Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-25
S CHARGED WITH BIGAMY
Acknowledges He Knew the Muir
dered Anna Latter.
CROSSED THE OCEAN TOGETHER
Has Been Living at Astoria as
Frederick NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of His Wife to the Police.

NEW YORK, October 25.-Otto Mueller,
| the Astoria q. L. piano maker. was ar
| rested last night on the belief that he
might know something of the strange cir
| cumstances surrounding the death OF
Anna Latter, the young German woman
whose skeleon was recently discovered at
1slip, l.. I. Admissions made by him to-
day are expected by the police to bring
to light tale Of wholesale marriage and
murder rarely equaled in criminal records.
Mueller was arraigned today under the
name of Frederick Gebhardt on the for
NAL charge of bigamy, but the chain of
circumstantial evidence is drawn SO tight
~ about him that the police expect to
lodge a more serious charge against him.
Gebhardt lived at 357 Woolsey avenue
with his wife and two children. He work.
ed in the Steinway piano factory as a
cabinet maker.
Traced by German Dogs.
When Anna Latter and Mueller left
Germany they brought with them two
dogs of the kind used by the police
abroad and which have been introduced
into the department here. These dogs
in way led to the finding of the man
arrested last night
Efforts had been made to trace the
dogs which Anna Latter told her Newark
friends her husband had brought over
These were landed at Hoboken from the
steamship hich brought the pair back to
this country after their trip to Germany
The eXpressman was found in Jersey
City and recalled the dogs and the boxes
which he took from the pier. He led
the police to the home of the man ar
rested.
Traces of Dead Woman.
The detectives say that they found many
traces of the dead woman in the house
when they searched 1t. They found her
clothing, they declare. all marked with
the initials, "A. L." A gown marked with
the two letters was being worn by the
wife of the man arrested, and it was said
by the police that when they took her
husband away, Mrs. Gebhardt threw over
her shoulders to accompany them on the
way to the police station a steamer cloak
which, when examined later, was found
woman.
Gebhardt when first questioned by the
detective admitted he knew the young
woman. He said he grst met her on the
steamer on which they crossed the ocean,
He declared they parted when they
reached Manhattan.
Mrs. Gebhardt, Mueller's present wife,
has confided to the authorities that she
has lived In terror of her husband for
years, and that on one occasion her hus-
band while in his cups was overheard to
declare that she was his eighth wife and
that those who preceded her were all in
their graves.
Intending to Disappear.
Another point on which stress is laid
by the police is the finding of four notes
scribbled by Mueller. In which the writer
revealed his intention to disappear. All
are dated October %, the day of Mueller's
arrest, and contain instructions for the
disposal of his property. One of the notes
is addressed to the Long Island City Bank
and reads as follows:
please pay my account to my wife.
Anna Gebhardt. l am legally dead
Mueller admitted that he married the
Latter girl in February, 1908, but says
he deserted her three months later and
does not know what became of her there
after.
A box of .32-caliber revolver cartridges
was found today by the police in search
of the house which Mueller occupied in
Astoria, l.. l.
A fattened .32-caliber bullet was found
near the skeleton of the Latter girl at
the time OF its discovery.