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FJDERAL WRIT AS
CHICAGO WEAPON
Striking Teamsters Are Enjoined
from Interfering With the
Employers' Wagons.
TROOPS TO BE USED
IF MARSHALS FAIL
War to a Final Decision Is On
Between Employers and
Labor Unions.
Chicago, April 28.Chicago employ
ers have declared war to the knife on
the union teamsters of Chicago and
will endeavor to make this war the
crucial test of unionism or the open
shop.
Judge C. G. Kohlsaat of the United
States circuit court today granted an
injunction to the Employers' Associa
tion of Chicago, restraining all persons
from interfering with the movements
of the association's wagons upon the
Btreets or in any way obstructing the
business of members. The iniunction is
temporary and is returnable May 10.
I is specifically directed against the
teamsters' joint council of Chicago.
The Employers' association imme
diately placarded all its wagons with
notices reading as follows:
The United States eirouit court
has enjoined interference of any
kind with this property and its
drivers.
Oround for Injunction,
he injunction was issued on the
grounds that the Employers' Teaming
company, organized in West Virginia,
being a corporation of a foreign state,
has the right of protection under the
federal government. N attempt was
made to secure Jhe protection of the
federal courtB under the interstate
commerce act.
United States Marshal Ames said:
"Any violation of the injunction
will come under the jurisdiction of the
federal court. If necessary, special
deputy marshals will be put out in large
numbers. I disturbances and viola
tions continue and the marshal's office
is unable to cope with the defendants,
he federal government will be applied
to and it wilr* use whatever means it
deems necessary to quell insurrection."
Use of Federal Troops.
I other words, when the actions
of the strikers have gone beyond
control of the marshal and the city
police and state troops cannot dom
inate the situation, federal troops
will be used to maintain order.
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Threats to extend the strike to in
elude eve ry union man and woman in
Oh.iea.ffo are heard, and some of he
radicals are openly advocating such a
policy. Others assert that such a plan
would be suicidal, but he conflagration
has" started and no one can predict
where it will end.
Every business in Chicago, with three
or four exceptions, will be involved.
Scenes of Violence.
Scenes of violence in connection with
the strike began promptly today, the
first victim being a colored teamBter
Been to enter the Monroe street barns
of the A. M. Forbes Cartage company,
whose teamsters joined the Tanks of
the strikers yesterday. was later
seen to leave he stables. Several
Sickets
gave the word that the man
ad applied for a position as teamster.
Thereupon the man was followed by
strike sympathizers.
A Desplaines street he was over
taken by his pursuers. The fugitive
attempted to defend himself from the
mob which had quickly gathered, but
he was kicked and beaten into insensi
bility. Arrival of a squad of police
put an end to the disturbance. The in
jured man was taken to a hospital,
where he was found to be severely cut
and bruised about the head and body.
Serious Trouble Feared.
he greatest number of union pickets
were stationed about the stables of the
Employers Teaming company in Eigh
teenth street near State street. The
non-union teamsters are housed in these
stables. Special details of police were
se'n'fc to the stables to protect the non
union men, aB it was feared that the
most serious disturbances would occur
in the vicinity of these stables.
Employers today were aggressive in
operating with non-union teamsters.
Under the escort of seventy policemen,
twenty-four wagons were sent out from
Marshall Field & Co.'s stables, notwith
standing that the street was crowded
with teams and strike sympathizers.
Non-union teamsters were jeered and
hooted while a number of' teamsters
wearing union buttons attempted to
form blockades, but prompt action by
the police forced a passage thru.
Strike Breakers Arrive.
Fifty negroes from the south, who
are to take the places of strikers, ar
rived in a box car on the Burlington to
day. They were placed in coal wagons
belonging to the Employers' Teaming?
company' and taken to the barns of the
J. V. Farwell Co. Bottles and other
missiles were thrown from windows,
but the negroes proved good dodgers
and escaped injury.
Sixty drivers for Hillman's State
Street department store joined the
strike today.
The striking unions declared a boy
cott on the Great Northern building and
also on the Heyworth building, Madison
street and Wabash avenue. Union offi
cials said today that they had learned
that since the Ward strike was called,
500 tons of coal had been stored in the
subcellar of the Heyworth building and
was being used as a supply for the
Ward company.
