Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-03

had been folded back under the
shoulders.
Gilbert's base bali bat matted with
hair and clotted blood, lay across
the child's feet. Blood stained the
walls and every piece of furniture
in the room.
Greder's body was suspended
from a beam across a trap door
leading from the bath room to the
attic. His clothing was stained with
blood from wound in his breast. A
loaded shotgun and a bloody bat
cher knife whetted to a razor edge
lay at his feet.
When the body of Greber was cut
down by the coroner, it wass found
that the entire top of the head had
been blown off. Evidently he had
placed the :nuzzle of Winchester
shotgun in his mouth and pulled the
trigger with his toe, causing his body
to swing off from the rafter to
which the rope was attached. The
shotgun, with one she'll discharged,
was found underneath the body.
Liberty. bonds~and money to the
amount of>several thousand dollars
were found in trunk when detec-
tives searched the premises.
Mind Deranged. =.
DR.. c. B. Foltz, who has been at-
tending Greder for six weeks for,
nervous disorders, said Greder's
mind had been deranged by worry.
He said Greder brooded because he
was German-born and believed the
government might confiscate his
large land holdings near Buck
Grove and Denison, la.
Gilbert Greder, the son, described
without emotion what details Of the
tragedy he knew. II was playing
with some boys Thursday evening""
he said. "About 9 o'clock I came
into the house. Father had already
gone to bed. Sister, too, was in bed,
but mother had not yet gone up
stairs.
my father and / slept together
in the back bedroom and my mother
and my sister slept together in the
front bedroom.
when l crawled into bed, father
was asleep. He didn't wake up when
| got in. l woke up Friday morn
ing and papa had gotten up already.
He had taken his clothes except his
SHOES and socks. l tried to get out
of the room so l could get my
clothes and dress for school. The
door was locked and the skey was
on the outside. I couldn't hear q
sound. | called, but there was no
answer.
In Room All Day.
"Pretty soon I saw the kids on
their way to school, l thought it
would be nice if l didn't have to go.
| waited there in the room all day.
| was hungry and a little frightened,
but I didn't want to call out for fear
mamma would discover / hadn't
gone to school.
when it got dark l got scared.
| opened the window and called to
Lewis and Goldie Armour across the
street. | dropped out the window
and the three of us went back into
the house. The back door was open
but the front door was locked.
"Goldie went upstairs. Lewis and
l followed. She opened the bath
room door just little and my fath-
er's head peeked over the top. She
screamed, 20. lookr and i ran up
the rest of the stairs. When saw
the top of my fathers head and the
rope leading up to the garret. knew
something awful had happened. We
ran from the house and told Lewis
father. Mr.. Armour called the po-
lice"
Son in France. y
The Greders moved to Omaha
three years ago from Buck Grove,
la. George Greder, q, a son by
former marriage, is a soldier in
France. The first Mrs. Greder died
10 years ago, Gilbert said, and Gre
der married his sister-in-law.
Dr.: Foltz said he had been treat
ing Greder for six weeks and that
he was to have given Greder his last
treatment yesterday. when /
called at the house at noon. ther
seemed to be nobody home. I
stepped into the kitchen and called
but when nobody answered I went
away"
Gilbert Greder is in the sixth
grade at Druid Hill school.
According to ncighbors, the Gre
der family associated intimately
with no one. None of the people
in the vicinity knew where they had
come from and only a few even
knew their name. They seldom had
anything to say to anybody. They
have lived in Omaha three years.
Greder was "a years old. He has
been retired for several years, His
little garden and his chickens kept
him busy in the day time. Mrs.
Greder was 40 years old. Mrs. Kath.
crime Grife, Buck Grove, Ia, 4
sister of Greder, and other relatiyso