Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — MURDER MYSTERY OF GARY PRIEST CLEARED UP [ARTICLE]

MURDER MYSTERY OF GARY PRIEST CLEARED UP

Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 19. Michael Schramm, of this city, tonight confessed to the murder of the Rev. Father Edmond Kayser, of Gary, Ind., on the night of August 24, 1915. The police say that Schramm made the confession after hours of cross-examination. Schramm is alleged to have admitted that he, with a companion saw Father I Kayser counting money after the charity bazaar and the two men attempted to wrest the money away. It is said the priest fought desperately and Schramm shot him. Father Kayser sank to the ground still holding the money bag in which was more than SI,OOO , . Gary officials are on their way to Bridgeport, it is understood