The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-02
TWENTY KNIFE
WOUNDS ON BODY
Night Assassin Brutality Murders
DR.. Gebhard, a Dentist
of New Ulm.
Terrible Struggle in the Barred
Office of the Latter Motive
a Mystery.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
New Ulm, Mimi, Nov. "A crime in
q business block on a principal street
here last night reproduced in real life
the bloody and weird fctions of Du-
mas or Poe.
DR.. L. A. Gebhard, a young dentist,
was brutally. murdered in his office at
about 10 o'clock by an unidentified as
sailant. A blood-stained knife and
hammer were found near his body.
The room presented picture of in
describable horror and confusion, and a
IDENTIFY taken place between the young
dentist and his assailant. Much of the
furniture was broken, and blood was
smeared upon it and spattered the
walls. Pools Of blood were on the
floor. a1I-t
! Gebha 7: body. particularly, the head q
Wounds several ws Of pv which Would alone
have caused death. Circumstances indi-
cate that he was first stunned by a
blow on the head with the hammer and
that while he lay PROSTATE his MUIR
derer bent over him and slashed his
face and neck with a knife. Fifteen
body.
Saw the Murderer. j..
Asa P. Brooks, editor Of the New
Ulm Review saw the murderer in the
very midst of his carnival Of blood and
gives fair description of him. The
office Of the Review is directly below
the one which was occupied by DR.
Gerhard. At 10 o'clock last night Mr.
Brooks heard sounds Of scuffle over
pressed by the noise, thinking that The
furniture in the room above was being
moved about. He heard no cries fo1
help, but, the strange noises continuing
1 he finally ran up the stairs to the sec
ond floor to investigate.
Climbing upon the banister Of thu
the transom Of DR.. Gebhard's office
His chances fell at once upon an ap
palling spectacle. DIR. Gebhard wa
upon the floor covered with blood, Will,
bending over him and slashing his bod,
with knife was a young man, tn
murderer. ~
The eyes Of the editor and the mur
derer met for an instant, and, fearin,
I he would be shot, the former jumpe,
from his point Of vantage and ran t.
the floor below. ,.. ~
4 When he again returned it was to-
tlate-the assassin had escaped. TIL
door Of DR.. Gerhard IS office was LOCKED
! land the authorities when summoned ha,
by cutting out the screen in the windoy
i overlooking the alley. and then ha'
severed telephone wire and, by mean
Of it, let himself down to the ground
He had disappeared as mysteriously a
he had come. 49,
4 Mr.. Brooks says the murderer Is
medium-sized man, Of smooth face an
between 90 and Is years Of age. II
!had very dark hair and wore blac
clothes. Apparently he was not a work
, ing man, but rather had the appearance
Of living an indoor life.
, Motive Unexplainable.
Il Officers and citizens are completed
. at a loss for the motive behind th
= arm Of the murderer. A safe in tn
: office of the dentist was found ope1
r but nothing appears to have been take
! from it. IF the murderer was original
q bent on robbery, he seems to have bee
: frightened away before the commissio
of such crime. The robbery theory
Z secuted as not Offering rational 9,
u PLANTATION Of the affair. A burgls
: would have damaged the safe, but tt
d doctor himself had evidently opened
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