Show OVI w IS MONSTER OF CRIME OWN confession no more fearful creature than AI al red fred knapp now in jail at hamilton ohio has ever lived lie ile Is the most inhuman the most dreadful monster that the world has ever known with his hands red with innocent blood he calmly boasts of bis his crimes and seems to find an infinite delight and relish in reciting the details of his terrible deeds the creature Is a homicidal maniac in his heart is the lust tor for murder like a tiger that has tasted blood his heart knows no other desire to kill tor for the joy of killing that has been the one object of his awful life to satisfy the horrible craving for human life has been his one ambit ou on awake or asleep his thoughts have all been or this desire ills present wife has often been awakened in the night to find the cruel hands about Z A boers 2 4 her neck in a deadly grasp while he was asleep he killed without motive he killed tor for no object neither money nor fear moved him to commit his crimes he killed for the love of killing surely nothing so horrible as that has ever been known before already he has confessed to mur dering five helpless women to two of whom he was married over and over he has told to the authorities the stories of these crimes he ile seems to relish the recital and find delight in the awful details he acts out the scenes of 0 the billing killing I 1 always kill from behind he says from between his teeth I 1 get them in front of me then I 1 clutch them by the throat placing my knee lines on the back and bend them over they gle but not long they look into my face but they find no mercy there I 1 kill them and that is it all how do I 1 know when they are dead I 1 don dont t know when they stop breath ing then I 1 stop choking I 1 listen to the heart and it if that Is done beating then I 1 am done none of them eve evey pleaded for mercy they couldn coulden t and it would have been no use I 1 couldn coulden t have stopped until they were dead no I 1 cannot tell any one why I 1 killed them there was something be hind me pushing me on and I 1 could not resist that feeling it pushed me on and I 1 killed yes I 1 felt good after y it was over it was quickly done when the body fell limp from me my first thought was to dispose of it in another detailed confession in the jail alfred knapp told how be he had murdered ida gabhart the little west indianapolis girl kafter fter knapp had murdered the child he doubled the body up and put it in a tool box in the barn he said and fastened down AJ the lid knapp says he was in the crowd ot of H indignant people which gathered when the child IS body was found and that he denounced the cruel murder as ff loudly as any of them from indianapolis comes the news that anna may gamble the fourth wife of knapp who married him a 1 few weeks ago continues obdurate in her determination not to believe her s husband the moral monster which his confession establishes and she la is ex ti cee bitter against his relative relatives because she says they her j marriage and also because she holds them responsible for bis his present predicament di he ile loves me and I 1 love him said she several times repeated all that I 1 am afraid of is that they will hill kill him in the electric chair if it they sen I 1 him to the penitentiary it won t be so bad because I 1 can go and see him i once in a while in view of knapp s facility of get ting away with former wives it Is 1 scarcely supposable that he would 4 have dallied long with his latest accas sion slon knapp despite the fact that he I 1 found three women who accepted him as husband Is anything but good loek look ing he ile Is simply mild mannered fa and by his smooth words doubtless achieved what his appearance never would have accomplished at present he Is at his vorst for i he Is unshaven and generally un kempt appearing more the arch fiend that he Is than might otherwise be the j case he ile Is about pounds in weight of medium build has coal id black hair with significant patches of white at the top of his head bead and ft brownish that look at one without g a wink v his ills hands are noticeably large and strong just such as a man must have to commit the murders he has con fessel f knapp s confession Is as follows on jan 21 1831 18 1 I killed amma littleman ernan in a lumber aard ard in gest street cincinnati on aug 1 1894 1 I killed may eckert in walnut street opposite the Y M C A in cincinnati on aug 7 1894 1 I killed my wife jennie connors knapp under the canal bridge in liberty street cincin nati and threw her into the canal in indianapolis in july 1895 1 I killed ida i gebhard on dec dee 22 1902 1 I killed my wife annie knapp at ht south fourth street in hamilton and threw her into the river out by lindenwald this is the truth alfred knapp 1 I 1 make this statement by my own tree free will and not by the request ot of any officer or any one else alfred knapp i i ji IF x jimiy HOME OF charles DiTrI 10 O WHERE MURDER WAS KNAPPS KNAPP 8 CAREER AS SHOWN BY RECORDS 1862 greensburg greensbury Greens burg ind born 1876 terre haute ind kicked by a horse which af fectea his mind for some years 1879 sent to the cincin natt house of refuge as an incorrigible 1882 chicago first pent pen tertiary tent iary sentence to jollet joliet 1884 terre haute ind marled emma stubbs wife no 1 1884 terra haute ind divorced from wife no 1 1884 85 1 in n jeffersonville Jeffer sonville ind penitentiary sen fenced from terre haute ind for petit larceny 1886 lawrenceburg Lawrenc eburg ind married jennie conners wife no 2 1836 87 in jeffersonville Jeffer sonville ind penitentiary sen merced rom lawrenceburg Lawrenc eburg ind for petit larceny 1888 sert to the cincin nat nati work hofe hOLee for theft june cincinnati killed emma littleman gest street 1894 aug 4 cincinnati kit killed ed M mary a ry eckert walnut street 1894 aug 17 cincinnati disappearance of jennie con ners who was found in the canal near wade street bridge suicide verdict 1895 july indianapolis killed ida gebhart 1895 december cincinnati married hannah goddard wife no 3 1896 1902 in michigan city ind prison for crime 1902 september hamilton 0 proposed to charles cable to murder graham sisters 1902 dec 22 hamilton 0 hannah goddard wife no 3 strangled and carted to the river met anna may gamble 1903 feb 4 indianapolis married anna may gamble wife no 4 1903 feb 25 indiana indianapolis polls knapp arrested 1903 feb 25 hamilton 0 knapp confesses murder murder of wife no 3 1903 feb 26 hamilton 0 confessed to killing the five women and girls r 4 j A |