The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-04-27
JURORS SECURED
FOR KOCH TRIAL
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Last Man Has Been Obtained 10
Complete the Panel in
Mankato Case,
MUCH SENSATIONAL TALK
All Sorts of Evidence is Said to Be
Developing, Most of 1t Probably
Being the Purest Fiction
CT Imagination
MUCH SENSATIONAL TALK

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Attorney General Nhllds, couisel i"'
the state in the case against Or. Georgi
!, Koch for the murder of Dr.. Geb
~. =, hie ,na,,;,o address Ia In,
t"''">' :" - 'fN'''
t-EN I"iS "tSS'i''!' ~
tirelN new points OF eFlGeHS0' WHICH
he says, the state VIII introduce PROV
ing. MS he declares, beyond any cues
ton II a the young ueh'lSt Is sul''s
First. there is to be the testimony ol
a young man who mas ANed IN l>oc1
home tor SIN winters. re VIII poSitlNe'
~ identity the hammer found pv ms
murdered dentists sac as d hahiinel
thar ha0 been IN the hoch nome iol
many years. IL Is a hammer OF pecellai
appearance, and could nave no oupllcate,
He will say this hammer disappeared
from the home a few weeks pelofe lne
murder. Then Mrs. Mas a Sefup Wolii-
an, viii tell OF having seen ana usea
the hammer while cleaning koch.s Of
nee gust before lhe lhufdef. me nam
mer, she says, hunS near an on stove
the smoke from Whlch mace us outline
on the wall. This smoke a neen
rubbed off When she NEXT cieaNeo the
once Just a1ter lle lhuroeI.
In the hrst trial l>och CANNED that
While going nome he remembered 1hat
the light III his office wa sun on, ana
he returned TO eNtingulsh 1t. NOW the
state says Lena Nledeln2n, houSekeeP-
er for the Crone family, living about
forty feet to one side of hoch's office,
will TESTIFY that While tandlng on the
rear porch on the night Of the murder
she saw Koch enter his Office, which
was dark. turn on an electric light, take
a ammer from the nail on which it
hung. place 1t in his pocket, eXtlngulsh
the light n leave the building.
Further, General Chiids said, Mrs.
Dahan, who lives near koch's and at
.lle turn OF the ROAD where persons go
tls . rie hoo o iloiis psss 1aiousi d
$50 sIiu "rlosa d 10Y. Wouio tes,liS
Ihat on the evening OF me hiu[oer d
young nan ran sWlllly past her mousse;
Iushea hroush me gate ana on loWafa
i>ocn $ Mhile her hogs pursued hlln'
barking fercely.
Next morning, she viii declare, she
loulu plood on the gate posi- winch
the man must nave grasped in passing
h new evidence with the strength
enlnS of several points made by the
state previously, the state says, Will
surely convict the young defendant.
Koch heard the Whole address, With
all the implications against him with
out a sign of remorse. The brother
and sister of the murdered man, who
We're in court, cried throughout.
The last juror Was secured yesterday
afternoon. he is the exact. age or the
ueAeiiuailt' 20 ana me youngest man
oii Tue July. ne IS a larhler.
me taking OF testimony VIII begin
TO-DAY
"A sensauon was created today When
u was that county Attorney
wilson mas been directed by a farmer
TO a man VINO, he says, saw the muir
deEer OIL Gebhardt drop from the Win
COW OIL MS once after the homicide
was done. Wilson is looking for him.
No Proof as to Woman.
Regarding he renort tha+ a woman
NAV acolit Tr Koch ! iawver a sec
cited with the defense said this morn
ing.
1--WE are morally certain that +bere
is a woman in the case but We viii not
bring her into it because we lack nronf
IF nroof were oh1oinab1o NO carta M.
Void pLgo nre mert = fnr we Germany s
doubtless acouit.
"This story of a woman in tbe case
is an old. old one II wac horn hefors
the last trial, springing probably from
an application of the old saw that there
is a woman at the bottom of every
thing. Had We had the matter in pre-
sentable form, it would nave been
brought out at the last trial. But we
did not, and have not now, SO it is
merely conjectural."
An Important Exhibit.
The s1,it of clotbas wbich cao,no
Koch wore an +ba ,,;ar+ af ny
Of DR. I'd will he &C ~ ~ Luz
imnortant aybibits oF t,,a aa g y , n.
IS in the cnstodu IF c,a irI a trhens ms
court toeetber wifi tba n,lutia % me
fha hoy psbinb oonto ~ nalillilel and
All other avhihits |ih,iieebh .ne polsoil ana
ed At Tho 5rst ~ = Thioii "eIe present
The defans a,s :
r,,rderar VS. r nodissll.lon IS tlat the
niu5. hscessafils nave peen
: 1n,ost 81 : W. pio9u ana ms clothes
shaW +t satu ~ y vii endeaVor TO
s1Iit aa Ia IL. fsoe5l wore me same
f - wv .oMii early onthe lornlng
Inc lnurdef ana that this suit
~ y saile one Whlch ne mad on
H,,,a dnfaaa neiolg.
NOW on tbis nn nanteves .na1 us testl-
ai,uliy ot ,atliS pollt calnot pc refuted,
Koch could have con caro, nGilese wa. u,
where so much blood was snil1ed S.;tte
out there being some evidence Of + IN
the soiling of his clothes.
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