Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-26
OF
| MANY MURDERS.
4. Knapp Taken From the
Home Of His Bride
Emgy WERE THE VICTIMS
nave MARRIED -Four OF
- rheIr Deaths Very
Iysterlou"

.,,oll. Ind, Feb, 25.-Albert a.
na'D @,.,nsrly Of Hamilton, o. was
W" 10 me- police today rom tue
n y Ne Il" bride on a charge of mur.
l some Knapp was arrested and
Z" ~sld,n named was Anna May
y u Knapps fourth wife, and
nu \, otbers have disappeared IN a
which warrants investigation
la .n 4 & said, married the follow q
- -1,,.D in the order given; Emma
,,. Jennie Connors, Hannah Cod
d and May Gamble ,.
nn brmerly lived In Hamilton
ADa', KISS Connor and later MISS
h,S according TO a complaint
la' ~ me police at Hamilton by an
Y y S5.anpeared Dee. % last. About
eseks ago Knapp was married 10
Gamble In Indianapolis.
nySstigation at Hamilton showed
!. ,G,s GODDARD, or Mrs Knapp NO
..,Iv disappeared Dec, p, and that
, sIieUlng day Knapp was seen TO
i,om a house a large box ana car
sway In a wagon rented from "a
nv stable. Further investigation
MA Mad Jennie Connors, wife NO.
~. fnnd dead a few years ago In
,,rsl a, Hamilton. The coroner in
,rsstad Al the time but arrived at
/ Ss6nle conclusion regarding the
ksnner Of her death,
4 |, pollce headquarters Knapp was
1 ,.tIoned concerning the whereabouts
1 NM third wife. he said she disap-
IA from her home Dec, 2 and that
1 ld not know what had become of
when asked what he had in the
which he carted away from his
kmq me day after his wife was last
I Knapp seemed confused, but final
4 eypalned that he disposed Of a box
1 nj clothes In his confusion he said
4 hsd thrown the box away about two
4, from his home. The police say
'app has served eight years in the
&rhehtary
Knapp Is an lnaSnapolls man, hav-
been reared IN tbs city His par
4 slr. and Mrs c. j. Knapp, me- Vi
| Cincinnati about a month ago.
KNAPP has a local police record and
= served many years IN the peni-
ktaY. He was sent 10 the Michigan
5y penientlS. > IN October, 1899, for
yean for assaulting Alice Hall, a
gng gh. He was released in June,
he has also served terms in the
hons Of Joliet ILL.,, Jacksonville,
and Columbus, O., for various
nes
dispatch from Jacksonville, Ind,
sfnls connors. Albert A. Knapp's
md wife, who was mysterlously
Vned, was an Indiana woman. Her
nt vas at lawreneeburg, this state.
ADD was sentenced TO the local pris-
! Dso IS 1s@, from Dearborn county.
occupation was given as that OF
shoemaker His term was for one
tpalch from Hamilton. O., where
filp was taken after his arrest in
city, says
rapp admitted this afternoon to Di-
ol q Police Mason, Capt Lehman
Mayor Bosch that he choked his
TO death on the morning of Dee.
ell he says he does not know why
90 50. He says he then came up
hired O shipping wogan. secured
wooden box from one OF the shoe
Y and drove back home. There he
Eld ne body into the box. being
ga to double 1t up In order to eet
"a down, He then drove TO Linden
about two miles south Of Hamil-
ana crossed over 10 the Miami
III lusl west Of Lindenwald Reach
a high bluff over the river he
nIsd The box containing the body
he rlyef and drove back 10 town
ellpp was then taken In hand by the
e and ordered to take them 10 tho
where be had thrown the body.
ga 50 and pointed out the place
y ne had pushed the box over the
d embahkment. Wv
lsh ae was taken back TO ian
nv lold Chief OF Police Kumertjng
q Dad something else on his mind
D. ns would tell before he died 81
% e, i TO you in the morning" he
.,.,l eat VIII not ten anything about
\, snslt ! cry every time / thing of
r. nIs .hl1,l end | feel like crying
Tsl. . lnlnk Of this other thing"
'-s statement Is believed 10 he the
, Of a confession from the
' a,i,.. lnat be Killed his first and sec
|,, siFe,. both Of whom dled mvste-
IN, ~ :, Ills first wife died suddenlv
\ M. - seats ago, and he soon mar
' We. second, whose body WAS fonnd
. NdlAl In cinaigp.tf h. 49,. ANuiiA