The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
WAS JEALOUSY
THE MOTIVE /?
Did Some Misled Othello Strike
Down the New Ulm
Dentist?
SsaS
New Facts Coming Out that May
Have Bearing on the
Mystery.

Special to The Journal.
New Ulm, Mimi, Nov. 4.-The muir
derer of DR.. u. A. Gebhard is still I'M
caught and the murky depths Of the
mystery are still unillumined. If the
detectives who are working on the case,
have discovered anything that will
shed light on the bloody affair, they
are keeping their own counsel. The ap-
parent absence of motive for the
crime is perhaps the most puzzling as
pect of the case. The robbery theory is
not credited by anyone. Since avarice
has been eliminated, there remains re-
venge. But revenge for whats The
dentist hadn t an enemy in the world,
so far as his friends knew. The suspi-
cion that crosses every detective s
mind when he gets to this point is ex,
pressed in the one word, Jealousy.
That was why such careful search was
made of the doctor s private papers. A
scrap Of a love letter might have. given
a clue to the identity of the Jealous
man, if such a one had struck the den
list down after a stormy and passionate
interview. But, SO far as known, the
doctor had no love affairs that would
have aroused jealousy. Is it not possl-
BILE. however, that the jealousy was not
well founded, that some modern Othello
had been goaded into his murderous at
tack by Htrifes light as airoY Thus
have the detectives reasoned. And they
have, with this theory in mind, striyeln
4 to ascertain. what work the dead den
fist had done for lady patients in the
/ recent past. What they have found
and what they may trace from such evil
dence, does not appear as yet.
Young Kellar Is Hysterical.
! So much for theories. Now, in fol
lowing out the facts, the officials have
been much impressed with the story OF
M. B. Neumann and his wife, who saw
/ two men at the foot Of the stairway
before the murder. One of these they
7 identified as Albert Kellar, a youth 0!
lis or 16. who works in a. nearby. drus
store. The other they did not know
:1but thew heard him tell Kellar that |:
he heard anything he was to come up.
~ The Journal man has seen ant
talked with. young Kellar, and finds j
hard to believe that the boy was con
Injected in any direct way with the If
/ fair. Possibly he was used to get. in
i formation about the dentist. He is il
& a hysterical condition, due perhaps. t
and to his finding himself the centte
4 of gossip just at this time. He denie
4 all knowledge of the crime and say
1.-The Young man with him was Alber
I Haegerle, who seems to have no connec
4 tion with the case.
Old Shooting Affair Recalled
/, Young Kellar has sister who wa
married about year ago to a brake
/ man on the Chicago & North Western
Z The couple live here and both say the,
= were at home and in bed before j
O'Clock on the night of the murder
The. wife has been having some denta
work done by DR.. Gebhard Of such
mature that it has required her to yisi
this office frequently of late. For som
reason that does not yet appear: tn
4 officials have thought best to search tn
! brakeman g home -thoroly and to ques
ton the pair closely. They found noti
I ing suspicious in the; house, and thei
questions ELECTED nothing except a
alibi that seemed complete.
J, The married life of the two has no
{ always been unruffled. There was
!, little affair not long after their MAJ
I rage that caused much talk, but fna
4 " came to nothing except an ineffe,
: tive pistol shot The wife had been on
Y spending the evening at the house Of