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CLIMAX IN DEBATE
OF RA TE QUESTION
BLOCKED,DECLARE
SENATE AND ROADS
Deadlock Is Approaching in Rate
Question, Is View of Presi-v
dent's Opponents.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, May 11.A deadlock be
tween the executive and legislative
branches of the government over the
question of the railroad rate-making
power is approaching.
The president and Secretary Taft
have declared themselves in' favor of
giving power to make rates to a federal
commission, while it is everywhere ad
mitted that the railroads will never con
tent to such a proposition, and that,
thru their hold on the senate, they will
be able effectually to block the presi
dent's program. That would mean no
legislation at all, but for the fact that
railroads are willing to accept laws
Which will lestram the private car com
panies, terminal railways, etc.
Compromise Legislation.
It is Wow predicted that if there is
any legislation at all next session, it
^Will be along this compromise line. The
railways claim that such legislation,
added to the Elkms antirebate laws,
i will meet every demand which the pub
ilic can properly make, and on that
'statement they will stand and fight to
'the last ditch.
The lack of definite information' re
garding complexities of the railroad
question has led to much popular confu
eion, and this confusion will increase
until the campaign of education has had
time to make itself felt. Here is the
most highly specialized industry of mod
ern times, and the jfeneral public, with
out proper and sufficient knowledge, is
endeavoring to pass judgment upon it,
just as it would pass judgment upon the
merits of a murder case, where all the
tfacts are on the surface and easily un
derstood.
Like the Silver Situation.
This was the situation during the
early stages of the discussion of free
'silver, and it was not until after that
[question had been' up for several years
'that public sentiment finally crystallized
in favor of the republican position.
The campaign ot education must do
its work in this case as it did in that,
and meanwhile there will be confusion,
'and an inability to dovetail the public
ideman'ds into any reasonable legislative
bill.
As an evidence of this confusion, take
the Esch-Townsend bill. The presi
dent and Secretary Taft favor it, for
they say it will confer upon a federal
'commission the general rate-making
power. E. P. Bacon, spokesman for
the shippers, who has done more than
any other man the country to focus
public sentiment on the railroad situa-
tion, says the shippers do not want to
clothe any federal commission with the
.'rate-making power. He favors the
Esch-Townsencl bill, however, but says
that it does not confer such power.
How Will Public Decide?
Now, how will the general public
decide as between the president and
Mr. Bacon, both of whom want the
legislation? The railway ^managers
agree with the president that the bill
would confer the rate-jnaking power
on the government, and so they op
pose it. The senate, which is t(nder
railway influence, will take this view
of the case, and will defeat the bill.
This will throw the president and Mr.
Bacon upon the compromise proposition
embodying private carline regulation,
regulation of terminals and vigorous
suppression of all rebates.
Shippers from all parts of the coun
try, among them a number from Minne
apolis and St. Paul, have appeared be
fore the senate committee in opposition
to any proposition to give the govern
ment the power to make rates. This
testimony strengthens the railway prop
osition, and will give the senate a
further excuse for refusing to comply
with the president's recommendation.
Deadlock Is Certain.
This deadlock is as certain to come
as congress is to meet, and that this
fact might as well be faced now as
later on is the prevailing Washington
opinion. The moment the president
raises the issue of giving the govern
ment the general rate-making power,
the experience of European countries
will be pertinent to the discussion, and
Jiere, too, the senate will find an^ ex
cuse for failing to do as the- president
requests, for the experience of France
and Germany, as pointed out by ex
perts, has been of a character to sug
gest the exercise of great caution by
the United States.
Senate Against President.
So far as the work of the senate com
mittee is concerned, it has thus far
been against the piesident's position.
The railway men delight to liken his
vacation or a month, the wilds of
the southwest, to a Rip Van Winkle's
sleep of twentv years. Sentiment, they
sav, has changed during his absence,
and he has not yet had time to adjust
himself to the change.
Some of them go so far as to hold
that he will not recommend the Esch
Townsend bill to congress. But this is
perhaps an extreme view, in the light
pf his speech at Denver and again at
I'hicago last night. 1
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LIGHTNING STARTS FIRES.
Special to The Journal.
Caledonia, Minn., May 51.A severe
electrical storm passed over this \illage
at 11:30 last night, lightning striking the
residence and barn, of Hundt and set
ting both on fire. The blaze was extin
guished by the fire department before
much damage was done The new resi
dence of R. D. Sprague was struck, but
the damage was small.
