Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-07-29
CRUEL AND CRAFTY CRIME.
Woman Lured to Death for Sake Of
Her Little Fortune.

New York, July ga crime so
cruelty crafty as to be almost unbe-
!ievable is revealed in the case OF
Mrs. Ottillie Eberhard, a v;ennese
widow, whose body was found on the
New York, Susquehanna and West
ern Railroad track. In lonely Sec
tion near Hackensack, N. j.
The police Of every Eastern city
are searching for August Eberhard,
the victims nephew, who for months
importuned her to come here with a
fortune OF $4,000 and her twenty
,year-old daughter, whom August
promised to marry. The girl refuses
to believe that August had anything
to do with 1t. His parents live on a
farm near Dutchess Junction, New
York. ... ..'...
I The victim, with her daughter, ar
rived in New York last week. Eb-
serhard Is employed in grocery
store In St. Nicholas avenue. He set.
tiled them at hotel here, and con-
verted the money into American
notes. He took them to the country
on the pretext Of heat.
At Rochelle Park, at his sugges-
ton, the trio strolled in the fields.
Eberhard claimed he had lost the
way. A thunderstorm broke. The
woman stumbled on the track, ex-
claiming she had been struck by
lightning. Miss Eberhard says there
were three flashes from behind a car
on a siding. AS her mother fell the
girl felt bullet Craze her own neck,
cutting gold chain. Eberhard urg-
ed her to run, and as she did so she
was struck by two bullets.
The girl was cared for at a nearby
cottage. The murderer must have
shot the widow as she lay PROSTATE.
Murderer COnfesses.
New York, July 2S.-Drawn back
to the scene Of his crime by force
he could not resist, August Fberhard,
self-confessed murderer of his aunt,
Mrs. Ottillie Eberhard. a Viennesse
widow, whom he lured to a lonely
spot in New Jersey few days ago
and shot to death, was captured near
Paterson, N. j., and is now a prison
er in the Hackensack. Jail. What in
terested the authorities most in the
confession Eberhard made to them
late to-day was the reasons he gave
for committing the crime. Eberhard
said that he was in love with a New
York girl, and that he needed money
to marry her, so, knowing that his
aunt had $4,000, he plotted to kill
her and steal he money. Eberhard
said he also intended to kill his pret-
ty cousin, Ottillie Eberhard, to whom
he was engaged, so that nothing
would stand in the way Of his mar
riage to the New York girl. The po-
lice have the name Of a girl men,
toned by Eberhard, and she will be
brought to Hackensack to tell what
she knows Of the murder.
! With hollow eyes, cheeks drawn,
and with the look of a hunted animal
on his face, Eberhard was found ly-
ing on the lawn Of a residence just
outside of Paterson. There was an
ugly-looking wound in his right leg,
which the murderer first said had
been inflicted by Italians who at
tackled him, but which he afterwards
confessed was inflicted by himself so
as to make the police believe he had
been wounded on the night his aunt
was killed. Morbid brooding over his
inhuman crime had apparently un-
balanced the mind of Eberhard, but
he showed some Of the cunning that
he displayed in the murder plot when
the police questioned him about the
murder.
Eberhard did not Immediately con-
fess to the police. When lie was
placed under arrest he expressed sur
prise that he should be suspected of
the foul deed, and told a most inge-
nious story to account for his dis
appearance after the shooting Of his
aunt to the effect that on the night
Of the murder he had tried to defend
his aunt against the attack Of a party
Of six Italians.
He said he made his cousin run on
ahead, and. then returned to help
his aunt, but the murderers over
powered him after shooting him in
the leg. Then, he said, he lost con-
sciousness and remembered nothing
until he came to his senses. in the
Preakness mountains