Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-21
NAB Won KREBS
IN NEW YORK
Man Who Killed Two at Deans
Caught by PeItier and N. Y.
SIeuthS


The relentless search for Richard
Won Krebs. escaped lunatic n muir
derer. erstwhile art collector, butler
servant to his former imperial mai
esty, William HohenZollern, and all
around crank, ended last night, when
he was arrested in a dark hallway at
337 West 43rd street, New York, by
Detectives Meyers and Reynolds OF the
New York detective bureau and Chief
of County Detectives Richard Peltier.
Won Krebs, sixty-four years old,
was arrested as a fugitive from justice
n the request of the prosecutors
office is being held for forty-elght
hours by the New York authorities to
await extradition.
The prosecutors detective staff at
New Brunswick has never relaxed its
search for h nan during the years
he has been at large and Middlesex
county detectives have been in con-
slant touch with the New York bu-
reau and police regarding his event.
nal capture. The detectives learned
that Won Krebs had friends and rel
atives in New York to whom he paid
visits regularly and a watch was kept
particularly upon the house at $50
West Forty-third street, which is be-
tween Eighth and Ninth avenues.
When the detectives surprised him
last night Won Krebs sneeringly an
nounced:
Have to Make Fight
You'll have a fight clear through
to the supreme court before you get
me to go backi" He said he had been
living at 993 Second avenue and was
employed by a family in F1fty-ffth
street, just off Fifth avenue. He re-
fused to give the name of his employ
er. 1t Is said that he has served as
butler for numerous families in New
York since his escape from the Tren-
ton State Hospital for the Insane.
Serving Sentence for Assault
Won Krebs was serving a sentence
for an assault. He escaped from
prison and appeared at the farm
which he and his wife had owned at
Deans, near. New Brunswick. His
wife had sold the farm to nv. inc
Mrs. Henry Richie and they had
moved in when he appeared there on
November 4. 1914, and demanded
that they vacate. Upon their refusal
TO do so, Won Krebs shot both Mr..
and Mrs. Richie. They died instantly.
after the murder Won Krebs, who
was an expert rifle and revolver shot,
escaped and farmers, armed with
ehotguns and rifles and city and coun-
ty police searched the entire coun-
tryside for him. He escaped to New
TcG&, however, where he threatened
the life of his wife. who was living
there then. She informed the police
and Detective Meyers, who had a
hand in last nights capture. arrested
him on February s, 1915. He was
taken before q New Jersey lunacy
commission and adjudged criminally
insane and was sent to the Trenton
State Hospital from which he escaped
on April 26 two years later.
Tss S=s@5A for aim has been going
mi pV0r since Two wears ago a man
WAS arrested in New Brunswick,
heavily bearded, and armed to the
teeth, in the National Bank of New
Jersey Building. where several promi-
nent lawyers have offices. 1t was
thoukht the man was Won Krebs, but
later this was found to be false.
In Trouble for Years.
Won Krebs had been in trouble in
tho county for ten years prior to his
ARREST M conviction and had been be-
fore courts and uupaSy commissions
at various ti1res.
was Won Krebs. II is claimed.
who threatened the life of President
Wilson when he was governor of the
state and he is alleged to have threat
ened the lives of various other proml-
hent New Jersey and New York city
men. He waylaid Governor Wilson as
be left the New Brunswick opera
house on the night of October IL, 1911
and attacked Circuit Court Judge
Frank Lloyd on October 80. 1912.
Each time he was taken in charge but
he behaved so we'll while the police
were watching him that 1t was believ-
cd his mental ailment had been cur
ed and he was released.
Won Kreb's mania in 1914, which
resulted In his sending threatening
letters to prominent persons was said
to have grown out of the belief that
these persons had opposed him In
many legal entanglements in which
his hatred for the law was involved.
At the time of the murder of the
Riehles. Won Krebs had temporarily
retired as the proprietor of a restau-
liant In New York and had retired to
the farm on the Trenton turnpike.
hbout Ave miles out OF New Bruins
wick.
As an art collector he is said to
have been employed by Cyrus w.
Field of New York.
Nothing would have been known of
the shooting of the Riches for sew
erai days had not Riehl. MORALLY
Wounded, been able to reach the home
of John Hess n mile away To Hess
he told the story of the murder OF
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