The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-18
SENSATIONAL CASE
BEGUN YESTERDAY
YOUNG PROFESSOR FORMERLY
or WARRINGTON UNIVERSITY
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
WIFE COMMIT S SUICIDE
Leaves Pathetic Lei.er--Crme Was
Committed at Karlsruhe, Germ
any, Where Trial 10 Now
In Progress.

KailgIhUc, Germany, July 17--Karl
i.aN, the young professor formerly al.
ltaehod to George Washington Uniyef
! sits, washington d. C., was placed
on trial here today t r he alleged
mgrdee a his mothegin law, Fran
Moiitor the former high standing ~
the accused, the mystery & rrounlina
tQc alleged crime and the recent sui,
eide Of Prof Hats Young wife have
comhineI 0 attract attention Trough
cut EGropo and IN America. NotWith
,ormalg examined and pr nouncel
sane hy experts, il Ii probable thai
mental irrcsponsihiliiy will play a
haTI ia the defense IF frof. IFau lie
Is represented by eminent counsel and
is evident that q hard fight viii be
mado TO save him from conviction.
Frau Meljor was the widow OF The
medical eouHselof, III, Molitor of Ba
den Baden On the evening Of N9vent
her 6 last she was called 10 the tele
phone In her home at Raden-Baden
and received a request to so to the
post office ANA got a parcel that was
there fer her She aFtcd At once.
Ahen passing through quiet street
q shot was fired from behind her AMI
Fran Mcltor fell dead. The man who
fred the shot was seen. but he es
capped. Il Is stated that Frau Molit :
had been long threatened, and hat
The faotive Of the alleged crime ap
pears "a have been greed for money
Fran Mclitor, who was wealthy, it Is
said ref SGD many times to comply
With IIal's requesi for money having
given her daughter a considerable
dcSry, AMI arranged that She shoui-l
inherit part Oh her fortune.
~ KARI Itasn tho aepaSed jiala Is nptI
yet 30 years OF age. lie is tall and |
slender. wcll educated and Of refined |
appearance. He was just 20 when be
Miss Molitor. 1t was anil
alopement, and the young couple be
gan restless, rowing life. lau had
Jegun to study law at the University
If Freiburg, but had discontinued his
studies.
While the marriage itself contract |
II against the mothers will. carried
With it all the elements calculated to
iisturb the relations between the
mother and her children, the contin
Gus applications for money also did
lot contribute toward improving her
with her son.in-law. Never
heless she received the couple into
Ter house upon their visits 10 Baden
baden, and she sent them money dur {
ng their travels.
The sums sent however. were not
o large as TIau demanded Hence II
he life of the family was always q
jstressng story. It is probable too
hat Frau Molitor's harshness con
rihu'od toward increasing the dis
greements in the Hau family. At
ny rateshc sometimes made trouble
u him, even abroad, by denouncing
i'm as an anarchist to the authorities
Han was arrested in London a few
eeks after the alleged murder. Att
le time of his arrest he denied all
with the crime and has
yer since stuck to his story though c
is said that he has made several
admissions. At his prelim
ary examination he admitted that h
al been ala Baden-Baden up TO the
me when the murder occurred. 1t
rs been ascertained. moreover. that
p wore n false beard in travelling
ON Baden-Baden 10 England. Frau d
olltOr's servant girl who answered n
e telephone on the fatal day assert n
positively that she had recognized o
aus voice in the telephone L
One Il the patheiic features Of the ,I
se was the suicide of Prof Hans /
yang wife. On juno she was
en- 10 swim far out into the lake r.
ar Pfaenkin. Switzerland. and :,
en- delibera ely sank beneath the n
aiers. Two days previously she had d
ia a visit to her husband in prison (
re. She left the prison In a state d
the utmost depression and went N
elk to Pfaeffikon A long farewell
ter was found in her clothing after N
r suicide. in which she declared bs
a twas imp ssihie for her 10 any nd
niger bear ibe sorrow of living apart 70
pm her husband. notwithstanding ia
o charge brought against him tn pr
vernon of the prison informed Prof l.
M of hls wifc's suicide and a story
IS circulated al the tine that the ar "a
SD man had tben confessed 10 the
1-dar If HE rrofhrr.fn-lax