Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-11-10
PLOT TO MURDER
WAS DEEP LAID
German Police Find Much
Evidence and Arrest
American Lawyer

London, Nov. 9-Karl Sau, alias Hau.
described as lawyer of Washington,
was arraigned at the Bow street court
today for extradition to Germany, Oh
the charge of numbering his mother
in-law at Baden Baden. The prisoner
declares that the charge was due to
misunderstanding and asked the mag
istrate to send him to Germany for
trial.
He was remanded pending the ar
rival of evidence. Stau's wife and
child We're with him at the Hotel &C.
Gil here when he was arrested.
The motive of the alleged crime APP
pears to have been insane greed of
money. Frau Molitor, who was very
wealthy, refused many times to COM
ply with Hau's requests for money,
having given her daughter con-
siderable dowry, and arranged hat
she should inherit part OF her for
tune.
When Hau married Lena Molitor
six years ago, she was rs years old
and Hau, a student, was 10. Their
engagement was seemingly against
Frau Molitor's wishes.
Sends Forged Telegram.
Immediately after their marriage
the couple went to America and Hau
attained a good position in Washing
ton as a lawyer. Hau, his wife and
their daughter, three years old. came
to Germany last summer to visit Frau
Molitor. Mrs. Hau and the child stay
ed several months at the Villa Mol
itor. Hau arrived there later via
Constantinople. Visitors to the villa
observed that the best relationship ex-
listed between the husband and Frau
| Molitor. A fortnight ago Hau lefs
| Baden Baden to return to America and
his relatives thought he was on board
ship or had already arrived in the
United States. Hau, it is now claim
| ed, Immediately after he left Baden
Baden, sent a false telegram dated
Faris, asking Frau Molitor to 10 and
see her married daughter there. The
Justification was discovered and the
inquiries of the postal authorities with
the view Of discovering the identity Of
the sender were still going on when the
murder was committed.
During the evening Of November 3,
Frau Molitor received telephone
message at her home in Baden Baden
asking her to go to the postoffice and
get parcel which had reached there
for her. Frau Molitor, accompanied by
her young daughter, started at once for
the postoffice and while passing
through quiet street she was shot
from behind and fell dead with a bull
let through her heart
The man who committed the muir
der was described as being OF medium
height and considerably under forty
years. He wore beard, but it is said
it was a false one. The police be-
lieve it was the murderer who called
up Frau Molitor on the telephone.
Called to Death by Telephone.
The telephone message which in
duced Frau Molitor to 60 to her death
was received by servant OF the house
who says she thought she recognized
Hau's voice and so informed her mis-
ttress, but the latter insisted on going
to the postoffice. Hau, after leaving
Baden Baden, sent his wife and chilo
;,
where he. attracted 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 IL o'clock in the morning
on the Baden Baden train and re-
turned 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 a clev
| to the identity Of the murderer ant
. they promptly notified the London pc
lice. Hau's arrest followed. It Is as
serted here that Frau Molitor had lonl
) been threatened and that she wa
. aware that deep laid plots had bee
made against her life. and 1t IL be
lieved that the sulnmoning of Fra
Molitor to Paris was part Of plot t
; murder her, which miscarried..
; Give Hau a Good Name.
; Washington, Nov. s-Dr. Charles W
Needham, president Of George Wash
jington university In common with man
other friends of Karl Hau, who
: charged with numbering his mother
in-law in Germany. declines to believ
Hau could be guilty OF the crime. Nj
Needham says he has known Hau fiv
or six years. and esteems him as on
of the most scholarly and upright me
he has ever known. :
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King Of ltaiy's Birthday.