BIG BOMB EXPECTED
IN BEEF TRUST WRITS
New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, April 28.Officials in
the departments of justice and com
merce and labor are looking for big de
velopments in the grand jury investi
fation of the beer trust at Chicago,
is understood at these departments
that indictments will be returned about
May 2 by the present grand jury and
that the inquiry will be continued and
will be broadened in its scope.
A soon as the cases are brought into
court it is expected that the unpub
lished portion of Commissioner Ga
field's report on the Chicago packers
will be laid before the public. Friends
of the commissioner say when it is
given out it will show that the storm
of criticism raised when the first in
stallment was sent to congress was un-
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FITZHUGH LEE HAS
APOPLEXY STROKE
Famous Southerner, Now Retired
General of U. S. Army, Is
JF 5 Stricken HI.
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GENERAL FTTZHTTGH LEE,
Veteran of Three Wars, Stricken with
Apoplexy.
frr?*ft% *r
Washington, April 28.Major Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, U. S. A., retired,
was stricken with apoplexy, the entire
left side being affected, at 3 o'clock
this morning. General Lee was on a
train en route from Boston to Washing
ton. The train had just left Fall Biver
when the stroke came.
The train bearing the general arrived
in Washington shortly after 10 o'clock.
Under the direction of Major Kean,
U. S. A., of the surgeon general's
office, the patient was removed to
Providence hospital.
The news of the general's condition
had preceded him to Washington and
many of his army and personal friends
were at the Pennsylvania station to
meet him. Among them were Major
Michie of the army general staff
Maior Kean and Manor Mason of the
medical department Dr. St. George
Tucker of George Washington universi
ty Major Bobert Hunter of Virginia
Holmes Conrad of Virginia, and H.
Fowle.
Dr. Tucker invited General Lee to
occupy quarters at his residence here.
The general was conscious and received
Dr. Tucker in the car when the invi
tation was extended. replied smil
ingly: I am in charge of this man
Kean, and he says I must go to the
hospital and I guess I will have to ac
quiesce."
Mrs. Lee, who is at Fort Oglethorpe,
Georgia, with her daughter^ has been
notified., p.s also has -the son, George,
who is in San Francisco preparing to
sa.il for the Philippines. The other
spii, who xs ia, tfce J^Jippfnes, has bpenj -general
RUSSIANS BEGIN!
THREE DAYS' FAST
Christ's Passion Commemorated
by Rigorous Observances
Czar Attends Service.
St. Petersburg, April 28.Three
days' hard fasting preceding Easter,
^ftOWftpanied by solemn services com
memorative of Christ's passion, began
today. Business of every character
ceased and all the government depart
ments were closed.
The alrming reports circulated dur
ing the last few davs apparently had
little effect on the size of the crowds
which thronged the churches.
The day was also marked by the
observance of the traditional ceremo
nies of freeing birds, lighting: bonfires
and placing- holy bread in bins.
The bright sunshine did not fail to
make a deep impression on the super
stitious in the midst of the gloomy
forebodings of evil, being an augury
of drought and crop failure, -which in
Russia is synonymous with famine and
disaster.
Czar at Communion.
The diplomatic corps, including Am
bassador Meyer, attended the services
at St. Isaacs Cathedral. Every mem
ber of the orthodox church took com
muioon today, the emperor and the
imperial family attending the service
and taking the sacrament at the chapel
of the Alexandra palace at Tsarskoe
Selo.
Hebrew Paper Authorized.
Permission has been granted to pub
lish in the capital a paper in the He
brew language to be called the Way.
So far as known ,this is the first time
a paper published in Hebrew has been
authorized in Russia.
Baron's Estate Plundered.
Mitau, Courland, Russia, April 28.
The estate of Baron Rekki, near here,
has been plundered by armed peasants.
The baron was assaulted and almost
killed. GOSSIPS BREAK UP
NIGARAGUAN'S ROMANCE
New York Sun Speoial Service.
Macon Ga., April 28.Altho no an
nouncement has been made, it is sard
here that the marriage arranged be
tween Mrs. Ilah D. Jordan of this place
and Senor Luis Corea, Nicaraeruan
minister to the United States, has been
broken on because of the notoriety
which attended the engagement. Mrs.
Jordan's family has made no state
ment, hopina the matter would simply
die out.
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KALDERWIT MAY
CONFESS GUILT
Trial Stopped that He May Con
sult with Judge and
Counsel.
