The sun., 1908-07-24

way. ! thought the best way was to walk
down the track until We could find road
to trolley oar. All the time that We were
ESaldng down the track was thinking of
sho. yoa. we're thinking how best you
could kill the two women. weren't your"
| interrupted the interrogator.
| No, no. I swear that when we started
out on that walk had no idea Of killing my
cousin and Ottilie, her daughter protested
| Eberhard. Il had o revolver. but always
carry O. revolver when 60 out Of New
York. But not until all Of q sudden did
| ! have the idea that I would kill Mrs Eber-
hard and get her money.
her daughter. I never did urge them to
como to America and say that l would
marry OttIlie, as have read in the papers
Ss shs says w. did; d. hays '; swesthssrt %aas in in
aotress, and she 10 with company called
| The Six Typewriters,' or something like
that man by the name OF Hubbard
who writes vaudeville plays. introduced
me 70 her, Ilove her and she loves me.
women along the railroad track kind
| Of a photograph In the air seemed to come
| before my eyes. 1t was the photograph OF
Caroline Wade, my sweetheart: ! knew
that abe needed money and that II had
all Of sudden that my cousin, Mrs. Eber-
| hard, had almost % 500 in bills in a bag
about her neck. Then thinking these two
things quick, like that, made up my mind
| to shoot Mrs. Eberhard and did.
How did you shoot herr queried
Like that" said the young man. who
had walked around the table as he ramned
the foreinger Of his right hand up against
and could not miss when shot her like
that. Then I shot her again under the
!! chin.
Then ottilie began to scream, and ran
to her and told her to run, l didn't want
l Knew I was good shot and l wanted to
shoot her running. OF course l had to
shoot her. because she probably saw me
| shoot her mother. But I missed her.
But one Of the shots read had gone under
her eye and through hSr hat brim and that's
what made IL look like an extra shot.
well, when ottilie got away from me
l got the money and walked back toward
revolver in the river there { the Saddle
Riverl Then I walked along the tracks
in the same direction had seen Ottilie
run and by and by / came to Paterson
took the first train out Of Patterson for New
| York; IL was the one leaving at 11:08 over
the Susquehanna line, the same tracks
we had BEEN walking on that afternoon.
'As we were coming back l noticed that
the train stopped for a minute at the very
spot where I had shot Mrs. Eberhard. !
knew why they were stopping put my
head out OF the window and looked up near
the engine but could not sec anything.
I read in the papers later that the engineer
had stopped because he had found Mrs.
and that he reported it to the Coroner from
Jersey City. I don't know. how her body
happened TO be on the track unless 1t fell
there when l shot her; didn't put 1t on
the track.
ty-third street ferry from the Pennsyl-
vania depot I went TO q saloon en- Twenty
| eighth street near Tenth avenue and got
a suit case had left there with some clothes
and another revolver in mi it. vent a;bahs 70 the
on the 1880 midnight train. ! did not
change my clothes, but wore a blue auto
mobile cap and blue glasses. get to Al
bany early in the morning and went to Troy
right away Then came back to Albany;
Then / took the train to Binghamton. !
don't know why I went there. !! got out
| Of town az soon as ] could and went to
| Rochester, bought ticket for Buffalo while
the train was still at the station and went
ON to Buffalo.
aThere just caught the boat that runs
to Toronto and went there. came back to
Buffalo on the same boat and went to De-
troit by boat: guess lost time by taking
Il don't know why 1 kept going and
going. without sleep. and rest. l don't
think 1 was afraid. / just felt something
behind me all the time pushing me ahead,
went. All wanted to do was to move
to keep on moving.
Eberhard interrupted his narrative to tell
of how he read the accounts OF his crime In
the papers.
going from Detroit to Chicago said he.
sand saw him reading about me and hero
were pictures Of Mrs. Eberhard and ottlie,
but none OF me. Then ! heard some other
This mss @sde sSeSee me nervous. S Every tme left
the train to buy q tcket-I only bought
short tickets and stayed on the same train
as much as / could-I had one hand inside
my coat pocket on my revolver and was
at me. Once when I was getting on the
train at Detroit saw a policeman standing
near the step and ] cooked my revolver
inside my coat pocket. He didn't say
word to me although ne had In his POCKET
a newspaper with the story about me In Dig
Il went from Detroit to Chicago. buying
new tickets at Lansing and Adrian and
staying on the same train. think i was a
late Monday night. 1 think It was. and 1
went to hotel ! knew OF when i used to
work in the stockyards there. 1t was
Patta's Hotel on Halsted street, between
Forty-frst and Forty-sec1nd strsets; sire s;.,t !
there that night. Next morning early
took the fast train back TO Newark :.
Koester asked Eberhard why be wanted
to come back to q spot 30 close to the scene
Of his crime. The man stared at the prose-
cutor helplessly for second before he
answered.
I don't know" he said. Il had TO keep
moving. Something pushed me back.
don't know what 1t was. Something kept
saying to 60 back. go back. 80 came;
Il arrived In Newark Tuesday some time.
I guess 1t was near noon, and TOOK the
trolley car for Paterson. The car took me
to the same railroad station where ! had
taken the train on Saturday night. / was
very tired for want Of sleep. very hungry.
/ got something to eat and started out TO
wander about the country. Last night i
thought would commit suicide and went
out TO the graveyard over near Little FANS
and lay down among the graves TO think
about Il. While was lying there got the
idea about the story Of being captured by
Italians.
at seemed to be q good story and !
thou oht II shot h yself In the leg IL would
help make the story better. So this morn
ing got up and went and buried my money
The weather.