Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-31
GUS EBERHARD
ACCUSED or HIS
AUNT'S MURDER
Riddled With Bullets Whlles
Walking on Track and Mu-
tilated by Train.

New York. July 23.-Lured to Amer
Too nv the promise of wealth ana mat
rimony for her 20-year-oid
Mrs Ottollio Eberhard, a WeIi-to-uo
yisnese widow, was heal
Hackensack. N. j., and her Dody pidceu'
on the track TO cover UP the eiia
Her daughter was with her at the I'm.
and she was badly AusuSe
Eherhard. who had promised TO marry
~ aanobter is suspected of the crime,
The woman's body was riddlec WltH
bullets. ,ah+ar
b.5 only heen in the country a rev
davs She carried her little fortune
of $4,000 with her and IL Is oehesso
hat this was the motive ior ~
crime. 10
crime hrough which Mrs. Otillo EDer'
hard met her death indicates a degree
of duplicity and cold, crafty cunning
on the part of a nephew, Gus Epei-
hard that is seldom equalled. IL Was
Eberhard who besought his Vlennesse
aunt to come to this country WneIe ne
represented there were WonderIui op-
portunities for profit from the lilseso-
ment of her little hoardings OF Sz,ooo,
and he would also marry the
of the woman. She came win her
daughter and they were met When they
arrived on the steamship Deuschlano
last Thursday.
1t was while they were all spending.
the day on q trolley ride in New Jersey
that the crime was committed.
At Rochelle Park, two miles west OF
Hackensack, the nephew suggested tnat
they take a walk, and the three left the
car to stroll through the fields. Even
ing found them at a lonely spot on the
tracks of the New York. Susquehanna
81 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, the elder woman stumbled.
II have been struck by lightningi" 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 a on a siding
near by anG then a second and a third.
Girl is Wounded.
AS her mother fell to the tracks the
girl felt a bullet Craze her w neck,
cutting a thin gold chain from which a
locket was suspended. Suddenly Eber-
hard urged her to run as a second bull
let plowed into her shoulder. She start
ed down the track screaming. Once
she turned back to see If her mother
was following her, n again there
was a shot, which passed above the
bridge Of her lose. the blood from the
wound half binding her. Through the
darkness and the storm the wounded
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 po-
lice were notified.
Woman's Body is Found.
In the meantime an engineer on o.
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 the spot indicated by the.
engineer the coroner found the body
of Mrs. Eberhard, horribly mangled.
Close examination, however. showed
that the woman had been shot twice.
and was dead when the train struck
her. The murderer must have shot the.
woman as she lay PROSTATE on the.
track, In order to make sure OF her
death, before dragging her body across
the rails.