The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-05-19
KOCH JURY D|SAGREES|

Regarding the handkerchief, At
torney Brown said:
Il will ask the court to let you take
il and the other nandkerchiefs of DR..
Koch into the jury room to give them
a minute examination to see Wheth-
er or not the initials might not be e.
r. c. Sc. R. r. or C. r. X But if
they are g. r. X see no positive
fact in that circumstance"
Gen. Childs closed his argument for
the state shortly after l o'clock.
Mankato, Mimi, May l3.-The re-
buttal testimony in the t"ial of DIR.
George r. Koch, the alleged murderer
of DR.. GebharGt, now ic completed.
and Mr.. Childs of the state yesterday
afternoon began his final argument
for the prosecution. For two hours
Mr. Childs delivered an eloquent re-
sumo of the states case, and he VIII!
continue the argument at the opening
of court to-day.
Childs Closes for State.
MIR. Childs in his address said in
part:
There are many who will tell you
that it is entirely improper and un-
just to find man guilty of an awful
crime, such as this, upon circmstan-
tial evidence alone but / tell you that
circumStantial evidence, when such
an array of facts as we have present
ed to you are produced, is a thousand
fold more certain in its course than
direct evidence. If there is an eye
witness to crime, that eyewitness
may lie; that eyewitness may be
mistaken: that eyewitness may be
actuated by other things than an at
tempt to convict the guilty man, but
when one long, unbroken chain of Cir
cumstances points its finger of guilt
in one direction and only one, then
there can be no mistaking that is the
man who should be punished.
Should Be Atonement.
Therefore, gentlemen, when such
a heinous crime as the one we are
probing has been committed it should
bring with it quick and righteous pun
ishment: there should be an atone
ment for the outrage upon civiliza-
ton. If there is no reasonable doubt
in Your minds, you therefore should
find a verdict of conviction without
hesitation, and by reasonable doubt
is not meant foolish doubt | do not
suppose there ever existed any sup
position but had at least foolish
h1t
upon a reasonable foundation should
be put from your minds in summing
up this case"
Mr.. Childs here went into a graphic
description of the way the murder
was committed.
Agreement Reported.
Late yesterday afternoon, several
hours after Judge Cray had left his
chambers, a report came that one of
the deputies who is guarding the jury
stated that it had agreed, but was
waiting until to-day to deliver a yer-
dict because of the religious scruples
OF Juror Severson relative to sending
IN verdict on Sunday, but when the
deputy sheriff was questioned about
Or. Koch in Jail.
DR.. Koch, until 10 o'clock Saturday
night sat conversing with his friends
in cell in the visitors room in the
county Jail, where he had been taken
after the jury retired, and as he had
learned that the court would not re-
ceive verdict after 10 o'clock, he
then asked one of the Jail attendants
that he be allowed to retire.
Among the attorneys of the city,
and especially among those directly
interested in the outcome of the trial,
there has been much discussion re-
garding Judge Cray's charge to the
jury and on every hand are heard
! words of approval or praise for ths
judges position. The attorneys for
the prosecution and defense alike ex-
press themselves as gratified with the
instructions.