New Britain herald., 1930-04-09
Killer Admits Peculiar
 Attachment" for Wife of
 Man He Shot During
 Quarrel.

Los Angeles, April LP)-An eight year old murder mystery was be- licved partially solved today, with announcement that Otto Sanhuber, alias M. Klein, had confessed shoot ing Fred Oesterreich, wealthy gar ment manufacturer, in the latter's Los Angeles home.
 After the shooting, it was declared Sanhuber retired to a secret com- partment of the house. which he had built and lived there for 1 months while police investigated the staying Sanhuber S5 years old said he had become particularly attached" to Mrs. Walburga Oestcrreich, widow of the victim, when he was r years old and the principals in the case lived in Milwaukee.
 When the Ocstcrreichs moved to Los Angeles, he is declared to have confessed he came here also. and lived in secret compartments in the couples homes, built by himself dur ing the husbands absence.
 Sanhuber, arrested Monday on SuoplIlOll ol III LII uCl, ldoI ilS1le VI tio said by James Costello, deputy dis trict attorney to have confessed that he shot Oesterreich on the night of August g, 1922, when he believed that Mrs. Oesterrcich was being hurt during a quarrel with her husband. Sanhuber said he was resting in the secret compartment in the attic when he heard the couple come in and start quarreing.
 Badly Frightened
 II thought Mrs. Oesterreich was being killed" he said. T grabbed my little pistol and ran from the room. When he faced me, l fired. I ran back upstairs and went to the little room. I was stiff with fright"
 The deputy district attorney an nounced that the arrest of other persons implicated in the staying was momcntarily expected.
 Sanhubcr's confession climaxed 6 revived investigation of the murder inspired by an affidavit filed by Herman s. Shapiro, attorney, ill which he asserted that Mrs. Ocster- reich, who was arrested and held for nearly two years on suspicion of murder, had told him that her "vagabond half brother was living in the secret compartment.
 Shapiro said he later met San huber, known to him as Walter Klein, after he had scratched on the wall of the house as a signal for the man to come from the compart- mcnt. Klein. the attorney alleged, later told him that he had lived in the secret room for two months be- fore the staying and that he had slain Oesterrcich.
 After the shooting police found Mrs. Oesterreich imprisoned in a clothes closet, the door of which was locked from the outside.
 Eleven months later, after a man told police that Mrs. Ostcrreich had given him a gun to throw away, she was arrested and charged with the murder of her husband. 1nvestiga- tors never were able to solve the mystery of the locked closet door, however, and after holding the woman under technical arrest for nearly two years, the case against her was dismissed.
 Shapiro in his affidavit alleged that Sanhuber (klein) told him that after shooting Oesterreich, he shov- ed Mrs. Oesterreich into the closet and locked the door.
 Sanhuber when arrested was em- ployed as a janitor in an apartment house. He was married six years ago.
 The only thing I'm worried about now is how I'm going to explain this to my wife, Sanhubcr said. I'm sorry for her, but I'm glad its over and l feel much better about it."
 Mrs. Ocstcrreich has not been questioned in connection with the renewed investigation. Meyer NJ Willner, her attorney, told Costello hat his client was resting at the home of friend in Los Angeles and that she was willing to face the district attorney at his call"