The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21

he did not think it strange when he
saw the doctor, behind the counter. Mr..
Fredeficks was still on the stand when
the noon recess was taken.
gagged III the milling business, is attend
Ing the trial. He is brother Of the
defendant.
It is expected that the state will
conclude it's case tomorrow.
The Bloodstained Hammer Clue.
Late yesterday afternoon the state at
tempted to prove that the bloodstained
hammer found near DR.. Gebhardt Is body
the walls Of DR.. Koch g laboratory.
Mrs: Catherine Kasz gave tho most
sensational evidence, and reversed that
which she gave at the last trial. At
that time she was expected to identify
the hammer in evidence as the one that
office three weeks before the murder,
but at the critical moment she declared
that it was not the hammer. AS soon
as she left the stand she declared that
the reason why she had failed to iden-
tify it was because of, the paper label
placed upon the handle by. the court re-
Yesterday she identified the hammer
and. greatly strengthened the state g
chain of circumstantial evidence.
Mrs. Kasz does washing and scrub
bing. and for two years prior to the
murder had cared for the defendant s
office. Three. weeks before the murder
old hammer, with its broken claw, bat
tered face and homemade handle, to
remove the cleats from one Of them. It
was hanging upon the wall in the labor
atory. r E@.l
The witness identified the hammer in
n L -
wall; except that it. then did not have
the label on. She showed how she was
able to use it, even with one claw partly
broken off. She said that three weeks
after the murder she again cleaned DR..
Koch!'s office, and looked for the ham
mer but it was gone, altho she could
see on, the wall where it had hung. A
had been cleaned. She tried to get into
the office the first and second weeks
after the murder, but it was locked.
Senator Somerville conducted a
searching cross examination, but Mrs.
Kasz clu9g tenaciousl Y to her state
trial she was a witness for the state;
had said that it was not the one she had
seen in DR.. Koch's office. She ex-
planned that the band Of paper encir-
cling part Of the handle had misled her.
senator SOmerv1lle read from the rec
ord Of the last trial, quoting General
Ghild,s c9lloquy with the witness;
have removed the label,'' and the wit
ness replied; "'No, that is not the
hamer. ~ =
Mrs. Kasz declared that General
Childs did not take off the label. The
attorneys then got into dispute, those
for the state Indignantly denying that
General Childs had removed the label,
and pronounced the record incorrect.
and those for the defense asserting
strongly that he did remove it and that
the record was correct.
Dingler Identifies Hammer.
To trace the hammer Edgar .Dingler,
young teamster, was called, and said
that in October, 1908, he had seen the
hammer in, evidence ! ying on the win
| dow sill in E. G.. Koch IS barn and had
seen Mr.. Koch use it. The following
summer he had seen it. Choss- examine
he admitted that when shown the ham
mer soon after the murder he had failed
to identify it, but said that he did that
because he did not want to get mixed
up in the case. When his father told
him to tell what he knew he had iden-
| titled the hammer.