BARREL and that
: there could be no mistake about it
e Witness had made statement to this
e effect to Mr.. Alvin the morning aftel
r the murder, in DR.. Gebhard's office. He
: then referred to the hamnier in evil
!. dence, which ne had see nthe wing b.
e fore. The telephon wire bcani&so slack
8 when the fastening TO- the building
e broke, that it sagged to ten or twelve
: feet from the ground. SO that a per
d son clinging to it would have had but {
e few feet to drop. If the person wht
$ went out had cut the other side of tn
! screen than that which he did he woilt
e have been several feet from the wire
i Cutting the screen nearest the wires
e h was only about q foot from thu
! wires.
e The recess was taken here.
(. Declares Klause Is a Liar.
It "Klause is liar, and some time
e am going to tell him SO to his face AM
'e he can swallow it or lump it as h
II pleases."
IS This is the statement made by d.
e Koch at the Saulpaugh on Saturday eve
a ming in the presence of several friends
1t His passionate remark was brough
lie out during discussion of Klaus'e state
lie lnent on the witness stand that Mis-
to Ida Koch had stated to the New Ul1
x, chief Of police that the handkerchief
I'd found in Gebhard's office was her broth
t. er's, and that she had marked it. D.
ae Koch allowed his temper to get tn
1t better of him, and several other fer
'e. remarks were made before he cease
to talking.
he Choief Klause, who returned fro
he New Ulm this morning, states that tt
NJ state has witnesses to support tn
elf testimony. Sheriff Julius was presel
ed and heard the statement. Chi
he Kualse states that he reported tt
OK statement to County Attorney Hoida
If and others officials just after it WI
id, made.
he
lly MINISTER BOWEN TO RETuRl