Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — ADMITS HE SLEW FIVE WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

ADMITS HE SLEW FIVE WOMEN.

Alfred Knapp Confesses to a Series of Br ital Murders. Alfred Knapp, the Indianapolis man arrested Wednesday, added a sensational chapter to criminal history and placed himself in a class with H. H. Holmes when he confessed to the murder of .five women. Three of them were in Cincinnati,. one in, Hamilton and one in Indianapolis. All were strangled by this modern Bluebeard. Knapp _was taken from Indianapolis to Hamilton, Ohio.A Cincinnati dispatch says that His family,' according to a dispatch from Qincinnati, insists that Knapp is insane. They claim that he was kicked on the bead by a colt when four years old. The child’s skull was fractured and his life despaired of at the time, it being three months before he recovered consciousness. Several years later, while the family resided at Rock Island, 111., he fell from a porch and again his skull was fractured. He recovered, but his relatives say he has never developed mentally, and that while at times Knapp is perfectly rational, at other times his temper is (Ungovernable.