Weight of Damning Testimony
Breaks Down Nerve of the
Accused.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Anoka, April 28.In the afternoon
session of the murder trial proceedings
were suddenly stopped and Kalderwit,
Judge Giddings and the attorneys for
both sides went into conference.
I is believed that Kalderwit is ready
to change his plea to guilty.
Anoka, Minn., April 28.Spirited
legal fighting in the trial of Orlin Kal
derwit began today. The state opened
a relentless fire of direct and circum
stantial evidence. With all his skill,
cunning and knowledge of human na
ture, F. L. McGhee, attorney for the
defense, tried to head off this danger
ous testimony. Steadily and surely the
state is rounding out its case and is
welding link after link of damaging
evidence about Kalderwit.
The defense fought hard today
against the admission of the evidence
of James Carey, Jr., and Detective An
drew Crummy, both of Minneapolis,
tending to prove that Kalderwit wore
for some time the clothing and carried
the gun which he is said to have had
at Columbia 'Heights.
Crummy gave a dramatic description
of a midnight trip to Keegan's Lake on
Nov. 19, when Kalderwit and his pals
were shadowed. This trip gave the clue
which finally led to connecting Kalder
wit and his associates with the murder.
McGhee tried in every way to exclude
this evidence.
A Significant Remark.
The story of that night, the Satur
day preceding the murder, was told by
the two witnesses. Jimmy Carey
stated that early in the evening he met
Kalderwit, who asked him if he had
any money. Receiving a negative re
ply, Kalderwit said: "Wel I'm go
ing to get mine,'' and at the same time
exposed to view the butt of a big
blued steel revolver. had on a duck
coat.
Detectives Crummy and Brown later
in the night saw the three and followed
them thru the rain three and a half
miles to Gilbert's roadhouse at Kee
gans Lake, where it is supposed they
planned a holdup. The saloon 4 was
closed and they returned to he "city.
The clothing and descriptions of the
three Columbia Heights robbers corre
sponded so accurately with the three
who went to Keegans Lake th at the
detectives arrestea the prisoners now
on trial.
Kalderwit's "Bowery Swing.'*
John W. McOallum, 1022 Oak street
S E, Minneapolis, an iceman, stated that
Ixe -was present, and. narrowly escaped
one of the bullets. could in a way
recognize Kolb tyrjiin short build, ^he
peculiarities
cabled of his father's condition. of the three highwayme corresoon to
Since the first stroke no change for
the worse has taken placer General,
Lee had been spending a few days in
Boston and was returning to Washing
ton on his way to join Mrs. Lee.
General Lee iB 68 years old and al
ways has enjoyed-robust health. How
ever, he has led an exceptionally ac
tive life, being a veteran of three wars.
served in the Mexican war, was in
he Confederate army during the civil
war, and his conspicuous service in the
Spanish war is current history.
Major Kean of the medical corpB of
the army announced at 1 o'clock, on
leaving the bedside of General Lee,
that there was no apparent change in
his condition that General Lee is con
scious, but it will be impossible to tell
what the outcome is to be for several
hours The entire left side is par
alyzed.
and characteristics
those of the prisoners. recognized
Kalderwit's ^'bowery swing," and had
been better,able to study the three- dur
ing the trial.
Jam es McCallum, his brother, was
near the luttch counter, and thought the
command of hands up a "kiddin"
game." saw Mingo go down be
hind the bar and heard th$ death
scream of little Freddie King. The
boy stood but four feet away, and the
witness saw the child press his little
hands to his heart, take a step or two
and fall dead. 'He stated that after
the shooting began, he "stood there
like a mummy." The man in the lead
wore a duck coat a'n'd a soft felt hat.
Later the witness saw the three run
down Central avenue. With a broad
grin, he told how one man left the sa
loon and ran across the prairie to hide
behind the school house.
McGhee Gets Excited.
Carey told of seeing Kalderwit the
Saturday before the murder. McGhee
fought the admission of his evidence
Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column,
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FRIDAY EVENING^ APRIL 28. 1905
BOLD ATTEMH
IS OFEM COURT
Unknown Man Impersonates De
tective to Keep Friend Gut
of Workhouse.
4,
impersowating1
one of Superin
tendent Doyle's aetectiy.es, a young
man came near freeing D. J. Kmney,
sentenced to the workhouse for sixty
days on a charge of Vagrancy.
