The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-25

saw him in Newark. These occasions
were rare. Miss Luther introduced the
man as her prospective husband two
days before the wedding ceremony was
soiemniZed here. The couple were given
s wedding supper at the Werpupp home.
On their return from their honeymoon
"trip 10 Germany two months later, Mrs.
Mueller came to Newark and her hus-
band was seen again in this city WI
days later. when he came for his wife
ard said he was taking her to a home
liza had prepared for her in Jamaica,
Z. /. II is believed Mrs. Mueller went
from Newark to her death in the Islip
wood.
According to the New York police,
admissions were wrung from Mueller
today during the cross-examination at
police headquarters which TEND to show
that he knows something of the strange
circumstances surrounding the death of
Anna Luther, and hat he may be able
TO tell a tale of wholesale marriage and
murder rarely equaled in criminal
records.
Mueller was traced to the house in
Astoria through the police dogs which
he brought back from Germany with
him after his honeymoon trip. A Ger
man expressman who remembered that
he delivered two strange dogs (" a
house in Astoria some time in April,
1908, was found He managed to pilot
the detectives to the house. 1t was
found that q man known as Frederick
Gebhardt had been living in the house
with his wife and two children for the
past few years. He was employed In
a piano factory. He owned two strange
looking dogs, n he looked like
Mueller should have looked according
TO the published descriptions. The de-
tectives managed to get from Mrs. Geb-
hardt q photograph Of her husband,
witch was identified by Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Werpupp, of this city, as that of
Mueller.
knowing that he was being watched
Mueller kept away from home. While
a newspaper photographer was taking
a ffashlight of the dogs last night a
form was seen skulking near the house.
The man ran and the detectives chased
him. He was caught as he attempted to
conceal himself in the bushes near the
road. HI had shaved his mustache.
1t is alleged that he confessed to the
detectives that he was the Otto Muel-
Ter who married Anna Luther In New
ark, but maintained that he had not
seen her since she left him in New
York city Immediately after they start
ed from Newark.
Mueller was arraigned today under
the name of Frederick Gebhardt on the
formal charge of bigamy, but the chain
of cIrcumstantial evidence Is drawn so
tightly about him that the police
pect to lodge a more serious charge
against him.
Mrs. Gebhardt. Mueller's present
has confided to the authorities
that she has lived in terror of her
husband for years. and that on one
her husband, while in his
was overheard to declare that
she was his eighth wife and that those
who preceded her were all in their
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
elsa npear. All are dated October 20.
the day of Mueller's arrest, and contain
instructions for the disposal of his prop
crty. One of the notes is addressed to
the Long Island City Bank inc reads
as follows. PLEASE pay my account to
NY wife. Anna Gebhardt. / am legally
dead"
4 Box of 32-cnlibrc revolver cart
Ridges was found today by the police
In a search of the house which Mueller
p%crupIed In Astoria. J.. r.
4 fattencd 32-cnIibre bullet was
found penr the skeleton of the Luther
girl mt tho time of it's discovery.
In the Gebhardt house much linen
end clothing were found bearing the
embroidered monogram A.. L., the
of the murdered Mrs.
explained that while her hus-
was abroad In the spring of 1908
had written her that he was bring
ing home several chests he had bought
at auction. He said he did not know
what they contained.
II was learned that Mrs. Gebhardt
was a Miss Annie Merger, whom Geb-
hardt or Mueller met in a matrimonial
agency. She a y she turned over TO
her husband her savings, amounting to
$500. and that he added $500 of his own
to that amount and purchased four lots
nea Islip, L.. 1.
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