Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-28


was quickly recognized by Miss Wessner,
and arrested by Detectives CONN and
Regain. who had been in waiting. He
was sentenced to four years and nine
pinaIl and ten years more on perjury
| charge for falsely swearing that he was
! unmarried.
| HIS term was committed for good be-
havior: He left Sing Sing august Is
gallery is No. $685.
May Be Another Victim.
woman from Long Island City who
called at the Gebhardt home in Astoria
yesterday declared that in Gebhardts
picture she thought she recognized one
| .'Rheinhold Mueller carpenter. who
had boarded at the home of her friend,
Mrs. Katz in Jamaica. in the latter part
| OF 1905
| Mueller persuaded Mrs. KATE. said this
| woman to make over to him her life in
surance policy for 800. Three days after
| the woman had accompanied him from
Brooklyn to Jersey City she died SUD-
denly and Mueller was never seen there
after
The woman, she said, had husband
and two children and mother, MRS.
Revelsky. living at 80 Ashland place.
| Brooklyn. At that address no one OF
i that name was known.
| The Long Island City woman refused
to tell her own name. but declared she
would go to 1slip to make her identifica-
ton Of Gebhardt more positive.
That was In January. 1903. February
8. 1905. just three years before his mar.
! rage to Anna Luther. Gebhardt married
j his present wife, Anna Meinke.
Mrs. Gebhardt said Yesterday that ne
fered a friend 81. coo in her presence If he
would obtain grounds for divorce for
him: u,,. ,o,,o tho
| fine clothes from Hamburg" she said;
| "And once while was In another room.
she said, II heard him say to friend
| that he had seven wives underground
On FEBRUARY 6, 1908. Gebhardt. as Otto
ark, N. j., and. according to his own con-
fassion, killed her on April O. 1VS. near
Isiip, L. I. It was just about this time
that he became again matrimonially &C.
tive elsewhere.
According to Conrad Hufner. who keeps
, q saloon at 845 Steinway avenue. Astor a.
only two blocks from the Gebhardt home,
0ebhardt, whom he had never seen be-
fore, came to his sa Don about one and
one-half years ago, asking permission to
have letters addressed to him there as
many workmen did. He said his name
war Otto Mueller, and that he worked
at the Steinway factory
Many Letters From Women.
Thereafter letters came frequently for
him." said Hufner, yesterday. Il should
say there were two special delivery let
tiers and about twenty others, most OF
them in feminine handwriting Mueller
would come In sometimes twice a week,
drink his glass Of beer, put his letters in
his pockets and 80 away.
ION January 8. 1909. came a special de.
| livery letter addressed to him, but he
never called for It. On the reverse of
the envelope was written: e, Schroeder.
| 1898 TIN avenue. Manhattan
1.-TWO months later, two young women
came to my place asking where they
could find Otto Mueller, an architect.
| told them he was merely carpeiit r, and
showed them the letter held for him.
| One Of the women wanted 1t, saving 1t
| was sent by her. and that she wished to
destroy 1t. | refused. however. and two
4 days ago. when read about Mueller or
0ebhardt in the papers. turned the let
| ter over to the police
last night, was 2 servant girl for five
years in the family Of D. thinner. at the
7th avenue address. There it was only
known that she had been courted by the
| architect" until she grew suspicious OF
Then, when the murder story began to
center around him. the girl. to avoid no.
tonety LEFT for at her hem home IN Germany
Mueller had defrauded her of her savings
The Astoria police learned yesterday
that one other woman Of that place, with
| whom Gebhardt had frequently been
seen in ore OF the saloons. was missing
/ They could not ascertain whether or not
she had left town to avoid rotoriety
ana they refused to divulse har name
Detective Hennessy said yesterday that
he had followed up every clue in the
theory that another Of Gebhardts wives
was Anna LAM. who disappeared from
he had found the r,ifnor without fourida-
ton. Her disappearance was never re-
| ported.
| Mrs. Minnie Rosenau Mueller, a servant
| In the home OF John Better at Flushing,
| will go to 1slip tomorrow to furt her idetl.
F.! tify 0ebhardt. whom she believes to he
| the Otto Mueller q iocksmith. who mar
ried her In Russia and deserted her in