New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-02

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fensive men in the city, always tending
to his own business and rarely making
an enemy. There was not a man in
New Ulm who was better liked and
could number a larger list of friends.
An old grudge, formed years ago in
Wisconsin before Gebhardt moved to
this city, may explain the enigma.
! But it there was any such ancient
grudge held by a desperate enemy, it
is not known to anyone in New Ulm.
/ Two weeks ago the murdered man
received box by mail containing a
bottle Of what was to all appearances
a sample bottle of headache medicine
He showed it to his neighbor, DR..
Reineke, and the latter told him that
it did not look like sample bottle
and expressed the fear that it might
be poison and warned him not to take
it.
II do not know of an enemy [ have
in the world" said the doctor, sswho
would wish to kill me.''
So saying he emptied the contents
into the sink.
FOUGHT HARD FOR LIFE.
DR.. Gibhardt was a powerful man
and the room shows that he did not
die without a terrible struggle. The
rug is scuffed up and several chairs
are overturned. The murderer evil
IDENTIFY walked into the Offices where
the doctor was working and locked
the door behind him.
DIR. Gebhardt was in his laboratory
and had his work coat ON, according
to the story told by DIR. Reineke, who
left Hmm but few minutes before the
tragedy. When the stranger entered
the doctor evidently removed his coat;
whether he saw the desperate look in
the MANS eye and knew that he was
called upon to defend his life cannot
be known. It seems more likely that
the stranger told him he wished some
work done on his teeth, for the muir
derer evidently lassed into the labor
atory and picked up the small ham
mer which the doctor used in break
ing plaster paris casts.
}. Then he must have sneaked up be-
hind his intended victim and struck
him terrible blow with the hammer
, in the back of the head.
Whirling on his assialant, DIR. Geb-
hardt closed with him and began a
, desperate struggle for life. But he
was stunned, and although under or
, binary circumstances he could have
, overpowered him, according to the
description of the man, he found him
5 self fighting hopelessly.
SLABS MANY TIMES.
The. murderer had knife in his
hand and this he plunged again and
t again into the helpless man. In al
3 there are from ten to fifteen stabs, or
! both sides of the throat, insthe back
5 of the neck and in the temple
When the struggling men fell, the
murder er continued his bloody work
e Many times he stabbed his PROSTATE
!. victim and his hand was only stayed
f by the sight of the man at the transon
b who was beholding his awful deed.
e Leaving the body in a pool of blood
b which soaked through the rug ant
S floor and into the plaster of the room
) below, with his hands bloody and hi
d clothes stained with the crimson sigl
of guilt. the deplorable criminal thel
/. made his way into the Office of DR.
e Reineke and, leaving a bloody trai
n where he touched the curtains an,
e window in his flight, cut the screel
d and with the aid of telephone wire
1t swung to the ground below.
DESCRIPTION OF MURDERER.
,e An excellent description of the muir
a derer has been furnished by MI
1t Brooks. He was Of medium weigh
IS and height, rather pale, as though b
ID were employed in inside work, ha
4. black hair, and a slight black nous
ne tache. He wore black suit of clothe
IN and was respectfully dressed.
i'd DR.. Gebhardt was a member of th
re Masonic fraternity and his local chat
We ter is offering a reward of 5000 fc
ne the capture of the murderer, until sue
d, time as the state takes action.
d, DR.. Gebhardt was 80 years old ar
d, moved here about six years ago fro
in Black River Falls, Wis, where h
parents still live. He had enjoyed a
excellent practice in dentistry. Fl
ne family have been notified and are e:
r. pected by the first train.
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