The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-26
Shot Anna Luther While She Raised Her Face for
 Second Kiss
WANTED ID SEE BABY
 AND HIS OTHER WIFE
Bleached and charred Skeleton Lay for Year and a Half Before 1t Was Discovered at IsIip,
 L. l., Week Ago.

New York, October 25.-A year and a half ago 8 friendless girl was murdered in forsaken patch of woodland near ls lip l.. I. A week ago ner bieacheo and charred skeleton was founl, with nothing to indicate its identity bat her jewelry and bill of sale from 8 German shop. Three days, later through the police of Hamburg, Germany. her identity wa established as Anna Luther, though the cables first carried the name as Latter; last night her husband. Frederick Geb- hardt, who had married her under the name of Mueller. was caught in Astoria, l.. l., by photographers flashlight, and tonight he confessed. over his signature, that he is the murderer. The confession follows:
 About December. 1907. first met Anna Luther We were married in February. 1908. and went to Europe to live. We returned April 6. 1908. She went to Henry Wertupps in Newark N J., to spend a day or two. On pretense that I was go ing to rent an apartment for us to live in 1 returned to my home and wife in Astoria.
 q met Anna again on April in New ark. and we went to an address in Thir- ty-fourth street, New York, and then to Jamaica, L. I. We stayed in Jamaica until next day
 April we went to Bay Shore, and we walked about, and I showed her some property. I got into an argument with her about some money matters and l and ad f, eroh ha Ia followed me up, screaming, and I shot her in the head I did not look at her, and do not remember whether I shot her more than once.
 ..iynraediately after I went to the Islp depot and took q train for home,ssIt was nearly dark On the way home on the train threw the revolver out of the car window.
 Wanted To See Child.
 ',I want to state that l did not kill Anna Luther for her money, as the news papers have stated. My original reason for marrying Anna was that l did not care to live with my first wife any longer. but she-my first wife-had given me a child, my desire to again see my child caused me to want to get rid of Anna Luther and return to my first wife and child.
 This is the reason why I shct Anna Luther ar 1 told her in Bay Shore that 1 wa ed and had a wife and child 9 leave her.
 ees nned and ran after me, and tssad ae and wanted me back, and shu he,
 Hrhs o ifession is of my own free air r.fh1 any hope of recompense be-
 me-"
 Nf''l- tune of his arrest last night Aa ,se down under the questions e ' s. Gebhardt, although he ad-
 he committed bigamy when Anna Luther, denied all of her death.
 intercepted Letter.
 out this letter?" asked Cor
 ye, and he began to read
 last night to the German
 signed Otto Mueller.
 le husband" it ran, without
 ie woman Anna Mueller. After igaa in New York from Germany al.N dr last year we stayed in New 4ori t.t avs. Then we went to Flor faa fa t6 health of my wife, and set ac for the time being.
 "fa Js aica, where I formerly lived teltn r fife. she had received visitor whom be represented to me to be a Er ey of Denver. From Florida na ssaat to Denver and this MT. Brad lsf eailsl again. In September, 1908, my vfs peared after l reproached her .t ste ; Bradley when I happened to le asesi for two days.
 rTh's a an Bradley is about feet high wta V.n. hair, smooth face and claims q. s4 a real estate dealer. l. Mueller, mil go t one to Germany to see my f1 rensB-ln ln-law and will then be at your wee.
 Mueller Breaks Down.
 The Hame inexplicable impulse which hl 9npted Gebhardt to write this fa., ter had led him to give to Brad ley, VI does not exist outside of his imagination. his own personal descrip- tion. As soon as he saw the letter again his jaw dropped, he grew white and be- gan to shiver, and before the reading was completed exclaimed:
 "Oh, what's the use, anyway? You have me and I might well own up l killed her"
 Given verbally the confession as related was even more shockingly brutal, tise police say. than it appeared in the for maj language of the police officers, whose version Gebhardt signed
 T had to get rid of her." he said, ''but l did not mean to kill her. l thought first I could get her to give me some money for land I did not own. So I took her down to Long Island near some lots I did own to let her see the land. She would not come to terms and I told her then that I was already married and
 
 her and wanted to go back to my wife, ''She began to cry and plead and scream and run about. She told me she loved me and kissed me. She put up her face to kiss me again and I shot her in the head
 Wrote Her Friends.
 He told the police he never thought 1t worth while to go back to bury her. Instead he wrote her friends in Ger many that Anna was in poor health and had gone to Florida
 0ebhardt, when he was in. Germany, bought two police dogs and it was by tracing the dogs that the detectives found him at his home in Astoria
 He was then arrested. Search of the house revealed 8 quantity of house eff fects and woman's finery marked "A. L. 0ebhardt had told his wife that he bought them at sale of unclaimed trunks in Gsrmanxs