The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
SURPLUS OF WIVES.
SO HE KILLS ONE
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II was nearly dark. ] threw the re-
yolvcr out Of tho car window.
81 did not kill Anna Luther for her
money, MS the newspapers havo stated,
NV original reason for marrying Anna
was that did not caro- to live with my
first wife any longer. bat as she-my
first wife-had ~iyen me child. my
desire to see my child caused me to
want TO get rid of Anna Luther and
return TO my first wife and child. This
is why / shot Anna, and ] told her in
Bayshore that ! was married and had
a wife and child, and must leave her,
''Shc screamed and ran after me, and
kissed me, and wanted me back, and
l. shot her. -
From the time of his arrest until ne
broke down under the questions of de
mitted committing bigamy when he mar
ricd Anna Luther, denied all knowl-
edge of her death.
Letter Forced Confession,
GLOW about this letter?D asked Cor
oucr Savage. and he began to read a
note mailed last night to tho German
consul and signed Otto Mueller. The
| letter trapped hun into confessing.
81 am the husband - it ran, with.
out doubt, of the woman, Anna Mueller.
! After we arrived in New York. from
Germany, in April of last year, we
stayed in New York ten days. Then
we went 10 Florida for the health of
my wife, and settled there for the time
being.
| In Jamison, where | formerly lived
with my wife, she had received "A Wis
| itor whom she represented to me to be
| Mr.. Bradley of Denver. From Florida
we went TO Denver and this Mr., Brad
ley called again. In September, 1898,
my wife disappeared, after [ reproachcd
her for seeing Bradley when ! hap
Ipcncd TO be away for two DAYS,
! 50 Bradley is about six feet tall with
! light hair smooth face and claims TO
/ be a real estate dealer. I, Mueller.
will at once 90 to Germany To see my
parents-in-lsw and will then he at your
! service
Admits the Murder
The same incxplicablc impulse which
| had prompted Gebhardt to write this
fatal letter had led him to give to
! his own imagination. his own personal
description. As soon as he saw the
letter, he grew white and began to
| Shivcr, and before the reading was
completed exclaimed:
son, what S the usc any way? You
have me and ] might as we'll own |
killed her.
Given verbally, the confession WAS
oven more shockingly brutal. the po-
lice say, than it appears IN the formal
language of the police officers. whose
version Gcbhardt signed.
% | had TO get rid of her, he said,
'but did not mean to Kill her, |
thought first | could get her TO give
me some money for land did not own,
So ! took her down to Long Island
near some lots | did own to let her
| Al. 30
terms. and | told her then that | was
already married and had a child !
loved. and told her then that [ was
tired of her and wanted to 90 back 10
my wife, She began 10 cry and plead
and screamed and run about. She told
me she loved me and kissed me As
she put her face TO kiss me again, |
shot her IN the head.
Then Quit Bothering.
Gcbhardt told the police he never
thought it "worth while 10 go back
10 bury her. Instead, he wrote letters
TO her friends in Newark and Germany.
! telling them Anna was in poor health
and had gone 10 Florida. Then he quit
botherng about her.
Gcbhardt. when he was In Germany
! bought two German police dogs, aud ii
was by tracing the dogs that the de.
tectivcs found his home in Astoria.
While Il newspaper photographers used
j flashlight at the dogs, the flare re-
vcaIcd the pale face of Gcbhardt
pcerug from a barn lie was run down
and arrested,
Search Of fhc house revealed a guam
tity Of household effects and woman S
fincrv. marked "a. L. Gobhardt had
told his wife that he bought them at
"a sale of unclaimed trunks in Germany.
| He had married under the name Of
/ Otto Mueller