The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18

not nave FURNISHED him another pencil
u order to destroy the tremendous
force attaching to the fnsding, Of this
pencil IN Dr.. Gebhard' q offce9 .ss
Resembled the Defendant.
= Here is q point, I.want you to bear
in mind u and not lay: aside for mo-
ment. The man whom the witness
Brooks saw thru the transom resembled
the defendant. Brooks himself had to
admit IT, And now approach q point
winch WHO IS perhaps theSmost impo rtant in
the whole case. d
nThe witness Brooks is perhaps one
ever appeared in a court Of Justice.
View his testimony from his actions,
and from the words that have fallen
from his lips and then judge for
yourselves whether it is true or false.
he said he was a dear friend of DR..
Gebhard:: He was in his office and
heard choking sounds upstairs. He
rushed out Of the Office and ran up-
stairs. Trying both sdoors, he finds
banister, he looks over the transom.
He sees some one bending over the body
OF a man PROSTATE on the floor and just
as he looks over the man looks up and
their eyes meet. It was the eyes that
attracted him. He says, T will never
forget the look Of those eyes, 4
=" Remember, gentlemen, Brooks was
the dear friend Of DR.. Gebhard. He
looks thru the transom into the murder
Why didn't he's Because he thought
he was doing something he ought not
ito do. Now he goes downstairs and
only thought it was a tooth being
pulled, he says. When he reaches
the foot of the stairs he meets Dr.. Vogel
and says, 1T seems to me there is q
murder going on. Take everything
together and what is this man s testi-
mony. worth when it comes to the
identity Of the man he sawa
Why gentlemen, he wouldn' It have
known his best friend under such cir
cumstances7 How long did Brooks stay
up there9 The fraction Of a. minute,
for when those eyes shot their CLEAN
into his he dropped as an OK would drop
from a blow. ~
I Family Alibi.
GIVE now come to the great question
in this case. That is, where was this de-
PENDANT at the time Of the murdera AS
have said, the testimany regarding this
all important fact rests entirely upon
| statements made by his father, his sister
and the boy ;Hippauf: The father says
George came home at 9:38, Ida was writ
4 ~
came in fifteen minutes later.
Emma Koch, who heard her brother
| come in, says she went to bed at $3.50.
What do you think of that's What do
you think of all these people being able
| to testify to the exact minute when this
defendant arrived homea "
Rabbit Story Absurd, ~
"Then we have the absurd rabbit
story. Why did he go, into the house
to shoot the rabbit Why didn't he
go to the shed and get his gun without
going into the house? Does it look rea-
sonable9 I submit this question to your
common sense that nothing of the kind
something by the evidence, for the de-
Tense, which completely skaters into
fragments this story of the alibi by a
person in that household who is not a
relative, young Hippauf, whom DR.. Koch
went down to let him see that he was
home at 10 o'clock. .r j:
e.]Now,I trapped his sister Ida fairly
She said, mo, nothing unusual abolt4it.
She said he had taken off, histShat. III
asked her particularly if She saw his
hair. Yes,~ she saw3it, butt Young Hip
paul says that when he came into his
For what did the defendant gosdown
! into that rooms If he is the man who
murdered Louis Gebhard he went down
there to show himself to the one person
in the house, who was not relative
Forceful Conclusion. z s..:
It was an impartial, forceful closing
which hushed the great audience in the
courtroom. "When life, or liberty, OF
fortune is at stake in court Of Justice
then is demanded the upright Judge and
the upright jury ' -.
With these words General Childs
I closed the state IS case. :.#