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Show ; BIl'S 10BEM BLMBMfil . Confessed Wife Strangles ' Calmly Talks cf Harrow. Escapes From Death of thd Last Woman to WhomHeWasflarricd. HAMILTON. O., Feb. 27. Mrs. Sadie Wenxell, who came here last night to see her brother, Alfred Knapp, the self-confessed self-confessed multi-murderer, had a long talk with ttoe prisoner in the presence, of Sheriff Bisdorf. His sister had previously pre-viously .written him about marrying his fourth wife, Anne May Gamble, at Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, about a month after the disappearance dis-appearance of Hannah Ooddard Knapp. his third wife, and in the conversation Mrs. Wensell said: "Ally, it has been said that I have Hannah's ear-rings and ring, and I want you, in the presence of the Sheriff, to exonerate me on that score." Sing; on Her Finger. - - , "Hannah's ring will be found on her finger." " - , "How about the ear-rings? "If she had ear-rings, they will be found In her ears." "Ally, have you been well since your arrest?" "No, I have not been well a moment. I suffer all the time with a pain in my head. It ' is there now, and I hardly know what I am doing.". - Hlght Have Killed Her. "Had you not been arrested, would you have killed the wife whom you now have In Indianapolis V was asked of Al- -fred Knapp today. "That is hard to tell,- was the reply. The Question did not disconcert Knapp, but seemed to arouse In him a speculative sense that caused him to go Into an explanation of his arrest. Impulse to Strangle.- . know that, she :. woke up several times since we were married and found my bands on .her . neck Whn I wa asleep, too She would wake when I " grabbed her and waka me and ask me , -what I meant by taking bold of her neck that way, and I could not tell her why, because I was asleep and did not , know I had done it. Just last week she woke up Just in time or she might never have woke up at alL I grabbed her so tight and was 'choking her so that she was. nearly gone and woke me up. I cannot see what makes me do that." CONFESSION OP KNAPP SOLVES MYSTERIES 07 THREE UNCANNY CRIMES CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. 27. The three murders which Albert Knapp confessed committing in Cincinnati could never be solved by the police. Two were dropped as "suicides," and the third as a "strangler mystery.' The dead body of Emma Llttleman was found on June ,21, 1894, in the lumber-yard designated by Knapp In his confession. ' The finding of the body of Mrs. Jennie Knapp In the canal is a crime which puzzled the police of this city and Hamiltoa. The body was cut and there were minks on the woman's throat which indicated that she had been choked to death. The mystery in the case had remained as deep as ever until un-til the confession of Knapp. Mrs. Jennie Knapp was a Cincinnati woman, and before her marriage was well known in Cumminsville. In this case Knapp was never suspected. He said that his wife had left home without with-out telling him where she had gone, and he went to the home of her sister to search for her. The police arrived at the conclusion that the woman had committed suicide. In the Mary Eckert murder mystery the woman was found strangled to death In a house in Walnut street. The police tried to solve the mystery, but without success. They finally declared that the men who killed Mary Eckert also committed similar crimes at Denver Den-ver and elsewhere throughout the country. coun-try. His methods were likened to those of "Jack The Ripper." |