The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-03
REVOLVING RECORD
OF A HUMAN TIGER
Knapp Tells of the Murdero,
Five Women.
81 COULD NOT HELP ~.
Some Kind Of Desire 10 XII Too. Hat.tv
and Could not Resist the Ten5.
tation,' the Monste,
Declares.
Il COULD NOT HELP ~
(By the Associated Pre-

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Hamilton. @. Feb. -6.-Fisa m.-
the victims OF which vec. al.
ana TWO Of them his WIyes-sa..
revolving record OF Albert Kaa..
today in a sworn confession eta.n ..
murderer before Mayor Bosch. E
according to the police. is q s..
OF a pronounced type. The ma-.
his third wife. Annie Goddard K-
which led to Knapp's arrest yes....
Indianapolis, was done. 4 don z ....
Why TO quote the prisoner.
Knapp's confession. which u.s
to before Mayor Bosch. is as folla..
Q January =. 1894. ] killed En.
Littleman in a lumber yard la ..
street, Cincinnati, ON Aas..
|, 1924. l killed May Eckort ia Wa.a
street, just opposite the Y. Al.
in Cincinnati. ON August Z. l>a3. z KILL.
my wife. Jennie Connors Knapp un.-
the canal bridge in Liberty street. l#-.
cinnati and threw her into the canal q.
indianapolis in July. 1895. ! killed l.
Gebhard. ON December -. 1902. I NH..
my wife, Annie Knapp, at @29 S..a
Fourth street, in Hamilton and ,H-..
her into the river at L~iudenWala. ~N.
is the truth.
"ALBERT KNAPP
81 make this statement by my oUu fs..
Will and not by the request OF aay OFF,
Ger or any one else.
(Signed) "ALBERT KNAP.
The confession clears up the mystery
Of a~t.least one death-that Of Jennie Con.
nors Knapp, Knapp's second wife, Th.
woman's body was found in the sluggish
waters of a canal near Cincinnati. Eru
were discovered on the head but an .r-
Vestigation led to no definite conclusion
concerning the manner of her death.
The most recent of the murders to
which Knapp has confessed-tha of Ha
third wife, Annie Goddard Knapp. of
Hamilton, led TO his arrest at the hone
Of his fourth bride in Indianapolis. An
uncle of the victim, hearing OF knapp
marriage to a Miss Gamble in Indiana
polls a few days after the mysterious
disappearance of his niece, formerly Am
ME Goddard, started an investigation
The police were prepared for a grge-
some story today. Knapp having admitted
his guilt of the Goddard murder las,
night. but they were dumbfounded at Tho
revelations which the prisoner made when
put under oath today.
After his confession Knapp admit
that he had repeatedly assaulted women.
He said:
Il met the Littleman child in the hum
Der yard and choked her to death when
she made an outcry.
Il went into the room with the 'ckert
girl, sat down with her. She cried aud
Strangled her with a towel and hurried
from the home.
Il was mad at my wife, JENNIE Counors
Knapp, hen | killed her. We We're
walking along Liberty street. / sat her
down under the bridge and chokcd her TO
death. | deny that l poisoned her. ! never
told anyone | did. After She was dead /
threw the body into the canal.
Ida Gerhard killed, but my memrrg
is not clear as to what lid. / cannot
tell what made me kill these people.
could not help it. Some kind of a desire
to Kill took hold of me and could not
resist the temptation to kill. | an sorry
for my crimes, but now | hope they VIII
be easy with me-"
After the confession a formal charge of
murder in the first degree was filed.
Attorney G.. Z. Tenney. Of Cincinnati
was allowed to see Knapp and told him
to make no further statement. Knapp
was surprised that his people had secured
a lawyer for him.
Knapp talks much of the Pearl Bryan
murder and is afraid Of being lynched
Knapp is now suspected Of straugl.ur
three women AZ Evansville. Ind. and OF
killing women elsewhere. He was lu th.
cincinnati House Of Refuge when -
years old and new records are being dis
covered almost hourly.
Alfred Knapp. the s~elf-confessed muir
derer, made a long statement tonight r.
the jail. He adhered to his written con-
fess1on and added some points. OF tha#"
the most interesting relates to his f<#
wife, Emma Stubs, whose fate had been
overlooked. Knapp declares that she :
sun alive, and is now in Louisville. Ky.
lie says that she got a divorce from hiw.
another chapter was added to Kuau.s
list of confessed crimes tonight. .Hh.'
he asserted that he was implicated T..
several hold-ups here last Decembar.