The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-28
STATEMENT OF JONES
Relates a Statement That Was Told
Him by Knapp.
FEARFUL DEPRA WITTY
The Murderer Told Fellow Prisoner
That He Killed His FIRST Wife
to Get His Second and Her
to Get His Third.

Indianapolis, Feb. 28.-The first evi
fence that Albert Knapp killed his
hrst wife as well, as his second and
third is contained in a statement made
by Charles Jones, who was a prisoner
in the Marion county Jail and the
Michigan City penitentiary with
Knapp. The only reference in the
statement of Jones to Kuapp's FIRST
wife is this:
Knapp told me he killed his first
wife to get bis second and his second
to get his third"
Kuapps FIRST wife was Emma
Stubs OF Terre Haute. He married
her in the eighties and she has since
disappeared
Jones says in the statement that
Knapp told him he had killed the Geb.
hardt child in West Indianapolis in
July 1895. Jones said Knapp told
him about the killing Of his second
wife He took her TO the erty
street bridge in Cincinnati and threw
her OF into the canal after choking
her Then be said be went down n
where she was She was not dead
aud be finished her by choking her
After he had allied her be went back
to town and reported that his wife
was missing The police authorities
did not End her until the ueXt day.
Another reason for killing his sec
ond was that she had accused him
OF killing Mary Eckhart sac said
she was going to expose him He
told Jones be killed Mary EcShart for
70 cents and that his wife had accus
Cd him II He said he killed Mary
Eckhart and assaulted her
Knapp also ted Jones 81 killing n
girl 10 Cincinnati He said be was
lying on stack Of lumber He threw
a piece Of timber down on The little
ones head lie thought some one
had seen him aud went down 10 ex.
anime the girl She was not quite
dead and be was afraid she would
survive and expose him. so he dnished
her by hitting her With plank Then
placing her in a stack Of lumber he
left her there
Knapp told zones that there were
other crimes that could be charged
10 him that would break bis oeCk
three or four times
one 81 the peculiar things about the
case Is that the confession made
while be was in the penitentisry was
never made public and no attempt
was made 20 arrest him on any charge
when he was released II be had been
arrested Hannah Goddard would bot
have been murdered
There b. much criticism Of the vari
Gus officials who knew Of the con.
fession for not making IL public or
seeing 20 Il that Knapp was rearrsst
ed According 90 the statement OF A
A. w mack. who was then sheriff ot
Marion -uunty the confession though
he cannot end il nov. was made In
the ores race = himself Warden Har.
ley. the Chaplain. Add the stcnograph-
er. Who took down in short hand
womack said he wanted the Judge
and the prosecutor 20 induce Cover.
nor Mount 20 pardon knapp 80 he
could be tried for the Gebhard muir
der. but they refused fearing Knapp
might NOT stand hy bis confession.
Womack said his term and the
terms OF an fhe other officials who
knew ~ 'ha ronfassi9n expired before
Knapp Vga released from the peui
teutiary ard hr elap0sei they bad
Just neglect fo see" hat anything
was done as Ta- the case With Tin