El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-20
Member OF old Swedish
House Kills Banker and
Woman Clerk.
GOES FROM CRIME
SCENE TO FEAST
Is Pointed Out TO the Police
'" By Girl; Admits Poverty
DroUe Him to Crime.

~ TOCKHOLN. Sweden. May co.
Leonard Rudolph Alexander CYL
- lenpalm. a member Of one Of the
Oldest families in Sweden. q family
%knighted in the 18th century and reg
istered in the "Riddarhus,7 or Swedish
house Of mobiles, has confessed to the
double murder which recently occurred
in one Of the branch banks Of Stock
holm, and which stirred all Sweden
because Of the brutality and mystery Of
the crime. The manager Of the bank
was found with a hatchet i'm his skull
and a woman clerk was shot dead.
Nemesis IL Young Woman.
The chance capture Of GyllenpaIm
ana his own cold-blooded story OF the
crime. have made thrilling reading for
the swedish people. His Nemesis
worked IN the person of a young Swed-
lsh woman with good memory for
faces. She had seen the noblemau
emerge from the bank. and though she
did not then know Of any murder hav-
ing been committed. she noticed there
was something strange about his
manner.
When she herself had entered the
bank she found the bodies Of the man
ager and the woman clerk, and then
realized that the man she had seen
hurryinE from the place must have
been the murderer She described the
man 10 the police as best she could. but
the detectives made absolutely no
Nheadway until more than a fortnight
'afterward. the same young woman
passed the murderer on the street. She
thought she recognized him. but was
not sure With q girl companion, she
followed the man several blocks until d
they fell in with @ policeman TO whom {
the girl told her suspicious, and the Of ,
ucer decided 20 arrest him.
Planned Crime for Weeks.
Ine nUnlemHn at first denied all 3
knowledge OF the crime. but after he =
bad been held for two days. an analysis
VI some spots on his clothes and shoes
established that they We're stains Of .
human blood and when confronted with I
this evidence. Gyllenpalm confessed
ie said he was in desperate need Of !
money and had planned the crime
weeks ahead. He only intended. how
ever TO Kill the branch manager, think
ing no one else would be at the bank
at the time lie carried the Ratchet in
leather portfolio, or lawyers brief
case He was surprised to see the
woman clerk and followed his first i'm
pulse TO shoot. Having committed the .
double murder he became alarmed and
fled without securing any money what I
ever.
From Murder to breakfast.
Direct from the scene he went 20 n
restaurant few blocks away and
breakfast, eating a hearty meal and
drinking several glasses Of wine. That
afternoon the newspapers were fun Of
the accounts of the mysterious murder. Z
fyllenpalm, however, moved about
among his friends without the slight
est evidence that ne was more than or
dinarily stirred by the news He had
dinner down town with n friend and
when the meal was finished he sug-
gested a walk around to the bank
20 see where such an atrOciOus murder
had been committed. There was a crowd
.uf the mOrbidly curious about the door.
(which was gua ded by a policeman
Gyllenpalm, in his confession. told how
while he was standing there in the
crowd about the bank some one re-
marked.
1T is q curious thing. but n muir
derer always returns 20 the scene of
his crime"
Gyllenpalm said that upon hearing
this he gave way at the knees and
almost sank to the sidewalk but his