Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-29


them not to fall into the hands of such
as he.
When the complete list of the crimes
for which Gebhardt is now believed to
be responsible was furnished to coroner
Savage, the kindness which until now has
the prisoner. vanished. He made imme-
diately for tine mans cell for the puf-
pose of forcing a complete confession.
He entered the cell like whirlWind
and walking up to Gebhardt seizeQ MN
by the shoulders and shouted:
"Gebhardt, you killed Marie katz!'
Marie Katz died suddenly after leaving
her home In Jamaica In 1905 with man
named Mueller. believed to be the pris'
"Ah, come Off, Gebhardt drawled de-
risively. II know all about her from
reading the newspapers this morning:
They say l killed her. Well, Doc, just
let it go at that"
The coroner was visibly staggered at
the hardness of the tone. A vicious
light cleaned in the mans eyes.
Then the coroner asked him about the
woman who mysteriously disappeared
from Astoria and was last seen in his
company in a saloon on Steinway avenue.
The prisoner only shrugged his shoulders
:, and said:
Coroner Is BaMed Again.
"Oh. know all about that. too-from
the papers 1 am getting wise to every
thing from the papers, so guess won't
say anything"
!, "Gebhardt," said the coroner. when
you went under the name of Scharferlein
and married the Link girl what did you
do with herr"
! The prisoner laughed.
"scharferlein" he exclaimed Say.
Doc, that's good, isn't 1t? Don't you
know what scharferiein means? why,
that means the little shepherd ! was
the nice little shepherd she married and
by whom she was cared for.
shepherd but / confessed to you about
that, didn't l, Doc? / told you about it
Yesterday. all about how the little shep-
herd went n to Sing slng; But I'm not
Completely baffled, the coroner gave
orders to the jailer to pass no more
newspapers into Gebhardt's cell.
AS he emerged from the room the
soothing voice Of the prisoner could still
be heard:
But il the women don't want to meet
any more little shepherds let them keep
away from the matrimonial agencies
That's their whole trouble, and that's
what got me in bad, too"
Owing to the fact that Gebhardt seems
to manifest hostility toward no one ex-
cept his present wife, the police hope
his past and will try to get it from her
At the inquest Gebhardt confessed that
he had married Anna Luther merely be-
cause he hated his present wife. He
chose for the ceremony the second amir
versary of his earlier marriage.
! According to Mrs. Gebhardt, he seemed
to feel a kind of justification for his
hatred of her in her refusal to turn over
planned to her relatives about her. Final
ly. she said, he beat her repeatedly, tried
to get grounds for divorce and told
l'her of seven previous wives under
ground"
Coroner Bafhed by Lies.
HE has lied to me from the start" said
Dr. Savage, except when he confessed
to numbering Anna Luther. 1 believe he
is guilty Of all the crimes charged against
him. 1t is fair to assume that he muir
dered the katz woman.
| Il believe he has absolutely no moral
sense, for he eats heartily, sleeps like q
llog and seems to have no care as to what
be in store for him. He now makes alb
solute denial to the charge of triple muir
der, and only grins when l talk to him.
Il believe that We shall get him to adj
NIT knowledge of Mrs. Marie KATE, Emma
Schroeder and other women who have
been mentioned as his dupes or victims
as soon as we get little more substan-
tial evidence against him. He denied mis-
pr son sentence and earlier marriage to
Anna Link also until We obtained the
lpolice records. l believe the hope of Glenn
breast of his whole history ultimately.
1T seems most probable to me that the
man who posed as Otto Mueller, an archi-
tect, to Anna Luther is the same one
who as Reinhold Muller, an architect,
duped Mrs. katz.
ITO me there is nothing in his action or
speech to indicate In anity or anything
but a low type of criminalty. l think
lust for money was at the bottom of all
he did. Having found that 1t succeeded
the first time, he repeated the experiment
again and again. until finally he was trip
ped up.
i Coroner Savage said that the report
emanating from the Brooklyn detective
bureau Wednesday night that Gebhardt
had already confessed ID the murder of
two wives besides Anna Luther was in
correct The coroner said he had merely
notified Capt. COughlin that when he
questioned Gebhardt about triple MUIR
der by one Mueller at Worcester. Mass,
the man implied that he would tell all
about his victims the next morning.
The Massachusetts, murder turned out
to have been committed in 1893, while
Gebhardt was in Sing Sing.
4 Mrs. Mueller of 923 st. Nicholas ave-
} nue. sent the coroner a picture of herself
and her husband. who had deserted her
in 1898. The picture bore some resem-
blance to Gebhardt but he stoiidly denied
any knowledge of the women
Word was received at Islip yesterday
through the German consul that the par
ents of Anna Luther are arranging to
have her remains sent to their home in
Weida for burial.
Inquest Goes on Today.
The final session OF the inquest will be
held in Islip this afternoon, when the
prisoner will probably be remanded to
Jail ut Riverhead and held for the Decem-
lber term Of the grand jury. Nathan o.