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The Reports' of Robberies
' of Ahost Daily
Occurrence
I Otto Mueller Mach Married Man
FIVE THIS WEEK
Raleigh Suffering from aa Epidemic
of Petty Thieve Becoming Bold
' er Hath Day Twa Places Entered
Last Night Only a Small Sum Se
curedEvidently the Work of
Amateurs Sewn to be Familiar
With, the Premises Attention
Now Confined to Money Drawers
A Large Number of Petty Robber
ies Committed Recently Thought
. to be a Gang of Negro Boys.
V0r.2AtiIN THE
CEIJTtflEW
Prizce Ito Laid to Rest Yesterday
YOMGHT!
Wcsian's "Csip?! League'
Out in letter Scoring the :
Tammany leaders
That a band of petty thieves is op
era ting in ' the city la beyond .all
' doubt, and the -boldness of their dep
redations . is dally increasing. For
the. past several months a report of
some-robbery is almost a daily-occurrence,
some days more than one
is heard of.
That the rascals are thoroughly fa
N miliar with the object of their oper
atlons'is quite evident from the man
ner in which their work is done.
For a whil6' pantries, chicken coops
sad wearing apparel were the sole
objects of their attention, but becom
ing bolder at their Success, they have
, broadened the field until it includes
stores, business of flees, etc., wherever i
money is likely to be found. . ; i
. Last Sunday night , entrance was
made through a rear door into Bett'e
" " ice Cream estabMshuient, but as there
was ntf money in the ail their trouble
' was without results-, so far as tan be
ascertained.
The same night entry was made
into the. Five and Ten Cent Store -bx
breaking the lock on the back door,
but this attempt was also fruitless!
so far as is known. -
Tuesday ihight the baqk door to
Uughi's new store, near the Oak City
Laundry, was broken open and four
or five dollars secured from the mon
ey drawer. It Is impossible to aster
tain whether any of the goods weee
stolen or hot.
Wednesday night thei ' broke into
RoygteVs candy store, breaking the
glass in the transom over the back
door. The cash register was not
locked as It contained no money, and
nothing has been missed from the
store. . ',r .
Not daunted by the poor success of
the former operations this week, last
night they sawed through the door
in the Union News Stand and robbed
the cash drawer of eight or ten dol
lars. Th'.B happened between .the
hours of 7:30 and 10 o'clock in the
evening, during which - timtt there
was no one in the stand. ;'
Not being satisfied with this, The
Times 'office was the next object of
their attention. , fliis morning when
Andrew,, the general factotum of the
shop, came to open up, he found the
front door practically open, the door
of the editor's office, and the door
of the manager's office' wide Open and
the money drawer in the office of the
circulation department was torn out.
A big -knife and tworeachs,
which had been taken from the press
room, were found on the -floor near
tke drawer, showing the Instrument
with which the desk Was opened.
Nothing was missing, unless it was a
few pennies, as Mr. Morris had re
moved all the money from the drawer
yesterday afternoon. ' ;
, AH these robberies were evident
ly committed by some amateur, for
none Of the skill of the professional
was displayed in any of them. It is
. alio quite evident that the burglars
were familiar with their eround. and
'had already planned their points of
entrance, as well ' as locating the
places where the money is usually
, Times office, where just one particu
lar drawer, out of the many in the
desk, was opened, showing that it
was knowh that the money was us
ually kept in; thfit. drawer. '
A number of robberies have been
committed lately, among them being
the cash drawers In three stalls in
the market house, where something
like eighty dollars . was. secured.
Since then the cash drawers' in the
-sheriff's office and office qf register
- of deeds have been broken pen,
' though no. money was secured.
, Many., residences have had their
-'pantries' relieved of flour, htunsr
steak, etc. Also several Btores off
Foyetteville street have been enter i
ed, 80metim$ lueceisfulty and Others
Contiausd on Page Sight.)- - i
Frederick Gebliardt, alius Otto Mueller, the self-confessed murderer
Of Anna Luther, wjtose body, thrown Into the bashes at Brentwood Moor,
tKar Islip', L. I., in April, 1908, WaM not discovered until a year elapsed.
According to his own story, ho met the girl in 1987 and married her a
year later and took her to Germany ana honeymoon, despite the fact that
he nag then married to a woman In AstoDa, L. I. Returning in; April,
1908, he took her to see friends in Newark, while he called on his wife In
Astoria. Finding she had a baby, he decided to get rid of his second wife.
