New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-25
lSLIP CASE ARREST
WOMAN'S HUSBAND,
POLICE SAY.
AHege He Confessed Having
Married Lather Girl-Hds
Family in astoria.


3o3 Woolsey avenue Astoria. Long ISL
and. He was taken to Brooklyn Police
Headquarters, charged with being a sus-
picious person, in connection with the
murder of Anna Luther Mueller.
The arrest followed a mile chase
across fields and over fences from the
Woolsey street house to Vanderwenter
avenue and Eighth avenue. When the
police reached Gebhart's home his wife
declared that he had gone out. A pho
tographer setting off a fiashlight revealed
the man hidden under clump of bushes
in the back yard, with two savage dogs
standing guard.
Drawing their revolvers. the police
called on Mueller. or Gebhart, to sur
render himself. but he bounded off IN
the direction of neighboring house, and
then led an exciting chase through AS
toria
According to the police, the prisoner
admitted later that he married Anna
Luther, went to Germany with her and
returned to this country with her on the
steamship Amerika. He said they land
ed and crossed to Manhattan, and az
Fourth avenue he and she parted They
never met again. He admitted that they
had planned to meet again in New Jer-
sey, but he said he had never heard from
her again.
WORKED IN PIANO FACTORY.
After the detectives had searched the
house the prisoner was taken to the AS
tOria police station, where it is said he
a ad hot ha bA
ans husband. Living with him at the
Woolsey street house was his wife and
two children. He had been employed in
an Astoria piano factory as a cabinet
expert.
He is said to be skilful at his trade
His hands from the nature of his work
are calloused, as were the hands of the
man whom Anna Luther took to New
ark to introduce to her friends there as
her intended husband, and whom she
afterward married in that city. The
friends of the girl remarked on the con-
dition of his hands, which were of
nature uncommon among architects.
which profession Mueller claimed to fol-
low at Jamaica.
When Anna Luther and Mueller left
Germany they brought with them two
dogs of the kind which are used by the
police abroad and which have been in
troduced into the department here.
These dogs in a way led to the finding
of the man arrested last night.
Efforts have been made to trace the
dogs which Anna Luther told her New
ark friends her husband and she had
brought over. These were landed at
Hoboken from the steamship which
brought the pair back to this country
after their trip to Germany on their
wedding tour. The expressman was
found in Jersey. and remembered the
dogs and the boxes which he took from
the pier, and his retracing of the trip he
took led him to the home of the man ar
rested.
CLOTHING MARKED "A. L."
The detectives say they found many
traces of the dead woman In the house
when they searched it, They say they
found clothing marked with the initials
"A. L." which played such an important
part in the case since they were first
found on the watch beside the skeleton.
A glove marked with the two letters
was being worn by the wife of the man
arrested, and it was said by the police
that when they took her husband away
Mrs Gebhart started to accompany
them and threw over her shoulders
steamer cloak which when examined
later was said to have belonged to the
murdered woman.
The beds between which the prisoner
and his wife slept bear the letters of
the dead wOman's name, the police say,
and so do all sorts of an outfit such
as the dead woman purchased while in
her home town in Germany. and consist
of the sheets, bed linen, table cloths
and clothing.
A letter written by Mueller to his wife
in Astoria while he was on his Euro
pean trip led the police to connect the
initials "A L." on the clothes and bed
sheets found in the house with the name
Annie Muller. In the letter Muller said
he had bought three trunks at an auc-
tion sale in Hamburg, and that they
were being expressed to Mrs. Gebhart
for her personal use.
He added that he had not opened the
trunks and was ignorant of their con-
tents
TWO MORE ALLEGED DUPES.
Bertha Albrecht. the maid living at
No. - Bainbridge street. Brooklyn. and
Mrs Amelia Veihlmann Won Mueller,
who conducts a hardware store at No.
2O53 Third avenue. Manhattan. will be
asked by the police to face the prisoner.
in an effort to ascertain if he was the
man who had married the -Ianhattan
woman under the name of DR.. Amiel
Won Miller, and who had at the same
time become engaged to the Brooklyn
girl Won -iller received money from
both women before he vanished. He
said his parents were living l.; Munich,
Bavaria. and that he was a nobleman.
This was found TO be untrue, accord
ing to the information given by a
woman last night who recently returned
from Munich. where she made inquiries
about the man who married Miss Viehl-
mann The photograph of Won Miller
was left with the Munich police author
tiles, who were asked TO arrest him on
sight
In the Astoria arrest the police made