Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1904 — Butcher Knapp Must Die. [ARTICLE]

Butcher Knapp Must Die.

The Supreme court of Ohio Tuesday reversed the deoision of the oirouit oourt which granted a new trial to Alfred A. Knapp, the Hamilton wife murderer and allaround monster of wiokedness, and fixed August 16 as the day on whioh he shall be electrocuted. The oirouit oourt granted the motion for a new trial on the ground that Knapp’s oonfession should not have been admitted as evidenoe. Knapp served a long term in the Miohigan City prison and when arrested at Hamilton confessed to . murdering six persons. One of these being little 4 year old Ida Gebhart, of Indianapolis. Knapp resided in Porter oounty this state, when a youth.