New Elevator to Women's Floor
At the Plymouth Corner entrance.
ZARGAIN
& FR/DA
Babies' bla-k kid soft sole laoe Shoes,
sizes 1 to 4 regular price 35c A A
Bargain Friday vll
Ladies' black serge House Slippers, leath
er soles, oommonsense toes and heels
sizes 3 to 8 Hj
Bargain Friday I
A mixed lot of Little Gents' $1.25 and
$1.48 Shoes, some are of bright kanga
roo kid and some axe patent leather in
lot are sizes 9 to 13% to
close Bargain Friday at pair 69c
Home Trade'
Shoe Store
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ROOSEVELT, THRU
TAET,WARNS ROADS
President's Stand on Rate Ques
tion Shown Up by Secretary
Morton Rebuked.
New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, May 11.The speech
which Secretary Taft made to the del'
egates of the international railway
congress last night has been the sensa
tion of the day, not only among the
railroad men themselves, but among all
classes of Washington life. There is
reason why it should have attracted so
much attention.
It was inspired, if not ordered, by
no less a person than President Roose
velt himself. It was ordered for a dis
tinct purposeto correct an impression
created among the railroad men by a
speech made oy Secretary Morton on
Mav 3 to the members of the Ameri
can Railway Guild. That impression
is that the president has weakened on
the rate-regulation proposition, or at
least is willing to change his policy
with respect thereto.
Eeal Purpose of President.
The impression created by the ad
dress of the secretary of the navy and
the clear declarations of the secretary
of war contradict each other so directly
that there can be no doubt as to the
purpose of the president in having the
secretary of war engage in an im
promptu debate with Stuyvesant Fish,
the head of the American section of
the railway congress, right in the pres
ence of the men who have most to do
with the practical operation of the rail
roads.
The president meant, in the vernacu
lar, to "throw down" his secretary of
the navy, and to do it in such a way
as to make the public understand that
the views expressed by Mr. Morton on
railroad rates are not the views of the
administration, nor of the most promi
nent man it, especially the president
and William Howard Taft, believed to
be the administration residuary legatee
for 1908.
Brought on His Own Head.
It was not intended to make the
warning to the railroads so strong as
it was, but Mr. Fish brought it down
upon the head of himself and the other
railroad men by making reply to the
gentle stricture of the secretary of
war at a time when Mr. Taft said he
had no idea of engaging in a debate
on the subject.
A good many railroad men today
criticized Mr. Fish for talcing the sec
retary to task and giving him the op
portunity of making his observations
so specific and so plain that the atten
tion of the country would necessarily
be attracted to the engagement. They
believe that in doing that he played
into the hands of the president.
More Determined than Ever.
Coming so soon after the speech of
the president at Denver, Secretary
Taft's utterances are taken to mean
that the president is more determined
than ever on the rate-regulation propo
sition. It confirms the impression cre
ated by the Denver address, that .the
president will assume personal charge
of the subiect and undertake to make
members or congress, both senators and
representatives favoring rate regula
tion, follow his lead to the end that
there will be no divided councils when
the struggle comes with tlie republican
senators who are opposed to railroad
rate regulation.
The address by Secretary Morton has
been referred to in every railroad paper
in the country as evidence of a weak
ening by the rate-regulation advocates,
and credence has been given the asser
tion that the president himself is will
ing to listen to compromises that will
render nugatory anything that may be
placed on the statute books.
Thursday Evening, ^^X^v* ***niiB**'
Reason for Taft's Remarks.
That is why Secretary Taft made his
remarks so pointed and so emphatic,
his remarks amounting practically to
a threat to carry the fight so far "that
the railroads will be glad to cry for
mercy.
There is no question in the minds
of government officials here but that
Secretary Morton's tenure of office
has been greatly shortened by the in
cident growing out of his address. The
rate question will be the most impor
tant with which the administration will
nave to deal from this time forward.
He will not be able to help the presi
dent and his presence in the cabinet
will certainly be embarrassing for both
of them.
Fairbanks Uncomfortable.
One of the most interested, if not
most uncomfortable listeners to the
debate between Messrs. Taft and Fish
waa Vice President Fairbanks. He was
sitting between them. His face as
sumed a startled look when his Ohio
neighbor and presumptive rival for the
presidential nomination began talking
on the rate question. He looked still
more pained when Mr. Fish began an
swering the secretary of war, and when
Taft leaned over to ask Fish if he could
have fifteen minutes to reply, the vice
president looked alarmed. As quietly
as he could he rose from the table and
went out of the room, and this he did,
altho he was on the list of those who
were to speak.
