The Cairo bulletin., 1905-07-08
SOON TO DIE So
HE KILLED HER
RENT WAS DUE, THEY WERE GO
ING TO MOVE AND He
THOUGHT IT WOULD MAKE
NO DIFFERENCE TO HAVE
HER OUT OF THE WAY.

Cleveland, o.. July 7-August Otto,
an elderly, decrepit man, killed his
wife with mallet- She was also old
and feeble The couple had several
grown up children,
Old Otto, after the crime, attempted
to hide all evidences of his guilt. He
said that she had fallen down stairs,
causing the terrible bruises on her
head
But in few hours Chief of Police
Kohler secured a confession from him
| This is the story the old man told:
Yes killed my wife. She had
only couple OF months to live any
! way SO I thought it would make no
difference. Besides, the rent was due
| the 18th and we were going TO move
| 1t would save trouble and expense to
| have the old woman ont Of the way
i "The old woman had become a ter
rfble burden to mo- She wasfso help
less that she could notseven dress her
Iself. The only work silie could do was
va little washing, AND esenT iaen HAD
70 Get the tubs ready and help her to
them. And then she upbraided me
for not working. and | am paralyzed
and unfit for work. The children sided
with her, too, until could stand it
no longer. So decided to make away
with her.
| II had decided to do the deed sew
eral days before How To do II with
out directing suspicion 10 myself was
the question. | didn't want to go to
Jail. To kill her was easy. She was
i old and helpless and could make no
| resistance. But | wanted to make
her appear the result Of accident,
4 How | thought ana pondered over
lit all. could not sleep nights for
4 thinking Of it. Her breathing at night
made me mad. You must stop breath
ing, said aloud She heard me and
asked me what l was saying. | told
her it was nothing Her words arous-
ed in me a passion Of hatred ! think
| must have been mad all the time
1T was ia the morning Of her death,
! about O'Clock, that bit upon a plan
! Then nothing held me back. All, il
was a clever plan, was II not?'
J The aged murderer turned to the
i officers with touch OF pride. He
wanted their admiration
After dinner ! helped her to het
big chair in the next room She Wen
to sleep, she who never had to do any
: work but slept, slept, slept all the
! time. And they gcoded me because
was too weak to work.
In the woodshed found a carpen
ter's maliet With this | crept bach
, into the room, There she lay, her face
! upturned, her eyes closed In sleep
!, Now was my time There was no ont
j in the house to hear her should sht
9 cry out
/, my strength full on her face. Sh,
I woke with feeble cry and started
: 70 weep. Blood was streaming dowr
} her cheeks and over her chin. Th'
I sight crazed me
\ Have you got enough I cried
, meaning was 1t enough to do for her
D She made no reply. but only wepi
Then ! struck again and again. hov
4 many times | do not know But di,
+ not stop until | knew she was past he
d scolding.
8 Her blood was streaming down on
, to the carpet Some of II got on m,
y hands. This gave me new idea.
y held my hands under the stream an,
filled them with It. Then went on
:. and threw It on the cellar steps and OF
y the floor. II would make them thin
h she had dropped II when carried he
4 from the cellar.
+. my clothes were bloody and
changed them threw the wet gal
mcnts under sofa. The mallet
il washed and hid in the attic over tn
" kitchen Then felt safe. 1t was
] clever plan. was II not?"
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