The sun., 1908-07-20


Il looked as II crime had bee
committed somewhere out near Roohell
Park from the little. that the girl had toll
the German. the telephone message from
the police headquarters said.
GIRL IDENTIFIES MOTHERS BODY.
Prosecutor Koester went down to head
quarters and there he found Ottilie Eber
hard. The girl was none the worse for he
slight wounds and seemed to be calne
than at the time she had run down to thu
home Of August Wunder on the night be
fore. Knowing already from Coroner d,
Mund the details Of the finding Of the body
on the railroad tracks. Prosecutor Koeste
learned by few questions which he put
to the girl in German that she was witness
who could tell him much about the myster.
the Coroner had laid before him.
As gently as he could the Prosecutor
prepared Ottilie Eberhard for q shock ane
then he took the girl to identify the body
which was lying in the Rdgewood norgue
She did 30, saying that the body was that Of
her mother, Ottilie Eberhard. After she had
regained her composue the girl told the
Prosecutor the story Of how she and hel
mother happened to be on the Susquehanna
tracks at such lonely spot at $50 O'Clock
Saturday night.
SHE TELLS HER STORY.
They came from Vienna, Austria, the girl
said, where her mother had married and
where she had been born. Her father had
been dead about twenty years and she and
her mother had supported themselves by q
very profitable dressmaking establishment
for many years. While she lived in Vienna
she had known from girlhood the son OF
one Of her mothers cousins. Gus Eberhard.
She and Gus, who is now about rs years old,
had been friends in casual sort OF way. and
since Gus left Austria for America five years
ago they bad been lovers.
For long time Gus had been inportuning
her mother by letter TO como to America.
the girl continued. and he had urged that he
wanted to marry Ottilie Gus held cut rich
promises Of the fortune to be made In
America and indicated that he was able
to marry the girl and see her motherestab-
hshed in good business.
Finally Mrs. Eberhard yielded. She and
] er daughter sold out their dres Mnaking
business in Vienna and came to America
In the second cabin Of the Hamburg Amer
lean liner Deutschland, which docked in
nODQhou ld6b aubo quay vi AtA0 HpcS1S0
over, the girl told the Prosecutor, she
had met one Of the stewards. Ernest Held.
whom she liked ex -eedingly. So much did
she like him that she was not as eager to
marry Gus Eberhard. whom she had always
called cousin, as when she left her home
On Thursday Gus had met her mother
and herself at the docks in Hoboken and
had taken them to hotel in New York.
Ottilie could not say where the hotel was
except that it was near ferry and she
thought the name Of it began with the
letter A. It was a building three stories
high, she said, and it had Q saloon on the
ground floor.
RENTED A FLAT HERE
On Friday Gus had taken both OF them
uptown to get fat for them. They picked
out apartments at 1A66 Amsterdam avenue
and paid deposit Of IS on the room rent.
Then they returned to the hotel. and Gus
was with them almost constantly. ottilie
noted that although his letters to her while
abe was in Vienna had been fervid and full
Of his plans to marry her Gus said not a
word about his love from the time he met
her at the docks until she last saw him ON
Saturday night. Ottilie said that abe had
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both Ct them had agreed that Guss reti-
cence was peculiar in the circumstances.
When they. landed Ottilie said. her
mother had about 90, 500, which represented
all that they possessed after the expense OF
their passage had been paid. Gus took
Mrs. Eberhard out to a bank somewhere
on the day after she landed and helped
her to change all Of her money except
Sl20 from Austrian kronen into American
bills. This money Mrs. Eberhard carried
in O little charlois akin bag about her neck
and under her bodice.
TAKES MOTHER AND GIRL TO NEW JERSEY.
On Saturday afternoon Gus. who worked
in the grocery store Of Fred Wehmann. 80 St,
Nicholas place, Manhattan, ottilie thought.
came down to the hotel where they were
staying. Ottilie said that she proposed that
he take her mother and herself out for
walk in Central Park, OF which she had read
before she came to America. But Gus de-
INJURED on the score that there were too
many people there and his aunt's money
might not be safe in such crowd He
said that he would take them on trolley
ride into New Jersey.
While the three Of them were in the hotel
room Gus happened to take of his coat
and Ottilie said she saw the shining barrel
OI TeNOlNeT pIOII uuiuk ktolu al llblQ6
pocket. She asked Gus v hat he meant by
carrying revolver in broad day, The
cousin Of superior knowledge assured the
girl that everybody carried a revolver in
America.
Together the three Of them then took
the subway until the train came out In the
daylight over high bridge (the Manhattan
street station, thence they walked down
TO the river and crossed on a ferryboat.
From the landing on the New Jersey shore
they took trolley car and climbed the
PaIisaoes, then went out to place Gus told
them was Rochelle avenue, near Rochelle
Park. There they got of the trolley, and
Gus told them they would take a walk.
THEIR WALK AT ROCHELLE PARK.
This must have been about a o'clock,
Ottile said. After they got off the trolley
car they began 10 walk. First they walked
on the road and then when the road crossed
some tracks Gus said that II they turned
and walked down the tracks they would
come to another trolley that would take
them home.
Mrs. Eberhard, who was not used to
grew tired. and she noted the ap-
proach of gathering storm. Her mother
asked Gus why they did not 60 TO livery
stable and procure a carriage to take them
on the rest Of their journey; she was willing !
to pay for II, she said, But Gus assured |
the women that they did not have much |
further to go.
They walked down on the westbound
tracks a long way, Ottlie said; she could |
not tell how far il was. She was tired |