REBUKE TO PAUL MORTON
PASSENGER TRAIN
HITS POWDER CAR
Continued from First Page.
to the home of the family of Mr. Mc
Naughton at Steelton. Mr. Tindell
telephoned to Governor Pennypacker
their condition' and the governor imme
diately sent for Private Secretary
Wharton and directed that he take care
of them. Mr. Wharton took a cab to
Steelton, and brought the Tindells to
the executive mansion, where they -were
cared for by a physician.
Masonic Emblem on Victim.
A reporter at the wreck found on the
coat of a dead man, who was so badly
burned that his features were obliter
ated, a Mason'ic emblem, bearing the
following inscription: "Pafitmaster
Jacob F. Silverman, presented December
21J-by
President Wired Taft to State Admin
istration Policies.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, May 11.Some inter
esting disclosures were made today, ex
plaining the Morton speech before the
international railway congress and the,
subsequent utterances of Secretary back of the ear and suffered much from
Taft and the president. It seems that shock, and was wounded in the left
the Morton deliverance was wired to
the president, who was then in Colo
rado, starting for Washington. It did
not meet his approval, and so he wired
Secretary Taft, who, he knew, was to
address the railway congress, to say
something in his address which would
correctly express the administration
policy. This Taft did.
Not content with this, however, the
president himself took the subject up
at the Denver banquet and restated his
position "last night in Chicago in an
nouncing his thoro approval of what
Taft said and of the opinion which
Attorney General Moody sent to the
senate committee about a week ago.
This leaves Secretary Morton outside
the breastworks, and it is believed that
he and the president will have a con
ference of no slight importance, in
which Morton will be given to under
stand that as long as he remains in
the cabinet he must, outwardly at
least, be loyal to administration pol
icies.
It is generally believed here that the
president is displeased with Morton's
latest performance. At the same "time
Morton, speaking privately today, in
sists that there is no real conflict be
tween his position and that of Taft
He agrees with Taft, he says, and
naively asserts that Taft said only
what he might have said had he
thought about it in time. Evidently,
however, this is not the president'sjing
I opinion. :*teUr.'
Shekinab lodge." On the
man's clothing was found the name of a
tailoring firm in Bridgeton, N. J.
Superintendent W. B. McCaleb, of
the Philadelphia division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, wlio was seen by a re
porter at 6 o'clock this morning, said:
I do not know how many are dead.
We have not been able to identify posi
tively any of the dead with the excep
tion of Mrs. Robert Dougherty of Phil
adelphia.
Harrowing Circumstances.
Mrs. Ddugherty's deasth was fraught
with harrowing circumstances. Her
corpse was the first to be recovered, as
she was hurled away from the debris
instead of into it, and her body was not
burned. Oh the train werevher
husband
and their little boy, not yet in his teens.
They hunted for a long time in the
dark with terrible forebodings, until
they were horrified to find that the loved
mother and wife was dead.
Deaths After the Wreck.
Victor L. Crabbe of Pittsburg, son
in-law of Bobert Pitcairn, Pittsburg,
assistant to President Cassatt of the
Pennsylvania road, died at noon at Har
risburg hospital.
H. S. Watson of Clearfield, Pa., and
J. B. Phillips of Pittsburg died at
noon.
Among those who got out without
injury were Mrs. Albert J. Barr, wife
of the editor of the Pittsburg Post,
and her two daughters, who were on
their way to Pittsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Tindell of Pittsburg,
the latter the daughter of United States
Senator Knox, were slightly injured
by flying glass. They walked to Steel
ton, where they called up Governor
Pennypacker by telephone and ex
plained their condition. The governor
immediately had them taken to the ex
ecutive mansion, where they were fur
nished with clothing and medical at
tention.
A. A. Crane Injured.
Among those treated at the Harris
burg hospital was A. A. Crane of Min
neapolis, who was cut about the face.
Many injured persons who had waited
for some time their turn to receive
treatment when they saw persons in
worse plights than theirs, resigrl^d
their plaees and went out into the cor
ridor again to receive treatment later.
A Pittsburg man named Williams,
who had bound up his own injuries
which consisted of burns of both hands
and feet, left the dispensary for others
and while standing in the'hall fainted
irom exhaustion.
a Thrown into Jsle, Dafced.
