The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-17
A CONFESSION.
sssNtenAent of Sebastian HupteF, the
Maniac cChiad-Murderer.

Maniac Child-Murdorer.
From the QAiAcy Wing, Feb r.
Some days ago we published an account OF a
horrible tragedy that occurred ia Hannibal,
wherein a father stranglcd his daughter, Il little
Girl aged about eight years, and !hcn cut he:
little heart out and drank the blood ron 1t
while Yet 1t was quivering. SlUce the perpetrd-
ton OF the crime the man has been declare /
insane, and the authorizes of Hannibal have
sent HIM 10 the jail at Palmyra. Day before
yesterday he penned the iollON wing statement OF
he affair in German this native tonguel, and
II questcd the TAILOR 10 give 1t TO the highest
Judge in The county to be transa Cd." Mr. John
Baum, justice Of tue peace and very luh'lli-
gent German at Palmyra, translated the paper,
which We give word for woTd:-
II, son OF God, formerly Sebastian Hupfer,
wish TO say few words 80 the world believe
| was the ialher OF five children; one OF them
died, another was strsngled by ts mother she
both children. God our Father willed Il thus;
His will was done, and she Is free. she has
scored divorce from me. / believe this to
be the cause of the death of the third child. ]
killed II, it 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 (the chlldl. | had made a
covenant with God, the Father, to catch the
Devil II should have an opportunity. now
believe her mother is dead. and have seen her
mothers devil in her. After she was divorced
from me, she wanted TO marry me again.
had sworn by God, our Fathcr, never to live
with her again. did not wish to change my
good spirit for bad one, and, therefore,
did not wish to break my word. | still
have two children; they belong to the
male sex, and, therefore, sons OF God. The
| three that are dead were OF the female sex, and
| were daughters OF their mother. II came into
my mind, God, the Father, gave 1t to me, that
| He was once married, and His wife secured a
! divorce from Him because He did not obey her.
! His wifc's name was Devil. Man says Adam
and Eve we're in the Paradise, and | swear that
| he who follows me will get there. Man says
| ihprp a certain aDnlp-trcp III Paradise. 10
| eat OF the fruit thereof God, the Father, had
! forbidden His children, God the Father, died
/ of grief and sorrow. He was an industrious
man and good gardener. His divorced wife
Adam and Eve with Him. After the Father
| died the Devil returned to Paradise and
desired her children 10 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 10 Adam, bat Adam would not
eat he would not obey the Devil, and, therefore.
he became odious 10 all persons-that 1s, to the
Devil and the woman. and so am /. Man does
not believe in Christ because he was not as irm
as 7. He did not complete bis work. He was a
coward, and was not the man that | am to
| follow up what be had promised his Father, to
! Wt:-To catch the Devil. He was not frm, the
| devils have caught him, and he had to die. II
| YOU do not believe me do not let me die but
! have me bebeaded, and II my head rises, then
| have told the ruth; but If 1t falls have been
| n liar. The paradise or death Is opeu to me,
! TEele are but two ways life aud death. Hell
! is the carth-heayen the para ise. Wnen you
have beheaded me bury my body in the middle
! OF my garuen, with 10Y feet towards the east"
| The Door maniac, after drinking the blood o
| the child, said that he would never agaln wan
for fCod or nOurisb ment, that the blood hac
! given him life everlasting. We are inorme
Il at since the perpetration OF the deed he ha
not partaken OF q mOuthful of food. Toe case
! is, indeed, q remarkable one, and the statemen
! he has made is, we believe, one of the mos
| singular productions we have ever read.