The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
SWEDISH NOBLE ADMITS SHAVING BANK OFFICIALS Whole Country Stirred by Story of Unusually Brutal
 Killing. WOMAN RECOGNIZES
 HIM AS MURDERER Member of Old and Knighted \ Family Confesses Shock
 ing Crime.

Stockholm, Sweden, May 16-Leon- ard Rudolph Alexander Gyllenpalm, member of one of the oldest fam lilies in Sweden-a family knighted in the seventeenth seentury and register ed in the "Riddarhus," or Swedish House of Nob1es-has confessed to the double murder which recently oc- curredin one of the branch banks of Stockholm, and which stirred all Sweden because of the brutality and mystery of the crime. The manager of the bank was found with hatchet in his skull and woman clerk was shot dead.
 The chance capture of Gy11enpa1rn and 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 Swedish woman with a good memory for faces. She had seen the noble man emerge from the bank, and though she did not then know of any murder having been committed, she noticed there was something strange about his manner. When she her self had entered the bank she found the bodies of the manager and the woman clerk, and then realized that the man she had seen hurrying from the place must have been the mur- derer. She describd the man to the
  tectives made absolutely no headway until, more than fortnight after ward, the same young lady passed the murderer on the street. She thought she recognized him but was not sure. With a girl companion she followed the man several blocks until they fell in with a policeman to whom the girl told her suspicious, and the officer decided to arrest him.
 The nobIeman at first denied all knowledge of the crime, but after he had been held for two days an andy sis of some spots on his clothes and shoes established that they were. stains of human blood and when con- fronted with this evidence, GyIlen- palm confessed. He said he was in desperate need Of money and had planned the crime weeks ahead. He only intended, however, to kill the branch manager, thinking mo one else would be at the bank at the time. He carried the hatchet in a leather port folio, or lawyers brief case. He was surprised to see the woman clerk and followed his first impulse to shoot. Having committed the double murder, he became alarmed and fled without securing any money whatever.
 Direct from the scene he Ewent to a restaurant g, few blocks away and join ed party of friends at midday breakfast, eating 8 hearty meal and drinking several glasses of wine. That afternoon the newspapers were full of the accounts of the mysterious mur- der. Gy11enpa1m, however, moved about among his friends without the slightest evidence that he was morei than ordinarily stirred by the news. He had dinner down town with a friend and when the meal was finish ed he suggested a, walk around to the n " afr murder had been committed. There was crowd of the morbidly curious about the door. which was guarded by a policeman. GyI1enpaln, in his confession, told how while he was standing there in the crowd about the bank some on remarked:
 "It is curious thing, but a mur- derer always returns to the scene of his crime.''
 Gyl1enpalm said that upon hearing this he gave way at the knees and almost sank to the sidewalk, but his friends had thought he merely slipped. When he had recovered his liceman if he thought the murderer be caught.
 "Yes,' replied the officer, eff he is fool enough to try to leave the city. We have everything watched. If he stays in town though, it will be more difficult
 T decided to stop in town," said @y1lenpaIn in his confession.
 Always fond Of cafe and restaurant life. the murderer did not alter his course of living in any way. But evil dently he began to worry. for after 8 week had elapsed he cab1ed to his father in Russia for funds to carry him to that country. This money which might have enabled him to es- cape to complete safety for the rest of his days arrived in Stockholm the morning after his arrest. By reason of his nobility of birth, Gy1lenpa1rn can choose that he be put to death with the sword instead of the ] more plebfan blade of the guil1ottne. Such is his ina1ienable prerogative.