2 ANSCHLAG'S CONFESSION. The History of His Life Told By Himself. WHY HE KILLED THREE PEOPLE. He Tells How He Killed Fuge and Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock. Other Small Crimfs. It will be remembered that a few days ago an account was published of the murder of one Julius Fuge, near Oroville, by Anschlag, and of the finding of the body. The confession of this murder was obtained from Anschlag by Prof. U. 8. Glick, who has translated Anschlag's confession exactly as it was given by him. The obtaining of the confession was no light undertaking and Prof. Glick deserves great credit for the manner in which he performed so distasteful a duty. Rev. John Berger, pastor of the German Evangelical Church, has been acting as Anschlag's spiritual adviser, and Prof. Glick has been his most able assistant. Prof. Glick labored three days in translating the history of An schlag, as told by himself, from German into English. The history is as follows: Los Angeles, Cal.. Oct. 26, '88. A short history of my life: I, Fritz Anschlag, was born in the city of Kcenigsburg, East Prussia, on Septem ber 9th, 1864. When I was two years old I lost my mother and was taken care of by a governess. When I was five years old I started to school and attended three different schools between that age and sixteen. At the latter age I was con firmed in the Catholic Church of Kcenigs burg, and at this age father took me out of school and bound me as an apprentice to a merchant. One year prior to this my father married his second wife. Clerking I liked very well, but my em ployer thought me not strong enough, and when he told me this 1 quit working for him and went home. After this my father took me to a wholesale flax house to learn the business, but I did not stay long aa I was unable to speak English. After this I hired to the proprietor of a wall paper store for three years to learn the business, but after nine months service I fell from a ladder twenty feet to the ground, break ing my left arm and hurting my head very badly. After this I was in bed for* long time, during which Dr. Schneider treated me. I was unconscious a great deal of the time. When I became well I did something wrong most every day, such as eating scup with my knife and fork instead of using a spoon. I was hardly ever in my right mind. If I was sent for anything I almost always forgot it. Dr. Schneider gave me three months' treatment for this mind trouble, on ac count of which I lost the above position. This same year, 1881,1 lost my beloved father. TAKEN TO A FARM. Thinking that I was all right, my uncle took me to his farm to learn farm ing, which I liked very much, as I wished to be out of doors. During my illness I thought a great deal about com ing to America. After staying with my uncle one year I bad another misfortune. I had a coal stove in my room, and 1 closed the door and damper. Then I laid down on the bed with my clothes on to wait for a veterinary surgeon to come and attend to some horses. The next morning the servant girl found me in an unconscious condition from inhaling the coal gas which had escaped. I was in this condition for seven days and nights. When my head became clear again I went to work, and I staid with my uncle one year longer. During this time I was a great loss to my uncle, on account of making so many mistakes. At times I could not keep my mind for a minute, and could not even count the measure ment of the wheat, so that my uncle would have to send another man to at tend to it. Uncle did not want to keep me any longer, saying that I was doing him much damage. So I went to a farm near the Polish boundary, as a farmer under & superintendent. There I had to endure a great deal, and the superin tendent told his wife that this fellow for gets to do his work right. I had been there some time before this as the superintendent was some re lation to my uncle, and he prevailed on him to keep me. After the superintend ent had to leave the firm by reason of his son's taking his place. I only staid two or three months longer, when I had to go home and look after other work. During that time it happened I went into a jewelry store to buy a watch, as the one father gave me would not keep time. During the time that I was look ing at the watch, I stole one from a stand on which several gold watches were hanging and put it in my pocket. I then selected one and paid for it and left the ■tore. But on account of stealing the watch I had no rest. I thought often of taking it back, but was afraid. I tried to sell the watch and in doing so was arrested, because the jeweler had sus pected that I had it. Through my step mother's influence I was relieved, and they kept it a secret. Shortly after this I found a position as i superintendent of a farm in South Russia, | and staid there three weeks. As I could not get along with my employer