The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-26
B|GAM|ST WHO
MARRIED GIRL
HER MURDERER
Wanted to Get Rid of Her and
He Took This Method to
Do It
CoMEEsSEs IN SAME COLO \
BL00DED MANNER OF DEED
When She Ran After Him and Repped
Him Not to Desert Her, He Shot
Her and Left Her Body Where II
Fell.

Fell.
New York, Oct. ga year and a
half ago friendless girl was mur-
dered in foresaken patch of wood.
land near lslip, l.. L.; a week ago her
bieached and charred skeleton was
iound. with nothing to indicate its
identity but her jewelry and a bill of
sale from German shop; three days
later. through the police of HAMBURG.
Germany, her identity was established
as Anna Luther. though the cables
hrst carried the name as Latter: last
night her husband, Frederick Geh-
nardt, was caught in Astoria. l..
DS photographers flashlight. and
today he confessed over his signature
that he is the murderer. The con-
fession follows:
About December, 1907, first met
Anna Luther. We were married in
february. 1905 and went to Europe to
i've. we returned April 6, 1908. She
went TO Henry Wertupp's, in Newark
N. D.. TO spend day or two On the
pretense that ] was goin gto rent an
apartment for uc to live in, | returned
to my home and wife in Astoria.
met Anna again on April in
Newark. and we went to an address
IN Thirty-fourth street, New York
and then to Jamaica. L. /. We STAYED
IN Jamaica until next day.
April 9 we went to Bay Shore and
we walked about and l showed her
some property got into an argu-
ment with her about some money
matters and l turned away and want.
Cd 10 go back. She followed me up,
screaming and I shot her in the head
! did not look at her and do not re-.
member whether | shot her more
than once.
Immediately after went to the
!sllp depot and took train for home.
1T was nearly dark On the wav
home Oh the train l threw the reyoi-
YER out of the car window.
just CuSSedneSs.
Il want to state that | did not kill
Anna Luther for her money as the
newspapers have stated My original
reason for malrying Anna was that
did not care to live with my first
wife any longer, but as she-my first
wlfe-had given me a child, my de-
sire to again see my child caused me
to want to get rid of Anna Luther and
return to my first wife and child.
rms is the reason why shot
Anna Luther and | told her in Bay
Shore that ! was married and had a
wife and child and must leave her.
She screamed and ran after ma
and kissed ME and wanted me hack
and l shot her.
Ihls confession is made on my
own free will without any hope OF
recompense being offered me-"
From the time of his arrest until
he broke down under the questions
OF the detectives. Gebhardt, although
he admitted that he committed big
amy when he married Anna Luther.
denied all knowledge of her death
How about this letter?" asked
Coroner Savage and he began to read
a note mailed the night before to the
German consul and signed Otto Muel-
Ter.
Il am the husband" it ran, .swith-
out doubt. of the woman, Anna Muel-
ler. After we arrived in New York
from Germany in April of last wear
we stayed in New York ten days
Then we went to Florida for the
health of my wife and settled there
for the time being.
In Jamaica, where l formerly lived
with my wife, she had received a
visitor whom she represented to me
to be a Mr.. Bradley Of Denver. From |
Florida we went to Denver and this {,
MIR. Bradley called again. In Septem-
ber, 1908, my wife disappeared, after
reproached her for seeing Bradley |
when l happened to be away for two |
days.
This man Bradley ID about six feet
high, with light hair, smooth face.
and claims to be a real estate dealer. !
[, Mueller, will at once go to Ger /
many to see my parents in law and
will then be at your service"
The same ineXplicable impulse
which had prompted Gebhardt to
write this fatal letter had led him to |
give to Bradley, who does not exist !
outside his own imagination, his own
description. AS soon as he
saw the letter again, his jaw dropped. |
he grew white. and began to shiver.
and before the reading was complet-
ed, exclaimed:
"Oh, what's the use anyway? You
have me and might as we'll own I
killed her."
Given verbally the confession as
related was even more shockinRly
brutal, the police say, than it appears
in the formal language of the police |.
officers, whose version Gebhardt
signed.
Il had to get rid of her." he said.
but didn't mean to kill her, I
thought first could.ge her to give
ME some money for land I didn't own.
So l took her down to Long Island
near some lots I did not own to let
her see the land. She wouldn't come