"The first intimation I had of the
wreck," said John B. Reynolds of Pitts
burg, a newspaper man who was going
home, from New or&, and escaped with'
slight injuries, "was when I heard an
awful crash and was thrown out into the
aisle of the car. I was dazed for a
little time and only realized my posi
tion and what had happened when I
felt a woman grabbing me and scream
ing 'For God's sake help me.' I pushed
her out of the window and a fellow-pas
senger handed out a child which be
longed to her. He then left the train
and called to me to jump thru the win
dow.
Just then there was a terrific explo
sion. As I dropped to the ground a
missile struck and knocked me down.
I don't know how long I lay there, but
when I recovered my sense's I crawled
across the tracks under a freight train
and rolled down the embankment on
the other side. I was in my night
clothes and all my other clothing and
belongings were lost.
Sight Following Collision.
I never want to witness such a
sight as that which followed the col
lision. Women were screaming, chil
dren were crying, and strong men were
wandering about dazed and helpless. The
tracks were strewn in all directions with
half-naked men and women, some of
whom were dead and others seriously
injured.
"On this same train was Sam Shu
bert, the well-known theatrical man, and
Abe Thalheimer, one of Mr. Shubert's
agents. They were accompanied by
Samuel Kline, a New York lawyer, and
were on their way to Pittsburg to close
a deal for the lease of a theater. Mr.
Shubert was slightly burned and was
taken to a hotel with scarcely any
clothing. Mr. Thalheimer was cut
about the face and head. Mr. Kline is
missing.
"The millhanda working near the
scene of the accident were quick to re
spond to the cries of the injured, and
carried some of them to their homes in
that locality and fitted some of them
out with shoes and clothing."
Wakened by Awful Roar.
Harvey Feldman and wife, Franklin,
Pa., were in the drawingroom of one
of the sleepers on their way home from
New York.
"We were sleeping soundly,'' said
Mr. Feldman, when there was a slight
explosion that partly awoke us. This
was followed by the most awful roar 1
ever heard and in an instant we were
dashed against the side of the car. We
groped around in the dark and finally
got out of the window, losing every
thing. We made our way to a place of
safety. Mrs. Feldman
wa,
badly cut
breast. But I will be fixed up all right
It is my wife I fear for now. We had
to walk over the sharp cinders and our
bare feet were badly cut."
MINNEAPOLIS MAN HURT*
A. A. Crane Bruised but Able to Pro
ceed on His Way.
A. A. Crane, cashier of the* National
Bank of Commerce, was badly bruised
in the wreck this morning on the Penn
sylvania road near Harrisburg. He wa^
able to proceed with his journey. Mrs
Crane had been attending the meeting
of the executive council of the Ameri
can Bankers' association, and was trav
eling from Philadelphia tp Pittsburg.
He will return to Minneapolis Sunday
morning. 5
BELTRAMI INQUIRY CLOSES
Commissioners Spend the Last Day in
Bevising the Record.
Special to The Journal.
Bemidji, Minn., May 11,The com
mission which has been investigating
the official affairs of Beltrami' county
finished its labors this afternoon. No
testimony was taken today, the time W
devoted to revising tie record of
the testimony taken.
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B. WILSON,
County Attorney of Blue, Earth County,
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BIG PACKERS SAIL
FOR TOUR OF EUROPE
New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, May 11.Three chiefs of the
Sfew
acking industry in.Chicago sailed from
York for Europe on the steamer
Ocean today. Those- who sailed were
J. Ogden Armour and wife, Edward
Morris, his wife and their two daugh
ters, Ruth Mae and Muriel, and Masters
Nelson S. and Edward Morris, Jr., and
Edward F. Swift. News from New York
is that Mr. Swiffs name was not on
the passenger list, but it was learned
that Mr. Swift left Chicago a week
ago, intending to Sail for the other side.
The Armours will be abroad aboutf six
weeks.
Mr. Armour's plans for this vaca
tion trip have been made for six
months," says Arthur Meeker. "He
goes to Europe every season at this
EQUITABLE CLERKS
ACCUSED OF FRAUD
New York, May 11.Emil H. Nue
mier, a clerk employed by the Equitable
Life Assurance society, and Thomas
Lobley, Jr., who lives in this city, have
been arrested charged with complicity
with Samuel Lobley, who was taken
into custody at SpragiJevilte, Pa., a few
days ago charged with fraudlently ob
taining a $27,000 loan on a policy which
is alleged to have been stolen from the
society's vaults.