we could not agree. He told me I should not give different orders from his. He wanted to discharge me but did not. I then received word from the court at Kcenigsburg to come and answer to the charge agoinst me for stealing the watch, for which I got pouk months' imprisonment. I consequently lost my position. I made my employer believe that 1 had to serve my time in the military service. By the first and second examinations in 1884 and 1886 I was found unfit for such service. But in 1886 they found me fit for first-class service. This my relations would not have, because in case of war it might change me to active ser vice, when I would have served three years. This was because I did not have a 1-year certificate. They were also afraid that I might do some more foolish acts. They wished me to emigrate and I was willing to do it. I left home with my brother on the 11th of November, 1886, for New York, by way of Berlin and London. There my brother left me and I took the steamer from Tower Hill for the New World. It took us fourteen days to get to New York. I stayed there three days and then took the train for San Francisco with some other men with whom I had become acquainted on board the ship. After I got there I looked for a family whose address I had got in New York, bat I failed to find them and on my way from Oakland to San Francisco I lost my friend on the boat and I have never heard from him since. I first tried to get work as a famer. I advertised in the newspapers but I could' < THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5. 1888. not find any work, so I did not do any thing for a time. After I received the first large money order from home and I was becoming more acquainted with the way of things, I made up my mind to buy a farm, with the understanding that I would live on it one or two months so that I could tell if I would like it. After looking around quite a while I went to Bangor, and then to the colony Conßtadt, where I met Mr. Bader. Here I expected to find what I wanted. We soon came to an agreement for the ranch belonging to Bader. I had not been there very long when HE STEALS GROCERIES. I went to the city to buy some seed. While there, passing a store, T saw some fence wire. I stopped and put three or four reels of it in the wagon. Then drove on and saw some sacks of coffee. I jumped off and put three or four of them in the wagon and drove on again. In passing another store I saw some packages already put up for some one. I jumped off and put them in the wagon also. There was also a large can filled with something, but the wagon was so full that I could not get it in. I went home with this load and forgot all about the seed I went after. I must say here that it was very cold that day and I drank heavy on the way home. Two days afterwards a gentleman, the owner of the wire, came to the colony and found out who stole those things, and demanded that I should bring them back the same day. But I did not do it till the day after. A Sheriff came and ar rested me and took me to the city, be fore a Justice of the Peace. I was found fuilty and imprisoned sixty days. After was free I went back to the farm again with Mr. Bader, and in a short time after I returned I planned to kill my neighbor, Julius Fuge, believing I could gain possession of the property, Fuge be ing in the habit of procuring milk of me. He was a bachelor. He came to my place on the morning of September 1, 1887, asking if he could get some milk again. He was on his way to the post office at Bangor and asked permission to cross my field, as it would shorten the distance, to which I consented. By this time Bader came to the house and we stood conversing on general topics for a short time. Then Bader and Fuge start ed for the Bangor postoffice and I joined them with my gun, pretending to hunt for hares, as was prearranged. After crossing the field for a short dis tance together, Fuge to my left and Bader on the right, I carrying the gun on my shoulder, Bader said, "a haro;" giving the signal to shoot. I drew the gun from my shoulder and, pointing it at Fuge, pulled the trigger, the gun dis charging its contents into Fiige's neck, KILLING HIM INSTANTLY. We stood for a moment looking at each other; then we looked around to see if anyone had observed us, and see ing no one, we concluded to bury him there. We then made a solemn vow not to divulge the crime to any living person. Then I went to the house and procured a pick and shovel and, returning to the spot where Fuge was lying dead, Bader and I dug a hole about twenty feet from the spot and buried him. After the kill ing oi Fuge I stayed with Bader on the land for some time, but fearing that the crime would be discovered I left the land, stating that I was not satisfied with it. At this time I received a part of my money from home. I also had money in San Luis Obispo. When