New-York tribune., 1906-11-10
KILLED MOTHER-IN-LAW.
Laacyer Arrested I'm London Conn
mitted Crime ip Baden-Baden.

Baden Baden. Germany, Nov. 9.-Karl Hau,
alias stau, the lawyer Of Washington who was
arrested In London yesterday and held for ex-
tradition. is wanted by the local police on the
charge Of numbering his mother-in-law Frau
Molitor. His motive appears to have been in
sane greed of money. Frau Molitor, who was
wealthy refused many times to comply with
Hau's requests having given her daughter a
considerable dowry and arranged that she should
inherit part Of her fortune.
When Hau married Lena Moltor six years
ago she was twenty-five years old, and Hau, a
student was nineteen. Their engagement. SEEM
ingly was against Frau Moltors wish. I'm
,nediately after their marriage the couple went
to America and Hau obtained a good position
In washington as a lawyer Hau, his wife and
their daughter, three years old. came to Ger
many last summer to visit Frau Moltor. Mrs.
Hau and the child stayed several months at the
Villa Molitor. Hau arrived there later by way Of
Constantinople4 Visitors to the villa observed
that the best relationship existed between the
Haus and Frau Molitor. A fortnight ago Hau
left Baden to return to America and his rela-
tives thought he was either board ship or
had already arrived IN the United States. Hau.
It is now claimed. some days after he left Baden
Baden sent his uother-in-law a false telegram.
dated Paris asking her to go and see her mar
ried daughter there. The falsihcaion was dis
covered and the inquiries Of the'posta1 authori-
ties, with the view of discovering the identity Of
the sender OF the message, were still going on
when the murder was committed.
On the evening Of November Frau Molitor
received a. telephone message at her home IN
Baden-Baden. asking her to go to the postof1ce
and get a parcel which had reached there for
her. Frau Montor. accompanied by her young
daughter. started at once for the postof1ce. and
s4x u$~ uhA Nr~Qr
shot from behind and fell dead with a bullet
through her heart The man who committed
the murder was described being Of medium
height and seemingly under forty years old He
wore q beard. but It Is stated that It was false,
and the police believe there Is no doubt that the
murderer was the man who called up Frau
Molitor on the telephone The telephone mes
sage which induced Frau Montor TO go to her
death was received by a servant Of the house
hold. who says she thought she recognized Haus
voice and so informed her mistress. but the lat
ter insisted on going to the postoft1ca
Hau, after leaving Baden. sent his wife and
child TO London and stopped at Frankfort where
he attracted attention owing to a long beard
which he wore. This. however, is now asserted
10 have been purchased from q hairdresser at
Frankfort The day Of the murder Hau left
Frankfort at II o'clock In the morning on the
Baden train, and returned TO Frankfort at 10
o'clock the same evening. After his arrival there
he sent the following telegram to his wife at the
hotel: Arrive tomorrow night. Don't betray
address,
This telegram gave the police a clew to the
identity of the murderer, and they promptly in
formed the London police Hau's arrest fol-
lowed.
It is asserted here that Frau Molitor had long
been threatened, and that she was aware that
deep laid plots had been made against her life,
and it is believed that the summoning of Frau
Molitor to Paris part OF a plot to murder
her which miscarried.
The post-mortem examination showed that the
shot had been fired from a distance scarcely
more than yard behind the victim. The bullet
entered below the shoulder blade pierced the
centre of the heart and passed out IN front