2 fanantlc love of looking at real -estate took them to Islip, where he
tried to get her money from her. When she raised her head for a kiss he
fired twice into her head. According to the police he had robbed several
girls under promise of marriage. ,
MANY ACCUSATIONS
KOREAISp ?
OPEN REVOLT
"AGAIKST JAPS
HUELLER MADE f.lATRIMON Y
A BIG PAYING PROPOSITION
Was Married Many Times and Always Got Money From the
Women He MameA-Police of Germany and Rnssia
Aid in Tracing the Career of the Man
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Oct. 28 International
efforts were begun to trace the career
of Otto Mueller, alias Frederick Gep
hardt, alias Fritz Scharferlein, con
fessed bluebeard and ex-convict. The
German government is involved in
the hunt for further facts in his mon
strous career and the St. Petersburg
police are . to undertake the tracing
of his life in Russia, where his first
known victim wedded him.
Anna Luther, the woman he killed
eighteen months ago near Islip, L. I.,
and the discovery of whose skeleton
recently led to the' baring of Muel
ler's atrocious record, was a Ger
man lass, with whom he went to Ger
many on their wedding trip.
The announcement late today that
Mueller had confessed he was a triple
slayer caused the police to renew
their efforts to prove him another
"Hbch."
Here is the reord which the au
thorities today declared they Would
fasten to Gebhardt:
1896, deserted Minne Rosen au,
whom he married in Russia, taking
1400 of her money.
1896, deserted Lena Wessner,
whom he promised ' to wed, getting
340.- Convicted of grand larceny
and served in Sing Sing till August
18,1805.
1905, disappeared after the mys
terious death of Mrs, Marine Katz, of
Lbtrg Island, taking $700 . She had
been lured from Her husband.
106, married Anna Meinke in
February, with whom he Was living as
Gebhardt when arrested. Got $800.
1908, married Anna Luther, Islip
Woods, Got $500.
1908, married Katie Katz, also
February and disappeared.
1908, April, murdered Anna
Luther.
1909, September, tried to kill wife.
ADna Meinke.
The police are hunting two women
believed to have been his prey, on
Long Island and in Manhattan. Wor
cester, Mass., police think he com
mitted triple murder there.
Mrs. Gebhardt, the woman with
whom Bueller was living when ar
rested and the mother of the two
children today reiterated her state
ment that -she knew her husband had
eight other wives, and that all had
pone to their graves.
One of the crimes which police
will try to fasten on the prisoner,
csme t6 light, when relatives of Mrs.
Ilatz appeared to Gebhardt regard-
in'.i. il, lib,-, xk.'k
pinion el a Ij.'.-n ) ts!ivJct at Win by a 1
settle the dispute upon the evacnatii.
post to become a member of the Prv -,
irom marquis to a Prince He was P, i
est rank, being the child of a peasant.
Entrance of Yhe Wtfluon loir. .
X amiKUKn- .ot, limited I i,n v. .i;
'. T.-tvoi- by tfctt.SfMlmvtis. Sr.
, ruse titinnard of- ,"t .
T!nlir - ('U4iW4;fi,rt'il''jt an i
(ri-fli(iKiS l'ljj- Tlri. i 'I' T!,.if 1
lYim (h-.-VAriafiA- Y'anrUil.:'.
Fucti i?iOf tv I, 1 ,
lefivrv f.'ayiior's'i' i- . t,
Jlove Made Itc-o'f -.,.
Tammaftv 7fuif "Whiff ,:
Chaws. v.."
(By Leased Wire. to The Tir.es
New York, Oct.' 28 The women
campaigners ha,ye the center of the
stage in New York's municipal cam
paign again today, 'following the
opening bt headqttarterB b: firef
combined wotneh's republican clubs
to fight for iie election of Otto T.
Bannard.J the republican mayoraly
candidate, the -fT woman's municipal
league is out today wit h a public
letter inimical to Tammany.
This .latest phape of the campaign i
was brought out by the charges pub-!
Hahed in a magasine article that Tam
many used as ' jhaVt ;if ttt organiza-
OB - wbaveVl A The lot-
fter of the woman's -municipal, league-
calls on Tammany and Judge William
J. Qaynor, the democratic mayoralty
nominee, to disprove the allegations.
The letter concludes with the state
ment, "we, the women of New York,
will not rest until this is wiped out",
referring to the alleged situation in
calls on "every decent man -to cast 'eace TIns"tuj. eW n the office of
his vote against the Tammany candi-i ?n' J: R; Jou?g' Pnet f the
dates" luuuuay, it was unani-
This entrance in the campaign of'y ,r?"ea ma te seve5al
women is not looked upon with favor , T t ,
bv the suffraeettes who accuse Ban- 8tltute' the PrlnciPal one being an in
1 "e sunragettes, wno accuse Ban- crease of th capltai stock from .30
nard of not favoring their cause, . nnn t -lnn nn ' " .
