The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-07-24
GUS EBERHARD
ACCUSED OF HIS
AuNT'S MURDER
Riddled With Bullets While
Walking on Track and Mu-
tilated by Train.

New York. July 23.-Lured to lner-
lea by the promise OF wealth and mat
rimony for her 2O-year-old daughter,
Mrs. Ottollio Eberhard, a well-to-do
Nienese widow, was murdered near
Hackensack, N. j., and her body placed
Her daughter was with her at the time
and she was badly August
Eberhard, who a promised to marry
the daughter, is suspected of the crime.
The woman's body was riddled with
bullets.
had only been in the country a few
days. She carried her little fortune
of $4,000 With her and it is believed
that this was the motive for the
crime.
New York, July 21.-The story of the
crime through which Mrs. Otillo Eber-
hard met her death indicates a degree
of duplicity and cold. crafty cunning
on the part Of a nephew, Gus" Eber-
hard hat is seldom equalled. 1t was
Eberhard who besought his Viennesse
aunt to come to this country where he
represented there were wonderful op-
p%ortunities for profit from the invest
ment of her little hoardings of 50, 900,
and he would also marry the daughter
of the m She came with her
daughter and they were met when they
arrived on the steamship Deutschland
last 1luTSudy.
1t was while they were all spending
the day on a. trolley ride in New Jersey
that the crime was committed.
AT Rochelle Park, two miles west of
Hackensack, the nephew suggested that
n take a walk, and the three left the
car to stroll through the fields. Even
ing found them at a lonely spot on the
racks of the New York, Susquehanna
d Western railroad. Eberhard told the
women he had lost his way. A storm
broke and the trio pushed ahead down
the track until, in a deafening crash
of thunder, h elder woman stumbled,
Il have been struck by lightning!!" she
screamed as she fell in a heap by the
track. AT the same instant Miss Eber-
hard says she saw a flash coming evil
IDENTIFY from behind a car on a siding
near by and Their a second and a third
Girl is Wounded.
AS her mother fel! to the tracks the
girl felt a bullet Craze her own neck,
cutting a thin gold chain from which a
locket was suspended. Suddenly Eber-
hard urged her to u as a second bul,
let ploWed into her shoulder. h start
ed down the track screaming. Once
h turned back to see If her mother
was following her. and again there
was a shot. which passed above the
bridge Of her nose. the blood from the
wound half binding her. Through the
darkness and the storm the ounde
girl kept up her flight until she reached
a cottage. where she was taken in and
cared for until Sunday, when the storm
had passed. Then the Hackensack DO
lice We're notified.
Woman's Body 10 Found.
In the meantime an engineer ON q
passing milk train had seen the BODY
Of a woman on the track, and when
they arrived in Jersey City he tele-
graphed to the coroner of Hackensack.
Upon visiting h spot indicated by the
engineer the coroner found the body
of Mrs. E%berhard, horribly mangled.
Close examination, however, showed
that the woman a been shot twice
and was dead when the train struck
as she lay PROSTATE on the
track. in order to make sure of her
death, before dragging her body across
the rails.