Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-26
KILLED PLEADING GIRL
Gebhardt, Alias Mueller, Con-
fesses IsIip Murder.
ISLAM AS SHE KISSED HIM
He Had Tired of Other Wife, But
Loved Her Child.
LETTER BRINGS ADMISSION
He Had Written to German Consul,
Trying to Throw Suspicion
on Another.

NEW YORK, October o6-Whie she
had her arms about his neck declaring
her love for him in spite OF his confess
sion of bigamy, and while she was en-
| treating him tearfully not to desert her
Frederick Gebhardt. alias Otto Mueller
shot and killed Anna Luther and threw
her body into the underbrush in 1slip
l.. L.. according to his own confession
yesterday.
BY some strange and inexplicable i'm
pulse Gebhardt had written letter that
will probably send him to the death
chair in Sing Sing, a letter that brought
solution of the mystery Of the murder
of the girl whose bleached and charred
skeleton was found in a forsaken patch
Of woodland.
Describing an imaginary man as the
probable murderer of his wife. Anna Lu-
ther. whom he had married under the
| name of Otto Mueller, Gebhardt gave his
own personal description in this letter
which he mailed Sunday night to the
German consul and signed Otto Mueller
He was caught late Sunday night by
photographers fiashlight and last
night he confessed over his signature
that he was the murderer.
Villainy All Preconceived.
He admitted to the police that from
the moment he met the girl the marriage
and all the happenings subsequent there
to. including the encompassing of her
death to avoid the plurality of wives,
had been preconceived.
The confession was made calmly, dis
passionately, In the manner of stole who
had been beaten at his own game and who
seemed Indifferent to the fact that the
law demands his own life as the penalty.
His admissions were made to Coroner
Savage of Islip in Brooklyn police hea !!
quarters.
Gebhardt. who was arrested at his home
in Astoria. Is not exactly ill-looking, but
his protruding chin shows grim determi-
nation, and his face is scanned with hard
lines.
Gebhardts only excuse was that, while
he had tired of his first wife and had de-
termined not to go back to her, the fact
that she had borne a child to him had a
sentimental effect. The memory of his
little girl appea led to him and he sacrificed
the life of the young woman whom he had
betrayed for the sake of his child.
While on his way to the jail I'm lslip.
handcuffed to Coroner Savage, the young
wife whom he had left in the little home
at Astoria was hugging and petting two
little children, one of whom is less than
one year old and the other less than
three.
She appeared unsophisticated. She was
entirely unaware of the fact that her hus-
band had confessed.
Wrote to German Consul.
After having been locked up in the
Adams street police station. in Brooklyn,
all night Gebhardt was taken over to po-
lice headquarters in this city early yester-
day morning to be examined by Police In
spector McCafferty. He was photographed
for the rogues' gallery and made to walk
past the lineup of lieutenants, that all Of
them might study his face.
Gebhart was then taken over to the
Brooklyn police headquarters to await the
arrival of Coroner Savage of Suffolk
county. II had beenslearned in the mean
time that he was the author of letter