The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-20

The most important link of evidence
in the case which tends to fasten the
crime on August Eberhard was given
today to an EVENING STAR reporter
by Ernest Held, the young musician
who replaced the cousin in Ottilie's at
fections.
Il was at the Adelphi Hotel. Hoboken.
when August advised Mrs. Eberhard to
have her foreign money changed to
American banknotes," he said. IT told
her not to do 1t, but August insisted
that she make the change.
~ don't want you butting In on
my family affairs he told me. Fur
ther, don't want you hanging around
this girl any longer. If l find you with
her again, I'll fix you so you won't
come back He was very angry, and
went away with Mrs. Eberhard and
her daughter"
From the point where the trio alight-
ed from the trolley car, but three
blocks from the police station here. the
girl led the detectives to the scene of
the tragedy.
The mutilated body of the dead
woman will be buried today. Although
dismembered by the wheels of an ex-
press train, the ghastly find gave mute
evidence of murder premeditated and
without warning. Placed so the wheels
of the flying train would pass over the
bullet hole in the breast, the body was
apparently dragged, for the wound was
one of the first marks noticed by
Coroner De Mund.
Directly under the chin there was
another bullet hole, which seemed to
range diagonally upwards, terminating
In the brain, and this Is believed to
have been the last shot fired, the one
which caused the instant death OF the
unfortunate woman.
Prosecutor Koester and the Hacken-
sack police are confident Eberhard y
in hiding close by.
The diabolical cunning with which
the awful crime was planned becomes
more and more apparent with the un-
folding of the daughters strange tale.
That she herself escaped death was
due to the darkness, the authorities be-
lieve the slayer's intention being to kill
mother and daughter and leave their
bodies on the tracks. Five thousand
miles from home, in land where they
were known by no one, their bodies
would not have been identified, had the
murderer's plan succeeded, and the
long list OF unsolved crime mysteries
Shoots with Lightning's Flash.
But the vivid flash OF lightning which
gave the slayer his opportunity to kill
the mother and obtain the $4,000 she
had in her bosom. left an inky black
ness a moment later. Into this void,
made doubly dark by the binding nash,
the murderer fired at the retreating
form OF the daughter. He fired four
times and inflicted four flesh wounds,
as the terror stricken girl sped down
the tracks to safety.
Hearing her screams and believing
his object had been accomplished, the
murderer turned his attention to the
PROSTATE form of the mother.
He tore open her bodice and cut tine
string which encircled her neck. Upon
this string was the little bag ne
coveted. In the bag was $500, the
savings of her lifetime. In American
banknotes, and 200 kronen in Austrian
money. The latter was found In the
tightly clenched hand OF the dismem-
bered body. When the prosecutors
men went to the scene of the crime
the $500 was gone.
Weave Web Around Missing Man.
Four shots in all were fired at Miss
Eberhard A bullet, which entered her
back, was spent BIZ striking o corset