Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-17
PROF HAU TRIAL
Former Professor al Washing ton is Charged With Killing
 His MOther-ln-LaW.
HIS WEES SUICIDE

Karlsruhe, Germany. July IT, The trial of Karl Hau. charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, Frau Molitor, in Baden-Baden on the evening of November 6. 1906, began here to-day.
 Hau was at one time professor of Roman law in George Washington university. Washington. D. c. He practised law in Washington up to the time of his going abroad with his family about a year ago. After the alleged murder he fled to London, where he was taken into custody. Later he was returned to Germany and as many people claimed he was insane, the question of his mental condition was thoroughly investigat- ed with the result that he was form ally declared to be in his right mind.
 Mrs Hau committed suicide by drowning in June, leaving farewell letter in which she said she could no longer bear the sorrow of living apart from her husband.
 It was once reported that Hau had confessed to the murder of Frau Molitor but this was later denied.
 Hau entered the court room this morning accompanied by his counsel, Dr Dietz, and two gendarmes. Hau made prepossessing appear ance. He was dressed in a well fit ting Prince Albert coat and light trousers. His hair was neatly trim med. His beardless face is broad He has a massive brow and his eye brows are strongly arched. To-day his lips were often tightly compress ed, but it could be seen that his mouth is mobile His eyes are lust rous and large. His general appear ance was that of young clergyman of unusual ability and force for his twenty-siX years.
 The selection of jury occupied only ten minutes.
 The presiding judge examined Hau for three hours. The prisoner plead ed not guilty to the charge against him, but he admitted having been in Baden-Baden the night of the tragedy.
 Hau admitted that, while return ing from Turkey in October, he stop ped in Vienna and collected $7,000 on a letter of credit and that he had subsequently, written a letter from Frankfort-on-the-Ma to his London banker, saying this letter of credit had been lost. He denied, however, that he had tried to renew this letter of credit.
 Hau then visited his mother-in-law in Baden Baden for a week and af- terward went to Paris, accompanied by his wife and his sister-in-law, Olga Molitor.
 The judge here showed the prison CT a telegram sent from Paris signed olga" asking her mother to come toI Paris immediately and which was not sent by Olga. Hau refused to say whether he had written this tele- gram or whether he had had a dis agreement in Paris with his wife, owing to her jealousy of her sister, Olga.
 The judge then called Haul at tention to the fact that on his arriv- al in London on his way to the Unit ed States he had received a telegram recalling him to the continent and electing Berlin as a meeting place with an unidentified person. Hau had shown this telegram to his wife to justify his trip. and he admitted having sent the message himself. Al letter from Mrs Hau to her mother was then read showing that Hau had impressed upon her the necessity Of silence regarding the trip back to the continent.
 Hau admitted to having had al wig and false beard made by the bar Der Of a we'll known hotel in London and that the explanation of this pro- cedure previously given-that he was going as a spy to Turkey and need ed the wig and beard to protect him against attempts at assassination was incorrect.