While accusations today flew "
thicker than ever from the platforms strike QUt paragraph 2 and ingert
0fthe.T,l0US,C,anddaieefVIde n lie thereo? the following:
reiterated its claim to the best chance , ..The genera, purpose of the cor.
fOr VICtOry. ,t j r,oratlnn l tn nrr,mnto tha nanoo
Hector M. Hastings, an attorney, '(APat,0 mnHrtnl, n anhnn1 ,,.
declared that Judge Gaynor's first re- ,ne higher education of y0ling WOIuen
form move, which brought him into .,ntJer tne auspIces Df the Presbyte-
the limelight many years ago, the rian church of Nortn Carolina and to
fight on John Y. McKane, Coney thl8 end t0 hoId the Peace InBtitute
Island's former boss, who was sent to lot ln the ,.ity of Raeigh and such
K . .Vi -4- fee? rt4 J
; japan May be Forced to RusLi -I
Troops to Southern
i Part of Country . .
lytt
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OPLE AROUSED
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.s,i!!l. iii Koreiu' Excit'tSI by the As
s.'issiuation tit Prince- Ho," is in '
':ifii lif-voft... pvd Japan May be
I'Miii-d (, Send Troj Ut Pcninv
S.iimuestv People mid Press
c;' jti,li)ig Severe Meunmrs Keit
'vji'iiX t-nll For Absolute Annexa
ti.in r,t Korenw This Has IttH'n the
of Japan From the First is
mral -Belief Lu Every For.
tli-.' fn thoiCountTT.
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1 '"'! .'!( i-ii iiis u.iy to
" 'i" ii-i... He resigned that
n il of Jup.,, and was raise, I
Hilt1 .1. Ill IKt lit tl-n tiiiiii ..e
nnn ....... ,.K m.1 . . -
...... viuu iiuu one oi tne lew Janaiiese l
rose from the low-
CHARTER AMENDED THE GAME LAWS
Stock of Peace Institute Raised
from$30,000to$100p
The Charter of Peace Institute to be
Amended in Two Paragraphs De
cided Upon Last Monday The
School to be Conducted for the
Higher Education of Women Cn
der the Auspices of the Presbyte
rian Church.
Game Warden Upchurch Efc
pains the Game Laws
At a meeting of the trustees of
oing oing, was tne resmc merely oi other nroDcrf. real and nersonal. as
spite and that Gaynor was previous to. may De conducive thereto and obtain-
the, battle a friend of McKane. a,i hv nnrchase eift. Hevian nr nthc,-.
Tammany Hall and Its ticket have ! wise."
defenders a-plenty. Former Police; Also by striking out narauranh 3
Commissioner White denied the and insertinz In lien thereof the fnl.
white slave" charge, and says that lowing:
fng her absence. A family in Brook- 1 mlV- ,ms opposea me: -rne amount of authorized capita
iroiuu. uuier ufuiuvrauu upeaKers stOCK snail be one hundred thousand
take the same stand. j (iollars, divided into one ' thousand
William R. Hearst, civic, alliance shares of the value of one hundred
candidate, as far as possible is direct-; dollars each.".
ing his fight against Tammany. In I James R. Young Is president of the
his speeches he pledged himsel to the board of trustees and B. W. Kilgore
destruction ' of ; Tammany Hall, ; is secretary.
lyn told how the man who, it is posi
tive, was Mueller, - drugged Mrs,
Katz, a daughter of the head of the
family ,and while Bhe was under his
spell, induced her to leave her hus
band and child, sell - her boarding
honse and flee with him with $700.
The couple left Pamaica, L. I., and
went to Jersey City. Three days
later the woman died.
- This is believed to have been Geb
hardt's first crime after his release
from Sing Sing. ,
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LE SAM'S
BIGGEST SHIP
PRESIDENT
(By Leased Wire to The Times.) .
Boston, Mass., Oct. 28 'Ready for
the test which will qualify ber to be-
como , Uncle . Sam's biggest - peace
maker, the battleship - North Dakota
steamed out from' the Fore i River
Works this morningtfor Provincetbwn.
Built at a cost of $10,000,006 by the
Fore River Bhipbullding Company, it
Is expected that her two Curtis revers
ible turbines,1 with their 25,000 horse
power will drive her;- 20,000 -'tois
throutfh tho waves t a 21 knot speed.
