Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — A Monster’s Awful Deeds. [ARTICLE]

A Monster’s Awful Deeds.

A degenerate beast named Albert Knapp has just confessed, at Hamilton, Ohio, to five murders of women and girls; and it is believed that be will confess to still others. Two of these were his wives. One of these murders, and the most atrocious of all, occurred in Indianapolis in 1895, and the facts of which were at the time well known to all Indiana people. Ida Gebhart, a three year old girl was the victim. No clue to the murderer was ever discovered until this confession of Knapp’s. I Lis now stated that the murdered girl’s parents moved to Michigan and then to Chicago, where the mother died of grief over her little girl’s awful fate.