SWEDES PLAN EXPORT
DUTY ON IRON ORE
Stockholm, May 11.^Parliament de
bated yesterday the proposal to create
an export duty of 27 cents a ton on iron
ore. In the first ehamber the prop-^
osition was rejected by a vote of 63 txT
61, while in the second chamber it was
approved by a vote Df 124 to 86. The
motion will, therefoiej be^eferjeed to -a
joint sitting of th&.jTg^h||.mb%s: ^jt
IOWA A. O. 7. W ELECTS
New Officers of Grand Lotigfe"' and Its
Auxiliary.-..
Special to The Journal.
Codar Rapids Iowa, May IL-^-The
grand lodge of Iowa, A. O. U. W elect'
ed the following officers:
Grand master, E. B. Evans^ Des
LMoines foreman, J. Wilby, Waterloo
rccevier, Henry Michelstetter, Sioux
City overseer, Larry Southard, Shen
andoah guide, G. A: Pitts, Ottumwa
inside watchman, W. S. Quelle, Daven
port outside watchman, Adam Carlyle,
Audubon recorder, Bf F. Rehkopf, Des
Moines trustees, C. P. Van Cise, Mount
Pleasant, C. C. Bosworth, Tingley su-
Ees
reme representatives, B. F. Carroll,
Moines W. M. Berry, Indianola, R.
L. Tolton, Des Moines, L. L. Hamlin,
Des Moines.
The auxiliairy body, the Degree of
Honor, re-elected Mrs Carrie Morcombe
of this city, grand chief of honor, Mrs.
Iona Shryock of Burlington, grand re
corder, an'd Mrs. .Moilie Deetz*"of Des
Moines, grand receiver.
Joseph oTmlinson, many years ago
famous as a bridge designer and build
er, died yesterday afternoon, while
working in his garden. He was 89 and
death was caused by apoplexy.
AIR BLASTSltESUME
Mine Phenomenon in Upper Michigan
Peninsula Causes a Death.
Special to The Journal.
Calumet, Mich., May 11.An air blast
in shaft of the Atlantic mine at the
thirty-third level shook down loose rock
and killed John Karki aged 20, and
severely injured Matt Wayenen, both
trammers. The blast was plainly felt
thruout the entire workings and shook
houses on the surface within two miles.
TELLS OF A BRUTAL MURDER.
Special tQ The Journal.
Vancouver, May 11 John Jack
son gave himself up to the police here
today, saying that on Dec. 22, 1903, he
murdered a Polish Jewess in London
named Dora Tiernick. He cut her throat
With a razor at her house, 115 Whitfield
street, of Tottenham road. He says he re
mained in London for weeks, taut the po
lice never came near him He has been
examined by experts and pronounced sane.
The police are cabling London.
MODEL YOUNG MAN AS THIEF.
Kansas City, Mo., May 11 C. Leslie
Stockwell, mail teller of the New England
National bank, who doesn't gamble, drink
or even smoke, has confessed to having
stolen |1.700 from the bank,-and had de
posited the money to his own credit in
three Other ba'nks. None* of the money
had been spent, and then, within an hour
after his confession, Stockwell gave checks
for the full amount and was behind the
PLAYING TAG ^WITM SURE DEATH
St. Louis Star.
It may be that thPchampionshi In the
pending naval battle between Russia ami
Japan may not hfnge upon the men be
hina, the guns. The-fllows down before
the furnaces* and in charge of the engines
may have something to do with it
THE DOING OF RUSSIAJ
Detroit Journal.
Mr. Schwab won't discuss-the terihg of
his contracts for a new Russian" navy. It
is recalled that Me affd refused to be
interviewed about that United States
Shipbuilding companv.
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Pilfer St Louis Star. Wtftek.
Only a few weeks since President Roose
"veltr passed ttfisu Wexas^ftrid riWr the tor
nadoes are engaged in leari^fcup thinga
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BOTH SIDES REST
IN THE KOCH CASE
Continued from First Page.
was put on the stand. When he had
finished his testimony for the defense,
General Childs said, "No cross-exami
nation." Then the defense rested.
Wilson Begins His Address.
Mr. Wilson began his address to the
jury at once.
