The Washington herald., 1908-07-20

New York, July ia hysterical girl
about twenty years old. her face covered
with blood and her clothing torn and
tumbled, beat upon the door Of q lonely
house near the New York, Susquehauna
and Western Railroad tracks on the out
skirts OF Passaic Junction. N J. q few
minutes before 10 O'Clock on Saturday
night and cried for admission.
Some Italians who lived there opened
the door. but they could not understand
The girls speech. it being in German
They took her down the road TO the
home Of Charles wunder. near at hand.
and Wunder. being able to understand
German. took the girl in
Something's happened 70 my mother"
the girl gasped- "something's happened
10 me See the blood. It think its rob
hers They're back here On the railroad
track My mothers back there on the
track. 700. I think
Wunder and his wife found that the
girl was bleeding from two wounds. one
was scar from bullet on the right
cheek, just under the eye. The other was
a red cash on the right side OF the girls
neck. just below the ear.
Bullet uts LOcket Chain
She told them that the bullet causing
that wound had cut the gold chain OF
locket about her neck, and that the
trinket had dropped of the minute she
felt the sting ia her neck
When Wunder's wife undressed the girl
10 put her 70 bed she found that a third
bullet had ripped the flesh on her left
arm. scorched her back. and hattened
against one OF her steel corset stays
Ottilie Eberhard was her name, the E1rI 4
told the Wundc-s. All else she couIo say
was that she and her mother had been
walking with her cousin. Gus Eberhara. /
along the railroad track somewhere back
up in the darkness and that her mother
had fallen
The Wunders put the girl TO bed and
did nothing 10 apprise the authorities Of
Hackensack Of the incident until morn
ing
Engineer Sees Body.
Meanwhile. the east-bound express on
the New York. Susquehanna and West
err. due 10 pass through Rochelle. Park
about u-25. had passed the cottage where
the girl had been put 10 bed. and pulled
into Jersey City There the engineer told
the conductor Of the train that when he
passed Rochelle Park station he noticed
about 500 feet west Of the station. some
thing lying on either side OF the track
over which his train was passing. that
looked ike portions Of a dismembered
body.
Coroner Cornelius De AIund. OF Ridge
wood, was notified by phone. The coroner
went right out 10 the spot designated.
There, directly IN front Of a string Of ;
big coal chutes and bins. and lying on s
both sides Of the west-bOund track. he
found the severed body Of a woman
The body had been cut cIeanIy in two
just below the breast The torso and q
head appeared TO have been dragged a J
few yards The head was badly diseg-
ureo- An examination revealed a bullet $
hole directly under the chin and another a
IN the left breast. less than an inch above
the heart T
Prosecutor Is Notified.
The coroner notified Prosecutor Koes-
ter. and the latter was about to 20 ont N
Rochelle Park when he received word =
from the Hackensack police Headquarters 4
that man had brought a German girl
into the station. whom he had found
and hystericaI at his door the
night before.
prosecutor Koester went down to the
dackensack headquarters and t5era ba
lound Ottiie Eberhard- The girl told the
prosecutor the story OF how she and bar
mother happened to be on the Susoua-
hanna tracks at such a lonely spot. at S-soI
'ciock Saturday night. ,
They came from Vienna. Austria tba >
sirl said Her father has been dead abor+ :.
Wenty years She and her rnother. had a,
supported themselves by a very profitable Fl
iressHlaking establishment for uanv Ia
ears While she lived in Vienna she
iad known from girIhood the son Of ona p
4 her mothers cousins. Gus Eberbar5
vas his name. She and Gus had bAan =
riends in casual sort Of wav and -
atterly, since Gus left Austria for Amer n,
"a, five years ago, they had been lovers e
Gus Wants TO Marry Her. Of
For long time Gus has been imnor- of
uning her mother by letter to come n ii
.merica. the girl continued. and he had
rged that he wanted 10 marry his sweet Dc
cart Ottilie. whom he had left in the sh
Id country Gus held out rich promises a7
fortunes 10 be made in America ana w
that he was in a position 70 au
larry Ottilie and see her mother estab- at
shed in a good business. iii
Finally, Mrs EberharG YIELDED She
ad her daughter sold out their dress th
laking business in Vienna and came 70 to
merica. arriving here last Thursday. 10
On Thursday Gus had met her ro++o- q 81
nd herself at the dock in HOboken. and "a
ad taken them to a hotel in New York nj
nd the next day he took both Of than, IN
P town 10 secure a fat for them Tbev =
ched out apartments at 1856 Amsterdam, / be
venue and paid a deposit Of g on tbe
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