The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-31
EB[RHARD IS CAPTURED
CONFESSED SLAYER OF HIS AUNT
CAUGHT NEAR PATTERSON.
TRAGEDY eAREs A ROMANCE

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Robbed ana Slain by Nephew May
Become Stewards 6rde-prsone
Says He Also Intended 70 XII Cousin
New York. July 24.-Drawn back to
the scene Of his crime by force he
could not resist August Eborhard,
self confessed murderer OF his auut,
Mrs, Otulle Eberhard, Vionuese wild.
ow whom he ured to a lonely spot IN
! New Jersey few days ago and shot
to death, was caught near Paterson,
| \. j., and is a prisoner IN the HaCken.
sack jail
The reason Eberhard gave for com.
hitting the crime was that he was in
| love with a Hackensack girl and that
he needed the money to marry her
| Knowing that his aunt had $500, he
plotted to Kill her He says he also
! intended to XIII his Ilctty cousin,
! Otullie EheIhard, to whom he was en-.
| gagged SO nothing would stand in the
way of the marriage to the Hackcn
sack girl. The police have the name
of the girl mentioned and she will
| be brought here TO tnll what she
knows OF the murder. Eherhard was
found lying on the lawn ~ a rest
| denCe just outside of Paterson. There
was an ugly looking wound in his
right leg, which the murderer first
said had been inflicted by Italians
who attacked him, but wi iCh he after
wards confessed was inflicted by him
self so ms to make the police believe
he had been wounded on the night his
aunt was killed Morbid hrooding
over his inhuman crime had appar.
emily unbalanced the mind of Eber.
hard, but he showed some of the Gun.
ming that he displayed ia the murder
plot when the police questioned him
about the murder. Eberhard did not
Immediately confess to the police
When he was placed under arrest
be expressed surprise that he should
be suspected of the foul deed ana told
a most ingenious story to account for
! his disappearance after the SHOOTING
of his aunt TO the effect that on the
night of the murder he had tried to
defend his aunt from an attack of a
party of Italians He said NE made
his cousin run on ahead and then re.
turned to help his aunt. but the muir
derers OverpOwcrcd him after shoot.
ing him in the leg Then he lost con
sciOusness and remembered nothing
until he came to his senses in the
Preakness mountains
Accomplish Had No Hand in Killing.
The inqusitors did not believe this
story and they kept Eberhard on the
grill until he weakened and made a
confession. Eberhard stated that his
accomplice had no hand in the killing
of Mrs, Eberhard. This man, who was
one of Eberhards friends, has fled to
the west, and the police are looking
for him. They have his name.
, Eberhard told the police that he
had planned the murder two months
, ago. He wrote many letters to his
? aunt in his efforts To- induce her to
; sell her home in Germany and come
to this country to live He even prom
ised that he would marry her daugh
ter, Ottillie, and make a comfortable
home for her here.
Then Eberhard recounted the ar
, rival of his aunt and his cousin
Ottillie. of his finding rooms for them
, in a hotel in West Thirty-third street
+ Of the trip to New Jersey and the ia
$ tai walk up the railroad tracks A
\ binding rainstOrm came up while
| they were walking up the Susque
s hanna track and this aided the muir
| derer in his purpose. AS the two I'm
enc ti,,rr ,,1n Il in.
i along in front of him he drew his re
. yolver, took careful aim and fired
Mrs Eberhard fell at the fist shot
but to make sure of her death the as
sassin fired another bullet into hel
- body as it lay on the tracks. Their
J. he went in pursuit of his cousin anC
:. tried to Kill her. The poor girl be
ieved be was trying to protect her.
- When Eberhard was caught not {
\ penny was found IN his pocket HI
= said he buried the money he stole
|. from his aunt. He led the detective!
!. to a tree near Little Falls and there
h dug up bills to The amount of $1,000
= the amount stolen,
). When Ottillie Eberhard was told o
f her cousins confession, she was as
!. founded She is living in ElaCkensacl
d and has been receiving the attention
l. of a young steward, named Held, whit
l. was on the steamship on which sh
e and her mother came to this country
e 1t is believed that she will MARI,
g Held as soon as the present trouble
IS - over
Thaws Jail Privileges CurtaiIed.
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, July 24.-fIar
ry X Thaw's privileges in the count,