A neighbor of E. G. Koch, father of
the defendant,' testified today that he
told him soon aiter the murder that
his son returned home at 10 o'clock on
that night. This Mr. Koch had posi
tively denied on the stand.
The stated then called several wit
nesses who said that Asa P. Brooks
had told them or had said within then
hearing soon after the homicide that
he was uncertain whether or not Dr.
Koch was the man he saw when he
peeked over the transom into Dr. Geb-
g,|hardt's office.
No Blood on Gatepost.
Dr. J. W. Andrews, a Mankato physi
cian and surgeon, said that blood co
agulates almost as soon as it comes in
contact with the air and that in his
opinion it would have
for the murderer of Dr. Gebhardt to
have left any stain on the jDahms gate
post, which is a fifteen-minute walk
irom the scene of the homicide. Dr.
Andrews made microscopic and other
tests for blood on the material which
he scraped from the interstices of the
post and all failed to reveal blood in
any form.
Among the last witnesses for the de
fense were Dr. Vogel. who identified
the "pepper-and-salt" clothes of the
defendant Rev. Adolph Ackerman, pro
fessor the German Lutheran college
at New Ulm, who said that on the day
following the homicide Dr. Koch was
wearing a derby hat and a long, loose
craVenette overcoat Henry Somsen,
who told about Dr. Koch's clothes and
tools, and W. D. Abbott, of counsel for
the defense, who said that while Dr.
Koch was in jail he told the witness
that in his rolltop desk in his dental
office would be found the pencil that
Lumberman Vogel gave him, and that
witness had found it there.
The State's Rebuttal.
Anton Richartz, a neighbor of the
Koehs, was the first witness in rebut
tal. He said that shortly after the
murder E. G. Koch told him that
George returned home aelO o'clock, on
that night. He said that Mr. Koch be
lieved at that time that the murder
was committed at 10 o'clock. Mr. Ab
bott, cross-examining Mr. Richartz, en
deavored to show that the witness had
confused Mr. Koch's statement of the
time when George returned home with
the statement or the time of the mur
der.
Martin Penning, a juror at the first
trial, was the state's first witness in
the Brooks impeachment. JHe said that
early in December he was talking with
Brooks- in the latter's newspaper office
New Ulm, and that Brooks said to
him that S'the man he saw there looked
very much like Koch."
The witness said he told Brooks that
he ought to know, because he had a
good Took at the murderer, and that
Brooks replied: "The reason why I
think it was not Koch is because I
couldn't Believe he could do such a
thing."
Cross-examined by Mr. Abbott, Mr.
Penning Said that he had never spoken
of this until after the first trial, after
he had visited the office of Mayor
SilVerson.
4 ^Other impeaching Witnesses.
Other witnesses for the state who
said that Brooks had told them he
could not tell whether or not the man
he saw bending over Dr. Gebhardt was
Koch, were "William Mather, a mem
ber of the boarding club to 'which Dr.
Gebhardt belonged C. \A. Zella, at
Whose home Dr. Gebhardt lived G. W.
Murnn. a grain buyer of Gray Eagle,
formerly or New Ulm, and W. 'G. Shep
ardj a Minneapolis reporter.
KOCH A STRONG WITNESS
State Could Not Confuse HimLong
Ordeal on the Stand.
Special to The Journal.
Mankato, Minn., May 11."Dr.
Koch, you are charged, in the indict
ment with having gone to the office of
Dr. Gebhardt and murdered him: is
there an'v truth in that charge?"
"There is not."
The pointed duration came at the
close of the long story which, under the
direction of his counsel, the defendant
had told concerning his actions at and
about the time of the New Ulm homi
cide, and Dr. Koch answered it in the
same low, calm, clear tone in' which he
had replied to all of the hundreds of
questions that had been put to him.
Thruout the long, sharp cross-exami
nation to which General ChiMs sub
jected him, Dr. Koch retained his com
posure perfectlyK at no time giving the
slightest indication of agitation or ex
citement. At the close of the session, a
Minneapolis criminal lawyer of cele
brity, said: "An excellent, a splendid
witness one of the best I have fever
seen in a criminal case."
Only a few small and seemingly un
important discrepancies between the de
fendant's testimony yesterday an'd at
the first trial were picked out bv Gen
eral Childs, and in each case Koch's
counsel managed to square him on re
direct examination. As an instance,
General Childs asked the witness:
"When did you ever tell anybody
that you did 'n-ot kill Dr. Gebhardt!f'
Dr. Koch replied:
I don*t know I don't think I ever
told anybody."
