The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01
AN ABNORMAL
DEGENERATE
Medical Experts Have Pro-
nOuncsd Knapp Sane.
MURDERER IS AFRAID TOBsE
TIE LEAST NOISE IN THE JAIL
sTARTLEs HIM.

TT ABIILTON, O.. Feb. est IS cur
rently reported about the jail to-
day that knapp IS considering
another confession that viii cover 9th
ar crimes. Meantime while the officers
are seekinEaau the information p0ssi-
bic from him. itthas been decided that
his first trial win be here for the muir
b Ser Of his third wife. Hannah Goddard
unless the trial judge holds that cor
pus deficit has not been established by
the confession Of Knapp and other evi-
dence that the officers have in their
possession.
Suspected CT other Crimes.
Prosecutor Gard and other attorneys
now hold that it is absolutely neees-
Eary to find the body OF Mrs Hannah
Goddard Knapp i'm order to try the
prisoner here. and accordingly a
search for the body was begun, which
continued today. In any event Knapp
viii have at least a temporary hearing
before ne is turned over to the authOrl-
ties at Cincinnati or Indianapolis The
affidavit and other documents, as wei
as the confession, are On readiness for
a hearing, and If the body IS not found
soon the prosecution viii proceed WITH
out it.
Meantime Knapp is being questioned
more closely by officers on his general
record, although he Is no longer keep
ing open house with reporters, police
and others To whom he has been talk
ing so freely, and il is believed that he
Is on the verge of telling of other
crimes.
Knapp a Degenerate.
Among those who have been with
him today We're medical experts who
pronounced him sane. but abnOrmally
degenerate. Knapp himself is perfect
by Indifferent whether he is tried in
Hamilton. Cincinnati or Indianapolis
He seems TO have no dread of trial.
but is very apprehensiye Of lynching
or some form of violence, and those
who watch him say that he is really
cowardly. The least noise that is not
an ordinary jail noise startles him. He
has been assured time and again that
he is not 90 be lynched; that there IS
no danger whatever, and that he viii
be protected until the law can take its
course.
Though the taking of life with him
was mere pastime, he himself is
afraid 20 die. He wants 90 live. even
though he Is behind prison bars. In
lue nope OF saving MS me- ms Idlull1
say that he is insane, and insanity will
be his plea for his NE.
Talks in His Sleep.
The prisoner is a talker I'm his sleep,
but his words are not plain. He mutt
tiers all the time, and the opinion is
that he IS going over and over the
scenes Of lis awful crimes. In order
20 give him mental rest no one win be
permitted TO see him for several days
After a session today I'm the sweat
box" 30 was thought that Knapp burned
several. barns I'm this county last sum
mer so as TO rob the houses while the
barns were burning. lit was also the
opinion of some experts present that
Knapp was influenced in his murderOuS
assaults by emotional insanity. It has
been discovered that he made at least
two unpFOvOked attempts 10 XIII women
here whom he met on the street and
did not know. Knapp was given a bath
clean clothing and shave today and
he looked much better. Later he was
seized with stomach pains and DIT.
Brown was called The doctor found
The prisoner very sick and ordered him
10 be kept quiet