The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-06-02
II Amounted to More Than One
Th0uss nd Dollars.
Given Authority to Employ Ad-
ditionaI Legal Talent.
Also Detective Service Will Be
Brought to Play.


Attorney General H. w. Childs of ST.
Paul, who is the principal states at
torney in the DIR. Koch murder case,
appeared before the board of county
commissioners late yesterday afternoon
and presented his bill for fees and ex-
penses incurred by him in the first trial
1t amounted to $l,2O5.l5 and was al
lowed without discussion.
Attorney Childs then informed the
commissioners that the third trial would
be held at Mankato beginning on July
6, and that it was his desire to have
two assistants; one of them to be Coun-
ty Attorney S. B. Wilson of Mankato,
who was associated with him at the last
trial. He did not mention who the
. othero assistant was to be, but it likely
will be an attorney from Mankato, as
Attorney Albert Pfaender is under
stood to have decided not to appear in
the case again.
Mr.. Childs represented to the board
that the state had been hampered at
the last trial, the defense having six at
torneys and the state only three. He
informed the board also that it would
be necessary to employ detective SER
vice in order to ferret out details of ad-
ditional evidence which he said the state
had in its possession. The board agreed
to all the requests made.
Defense Gets New Evidence.
The defense in the Koch case has de-
veloped some new evidence that will
be important at the third trial A. +.
Clark this morning received one of
Parke, Davis & Co.'S blue boxes, a lit
tie smaller than the one that the poison
bottle was received in, but which is
one of the special order mailed last
fall. The box is one that was adj
dressed to 81. F. Foote, Nj. d., COS Ma
sonic Temple, City," in typewriting. 1t
is noticeable that the letter sc" is
slightly out of alignment, falling be-
low the others to a perceptible de-
gree. This was the case with the ad-
dress on the box received bv DIR. Geb-
hard. The color of the ribbon used is
different from that used on the box
sent to DIR. Gerhard
1t will be remembered that the lady
who sent out the boxes testified that
the addresses where dentaIene was sent
were written with pen and ink. This
box, being sent to a physician, could
not have contained dentalene.
The attorneys for the defense say
that they have received letters from
four or five doctors saying that they
had received similar boxes with tvpe-
written addresses. DR.. Foote will be
subpoened as a witness for the defense.
The Rose Case
General Childs having referred to the
case of Rose, who was convicted of muir
der at Redwood Falls on the third trial
on circumstantial evidence, and hang
ed, several years ago, A. E. Clark re-
calls something about the case, his home
having formerly been at Redwood Falls
Said he today:
"Old man Lufkin was shot and killed
one night, as he sat i'm his house. His
soninlaw was with him, and claimed
that ne went to the window where the
bullet was said to have come through
and pressed his face against the glass
and to have seen man running away
Rose, who was a fine looking young
fellow, about twenty three years of age.
but whose parents were poor, had been
paying attention to Lufkin's daughter.
but her father was opposed to the
match. Rose had been out west and re-
turned shortly before the murder. the
son-in-law said that the person that he
saw running away resembled Rose.
''Rose was arrested and tried for muir.
der, there being some circumstances
that pointed toward him. On the first
two trials the jury disagreed. General
Childs was then an assistant of the at
torney general and he assisted County
Attorney Madigan in the prosecution of
the case. Madigan was subsequently,
himself the defendant in sensational
proceedings.
Between the trials rumors were start
ed and the papers were filled with them,
of how Rose had been wild and had
killed several men out west. Public
passion was infamed against him, and
the trials were piling up expenses for
the county. When the third trial was
had the son-in-law was much more pos
tive than at the previous trials tnat
the man whom he had seen was Rose.
and the latter was convicted, and SUBJ