Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-26

| that had been sent to the German conSui,
! at No. II Broadway, last Friday.
The letter was evidently intended to
| ward off the danger of detection. of which
| the man by that time was in mortal terror.
! From the time of his arrest until he
| broke down under the questions OF the
detectives Gebhardt. although he adj
| mitted that he committed bigamy when
/ he married Anna Latter, denied all knowl-
| edge of her death.
Letter Staggers Prisoner.
How about this letter." asked Coron-
| note to the German consul and signed
Otto Mueller.
| II am the husband it ran. without
| doubt of the woman. Anna Mueller.
| After we arrived in New York from Ger
many, in April Of last year, 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.
! I'm Jamaica. where l formerly lived
with my wife. she had received visitor
| whom she represented to me to be Mr..
| Bradley of Denver. From Florida we went
| to Denver and this Mr.. Bradley calleti
appeared. after l reproached her for see
ing Bradley when l happened. to be away
| for two days.
This man, Bradley, is about six feet
L IL.
| claims to be a real estate dealer. l,
Mueller will at once go to Germany to
| see my parents-in-law, and will then be at
| your service.
| jaw dropped. he grew white and began
to shiver and before the reading was
| completed exclaimed:
."Oh. what's the use. anyway? You
have me and l might we'll own ]
killed her
Had to Get Rid of Her"
Given verbally, the confession as re-
lated was even more shockingly 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
''hut didn't mean to kill her. I thought
| first | could get her to Rive me some
money for land ] didn't ON So l took
| her down to Long Island near some
lots | did own to let her see the land.
''She wouldn't come to terms and I told
! her then that / was already married.
and had a child I loved; that l was tired
of her and wanted t9 go back to my
''She began to cry and plead and
| scream and run about. She told me she
loved me and kissed me. AS she put
up her face to kiss me again, l shot her
| in the head
he Signs a Confession.
| Gebhardt signed the following state
ment:
About December 1907. I first met Anna
/ Luther | married her on February 10,
| 1908, and went to Europe with her. We
returned on April 6. 1905. and she went to
Henry Werpupps. in Newark. N. J.
went home to my wife in Astoria. On
April s l met her in Newark and from
! there we went to the 34th street ferry.
We went to Jamaica and stayed there
until the next day. April ..
Then we went to Bayshore. where we
took walk. and showed her some prop
erty which l owned. l got into some ar
gument with her about money matters
and turned away from her and wanted
to go back She followed me up. scream
| ing. and ] shot her in the head. / did
not look at her and | don't remember
whether ! shot her more than once.
Immediately went to Islip and took the
| train home. 1T was nearly dark by this
| time and in the train ! threw the re-
voiver out of the car window.
Il want TO state that | did not kill
! Anna Luther for her money. My reason
| first wife any longer, but she had
given me d child. my desire to again see
| the child caused me to want to get rid
of Anna Luther and return to my first
wife and child.
| II told Anna Luther out in Bayshore
that I had wife and child and must
leave her. She screamed and ran after
me and kissed me and wanted me back
and I shot her
This confession having been made, Geb-
hardt was taken to the Adams street
police court. where he was discharged
| from the custody of the police of Kings
county alid turned over to Coroner Saw
age. who took the man to Islip, where
4 L. ,,,,u hn fndo ri n
! of homicide.
Identified by Three Women.
While awaiting the arrival of Coroner
Savage, witnesses from Newark were
asked to identify the man. They were
Henry Werpupp of 1919 South 9th street.
| Newark and his wife; Miss Mary kra-
mer, a nurse. and Miss Margaret Dus-
J chauser who had been employed by the
Werpupps and had seen Anna Luther
and Mueller.
| Acting Capt John ID. Coughln of the
detective bureau placed Gebhardt in line
with seven other men. The cabinet
maker had shaved off his mustache last
Saturday and owing to his changed ap-
him. Mrs. Werpupp and her two COM
panions. however, had keener eyes and
memories and at once picked the man
out of the group. Gebhardt then showed
the first signs of weakening.
Gebhardt, when he was in Germany.
bought two German police dogs, and II
was by tracing the dogs that the detec-
| tives found his home in Astoria While
a newspaper photographer CHANGED a
fashhght at the dogs the flare revealed
the pale face Of Gebhardt peering from
the chinks of an Clubhouse. He was run
| down and arrested.
| Gebhardt met the wife with whom ne
! was living at Astoria through MIS- A:
| BERGER who conducts matrimonial
agency at 147 East SD street.