The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-19
MURDERED
SIX WOMEN |. i
Alfred, Knapp, Slayer Of Many
Wives, Electroc,,tcd This
Morning.
II Il 5s.s }s d, Il 81 II
HIS NERVE STOOD BY HIM
AZ One Time, However, Said He
Couldn't Go TO Death
Chair.
IS NERVE STOOD I, 10 BY HIM
,(By Associatcd Press.)

(By Associated Press.) 4,5s
COLUMBUS, OHIO, August Is. ALI fred
"A. Knapp, convicted of the murder Of
his third wife. Hannah Goddard Knapp.
and who confessed to five murders. was q
telectrocuted Ia tho annex at the ONO
pententiary a few minutes after mid MD.
night. Knapp, who weakened when he l!s
found his last hope for life had gone
and expressed a fear that he would have
to be carried to the death chalr, regained
his nerve and met his fate with little
show Of fear or emotion The electro
icutiot, was performed without a hitch
the first shock being applied at y :o2,
the sseciord 3. minute later, and at 2::Ca
he was pronounced dead @ & l.ss * a
s}s9 Five Other Murders.
Knapp confessed 10 having committed
five murders, all OF his victims q being
women. 55 ~ e Els III SIS. Az ~ 4
1se2.g ana for twenty years live ed d on g
farm. His first criminal act was va: e IN
5Chica so. where no committed 81 burglary
He served a sentence at J Of let for that
Soefense. 81 M ost 8 I his Il Of lenses were
against women ind children, and Id
spent more than half OF the pas TWEEN
Ity.two years ehind prison ba rs. But
for chance word, dropped #unconsc lo U.S.
W his 4 last crime Won Id proba bly, = ever
have been traced to him 5f{js Il ,3s
In Quick succession.
Shortly afterSh his release from ] oliet In!
1884, he married Emma Sthbbs at Terres
sHuate, Ind ..& but was divorced from her
within a. year. N IN 1885 he married u ems
ME Connors at Lawrenceburg, II d .S3#s4s Be:i
tween 1886 and V 1894 Knapp was fined
I IN a3le peni tentiarie IN q Je ffersonvtlle;s
and Mich gan CIT and short lyS fters his
release according to- his story he MUIR
idcred EnaS u tleman Il In Sa& lumb Der yard
An Cincinnati ~ III claims to have killed
May Eckert In Cincinnati III 1894
Later In August OF that year. the body
/ Of Jennie Connors Knapp was Sound lin
1 a canal In Cincinnati, the circumsta nces8
pointing to suicide and IA We "a was
SO rendered ISina PIP ella Inns ale X LIED
her on AUG gust u III, II and threw the body
into the canal. siss 5s558
B In 1886 Ida Geppert was murde cred In
Indtanap polls and Knapp claims to- have
killed her. q Afterwards knapp returned;
to Cincinnati. and inS51 1896 married Han
nah Goddard Wit h. hom he lived six
months. N sa
In 1897 he again appea red III ndianapo-.
lis,9 and n was ntnced to- the Michigan
city pen4tent!a for ri ~ ~ his gcous-
III Two years later { he was sentenced to
the Columbus penitentiary from Cincin-
natl for two year pom e charge Of ass
saul. Is 81 s3 81 N;
Bigany Charg
In 800, II he was released and returned
to- his WIFE, then living IN Hamilton, O..
On December 22d. Ii his + wife nysterio usly
dlsapp Shortly afterwa ia Knapp
went to Indiana polls.
On February q. 1908, III Mrs. Edward
King. Vi OF Eli Cummlnsville near Cincinnati
notified the Hamilton police that Knapp's
wife was missing. a nd that he had married
Anna Gamble at indianapolis Knapp
was arrested there son April %. 900. :E 81
# He was Il relea sed to Hamilton In the
belief that the charge against him was
bigamy. Once In 4 the \: Hamilton Jail he
was openly charged with Il he murd rHofaa
his wi Ell a t y first l,e stoutly denied It'll
but 4he f nally mao Q a confession In which
he admitted killing his wife and said
that he put her bod in a dry goods box
and cast Into the Big Miami River.
subsequently lie made a written c0nfes-S
sion, naming the four other mu rers. n L,
He was speedily tried, found guilty and
sentenced to be eectrocuted 81 q