The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-22
Lawyer Attempts to Show
Aunt's Death Not Necessarily
Result of Shots.
PHYSICIANS EVIDENCE
FAVORS THIS THEORY
Body So Cut by Train That Bull
let's Course Could Not
Be Traced.
Especial to the Evening star.l

I1AShElNoA1hs sept. ZS.-tOfmef
Prosecutor p. w. Stagg, counsel for
Gustav Eberhard, on trial in the Hack
ensack courts for the murder of his
aunt, is bent on arousing a doubt as to
whether the woman was shot to death
or was killed by a Susquehanna and
Western freight train on the night OF
July 49,
In this endeavor he is aided by tho
fact that doctors were unable to trace
the course of the bullets due 10 the
body having been cut in two by the
train.
DR.. Henry \. Bonynge, of Ridge
wood, who performed the autopsy, said
he discovered seeming bullet holes in
Mrs. Eberhard's back and breast The
bullets were not found and their course
could not be determined. After Law
yer Stagg had cross-eXamined Dr..
Bonynge, Prosecutor 1Ioester asked
him If bullets passing through the body
where the wounds were discovered
would not cause death. The lawyers
for the defense opposed the question
it. The doctor said it was question
able, for death might have resulted
had the bullets struck a blood vessel
If not, the person might recover. The
fact that the dead woman's daughter
said her mother exclaimed she was
struck by lightning, following the
flash, is testimony which the defense
relies upon to strengthen its theory OF
NJ,
'
Lawyer S'ass, III cross-eNahiihlhg
Uonuuc.or raouoeh yesee,uay' asked II
IL were Aoe poseipie ioI ths siliaii pol.S
on lhe p,ahe,pealif ol the engine u
iiare pioouoeu puhe,ures ia tne pous
Sa Suen as Nie iouiu anu WHICH Tue
Dr Cbarles Uarro,,s ne p,dos.
wood. who assisted in thn autopsv. also
testified in the same vein as DIR.
Bonynge. but he said that if the bullets
passed through the lungs as Indicated
by the entrance in the back and outlet
in tho breast. the person might die
from internal hemorrbage or shock.
Undertaken e. M. Pell testified that
he gathered up Mrs. Eberhard's re-
mains from the. track and admitted
that some of the portions of the or
gans were left on the track, It being
impossible to gather it all up.
John Platt. who lives near where the
alleged murder occurred, said he heard
one shot first and three moro in quick
succession a few moments later This
corresponds with the testimony of Ot-
tile Eberhard, who said that three
cl,a ut ha, Of ba hnt
that struck her mother down.
IT heard the shots and ran out to
my barn and asked what the trouble
was, but got no response" Platt said.
Charles Plat, who lives near the spot
where Mrs Eberhard's body was found,
said he was nearing his home when
he heard five shots.
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