The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-26
CONFESSED KILLING
Man Who Enticed Aunt to Americ,
for Robbery, Admits It


Hackensack. Sept. 26.-After the
confession he made to Chief Of Police
Dunn had been admitted as evidence.
with testimony showing it had not
been made under duress, the state
yesterday rested its case against Gus
tav Eberhard, who is being tried here
for the murder and robbery Of his
aunt on the railroad tracks near the
Coalberg station on July 10 last.
There was a lively argument be-
tween counsel before the confession
was admitted, and while 1t was going
on the Jury was excluded. stagg,
counsel for the defense, tried to make
it appear that Dunn forced the con-
fession from Eberhard under the
promise that he would get the prisoner
OF with four or five years sentence.
Dunn denied he had made such q
promise and said that the prisoner
was warned before making the con-
fession that what he said might be
used against him and that If he chose
he need not make any statement at
all.
The admission of the confession, in
which Eberhard told of killing his
aunt to get her money, was regarded
as a heavy blow to the deefnse.
When the court decided it might go
on the record, Stagg contended the
jury should also have the benefit of
the arguments made against admitting
it, but the court did not take that
view.
The undertaken and the surgeon
who performed the autopsy on the
murdered wonan's body told about
the wound they found and the ap-
pearance of the body. John Platt, Of
Rochelle Park, who lives about 500
feet from the sport where the body
was found, said he heard shot about
$3.50 o'clock on the night of the shoot
ing.
He said after the first shot he heard
nothing for few minutes, and then
three more shots were fired in quick
succession. He said he ran out of his
house and shouted. "Who Is there?
His brother-in-law was just coming
home, he said, and answered him
from distance.
Charles A. Dunlap, Platt's brother
in-law, testified about the same incl
dents. He said he was on his way
home from Paterson and had just
alighted from a car, when he heard
the shots. Then he heard man
shout as Platt had described, he tes-
titled.
He answered the shout, he said, and
when he and his brother-in-law Joined
they went and found the body.
Charles Wunder, Rochelle Park
farmer, told about Tillie Eberhard
daughter of the slain woman going tc
his house about 2:30 on Sunday morn
ing, he testified, and remained there
until the next day, when she went
to report to the police what had taken
place the night before.
Robert LARGE Of Totowa said that
about o'clock on the morning o1
July % he heard knocks on the stool
of his house and threw open the door
He saw Eberhard sitting on the grass
about ten feet away. Eberhard told
him he had been shot and asked for q
glass of water.
Eberhard showed him spot ol
blood on his knee, where, he said, he
had been wounded. Italians shot my
aunt and cousin and then they shot
me up," said Eberhard, as LARGE told
the story.
He added he took Eberhard into 9
wagon and started with him for Pat
erson. On the way they met Patrol
man Cook, who took charge Of Eber.
hard and had him transferred in an
ambulance to hospital.