The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-24
A Remarkable Document.
CONFESSION OR STATEMENT OF SEBASTIAN HUPFER,
THE MANIAC CHILD-MURDERER.
[FIon the Quincy Whig. Feb. u. |

IFIon the Quincy Wing, Feb. Il.
Some days ago we published an account of
horrible tragedy that occurred in Hannibal where
in father strsngled his daughter, a little girl
aged about eight years, and then cut her little
heart out and drank the blood from it while it was
yet quveri1g. Since the perpetrstion of the
crime the man has been declared insane, and the
authorities of Hannibal have sent him TO the jail at
Palmyra. Day setore yesterday he penned the
following statement of the affair in German, (his
native tOngue) and requested the jlior to give il
10 the highest Judge in the county to be transls-
ted. Mr.. John Baum, Justice of the peace aud
a very intelligent German at Palmyra, translated
the paper which we give word for word:
al, son Of God, formerly Sebastian Hupfer,
wish TO say few words TO the world. | believe
l was the father of five children; one of them
died, another was strangled by its mother. She
was crazy that was the cause of the death of
both our children. God, our Father, willed it
thus; His will was done, and she is free. She has
secured a divorce from me. believe this TO be
the cause of the death of the third child. killed
it, il is true but was not the cause OF her death,
and therefore do not feel myself guilty of the
crime. / believed to have seen the devil in her
1.-THE child). had made a covenant with God the
Father, TO catch the devil if should have an OPP
portunity. now believe her mother is dead, aud
hsve seen her mothers devil in her. After she
was divorced from me she wanted to marry again.
| had sworn by God, our Father, never TO live
with her again. l did not wish 70 change my
good spirit for q bad one, and, therefore, did not
they belong 10 the male sex, and, therefore, sons
of God. The three that are dead were Of the fe-
male sex, and were daughters OF their mother.
IL came into my mind, God the Father gave it to
me, that He was once married. and His wife Sc
cured divorce from Him because he did not
obey her. His wife's name was Devil. Man says
Adam and Eve were in the Paradise, and swear
that he who follows me will get there. Man Gays
there was a certain apple tree In Para
disc 10 eat of the fruit thereof God the
Eafhar had forbidden His children. God
the Father died of grief and sorrow. He was an
industrious man and good gardener. His d.
vorced wife left Him aud went 10 another land,
and left Adam and Eve with him. After the
Father died the Devil returned to Paradise and
desired her children to obey her. She took an
apple from the forbidden tree and gave it to Eve
to eat She took it and ate it then she gave one
to Adam, but Adam would not eat. he would not
obey the devil, and therefore became odious to
all persops-that is, to the devil aud the woman,
and so am |. Man does not believe in Christ be.
cause he was not as firm as /. He did not COM
plete his work. He was coward and he was not
the man that am to follow up what ne has prom
ised his Father, to-wt: To catch the devil. He
was not firm. the devils have caught him, and he
had to die. IL you do not believe me do not let
me die, but have me beheaded, and if my head
rises, then have told the truth; but If it falls
have been liar. The paradise or death IS open
TO me. There are but two ways-life and death.
He'll is the earth Heaven the paradise. When
middle of my garden, with my feet toward the
| East.r
The poor msniac, after drinking the blood of the
| child, said that he would never again want for
| food or nourishment, that the blood had given
him life everlasting. We are informed that since
the preparation of the deed he has not partaken
of mouthful of food. The case is, indeed, a re.
| markable one, and the statement he has made is,
we believe, one of the most singular productions
| we have ever read.