New-York tribune., 1908-07-20
SLAY AND ROB WOMAN
TRIMS MANGLE BODY.
Hackensack Police Hunt for
Nephczr-Daughter also Shot.
BODY.

u.cL.,..c& 7 Iulv - (SpeciaD-Msngled by
eeveral trains which had passed over IL, tne pooS
of Mrs Attia Eberhard, who was mys'eriousiS
murdered In the freight yards at Coalburg, N d..
-, saturday night was brought here to-day and
identified by her daughter. Attla- who Vas
wounded three times by the murderers Inc sum
of 600 which Mrs Eberhard carried WIN N.
was missing. August Eberhard, the dead "o'iia"
nenhev who was with the women wheh 'ieS
we're fred upon. is being sought bH the pohee
Miss Eberhard told the Hackensack police tnat
she and her mother had spent some tl1fle III aoe'i
Park a pleasure resort near Hackensack, anu '
,s.r cousin who seemed to know all the roaos anu
streets in the place a: first, suddenly told 'heih
,,.. tbev had lost their way. After walking a
r,i;e or more they struck the tracks or the Ne"
York Susouehanna & Western Railroad Company
which they followed .n the direction OF Paterson.
Miss Fherhard walked In advance OF her COUSIN
and Mrs Eberilard was in the rear.
IL was nearly o'clock when the three neAfeo
,ne coal sdings at Coalburg. Miss Eberhard SAID
that storm was approaching and the hehthins
was nashing. There was fash from pehino one
Of the freight and she saw her nother KAN
&c the ground
A, frs, she Thought her mother had been struck
hv lightning but when she turned TO assist her
there was fuslade Of revolver shots from oehino
the same car, and three bullets struck her, ihnc.
.nr flesh wounds. One OF the bullets struck hef IN
the shoulder another grazed her cheekbone ana
ahe third pierced her neck She was UNCONSCIOUS
for a time but she remembered that her COUSIN
yelled TO her follow him and ran down the HacA'
leaving her and her mother
Miss Eberhard made he- way TO Passalc juno
sicn and staggered into the home of Charles "uh-
der at fnat place She was cared Tor unli ioih-
ing when the police informed and her moth
erfs body brought in. Mrs Eberhards body was
dragged acsoss- til. eastbound tracks. the police
say I'm order that the early trains would so ois-
Sis,,r. 1t that the bullet wounds would not be DIS
covered.
An examination however showed that one bullet
had struck her in the breast and another pfopaoiS
fired as she lay the ground. entered her lower
asw and passed upward through her head
Mrs Eberhard and her daughter came. TO this
,o,n.rv from, Vienna on the steamer Deutschland
on Thursday and met by Eberhard and taken
,o the Adelph. Hotel, at Tenth avenue and 2Sd
street Manhattan Miss Eberhard said that her
,,,,sir had nrooised 10 marry her and had written
numerous letters urging her and her mother TO
come 10 New York He was employed as a clerk
4n the store Of Frederick Wehnann, at ST MICH
olas avenue and I52d street, New York CITY, untii
q week ago When the two women spoke OF a
Measure trip on Saturday he Immediately sus-
Uesfed that they go TO Rochelle Park Miss Eber-
hard SAWS Mrs Eberhard forty-fire years
old and her daughter is twenty August hpefhaiu
IS about the same age as the girl
John Plat whose home IS near the scene OF the
murder. told the authorities that he had noticed
two men, apparently Germans. skuking about the
coal cars in the evening Miss Eberhard was al
most rrosfrafed Yesterday She assisted TO
,be r,orrue where she swooned after identifying
she hodv of her parent She speaks little English,
hut she managed TO tell the police that she has
Two cousins John and George Eberhard, living
somewhere in New Jersey The police nave sent
out a general alarm for Eberhard.