New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10

DIR. Koch and no one else?"
Eyes, sir. No one else was suspect
ed?o
''You have spent money in this case,
have you not?'' -.
mo, sir, not beyond what subscrib-
ed for the citizens committee"
did you say in New Ulm that you
would like to see Koch hanging from
a telegraph pole placed across the chin
ney of your mill?"
"No, SIR"
"Any words to that eFect?"
mot telegraph pole"
ga flag pole?"
"No, | would not disgrace flag
pole by hanging such man upon it,
"This has been tn esprit in which
you have acted in this case through
out, it is not?''
''1f you call it that"
what did you say about liking to
see the defendant hanging?"
II said that I thought that he was
guilty and I would like to see him
hanging as high as my mill chimney
Gen. Cnilds, on redirect, asked Mr..
Silverson to explain how it was that
he signed the statement. Mr.. Silver
son replied that he considered the COM
mittee a 'white wash committee. He
had said to the other members of it
that they could not expect to learn any
thing at the home of Koch, as his
father, brothers and sisters would GER
tainly not say anything that would
help convict the young man. He did
not think the report would have any
effect, and had refused to sign it at
first, but finally did after the others
had done so. Messrs. Eckstein and
Hoffman were members of the county
board and the investigation was made
at the invitation of Will E. Koch.
DR.. Stricken Called.
DR.. O. G. Stricken was called. He
said that he and DR.. Koch have a
common consultation room, mis- offices
| being on one side and Dr. Koch's on the
| other. One window from DR.. Koch's
operating room and one from his lab.
oratory face the Krone building. I have
an instrument cabinet, to which Drs
Koch and Vogel also had keys. I had
a bottle with one-twentieth grain tab.
let's of sulphate of strychnine, in the
case. It was a prominent object tt
anybody looking into the case. I left
Aug. 30th for California and returned
Sept. 25tn, and left the bottle in the
cabinet. DR.. Koch had charge of the
office during my absence, and had the
keys and instructions to answer any
importane letters. The witness identi
fed the bottle that he had in his case
! When it was not in the case it wa:
in his surgical valise, which was KEEP
Immediately below or beside the surgi
cal case First saw this bottle aftel
the murder about Nov 10Th. Their,
were not then more than two or thre,
strychnine tablets in it. The last tim
[ had seen it before the murder tn
bottle contained from 80 to l20 to l3
tablets. [ have an indistlnct recollec
ton of having two bottles and pour
ing tn econtents of one into the othe
and throwing the empty one away.
sometimes took my valise to the 81
| Alexander hospital. No body was au
thorized to take strychnine from to
| bottle there without orders. Sister
Baramea was the only one at the hos
pital who was ever authorized to tax
tablets fro mthe bottle. Went ava
| Wednesday noon before the murder an
returned Thursday noon. First saw D.
Koch after the homicide Wednesday a
our offices. I told him That I had bee
t othe undertakers to see the body {
DR.. Gebhard, and that l hoped that W
would find out who the perpetrators {
this dastardly crime was. He made n
reply. Went to st. Paul, and got bac
Thursday noon. Saw Dr.. Koch aftt
!, my return form st. Paul He was ly
ing on a lounge in the laboratory.
asked him why anyone had suspicion {
him about the crime, and he said 'B.
cause was in the vicinity at the time
III said: "They say the person who con
mitted the crime must have ha
scratches on his hands. Show me yot
hands," He extended his hands, palm
upwards, for a few seconds, and pl
| them back into his pockets. discove
; ed two distinct scratches in his rigi
Z hand, and one less distinct. They we
mot deep. Two were practically pa
| allel, and the other was not The tW
were quite close, about one sixteenth
an inch apart. There was wound ;
the tip of one of the fingers, as thoue
a the skin was oouped out, about I'll