Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-04
THE LONG ISLAND MURDER.
Identity OF the victim-Shc Was Probably
Killed for Her Money.

Identity OF the victin--Shc Was Probably
Killed for Her Money.
Just as everybody had given up all idea Of
obtaining . clue 10 the identity of the young
woman who was choked to death near Glen
dale, L. l., on Saturday night or Sunday morn
ing. stranger arrived last night, who said he
was searching for a missing niece. At once
the neighborhood was all excitement, and the
new arrival was soon the center of an inquis-
tive crowd. He gave his name as Charles R.
Weber Of North Haven, Conn. He said that
his stepniece, Matilda Haber. twenty years old,
had left his house Saturday morning in COM
pany with a man whom he only knew as John
Aabe, who had been calling upon her at inter-
walls during the past nine months.
She took with her s725 in cash. all her own
money, and left for New York with Aabe on
the train which left North Haven on the New
York and New Haven road at nine o'clock in
the morning of the same day. He heard moth
ing OF his niece afterward. Yesterday morning
be read in the New Haven papers about the
finding Of the body of a young woman at Glen
dale and as the description Of her tailed with
that OF his absent niece. he hastened to New
York and then to Glendale to see il he could
recognize the body.
Weber was first shown the iewelrv found on
the body, and Immediately identified the ring
having the initials NJ. to H. engraved inside as
one that his niece had worn. As soon as the
face OF the corpse was uncovered he cried in a
loud voice in German: "Oh, Matilda Matilda,
why did you go away? 1 told ysu something
would happen if you did not take my advice"
Then he said to Detective Mu4ser: Eyes. that ia
my niece, Matilda Haber." He then looked at
the clothing of the murdered girl, and said that
it was such as she wore when she went away.
Weber afterward told the detective and re-
porter the following story of his nieces life:
She was the daughter Of his brothers wife by
her first husband, whose name was Haber.
They resided in Coeslin, Pomernnia, where
Matilda was born. When his brother died,
i've years ago, he belueathed the girl to him,
and she came to America Immediately after
ward. She brought considerable money with
her. and there is now $4,000 to her credit in
the First National Bank of New Haven.
She had been rather wild of late, and since
she became acquainted with John Aabe ubout
nine months ago she had been more indepen-
dent than ever, and when he advised her to
have nothing to do with Aabe she would tell
him to mind his own business He thought
she had been too intimate with Aabe, as she
had sometimes remained out until and
O'Clock in the morning with him.
Aabe is stoutly built man about thirtv-five
years Of age, with dark hair and mustache and
beetled eyebrows, his eyes being very close to-
gether. When he left with Matilda he wore a
light gray suit and carried small valise which
he usually had with him when he came from
New York. He thought Aabe WAS drummer
When Matilda was preparing to leave with
Aabe on Saturday. he iher uncle) saw her tax
ing the S723 from her bureau drawer, and said
to her: Matilda, what are you taking all that
money with you for? If Aabe is going to take
You he ought to pay your way" She answered:
Uncle, mind your own business.
9 Ii the murdered woman is Weber's niece,
Matilda Haber, and she brought the sum of
money he speaks of with her an entirely new
phase Is put upon the mystery of her death.
Robbery would appear to have been the motive
for the crime and not the refusal Of the woman
to accede to improper proposals, as had been
suggested by the general conditions which at
first appeared in connection with the crime.
Matilda Haber carried her money in a pocket
book, which she kept in reticule fastened to
her waist. Neither pocket book, reticule nor
money were found upon or near the murdered
woman.
The description of the man Aabe answers
very closely. except as to the color of the hair,
that OF the man whom Flagman W. H. Lake
saw walking with a woman about the size of the
one who was murdered on the Fresh Pond
road, near the Manhattan Beach railroad cross
ing, about II 80 on Saturday night.