The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-05-12
KOCH TRIAL IS
NEAR the EMO
CASE WILL PROBABLY co TO
THE JURY BEFORE CLOSE
OF THG WEEK.
STATES NET is BADLY TORN
DEFENSE STRONGLY AssAiLs
MANY POINTS OF STATES
TESTiMONY.
STATES NET is BADLY TORN

Mankato. MINI. May 3.-In view OF
the evidence presented in the Koch
trial yesterday il IS doubtful if the
state viii be able TO prove conclusive
ly that the hammer found near the
murdered body OF Dr. Louis A. Geb-
hardt was the one owned by the
young dentist who is charged with the
crime
Heretofore. the evidence, with the
exception of that of Mrs kars. has
tended TO prove that the hammer was
one owned by the Koch family. but
DR. G. +. Renieke, whose office joined
DR. Gebhardt's admitted on the stand
yesterday that he identified the ham
mer at the coroner's inquest as one
belonging to DR.. Gebhardt He said:
First Said 1t Was Gebhardt's.
In my own mind had connected
the hammer found near the murdered
man with one had heard DR.. Geb-
hardt speak of long before this AS
Asa Brooks said that the hammer
found near the murdered man be-
longed to Dl. Gebhardts office. at
last came to the conclusion that he
was right and that it was Gebhardt's
hammer. Because of this conclusion
| told the coroner's jury the next
morning that the hammer, which was
then shown me, was a fixture of DR.
Gebhardt's office; that l had seen it
there before
But DR.. Renieke said. upon
closer consideration, / now say that
the hammer did not belong about the
office of DIR. Gebhardt, so far as l
know"
MankaTo, Mimi, May Al would
not disgrace flagpole by hanging
such man upon it, was the bitter
statement of Charles Silverson. may
or of New Ulm, while on the witness
stand yesterday afternoon, in refer
ence to DR. George r. Koch, the al
legged murderer of DIR. Louis Gebhardt
Silverson was called shortly after
the noon recess, and while his testi.
mony had no great bearing upon the
evidence deduced at the trial itself, it
showed the bitter feeling existing
among a certain faction in the little
city where the murder was commit
ted.
Beyond the testimony of Silverson
practically the whole day yesterday
was spent by the state in an attempt
to prove that DR. Koch was the one
who sent the bottle of poison to DR.
Gebhardt week before the murder
e. G. Hage, a Hanska banker, and
J. n. Thompson, station agent for the
Minneapolis e. ST. Louis road a,
Hanska, testified to seeing the mail
ing of a square box to Gebhardt a,
New Ulm the same day that DR.. Koch
moved from his branch office at Han
ska.
Mankato, Mimi, May 5.-The pros
ecution has rested in the Koch muir
der trial. Asa p Brooks, the New
Ulm newspaper man, who was the
only witness of the crime, was not
SoiiCu Wy llt Sldlt, anu JuuSc vi S
yesterday afternoon ordered that il
Brooks was to be called he must be
called by the defense. which accord
ingly will do SO. None of the sensa
tons that according to gossip, w6lilt
reveal the identity of the murderer
beyond reasonable doubt yet have
materiali2ed.
The memorandum book of DIR. Loui.
Gebhardt was introduced by the state
late yesterday afternoon but, con
trary to general expectation. its con
tents did not reveal a motive for thu
crime, or, so far as is yet known. the
whereabouts of any one who coult
throw light upon the murder.
Childs Closes.
After the testimony of Prof. Care
was taken. Gen. Childs. for the pros
ecution made his closing address to
the court.
Mankato, MINI. May 6-"The MAI
saw bending over the form of DR.
Gebhardt as gazed through the tran
som on the night of Nov. /, 1904-ths
night of the murder-was not the de
PENDANT, DR.. Koch"
Asa p Brooks, the New Ulm news
paper man, who is the only direct wit