After running a few times over the
mils- course at Provinectewn for her
builders trials the ship will head for
Boston ,:ahu drop anchor ' off the
Charlestown navy yard at .10 .o'clock
Friday mwnlnf, If alt goes well
LATE SCHEDULE
(By Leased Wlresto The Times.)
Vlcksburg, Miss.,' Oct.-. Z& President
faft Is dashing down . the Mississippi '
river in a frantic effort to catch up
with his schedule, and other boats of i
which the President is a passenger,
are doing their best to catch Up With
him. The Id w water and an accident
to the Gray Eagle, which carrying a
party of governors, was grounded near
Helena after an accident to the boilers
are responsible for the delay- in fol
lowing the itinerary arranged, ,The
passengers of the Gray Eagle 'were
transferred to the . Illinois after the
accident. . - V- ' :--:::i "yc ' ':-.-,
Vlcksburg Is today putting up her
best bib arid tucker for the president,
who is due here at p. m. today, ml.
whether he is elected or-not. j The trustees who will sign the
Mr. Banhard escaped an aocident; amendment wh'ch will be filed with
last night by taking the wrong auto
mobile. The one he was to have ta
ken was smashed tip.
HOUSE COMMITTEE
OFF FOR PANAMA
the secretary of state soon, are J. R..
Young, H. W. Jackson, E. Chambers
Smith, George Allen, B. W. Kilgore.
Uame Warden I pchurch Misquoted in
Yesterday's Paper Relative to the
Hunting Season and Sets Himself
Straight Explains What Game the
Several. Chapters Apply to.
In an article in yesterday's Times
relative to the trouble some of our
hunters are having with the game
laws, the position of Game Warden
Upchurch was not made plain.
The following letter from him sets
the matter strainght, so far as he is
concerned: '
The game laws as they now apply
to Wake county:
The close season, or time in each
year during which no quail or part
ridge, wild turkey, dove, robin, -or
lark, shall be shot, killed, wounded,
or in any manner hunted taken, or
: apt-ired, shall be from the first d.-
-if ?.:arch to the 15th day of Novem
ber. See laws 1909, chap. CSS, ;-.s
n mended.
The laws of 1909, cha;. 723. p.
1113. sec. 1: That it shall hp nninw-
f il to hunt, in Wake
or dogs, or in any other manner, be- i
tween the first day of March and thr
first day of November of each and '
every year, and that any person vio
lating this section of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, anil shall,
:ipon conviction, be punished by a
fine of not less than $.t and not more
fl;an $10, or imprisoned not more
f!ian 30 da; s.
Sec. 2. That any person found in
possession between the dates men
tioned in sec. 1 hereof of any dead
game shall be presumed prima facia
to have killed the same in violation of
this act.
di;. Cabin to The Tim.-s)
i .: dt !i. Oct. 28 Southern Korea,
''..! by ihe assassination of Prince
fo. 'be Japanese statesman to whom
i'i - rebellious Kereans attribute the
s'l'-jugation of their -country, .'-Is in
:-.en revolt today and Japan Will b
:'ur p,i io rush troops to the peninsn- -In,
Mi-cording to dispatches rooetvod
In'-i'-' tod.iy. ; .'. ,, ..'
Tiio announcement by the Toklo i
government that the mild policy ofc
lined by Ito in the exploitation -of
Korea would be followed has aroustf-
the Japanese people and the press lis .
demanding feevere measures, relterf(t' "
ing iu call for absolute annexation of
Korea. The making or Korea 84
actual part of the Jflpponex domain
at -present, a nominally independent -nation
tributary to Japan, has beeen '
the object of Tokib from the flrftt
move on Korea, 'according to the be- ,
lief general in the foreign offices of
every European nation. (
The first move in this direction has
been awaited With anxiety. That it
Is not far off was the declaration ot -a
statesman, who has closely studied
the far eastern problem. -
A Russo-Japanese Entente, re
ported in despatches received here,
adds to the complexity of the Korean
and Manchnrian . problem. It is de-.
dared that the object of Itb's trip to
Harbin, where he was shot, had as
one of its objects the completion of
tentative arrangements for the agree-
iment between the two nations. The
Russian finance minister, M. Kakav
:!off, who was at Harbin to confer
iv-iih ihe leader of the "elder states-
nip:!". v,-ai prepared to discuss the
j financial snd commercial aspects of
I ! he pact, it is asserted here in credi
I ble quarters.
COTTON MAKES
RECORD PRICES
LOVETT PRESIDENT
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
(Bj' Leased Wire to The Times.)