Judge C. L. Smith found Kinney
guilty, and just before the "Black
Maria" started for Camden Place, a
young mail', without hat or overcoat hur
ried into he courtyooi^ a,nd told the
court that Su
thought it would
Kinney go on con
of town.
irin^jfcdent Doyle
1 a .good plan to let
ion I^Mtt ne get out
The judge did not agree with Super-,
intendent Doyle, and after adjournment'
walked into the latter's oJHce to argue
the point. There hG learned that Sup
erintendent Doyle had never sent such a
message.
Judge Smith, not Knowing all the de
tectives, had taken the imposter for a
full-fledged sleuth. f/Kinney is serving
his sentence.
NORWAY WILL BORflOW
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liaritie and characteristics
highifaymen correspond to
Christians,, Apriljh28.The "Kor
wegian government has-arranged with,
a Paris syndicate f* a 5% per cent
loan of $8,000,000, subject to the ap
roval of the Norwegian parliament.'
The money is being obtained to
strengthen the state reserve fund*
GATNOR AND GREENE
PUT ON DEFENSIVE
Montreal, April 28.Messrs. Gaynor
and Greene have been put upon their
defense. Magistrate Lafontaine, the
extraditicm commissioner, announced to
day that he considered a prima facie
case of conspiracy had been made be
tween Gaynor and Greene and Captain
Carter and others for the purpose of
defrauding the United States govern
ment. Ble, therefore, announced that
he was prepared to hear their defense.
AJter considerable argument it was
decided to allow an adjournment until
next Friday,
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The inmates of the prison are protected How about the inmates of the Home?
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THREE"LEADING FIGURES ON THE STATES^
SIDE OfLTHE TABLE AT TRIAL
OE&DR. KOCH
SISTER LOYAL TO
PATTERSON GIRL
Mrs. J. Morgan Smith Declines to
Answer Rand's Questions in
Showgirl's Trial.
New "Sbrk, April 28.Nan Patter
son's sister, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, to
day blocked every attempt of the pros
ecutor, Mr. Rand, to turn her alleged
knowledge of the Cesar Young murder
case against Miss Patterson, in the
trial of the latter.
Ba nd asked Mrs. Smith if she had
possessed all the information she has
testified to in this trial -all the time
since she left New York last June.
Mrs. Smith replied that she would
like to answer the question, but feared
it would tend to degrade and incrimi
nate her, as she is under indictment for
conspiracy.
The prosecutor then promised that if
she would answer he would move next
Monday to quash the indictment
against her, but she declined to do so,
after she had consulted with her coun
sel.
I must stick to my sister," she
told the prosecuting attorney, as she
resumed the stand.
"Again I ask you, were you in New
York on June 8?
said Band.
I decline to answer, because my re
sponse might te nd to degrade ana in
criminate me."
Recorder Qoff directed the* witness to
answer th question, saying that it
called for an answer. She still de
clined to answer, sayjngt I must,
stick to-my Bister."
"Will you answer if the indictment
for conspiracy on Which you are held
is dismissed now" broke in Band.
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Defective Page }i
replied? the witnessMr.
Sisters Near Collapse.
The ordeal proved almost too much
for 'Na.h Patterson. The resolute man
ner in which Mrs. Smith refused to
answer, and her declaration that she
would-stand by her sister, affected the
prisoner deeply.
Mrs. Smith appeared unstrung, and
the two women spent the recess in their
cells in the Tombs, weeping in each
other's arms.
BRADT TO SUCCEED MARSHALL.
Wichita, Kan, April 28.Rev. Charles
E. Bradt, pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of this city, has been tendered an
appointment as field secretary of the
west for the board of foreign missions
of the Presbyterian- church, with head
quarters at Chicago, to suqceed the late
Dr Thomas Marshall of Chicago. He
will probably accept.
BIGELOWS FORCED
TO GIVE UP HOME
Defaulter and His Family Leave
-House Long a Social Center
in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, April 28.The Wiscon
sin Trust & Security company, receiver
for the Bigelow estate, today took pos
session of# the homestead at 675 Astor
street, which for twenty years has been
occupied by the defaulting banker,
Frank G. Bigelow, and his family. Only
a few personal effects were removed
by the family. The Bigelows have
taken up their residence with the son,
Gordon Bigelow.
The departure of Mr. Bigelow from
the home where for many years he has
lived and brought up his family, in
which many leading social events have
taken place, attended by the best fam
ilies in the city, was an occasion for
feelings which may well have wrung
stouter hearts.
