The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-23
KARL RAU SENTENCED TO DIE
CONVICTED IN BADEN OF MUIR
DER OF NOTHER-IN-LAW.

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waiting for the Verdict charged by
Soldiers - washington ProfessOrs wife
was q suicide Because OF Grief.
Special Cable Despatch TO TIE SUN.
~CARLssuHE. July 20 u4S A. MG--Ksrl
Hau has been found guilty OF having muir
dered his mother-in-law, Frau Moliter.
and has been sentenced to death.
There were immense crowds throng-
ing the street near the court house, and
between II and 1 O'Clock they showed a
disposition to be ugly.
Three hundred infantry and several
squads Of police maintained order only by
charging the crowds repeatedly with drawn
sabres.
There was no demonstration after
sentence Of death was pronounced on the
prisoner
Karl Hau was the professor OF Roman law
at George Washington University. Wash
ington. D.. c.. when he was charged last
November at Baden-Baden with the murder
Of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lena Moliter.
His wife committed suicide by drowning
herself in a Swiss lake near Zurich in June.
apparently being convinced Of his guilt.
Hau made a trip to ~Constantinople last
April. He endeavored to get a concession
for the establishment OF a Standard Oil
depot at Johibukali, but was defeated by
intrigues Of the Russian Ambassador. On
his way home he visited his wife's family
and the relations seemed to be Of the pleas
ATTEST. When he started for the United
States he sent his wife ahead to London
and sent Mrs. Moliter a telegram from
Paris telling hy 10 go there to see a mar
ried daughter. She did not do 50, and later
she received a telephone message on OVEN
Der q asking her TO go to the post Office
for a parcel. Accompanied by her young
daughter the woman went. and while pass
ing through a quiet street was shot from
behind and fell dead in the street.
The assassin wore a false beard. The
police ascertained that the person who
sent the telephone message escaped to
Frankfort and then went TO London. There
Hau rejoined his wife the day after the
murder and was at once arrested. IL APP
pears that for some time Mrs. Hau had been
looking into the terms Of the dowry of
$50. 600 which she was to receive from her
mother. After her husbands arrest she
had an interview with him in prison. She
then went TO Switzerland. where she resided
until her suicide.
The trial OF Hau was sensational. Frau
lein Lorohe testified hat Hau's wife bitterly
complained Of her husbands close relations
with Olga Moliter. her younger sister. She
dared not, 30 the witness declared. leave
her husband and Olga alone together any
longer. Olga testified hat she had had no
intimate relations with the accused. Hau
himself made numerous damaging admis-
Aons and the mass of testimony as to his
guilt was overwhelming. No consistent
attempt at a defence was made. in fact.
Hau is 27 years Of age and was born in
Germany. He graduated with honors from
the universities Of Berlin, Freiburg and
Bologna. and has travelled extensively.
He was a naturalized American citizen.
He was well known socially and profession
ally in Washington. He had a large law
practice. for the most part confined to
international work. he being the repre-
sentative there OF several German law
firms. Hau maintained a suite of offices
in the Bond Building and lived with his
wife at the Highland apartment house.
Decapitation is the mode of capital pun
ishment In Baden.