.Washington, Oct. 28 All the mem-
'.rZTZ;! New York, Oct. 2-Robert 8. Lovet.,
IS detaind by the death of his wife's formerly right hand man to the lato
mother, will leave New York to- ES. H. Harrlman, was today elected to
morrow for Panama, to hold a hear- the presidency of the Southern Pacific
ing on the estimates of the canal com
mission, y "
The committee will visit Culebre the
headquarters , of the constructing en
gineers, and look over the work ac
complished. It is the purpose of the
committee to give all the money neces
sary to carry on the work in the next
Railroad, one of the 'best roads under
control of the late railroad wizard.
William Mahl was elected ylce-presi-dent
of the same line.
Before the announcement of the
election of Lovett to the presidency
fiscal year that can be economically of the Southern Pacific it was , an
sxpended. ' The committee is to return nounced that he had been elected a
about the end, of .November. -: director of the Delaware and Hudson,
. - i .. : where he again assumes' an office left
' Deputy Sheriff Shot vacant by the death of E. H. Harri-
S.lllnnu UMA Vi .1 fltlAa man. 1 t .
:B.B.chy,. deputy shertff,.wa8 found
dyinf today with a bullet wouM lit tli "1, ll ,V,. Tti
ki k.A -itnW. iM a w ukm Be resumed the duties of his
?v lif 10 w ?m.,i former emWo!rf in in the sftterpHses
the sheriri offices. H6 died 6& bis hrftiVacant at the death. ot-Harri-way
to the emergency, hospital,' I man,- i ;''".-'
(By Leased Wire to The Time)
New York,- Oct. 28 Record prices
for the year were made on the N,w
York Cotton exchange today in oiia
of the liveliest sessions of the Sea
son. Trading was unusually actli, .
j At 11:30 o'clock the January op
tion was quofced at tt.GS to .6, inora ;
Se?V 3. That this act shall be in I than 10 points aboVe yesterday's 1oa-
ro.xo !ro':r. and after its ratification. jiS. March was 14.67; to .68, 12 pc-n's
K?tU!iM tl.i..i tJm Str. da -, of March, I up. asul May was 14.78, about. 11
.. D. lwo:'. ir-.-ni-i up. Tlie-'btlffef iHol "'f'-t-
"his ' ".Mm.":- anniles to a '1 samp I iTonortionately strong. " " ' -'i -..
Feeling wa's. 'Mb'tdediy ' bninSh OB
the floor and enthusiastic ffredictlons
of further junJiip In 'prlcb WeTe Jre
ly made. In' thifice '6f tfiife btitJajiv
:iiip!!e5. to a'l gat.li
ihe violation of ihfs
i r-ppiy to the killing
-plies to t e hunting
rca-:o;i of this law being eri-a-.
tad is because there are a large
r.'imber of our population who would
to hunting in August and September
.'or squirrels and Bhoot turkeys, birds,
or any other game that they ffnd.
Others would go rabbit hunting in
October, and shoot partridge or any:
other ganie they should find. So the
violation of this act noes not consist
in. the mere killing of a rabbit or,
squirrel, but in the hunting.
Your article in yesterday's paper
misquoted me in saying you could
hunt between the first and 15th of
November, but could not kill.
You can hunt and kill squirrels,
rabbit, opossum, ducks, wild geese,
wood cock, snipe, plovers, chewink, or
any game bird that you may find, ex
cept the wild turkey; partridge, dove,
robin, and meado'W lark. The close
Season as amended Is laws of 1909,
chap: 688, applies only to these birds.
J.. R, UPCHURCa
- Gama Warden
ic feeling litfte or no attention was'
paid to the Wpoft of 'the fa'ittirVof a '
cotton factory' In Liverpool. J.
Duing theriioon Jiour'a. heaWy, vol
ume of profl't-takitlk order tefused
price recessions (n tne . vari op.;
tions averaging about 10 p'ointsiSiroin
the high jmarka 'dt tRe"d"iy. - "--I 'it.
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(By LeaBeaWtOier1nfs) .
Eastport, Me.; Oct. H The .p- ,
tM of tlfe ay of 'funo$rid the Ai.
lantic, &ivil(fc$k BeltflShi'for the ,
boat load of men Who succeeded tk '
putting W thetsrfeam Ilestia whei,'
she was.wrecicect off QrandMenia, .
Wasinamtalnid tm utnHe wM
little hope f6t ifiiccfesB. i is believed
't'hlft fife score or fibre th "jhe lifeboat'
rfre lost, mains' 'tfie -e4t!l ft$
least 3 B,
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