Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — A Much-Wronged Exile. [ARTICLE]

A Much-Wronged Exile.

There iatelv arrived at Memel. a sea port town of Prussia, a bent, whitehaired and careworn man whose com ing produced a sensation such as could not have been made by the ap pearance of any other living person. He was Gustav Gebhardt, who fort* year ago was a butcher in Memel anc was accused of having committed i double murder and was condemned ti death. On the morning set for his execution his cell was found eraptj aud he could never be tracked. Aftei some years a respectable citizen, when on the point of death,confessed to his pastor that he was the mur derer, and therefore that Gebhardl was innocent. Advertisements o; this news were inserted in all th< native and foreign papers, summon ing Gebhardt to return to Memel, bul nothing was heard of him. At las) however, the facts reached his ear and he came back to bis home.

Henry M. King, D. D., who wai elected foreign secretary of the Amer ican Baptist Missionary Union, iz place of Dr. Murdock, has decline* the position. - v