Beports were current here today that
Mr. Bigelow was suffering from mental
strain incident to the developments of
the past few days, but Mr. Bigelow has
shown no signs whatever of collapse.
answered: a telephone call before
he took his departure and said he was
feeling well and not in need of a phy
sician.
National Bank Examiner Brfsworth
telegraphed the controller of the cur
rency today that the Bigelow defalca
tion wm-ffdr exceed published figures.
LAWSON UTTERS
A DIRE WARNING
Boston loan of Frenzies Is Pre
dicting Awful Financial
Smash Soon.
Speoial to The Journal.
Boston, April 28.Thomas W. Law
son of "Frenzied Finance'' fame, is
performing again today. has issued
a circular in which he predicts a smash
in financial affairs within thirty days.
The stories are so highly sensational
th at Wall street private-wire broker
age houses would not handle the cir
cular.
The ne ws ticker carried the story
in "whwsli Lawson tells of a man, name
not given, who is so deeply involved
^-^'$100,000,000 would not keep his
that troubled righted thirty days." The
latest outburst caused considerable com
ment among brokers today, but it did
not create a furore. "Important if
true was the generally expressed
opinion. ARARIAN REBELS
CAPTURE A CITY
Capital of Yemen Province Falls
Before InsurgentsMankha
Is Besieged.
'mmamm^^
MINNESOTA"'
Hodeida, Yemen Province, Arabia,
April 28.-Sanaa, the capital city of
Yemen province, capitulated to he in
surgents the night of April 20.
The revolutionists are now besieging
Mankha. The latter has a garrison ox
5,000 men, but the troops are mutinous.
Jews who left Sanaa before the sur
render and who have arrived at Hode
ida say the town was subjected to con
stant night attacks, the garrison was
hard pressed and provisions were ex
hausted.
The scene of the fight of March 30,
southward of Sanaa, when the Syrian
reserves went to the relief of Sanaa
and were crushingly defeated, was
strewn with dead soldiers and animals.
Constantinople, April 28.Disturb-
ances have broken out among the Turk
ish troops at Medina because the only
food the men have received for four
days consisted of biscuits.
A caravan of Egyptian pilgrims re
turning from Mecca was attacked re
cently by a numerous band of Arab
insurgents near Yambo, Arabia, 125
miles from Medina. Seventeen Egyp
tian soldiers escorting the pilgrims were
killed.
HARPER DECLARES HE
.STARTED CARNEGIE GIFT
Hew York Sun Specie! Service.
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Chicago, April 28.The announce
ment that Andrew Carnegie has decided
on an endowment fund for pensioning
veteran university professors met with
commendation at the University of
Chicago, as President William B. Har
per claims to be the originator of the
idea and four years ago suggested it
to the steel king just as it was out
lined today.
The plans has already been carried
out at the midway school" for the past
four yean
Great Detective Story
"SILVER BLAZE"
In Saturday's Journal,
24 PAGESFIVE "O'CLOCK.
KERCHIEF GIYES
WAY TO HAMMER
Witness Testifies that Instrument
of Death Belonged to Koch
Family.
DEFENSE TRIES IN VAIN
TO TANGLE YOUNG DAHMS
Lawyer for Koch Causes a Sensa
tion by Exhibiting a Second
Hammer.
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By W. P. MoQulre. 1*$V
Mankato, Minn.. April 28.The ham
mer is paramount in the Koch trial to
day. The state has planned to prove
positively that the instrument of deattt
belonged to the Kochs.
To do this several new witnesses are
"J court. The^ are Eeinhold Dahms,
Mrs. Kaess and Miss Lena Weidermaa.
Remhold Dahms is 22, and for six years
prior to 1903 lived" or worked at the
iioch home each winter. Mrs. Kaess
is the general workwoman, who is ex
pected to testify that she saw the ham-'*
mer at Dr. Koch's office. Miss Weid
erman, General Childs has said, will
testify that she saw Dr. Koch put the
hammer in his pocket in his office the
evening of the murder.
Has Defense Made a Coup? 1
ul&
Mr. Abbott, of counsel for George""
K. Koch, stood in front of the witness
box at 11:45 this morning and held in
front of Eeinhold Dahms, the witness,
two carpenter's hammersone having
the right claw broken, the other th6
left clawand asked young Dalms to
tell the jury which was the Koch ham
mer.
