The daily Alaskan., 1905-04-18


 Der that the year previous occurred the revolutionof 1S4S During that uoublous period prominent member cf the leg islative body dciicd the rcvolutionistS. throwing all his Influence with the gov ernmcnt He statcd to several Intimate friends that he had been threatened with death by the ucvolutionlsts it hc did not cease his opposition Co their work. One day he was found dead and everybody knew that be had been muricrcd. Nevertheless the murderer or muricrCrS were never discovered This letter. rcccntly found among th. papcrS of the muplcrcd man that cs caped noticc at the time or thc mur der. was evidently written by ;hc lcadcl of a revolutionary society and threat cnei him with death if hc did not ac ccde Co the soCleU'S demands '
 The speaker threw the letter on the desk before the expert. lt read: Herr K;
 The revolutionary committee warns yau that if you speak tomorrow Co the citi- Eous of Berlin upholding the Nraut and dt7ouuCing the motives of the revolution ists You win never address another as ssmbly. By order of the committe,
 HANS OBERBECE, President
 The expert bent low over thc lcttC as he read 10.
 "Now, the receiver of this letter the visitor continued. "addUgsSCd thC meeting referred to and thc following day was found dead with bullet ir his back. Hans ObCrbcck Is well rc mCmherrd as a young enthusiast hui twcuty-two years Of age. lie disap ncarrd as soon as the revolution was suppressed. | have letters bearing date Of lS52. lS51 and lS5O which are siml lar in chirograplty Co the one beforc you though they bear a different sig naturc. | have come to you tor thc pur pose of getting your opinion as to the identity of the writer of these rccon. letters with the man who wrote thc one of lSiS,"
 The speaker threw three more letters on the desk. which Kuaft opened and appeared to study .ntcnty for a time then said: ''Thc lcttcrsl,earing tho name of OberbCck and these bearing the name of Herman cannot possibly have been written by the same person hc, cause | happen to remember that ober beck died of a fever In lSl9. Tho req. son I r,,mcmber his death Is that hC being a prominent neyolutionist it eN cited considerable comment at ths time"
 And if he had not died of a fev'l he would have died by the rope
 oI remember that. too" said tho ev rcrt In n scarccly audible voice.
 .sThcre is chapter of this little s,or, with which you are perhaps not Ca mlHar A year ago the grave of oher beck was opSucj and found Co contain a coffin fugl with stones.
 Eralft made DO reply, but bent low'' over trc Icttg~s. as though deeply I'm pcrsrl in tl,-n. Rising with the lo,tc. If OA,-s,yk m his hand hC held it uca lc lqun. as ff Co get better light ln led. so near that corner of h cau=H fra. In twiukUn- thc flame va. aluv-n out Uy the visitor, who covcrc' fBe expert at the same time with Q" volvcr
 "parlou me- said thc latter "Nou carcicssnuss came near costing a lifc.'
 "Wow SO"
 You arc not only to study this cas'' but you are to go over your testimor given today win view to seeing | YOU have not been mistaken"
 What is your Interest in that casey
 ~The prisoner is my brother and al tppoccnt man. That [ know. though can't prove it."
 How did you get these lettersT
 'T am the grandncphcw Of Her Keller. who was murdered by the revc lutionary committee, probably by Han | oberbcck himself. The Obcrbeck lct ter only came into my possession a ycc | aco. I immediately examined ohcr beck's grave, then put the case in th hands of detectives in America, wbcI A SO many INANANANNnA~AN HNNAAA aaAf"A hAa Aasco Of iS4S They got on thc iraS. of oberbeck. who returned Co thc fa therland in 1860. under the name O Herman. In 1861 he returned to Amer lea and entered the Union army. n 1866 he came to Berlin and has sine been living here under tbe name or
 "Yes. yes; see. I win go over m work in the Keller case and tomorrow will give revised testimony. A fe' days later will sail for the Unite States. Is this satisfactory"
 "It is"
 The next day Carl Kraaft was n called to the stand at his own reque' and pointed out errors in his testimon that he had discovered only the nlgi before. As this was the main test mony against the prisoner, he was s' quilted.
 Three days later the expert saile for America. KATE .CARTER-