I left the farm I went to San Luis Obispo by rail and from there I took ship to San Pedro for Los Angeles. Three days after I went to Santa Ana and spent some days looking for lands. I then went to Pasadena with my baggage and upon arriving there found that I had left it at the depot in Los Angeles, so 1 started to walk back to Los Angeles fo* it, While walking back, it became dark, but I kept on and upon reaching Los Angeles found my package. Then I sat upon my pack wishing a train would come going to Pasadena, but I was obliged to remain in the depot all night, going to Pasadena next morning. I stayed in Pasadena two weeks looking for lands but found it too expensive, so I returned to Los Angeles where I learned of two or three farms near Pasadena. I then went back to Pasadena, but con cluded not to buy and again returned to Los Angeles. From there I went to Santa Ana, and upon my arrival left my bundle at a German hotel. I rode around for two days with a real-estate agent looking for land until we found a place in Garden Grove, which I liked, and upon which I paid him some money. Next day I went to Anaheim and re mained there two days, but, not liking it, I went to Pasadena where 1 stayed three days. I then returned to Santa Ana and looked at lands, finally concluding to buy the Hitchcock place. I made the first payment according to agreement with the agent. Before that we went to the city to record deed and I promised him the rest of the money in a short time. Now I want to make it short. I then stayed on the farm. I told the man I hired in Anaheim that I would call for him some time during the week. THE HITCHCOCK MURDER. On the day Mr. Hitchcock went to Long Beach I commenced work, lie came back at night, and his horses be ing too warm to water, he put them in the stable, giving them some hay. He intended to water them after they had cooled off. After eating supper together we sat reading for a short time. Then we started for the barn to water and feed the horses. I had been drinking some wine in the evening to gain courage to commit the deed which I premeditated. During the day I had placed the hatchet near the door so that I could get at it easily, and while Mr. Hitchcock was finding the horses I placed myself in such a position that I could easily kill him. As he stooped to pick up the lan tern I struck him on the head. I then gave him two more cuts on the head, and believing him to be dead I went to the house to kill Mrs. Hitchcock. Finding her standing in the kitchen I entered the door with the hatchet in my hand. She looked at ma as I came in and then turned to work again. Approaching her from behind I struck her on the head, but did not kill her. I then struck her again, knocking her over, after which I dragged her out doors near the wood pile. I then got the axe and cut her several times, and after making sure she was dead I started to Mr. Hitchcock with the axe in i,iy hand, and gave* him several more blows. I then got the wagon and putting some straw in it I laid Mr. Hitchcock in first and then carried Mrs. Hitchcock, and placing her in with Mr. Hitchcock, covered them up. After this [ hitched the horses to the wagon and drove to an obscure place about two or three miles from the house. Upon reach ing this spot I found that I had forgotten the spade, so I placed the two bodies on the ground and covered them up. Next I drove back to the house, where I got a clean suit of clothes, and after clearing up things around the house so that no trace was left I returned with the spade bo the bodies, and digging a hole, placed them both in and covered them up very jarefully. Taking off tho suit I had on [ put on the clean one and threw the lirty one into the brush, and getting into the wagon, drove to Anaheim for the man I had engaged to work for me and then returned to the ranch and worked till I was arrested and brought to this jail. This I did thinking that no one would find it out and that I would get possession of the property, as the deed was already executed in my name. This short history is a true statement of my life, made this 26th day of Octo ber, 1888, hoping and trusting that God will forgive me all these awful crimes I have committed. Johann Heinrich Fritz Anschlag. Witnesses: U. S. Grant Glick, James 0. Kays. A SLUR RESENTED. What the 8. P. Men Think at a "Times" Editorial. "There is a rumor current that em ployees of the Southern Pacific Company have been registered here and in other places along the line, and will attempt to vote twice or more. Now, there may be something in this, or there may not. Such practices are, we believe, not alto gether unknown in the history of the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky, especially where, as in the present in stance, one of their own employees is a candidate for a responsible position. The regulars are probably all