Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-05
STEPPED IN CRIME
The Horrible Career of the
 Wretch Hadelt.
CoNEEssEs TO 60 ATROCITIES
Killing, RObbing and BlaOkmailing Were
 His Amusements.

He Usually Disguised HlmsslK as Q Monk,
 tIculsr DsliEht-AcCussd of Several NInr-
 derss the East of Which Sends HIm sO
 the GuiIlOtine-HS GIOrlsd in tho Mar
 rative of His HI Deeds.
 PARIS, May 6.-Mathias Hadelt, who has just been sentenced to death for kill ing last October Pere Idefonse Bursar in the Trappist Monastery at Aigue- belle on the Arc, is revealed as a wretch of little less versatility than Deeming. For the laSt 15 years he has passed from place to place on the continent killing, robbing and blackmailing without rest He speaks all continental languages, and confesses to at least 60 crimes.
 He began his criminal career in Copen- hagen as a pickpocket. He tried to burglarize 8 bank, was suspected, and fled to Switzerland. To escape detection he entered a monastery near Berne, where he earned 8 reputation for excep- tional piety. At the end of six months he stole part of the Communion service. rified the treasury of 5000 francs and fled to Italy.
 After squandering the money in Rome he entered another monastery, from which he disappeared shortly with sev- eral hundred francs worth of silver plate. This robbery was committed near Florence. Thence he went through southern Italy and Sicily alternately as highwayman and monk. Near Palermo he is said to have killed man who re- sisted his attempt at robbery in the street.
 From Italy Hadelt went to Bosnia where he robbed a convent and church. In Berlin he passed few weeks in spending about 12, 900 francs which he had realized from his monastlc life, and then proceeded to Hanover where he joined an infantry regiment. He stole 800 marks from the officer at whose per sonal service he was placed, and then deserted before the theft was discovered. He was captured while making his way toward the French border. He was then disguised as a monk and had the money concealed in the skirts of his habit. To avoid suspicion,' he was begging his. way from door to door.
 He was tried and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the fortress at Mayence, but escaped by letting himself down over the wall at night. He went direct to Paris where, for few months, he was the most expert of the city's con fldence men. With the money obtained in this period he set up 8 flashy estab- lishment, introducing himself as 8 for eign Count who had adopted France as his country.
 On the strength of his military experi- ence in Hanover he posed as a military man, and eventually joined the French army. He served some time in the French Legion of Honor. When his funds began to dwindle he again put on the garb of a monk, and after numerous robberies and attempted murders in French monasteries he brought up year ago as a Trappist Brother in Ague-belle. He affected the utmost piety, and gave to the Order 300 or 300 francs which he had with him when he entered it. One night in the sixth month of his residence there he entered the room of Pere Idle fonse Bursar, killed him and fled, talk ing with him 12, 135 francs in notes and securities belonging to the Order.
 During his trial Hadelt behaved with the utmost callousness, alternately laughing at the testimony against him and glorifying in the narrative of some exceptionally atrocious bit of crime.
 The police of Italian, Swiss, German, Austrian and Danish cities were active in securing evidence as to his past life, and the testimony sent in writing fills hundreds of pages. Hadelt will be gull lotined at the end of this month.