The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-12
Pretty Blond Woman
 Shot Ger17aa1a Doctor
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i But she would answer no questions. After her questioning, she was taken to police headquarters for the lineup.
 Cold Nod for Relatives
 At 6 e. m. her father, Frank, and her brother, Fritz, were brought in by police. She nodded to them coldly. The father broke down and the brother told police she had not lived at home for more than a year and her family knew nothing of her activities.
 Miss stretz occupied an apart- ment two floors below Gebhardt's. She had lived there intermittently for two years. Gebhardt registered Nov. 4 soon after his arrival from Germany.
 Gebhardt was 42. Police learned that he was graduated from Frank fort university in 1922, majoring in economics. He taught one year, then entered the heavy industries and represented German manufacturers of industrial machinery in Egypt and the Far East. His business con- nections, police said, always had been of the best.
 'Tcy" Woman Say Police
 Dr. Gebhardt's body was clothed in 8 long, old-fashioned night gown when it was found. In Miss StretZ's handbag was another nightgown blood-stained, and 8 will signed with her name and dated only two days ago. From these police de- duced Miss StretZ also had been in night attire at the time of the shooting and probably had planned also to turn the gun on herself but had lost her nerve.
 She was so self-possessed under questioning that police said she was the "iciest" woman they ever had examined. She refused to tell why she had killed her "fiance" but de- tectives theorized it might have been because Dr. Gebhardt already was married.
 A friend informed police that Dr. Gebhardt had 8 wife and two chil- dren in Germany. The art student only shrugged when this was re- layed to her.
 Many Letters Written
 In Gebhardt's and Miss Stretz's respective rooms police found many letters that had passed between them. They were in German. A number of snapshots showing them together also were found.
 It was shortly before 3 a. m. when Miss Nan Cannon, assistant mana ger of the fashionable apartment house, was awakened by shots. She telephoned Leslie Taite, assistant night manager.
 Taite found the door to Geb- hardt's apartment open. His body was OH the floor five feet from the door. In the hallway outside the apartment, Miss Stretz was sitting on a settee. She was gone when Taite emerged from the apartment after examining the body.
 Taite telephoned for the police and instructed the doorman to pre- vent anyone from leaving the building.
 A patrolman soon arrived and found Miss Stretz sitting on the stairway landing. She was bent over, her head in her arms.
 Did you shoot man upstairs" the policeman demanded.
 He said she replied. "Yes, I did. I was on my way to the station house to give myself up"
 Berlin, Nov. l2-(UP)-Dr. Fritz l Gebhardt, who was killed in his New York apartment by 8 young woman today, has a wife and chil- dren living on farm in Bruchsall, | Germany, according to officials of l the Motorenwerke Mannheim Zum | Benze, 8 manufacturing firm with | which he formerly was connected.
 While New York police had iden- tified him as president of that firm, as well as of Herischel and Sons of ] Kassell. Germany, the Berlin offices of both companies said he had not been connected with them for two years.
 The Henschel company's head 4uh4 tCAo 6b 1AaooC1 odAQ SCUAldA QG had two daughters, 12 and 13. And at the Motorenwerken main office in Mannheim it was said that his wife and children, living on the farm in Bruchsaal, were under the impression that he went to New York on business for Berlin bank.
 Officials of the Deutsche bank and Disconto Gesellschaft told the United Press that Dr. Gebhardt in recent months had been working in behalf of the Deutsche bank doing compensation" transactions with banks in the United States.
 In 1917 Dr. Gebhardt was assist ant professor of chemical research at Haber, famous Kaiser Wilhelm Scientific institute. I
 He was understood to have been a brilliant scientific student.