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was there at Easter. She is not married,
She lives at No. f141 Chestnut street. | dc
not know whether she is twenty-one or
twenty-five years old. | courted her during
two months and exchanged letters with her.
| have several letters from her in my trunk,
but | am not certain whether / nave them
all yet. They are love letters. I did not
think of marrying her. | wish to give an
explanation Of everything that | know In re,
gard to my relations to Katie Rupp, and
particularly as far as my treatment Of her
is concerned OF Sunday, the 18th of May,
1894. near Jersey City, in the State of New
Jersey.
KATIE RuPr.
81 became acquainted with Katie Rupp
in Rome in the house of Mrs. Kraft, who re-
sides at No. TIT Lawrence street, in said
city. ! became acquainted with her either
on the LIST or on the 4th of February, 1894,
at a funeral. At that time | was in Oneida,
and came down in order to attend this
funeral. knew some of those present; it
was George Saeger's funeral. Mr.. Kraft,
in No. TIT Lawrence street, is a relation OF
my half sister in Rome, and his brother q
relation of Kraft's, in Oneida. The Kraft
in Oneida is my uncle. | think | saw
Katie Rupp about one week after that, and
il | am not mistaken on a Tuesday: | saw
her at that time in the house of Mrs.
Schantz at No. 401 South James street.
This was before | commenced work in Rome.
L CdIIl6 10 ItoiIlS III OrOSf 10 iliu Work anu
got a position with Carl Barmikol. / came
to Rome about the middle of February and
worked for Mr.. Barnikol- | worked for him
until the 18th of May, 1894. I POSSESSED
about two OF three dollars when | came from
Oneida to Rome. | received for the first
time money from Katie Rupp in February
when | was out of work. There was some
| received $40 or $41 from her and bought
clothing with it. | asked her first for
this money. I think I borrowed altogether
from her at different times 800. but after
wards she said in the presence of John
Schnntz and Mrs. Katie Smith, both from
Rome, New York. that | did not owe her
anything The mony which | used In order
to go to Elizabeth and to see Christina Vet
ter about Easter, l received tho one-half
from Mr.. Barmikol as wages, and the other
half / received from Katie RupD. / received
from Katie Rupp $15 and $40 from Mr..
Barmikol. About four or five weeks ago
Katie Rupp and / made preparations to 60
away in order to get married. | induced
her to think that. We wanted to leave for
that reason.
A DELIBERATE VILLAIN.
II told her to leave Rome and to come to
Utica on one train which leaves Rome at
1928, II that l would meet her in Utica on
the same evening IN a train that leaves
Rome at II O'Clock in the evening. / told
her to travel to Utica IN a train which
leaves two hours before me, SO that the peo-
pie would not observe that we cave Rome
together. | did not wish people to notice
hat | left Rome with her; for that reason /
did not take my trunk along because l told
Katie that [ would nave it sent after me
later on. On the day after my departure l
received from her 1913; she gave me that
money between Albany and New York; l
told her that the money belonged to both of
rs AVID 1hn rrroc aort.nnnhln fN - 11t,nhf
my ticket in Rome direct to New York, and
Katie bought a ticket from Rome to
Utica. Katie had her trunk sent
from Utica to New York, as / had
told her so. She waited for the
train and saw me in the carriage. We had
agreed that she was to buy a ticket from
Rome to Utica and l would take another
train and go through and that she would
meet me in Utica and go with me on the
same train to New York. We did not use a
sleeper on our way to New York, and we
arrived there at seven o'clock OH Sunday
morning. We did not stop in New York,
but went Immediately from New York to
Jersey City and went there, between nine
and ten o'clock, into a restaurant. l went
with the owner of the restaurant in Jersey
City and Katie rented a room, as / under
stood, for eight days from a woman; there
was nothing paid for the room. Then we took
a walk; this was about half-past ten or eleven
O'Clock. After this walk we went into
another restaurant in Jersey City and got
something to eat. This was about four
o'clock In the afternoon.
THE SHOOTING.
"Then we went towards the railroad; we
went along the railroad n "a M to some
woods where there were flowers and water
on both sides of the railroad: there were
people near, and we sat down there for two
or three hours, then we went a little farther
until we came to a bridge and got away
from these people who were fishing; then we
went away from the railroad and came to a
quarry; from there / vent into a house
where there lived a colored family and got a
glass Of water; then we continued our way
and came to house which looked like a hos
pital; then we passed behind this house WHICH
looked like a hospital, and sat down. Katie
had told me that she was tired. Then | left
her, looked around and went on a high
mountain between the rocks; l saw flowers
and I said to Katie, Are you coming
alongsp l wanted her to go to the hospital
because she said that she was tired. l in
vited her to go TO the rocks in order to look
at the nice flowers, upon which she went
with me. We were up there good half
hour. Before we cam to the hospital |
told her that the people in Rome would talk
about me if | did marry a woman with red
hair, and | told her then that | have re-
fected about the matter, and as
she was a Catholic and a Protestant, Y
it wouldn't do, I had my revolver with me-
when / clambered on the rocks. After that
we had a short conversation, / stepped back,
took my revolver and Smother in the breast,
| shot her twice. After the first shot she
said, sob. B~ernhardt," then | shot her
again. Them stepped away a few feet from
her, and then went back and took the watch
away from her which she had; there. was a
small chain attached to it: she had my watch
and her chain and / had her watch and my
chdin. After that | looked around, l saw
nobody, and ran away. She was lying on
the ground; l left her and went direct to
Jersey City.
RELIGIOUS SCRUPLES.
"I didn't want to marry her because she
was a Catholic and | q Protestant. / told
nobody that l had met this girl. ! took the
watch away from her because it was my
watch and I thought of it after | had met
her because it would make q connection be-
tween us il the watch was III IN her.
After | had shot her and left her went to a
hotel in Jersey City and bought the ring,
which is now shown to me, in Elizabeth on
Monday. the 18th of Nav, 1894; | bought the
ring with her money. After | had shot her
and left her | bought the seal ring In Jersey
City for 81. | bought the gold watch in
New York for $35; the small chain belongs
to Katie Rupp, and | took it away from
her after l had shot her; l broke
it as / tore it away from her. ! remained
night in Elizabeth. / fired two shots and
threw the empty cartridges away; I do not
know where they fell down | bought the
revolver in November in Oneida and this is
the same revolver with which | shot Katie.
I used to 90 with a girl of the name of Katie