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Show STORY OF LOVE AND MURDER REVEALED BY HERMIT'S DEATH Queer Character of Whom L ttle Was Known, Diet in Montana Cabin--Kills Rival tn Germany and Fieea to America, Twin ISrlilgOH. Alont. Letters nnd papt-rs dlscoer'd In a ruHty old tin box hidden beneath a hoard In tho tloor of u little old wcuther-hcalou, dilapidated miner's rnbln clinging to .i minmtiiltiHlde not fur from hero toll nnu of thu HtrangeHt stories that has ( oino to light lu this ie;;lon In many unrs. Tho i lory Is of tin eccentric old hermit her-mit who dloil lu thu cabin In which the p.iptrs and letters were dlacov-orod. dlacov-orod. The iiinrn of this hermit wns Uonroe OMrhiirdt. For years before bo (Tied Overhiirdt lled alone lu tho little old call In and wnndurcd over tho mountains hereabout In quest of gamo and gold. It was always supposed by thoso who know him, or rather by thoBo who saw him, for no ono hereabouts knew him, that Ovqrhardt was mentally unbalanced un-balanced and that ho was extremely poor. In tho twenty-odd years that ho mado his homo In tho little old cabin on tho mountainside, ho novor spoko of his own freo will to any person, never raUud his oyos to look Into thoso of n man or woman with whom ho met face to faco and novor bought groccrloa or clothing at n storo tn Twin Urldgcs or nny othor town In this part of Montana. The furniture In tho ono room of his cabin was of tho meanest sort. Tho clothing upon tho old man's back was ahabblor than tho furnlluro In his cabin. A dog wns tho hormlt's only friend nnd companion. For tho dog ho scorned to cherish a dcop, warm nf-foctlon, nf-foctlon, whllo tho faithful anlmnl's lovo for him wns well-nigh human In Its tondcrness nnd constancy, Tho strange, silent old man fell 111 a fow weeks ngo In his shabby little cabin on tho mountain sldo nnd could not lcavo his bed theroaftor. No ono know ho was III until tho day ho died, when a prospector, happening to pasH thnt way, stopped ul his door to aHk for n drink of water nnd found him dying. Iloforo a doctor could bo reached tho hermit wont to his dual rest. A enroful search of tho dead man's cabin brought tirllght n rusty tin box containing n fow gold coins and tho lottcra nnd papers which tell In part tho story or his life before ho cimm west to spond his declining years lu loneliness. Iloscoo Overhardt was born In Germany, Ger-many, according to thu story thono lottors nnd papers toll. His fathor wus a wclbtodo merchant In llbrlln nnd ho gavo hU son n university education, edu-cation, Intending him to adopt tho profession pro-fession of mvdlclnc. In his student days young Overhardt paid court to pretty Kathorlno Metier, nnd dually won horVonsont to mnrry him. Kathorlno Metier had bad another suitor bototo alio mot Ovorlmrdt. Ills namo wns Matthow Schoenfoldt. nnd ho bulongod to a dignified family nt Frankfort. Schoenfoldt How Into a high passion when ho loarucd of Miss Mollor'a ongngomont to Overhardt, sought out tho girl's accepted lover and plckod a quarrel with him. In tho quarrel Ovorlmrdt atabbod Schoenfoldt, Schoen-foldt, who died of his wounds soon afterward revealing tho Identity of his slayer. Ovorlmrdt, wollnlght crazed with grief, went Immediately to his sweot-heart sweot-heart and confessed his crlmo to hor. Sho bogged him to fleo to tho United Statos, promising to Join him In this count ns soon as ho should send for hor t come to him. Tin Jcath of Schoenfoldt was still xhroiii ed In mystery, so far as the police po-lice aim relatives and friends of the doad uinn wore concerned, when Overhardt Over-hardt left Germany and (led to Parla. He remained In Paris a fow wcoks and thou went to London, whonce a fow weeks later ho camo to the United Statos. Ho nought and obtn)nod omployment In Now York undor an assumed name, but, fcnrlirr that tho mystery sup rounding Schooufoldt's death might b cleared up and that ho might bo discovered dis-covered and arrested thoro as hta slaor, bu set out for tho west. H IN TIIK QtlAHHKl, OVEP.IIAKDT STAIUUM) 8CI10ENFEI.DT. a few weeks In Cincinnati, bolnff attracted I hero by tho largo Gorman element In the population. Then hf wont to Louisville, whoro ho remained several months. From Loulsvlllojfl went to St. Louis nnd from 8VftflH to Milwaukee. Ho remained lu waukeo six months. P Menuwhllo ho was writing regularly, to and receiving letters regularly from his sweetheart In -(lormnny. He told her thnt he should send for hor ns soon ui ho should settlo down and bo-come bo-come uhlo to support her and hlmsoll In comfort. On coming to this stnto -ho began prospecting for gold, and within a year ho struck u rich lead. TheroupOtrfro dlspntched a letter to his Hwectheart, begging her to come to him nt once. She answered his letter, saying' that because of thu Illness of her mother sho could not Ieuo hor home. A fow weeks later ho received another letter from her, saying that hor mother wns better but that for oilier reasons sho could not then como to tho United Stntes to Join him. Apparently realizing realiz-ing llnnlly that his sweetheart did not Intend to Join him, Overhardt tascd writing to hur nnd abandoned hope. Ho disposed of his initio sovornl months after ho recolvcd his last lot-tor lot-tor from his sweetheart and, coming to this .region, built tho llttlo cabin on tho mountnlnsldo, In which ho Spent tho rest of his mlscrnblo llfo. It Is bolloved thnt In tils loneliness and hla grlof his mind llnnlly becanm deranged de-ranged and thnt was responsible for hla occohtrlc hubfts. What becamo of tho fortune which tho old man realized real-ized from the salo of his cold mluo la a mystery. |