The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-19
PROGRESS MADE
AT THE TRIAL
OF KARL HAU
The Testimony Was Considered
damaging To The Prisoners
Case.
!, (By the Associated Press. }

hAhlIop OI1E, beTIldIy, July ..
Considerable progress was made
today at the trial of Karl Hau the
former professor in George Washing
ton university who is charged with
the murder of his wife's mother,
Frau Moliter at walden Baden. Hau
who was closely interrogated by the
presiding judge, finally yielded to
persuasion and consented to answer
some of the questions on which yes
terday he kept silence.
The testimony at the afternoon
session was considered damaging to
the prisoner case. Dora Metzger
who conducts confectionery shop in
Baden Baden testified that on the
day of the tragedy between the hours
of and in the afternoon she
walked with an escort in the vicin-
ity of the Moliter villa. She noticed
the tall man wearing black beard
which both she and her escort re-
garded as false. His peculiar be-
havior attracted their attention. He
stood watching the house for a quar-
ter of an hour and seemed agitated.
She thought at. the time that the
man meditated suicide or had some
thing important on his mind. The
witness was unable to say whether
or not the man was Hau, but she
declared that the collar of his coat
was turned up as other witnesses
had described. Upon hearing of the
murder of Mrs. Molliter, she said
she remarked it could only hove been
committed by that man.
Otto Bechter. a barber of Frank
furt, testified to making beard for
Hau, who had explained that he
wanted to surprise his relatives
whom he had not seen in five years.
Hau put on the beard in his shop
on the night of November 6, and
started in the direction of the rail-
road station carrying his valise. A
porter named Henshler of the Frank
furt Hotel, saw a telegram which
Hau gave him addressed to Mrs.
Hau in London. Henshler read the
telegram at the time and was struck
by the request contained therein to
keep Hau's address secret. He
thought the man was some disrept-
able bookmaker.
At the evening session the court
took up the affidavits of Paris wit
nesses. A waiter in the Hotel Reina
swore that he heard lively dispute
between Mr.. and Mrs. Hau- on the
day that the telegram was sent to
Frau Moliter The judge asked Hau
if Olga was the cause of this quar-
rel and Hau leaned forward, evil
dently intending to answer and then
suddenly said he would refuse to
answer. The Judge then warned the
prisoner that he had better answer
| the question. thereupon Hau said
| that the dispute was the first in
stance when his wife reproached
him with being too intimate with her
sister, Olga. He, however, calmed
her, he said. Olga Moliter was re
called and testified that Mrs. Hau
gave her a similar version of the
affair on her return to Baden Baden
adding that Hau had fully allayed
her fears. Hau, continuing his tes
timony, said this quarrel was the
cause of his sending this telegram
to Frau MoIiter to come to Paris
Olga was sick, which was also the
reason for the telegram.
Hau said that he was SO excited
that he did the first thing that sug
gested itself to his mind.
! A number of Hau's fellow students
at Freiburg university testified tt
Hau's uncommon intellectual abil
ity, but also as to his moral delin
quincies toward women. Several o
them swore that Hau did not wan
to marry Lena Moliter after 'thei
elOpement.