"So you have never told anybody
that you didn't kill Dr. Gebhardt?" re
peated General Childs with emphasis.
sir."
The first question Mr. Abbott asked
the witness on re-direct was:
"Did you not fail to tell anybody
that yon had killed Dr. Gebhardt be
cause your counsel had instructed you
time and again not to discuss the homi
cide or your relation to it."
That was the reason,'' said the wit
ness.
.First Story Retold.
The story which Dr. Koch told on di
rect examination was the one he told at
the first trial. He was not permitted
to omit any feature of it, from the Sun
day preceding the murder, when he
went driving with Miss Fitzpatrick, un*-
til many da^s after the crime.
"When did you firs^heailyour name
mentioned in connection, with the mur-
der?" asked-Mr. Abbott.
It was the dav following,'' said the
witness, I had walked down town
with my sister Ida. In Alwin's drug
store we met Dr. Vogel and several
other young people. Dr. Vogel re-'
marked that the handkerchief found in
Dr. Gebhardt's office had on it the ini
tials: G. R. K.' I said I had heard so.
Dr. Vogel laughed %id said that those
were my initials. Then they all
laughed, arid so did I. I didrt 't take it
seriously at all then.*'
Dr. Koch made {Tie handkerchief
matter plainly understood, from his
viewpoint. He said he had not seen it
until the first trial.
The hammer was disposed of summar-
May 11, iwo,
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tfr. Koch went on the stand at 1:30
yesterday afternoon and it was 5:30
wheh counsel for both sides said,'' That
dence was not the one.jtjia. used to bt
around his^attiei.'s plaoe. He declared
he had ttever had a clawhammer hrhis
office, and that what Mrs. Kaess, the
Bcrubwoman, used when removing cleats is all/J^The witness left the chair and
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In great detail the witness described
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first trial. 4 Under severe cross-examina
tion he. stuck ta his original,story, and
it 'was left to the jury to determine
how consistent it was.
Btessed Hard by Childs.
Dr. Koch was pressed hard on cer
tain points, but he was not confused
mi^im
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from the window, was his hatchet, and:
not a hammer.
Answers Miss Weidermann.
In answer to the testimony of Miss
Weidermann, that on the evening of
the murder she saw a man, wearing a
slouch hat, turn on the light in Koch's
laboratory, stoop, extend his hand,
straighten up and turn out the light
from which the state argued that lli
was at that time that Dr. Koch got
the hammerthe witness said that not
in two years had he entered his labora
tory with a slouch hat on his head.
The witness disposed of Ole Ulen as
he did at the first trial. He declared
he had never, to his recollection, seen
Ulen until he appeared as a witness
at the New Ulm trial. He declared
there was no enmity between him and
Dr. Gebhardt. On the other hand, he
said they were very good friends. Dr.
Gebhardt had don his dental work
and he had done Dr. Gebhardt's den
tal work gratuitously. The last time
he did work for Dr. Uebhardt, he said,
was in September before the murder.
There had been no mention of any
charge or payment for it.
The insulting name which the younger
Hoidale said Dr. Koch made about Dr.
Gebhardt in his presence on Friday af
ter the murder, the witness said, was
no* made about Gebhardt, but about
Albert Pfaender of counsel, for the
state.
"Did j'ou ever mail'from Hanska a
blue box of that kind, or any kind of
a bcx, to Dr. Gebhardt!" the witness
was asked by Mr. Abbott.
'No, sir," said Dr. Koch.
The witness was asked if he wrote
the word sampje" on the label, and
said he did not. He also denied that
he wrote the address, "Dr. L. A. Geb
hardt, New Ulm, Minn.," on the paper
Easted on the blue box which Dr. Geb
ardt received.
Dr. Koch asserted that on all week
days for many weeks prior to the
homicide and on all week days
after that event until they were
placed in evidence at the trial, he wore
a pepper-and-salt coat and yest and
black trousers with .a light stripe.
These clothes, he said, he had on the
night Dr. Gebhardt was, kijled and all
the following day.
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with tha same sprightly step with which
he had walked to it' returned to the.
row of seats behind his counsel and r^-'
sumed his place there with his father
and brothers and sisters who did not
fail to show their appreciation of his
conduct and of the fact that the more
or less dreaded ordeal was over.
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Washington. May 11 Owing to a de
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