right and as honest as any other set of men, but there is always a floating class in the employ of large corporations, many oi whom are purchasable. In any case, it will be well for election officers along the line to be on the alert for voters who are not recognized as citizens." The above article, which appeared in yesterday's issue of the limes, has aroused a storm of indignation among the officials of the Southern Pacific's es tablishment here. Republicans and Democrats alike resent the slur cast upon them by such an accusation, and the feel ing of disgust it has aroused againßt the Republican campaign organ is evident by the comments that were made yesterday. "Every employe of the Southern Pacific is indignant at theauthorof that article," said a prominent official (Republican) of the company, "and we think that no man with an idea at all of political probity and honor would be guilty of such an allega tion. We all deny such a slur cast upon the integrity and honesty of every man who draws a salary from this company and we consider the article a low, con temptible trick on the part of a man who claims to be a mouth-piece of Republi can sentiment." Several other railroad men, among whom were noted a ticket agent, a pas senger representative and a freight official, were in the room at the time the above remarks were made and all en dorsed them thoroughly. Such a state ment as that made by the Times does much to injure the Republican cause even among the adherents of that party. A Prohibit* View*. Editors Herald—ln the Times this morning appears an address to the Re publican voters, purporting to be from the Chairman of the County Central Committee of the Republican party, in which voters are warned that about noon on the day of election there will be telegrams and telephones sent out from San Pedro to Pasadena and other places to the effect that Republicans are trad ing Aguirre for Banbury and from San Pedro to Pasadena that Aguirre's friends are slaughtering Banbury, but that it will all be a lie. Now, I wish to say to the voters of this county that it will not be a lie, but that this is really the plan adopted by many Republicans, especially the money kings, and knowing that it will be found out by noon tliey send out the denial beforehand, as the Democrats would not have told them that they were going to send out these telegrams. They are going so far as to trade Harrison with the Prohibitionists for Banbury. I have positive proof that some of these things are so, aria when I said I would write it up I was told that I would be denounced as a liar, but such dis crimination, no matter where from, will not affect me in this community, where 1 am known for thirty-six years. If there is anything that I hate with a per feet hatred, it is a liar, and if anything I admire, it is fair play. I have nothing to say against Colonel Banbury. I be lieve him to be an honorable gentleman, but I know Colonel E. E, Hewitt is a man who stands above reproach, both as to honesty and truthfulness. I have known him for twenty-seven years and never knew him to do an uncourteous or ungentlemanly act to anyone, rich or poor. Colonel Hewitt has had a large experience in dealing with workingmen, and so far as I know there has never been a complaint of an unkind act by any of them against him and these are the men to size up a man's principals and honesty. Twenty-five years ago I knew of a case where Mr. Hewett took all the money he had saved up from his drawer, several hundred dollars, and gave it to a man to pay an outlawed debt, he having failed in business in the early days of California, as was common in those days of uncertain speculation, the man whom he owed being a rich man at the time, but fiat broke when Colonel Hewitt gave him the money to pay a debt that the law and public sentiment said he did not owe. The public funds of the county of Los Angeles will be safe in the hands of such a man, and although the Times or any other paper or person may accuse Mr. Hewitt of acting in bad faith in his letter designating the dis posal he intends to make pf the public money in case he is elected, those that know him will not be influenced by any such insinuations, for they know him lo be absolutely honest and truthful. His position might have made him rich if he was open to corruption, but in place of that he is a poor man but has a good name, which the wise man Solomon says is more to be desired than much gold. J. W. Potts. SLIGHT WASHOUTS. Heavy Rain on the Deserts-The S. P.'a Precaution!. The rainstorm which passed over this city on Saturday extended down south to the deserts this side of Yuma, and, as is usually the case, washed out a piece of the S. P.'s track. The damage was done between Dos Palmos and Friuk's, and delayed No. 19, the east-bound train, a few hours. 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