Show STORY OF LOVE AND MURDER REVEALED BY HERMITS DEATH Queer Character of Whom L ttle Was Known Dies in Montana CabinKitls Rival tn Germany and Fees to America Twin l > rldg < K Miitit Icttir8 and papers discovered In a runty old tin hurt hidden beneath a hoard In Jho llolir of U little old VIIl beaten dilapidated miners cabin clinging to a mountainside not far from here tell ono of this strangest stories Hint hau conic to light In thisruslon In many years Tho story Is of an eccentric old hermit her-mit who died In thu cabin In which tho papers and letters ware discovered discov-ered The name of this hornilt wan HOHCOU Overhardt For years before ho died Ovcrhtmlt lived nlonu In the little old cabin and wandered over tho mountains hereabout In quest of ganio and gold It was always supposed by those who knew him or rather by those who saw him for no ono hereabouts know him that Overhardt was mentally unbalanced un-balanced and that ho was extremely poor In the twentyodd years that ho made his homo In the little old cabin on tho mountainside ho never spoko of his own free will to any person never raised his eyes to look Into thoso of a man or woman with whom ho met face to face and nover bought groceries or clothing at a storo In Twin Bridges or any other town In this part of Montana Tho furniture In the ono room of his cabin was of tho meanest sort Tho clothing upon tho old mans hack was shabbier than tho furniture In his cabin A dog was tho hermits only friend and companion For tho dog 1 ho scorned to cherish a deep warm affection af-fection whllo tho faithful animals love for him was wetl nigh human In Its tenderness and constancy Tim strange silent old man fell III a few weeks ago In his shabby little cabin on the mountain side and could not leave his bed thereafter No one know ho was 111 until the day ho died when a prospector happening to pass that way stopped at his door to ask for a drink of water and found him dying Heforo a doctor could bo reached the hermit went to his fnal restA A careful search of the dead mans cabin brought to light a rusty tin bqx containing a few gold colas and the letters and papers which tell In part the story of his life before ho came west to spend his declining years In loneliness Uoscoo Ovorhardt was born In Germany Ger-many according to the story these letters and papers tell His father was n welltodo merchant In Berlin and he gavo hU son a university education edu-cation Intending him to adopt tho profession pro-fession of medicine In his student days young Overhardt paid court to pretty Katherine Moller and finally won her consent to marry him Katherine Mellor had had another suitor before aha met Overhardt Ills name was Matthew Schoonfcldt and ho belonged to a dignified family at Frankfort Schoenfeldt How Into a high passion when ho learned of Miss Mollers engagement to Ovorhardt sought out the girls accepted lover and picked a quarrel with him In tho quarrel Ovorhardt stabbed Schoen foldt who died of his wounds soon afterward revealing tho Identity of his slayer Ovorhardt svoll night crazed with grief went Immediately to his sweetheart sweet-heart and confessed his crime to her She bogged him to floe to tho United States promising to Join him In this I country as noon as lie should send for her tc como to him The lentil of Schoenfeldt was still rhruiir I In mystery so far as the po lice and relatives and friends of tho load man wore concerned when Over hardt left Germany and fled to Paris He remained In Paris a few weeks and then wont to London whence a few wooka lattr bu came to tbo United States He sought anti obtained employment In Now York under an assumed name but fearing that the mystery surrounding sur-rounding Schoenfeldts death might bo cleared up and that ho might bo discovered dis-covered and arrested there as his slayer ho set out for the west ne y II a 4 4 i i I 4b IN rIm QUARREL OVERIIARDT STAJIHIOD SC1IO13NFELDT spent a few weeks In Cincinnati being attracted there by tho large German element In the population Then ho went to Louisville where ho remained several inonjhs From Louisville ho went to St Louts and from St Louis to Milwaukee Ho remained In Milwaukee Mil-waukee six months Meanwhile ho was writing regularly to and receiving letters regularly from his sweetheart In Germany Ho told her that ho should send for her as soon as ho should settle down and become be-come ttblo to support nor and himself In comfort On coming to this state ho began I prospecting for gold and within a year he struck a rich lead Thereupon ha dispatched a letterto his sweetheart bogging her to come to him at once I She ixnswnrcd his letter saying that because of the Illness of her mother she could not leave her homo A few weeks later ho received another letter tram her saying that her mother was bettor but that for other reasons sho could not then como to tho United States to Join him Apparently realizing realiz-ing finally that his sweetheart did not Intend to join him Ovorhardt ceased writing to her and abandoned hope Ho disposed of his mine several months after ho received his last letter let-ter from his sweetheart and coming to this region built tho little cabin on tho mountainside In which he spent tho rest of his miserable life It Is bolleved that In his loneliness and his grief his mind finally became do ranged and that was responsible for his occontrlc habits What becamo of tho fortune which the old man realized real-ized from the sale of his gold mine Is n mystery |