Counsel for the state and even mem
bers of the Koch family gasped in as
tonishment, and spectators jumped to
their feet and craned their necks in an/^
effort to get a look at the strangely
similar exhibits. It was the first time
any other hammer than the one found in
Dr. Gebhard's office had been produced
at either trial.
Counsel for the defense stoutly re
fused to make any explanation whatever
of the second hammer, saying in answer
to questions. "You may draw your own^
conclusions.''
The inference is that the hammer I
which the Kochs said disappeared from?
their place several years ago has bee n*
found, but if this is true it appears that
counsel has kept it a secret from the
family in order to spring a pleasant sur
prise on them in court, for William
Koch, brother of the defendant, de- i
clared at the noon recess that neither
he nor the family knew of the intention "-*$j
to produce another hammer in evidence.
Counsel for the defense chuckled audi
bly when the hammer was presented and
after adjournment Mr. Brown walked
down the stai*8r clapping and rnbbincr
his hauas together and laughing aloud.
"There is the hammerr," he said.
speaks for itself.
Dahin*Identifies Hammer.
Eeinhold Dahms -is 22, and said he
worked as a bricklayer. is a son of
Gustav Dahms, who occupies a house
owned by E. G. Koch, father of the de-4
fendant, and located just across ther^
slough from the Koch home. -f
When Mr. Abbott held the hammer in^.p
front of him,.Dahms, without hesita-^
tion .positively declared that the one J%
^hich was found in Dr. Gebhardt's 2^
office, and which has been in evidence
thruout the new_ trial, was the one hetj?
had used many times in the six winters fa
he worked as choreboy at the Koch-T^
home. This is the hammer that has'
the right claw broken.
A the first trial the members of thef
Koch family testified that the hammers
found in Dr. Gebhardt's office looked
very much like the hammer they used
to own, which had disappeared a fQW
years ago. The difference which all of
the Koch witnesses described at that'
time was that their hammer had the|,
left claw broken, while it was the right*
claw of the one in evidence that wasf^
broken.
They also noted a difference in the^
handle, declaring thata the handle of|^
their hammer was an inch or an inch't
and a half longer than the one shown** 34
to them.
Witnesses were produced by the stately
at that time who said that when they| s,
picked up the hammer in Dr. Geb-^
hardt's oflEiee the end of the handle ar
peared to have been recently sawed on\|
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When and Where He Used It. S'
On direct examination Eeinhold
Dahms told of the six winters he had
worked at the Koch home, and said*
that in that time he had often used"
a certain old hammer. Asked to de
scribe this hammer, he gave a descnp-.
tion which tallied exactly with that oil
the one which has been in evidenced
ever since the murder was committod^
said that he had used this hammer*
for fixing the cowyard fence, repairing*"
an old hayrack, building a slide to put
ice in a shed, repairing the toolhouse
door and for many other things.
He described first the handle that
was in the hammer when he first knew
it, saying that it was a factory handle,
and then said that at some time while,
he was there a new handle had been,t
put ina home-made handle. Hei
couldn't tell exactly when this change
was made, but thought'it was in 189i).f
was shown the hammer found in
Dr. Gebhardt's office. looked it|.
over carefully, and then said:
"This is the hammer I seen up
there."
Hammer Admitted in Evidence.
General Childs offered it in evidenoetl
Mr. Brown objected on the grounds!
that it was not material that no foun-i
dation had been laid that it was not}
sufficiently identified, and that it had?
been in no way connected with the de-f*
fendant. Judge Cray overruled the ob
jection.
General Childs then had the witness
describe the pasture west of his fath-^
er's house, across which persons going?
to the Koch home frequently walked^
and the gate thru which they woubfe
have to pass in going that way. This?
is the gate on which, according to Gen-|
eral Childs' opening address to thef
jury, Mrs. Dahms, mother of the wit-f
ness. would swear that she saw blood*
on the morning following the murder.
The witness said that the defendant!
was in the habit of walking by the!
Dahms' place going to and from hist
home, as that reute was shorter thaal
by way of Center street. jf
Mr. Abbott at the outset of his crosa-i:
examination got young Dahms to sayf
that he could not tell just whatnnonthi
or even what year he fixed the eow-|
fence with the hammer. gaveJ
owever, in detail the circumstances.?
fixed the ice chute nearly everj
winter at the time of the ice harvei
repaired the toolshed door the Is
winter he was there, in 1903.
The next line Mr. Abbott took
created a sensation. asked the wit-i
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