Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-09
FOR NUMBERING
W|FE'S MOTHER
Washington Lawyer Arrested in
London Wanted by Police
OF Baden-Baden.
DELIBERATE, DIABOLlC CRIME.
Married Daughter Against Mothers
Wishes and Killed the Latter
For Money,

Baden Baden. Germany. Nov a.
Karl Hau, alias Stau, the lawyer Of
Washington, d. c., who was arrested
In London yesterday and held for OK
tradition Is wanted by the local police
On the charge of numbering his wife's
mother. Frau Molitor. Tho motive Of
The alleged crime appears TO have
beon an insane greed of money. Frau
Moliter, who was wealthy, refused
many times to comply with Hau's re-
quests for money having given her
daughter \ considerable dowry and
arranged that she should inherit part
Of her fortune.
When Hau married. Lena Moliter six
years ago, she was q years old, and
llau, student was 10. Their en-
gagement seemingly was against Frau
Molitor's wishes
Immediately after their marriage
the couple went TO America ana iIaL
attained good position IN Washing
ton as lawyer. Hau, his wife, and
their daughter 3 years old came TO
germany last summer to visit Frau
Molitor. Mrs Hau and the child stay
ed several months at the Villa MOli-
tor Hau arrived there later via Con-
stantinople Visitors to the villa OBJ
served that the best relationship ox-
isted between the husband and Frau
Molitor. a fortnight ago Hau left
Baden Baden to return to America
and his relatives thought he was either
on board ship or had already arrived
In tho United states. Hau, II H. now
gl Inn, .tif t.,l. he, l,f
Baden, sent his mother-in-aw a false
telegram dated Paris, asking her to
go and see her married daughter
there. The Justification was discoy-
cred and the inquiries Of the postal
authorities with the view OF discover
ing the identity of the sender of the
message were still going on when the
murder was committed.
During the evening Of Nov. 3, Frau
Molitor deceived a telephone message
at her home In Baden-Baden asking
her to go to the postoflice and get
parcel which had reached there for her
Frau Mditor, accompanied by her
young daughter, started at once for
the postoifice and while passing through
a quiet street she was shot from be.
hind and fell dead with bullet
through her heart.
The man who committed the murder
was described as being of medium
height and considerably under 40 years.
He wore beard but II is stated that
II was false one The police believe
the murderer was the man who called
up Frau Molitor OH the telephone.
The telephone message which induced
Frau Molitor to go TO her death was
received by a servant of the household
who says she thought she recognized
,Hau's voice and so informed her mis-
tress but the latter insisted on going
to the postofilce.
Hau, after leaving Baden-Baden, sent
his wife and child to London and
stopped at Frankfort, where he at
tracted attention owing TO "A long beard
which he wore, This, however, is now
asserted to have been purchased from A
hair dresser at Frankfort.
The day of the murder, Hau left
Frankfort at II o'clock In the morning
on the Baden 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 be-
tray address
This telegram gave the police clew
TO the identity of the murderer and
they promptly notified the London po-
lice. Hau's arrest followed.
IL 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 1t Is
believed that the summoning of Frau
Molitor to Paris was part Of plot to
murder her, which mlscarried