Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-24
Inhuman Nephew Admits Cold.
BIooded Murder Of Aunt and
Attempt to Kill Her Pretty,
Daughter.
ROBBERY SOLE MOTIVE
OF TREACHER0US DEED
Woman Lured from Europe by
BIoodthirSty Monster Who
Shows Small Concern When
ConfeSSing Crime to Police.


tBy Morning Journal sOecial LEASED Wlrs.I
New York. July 23.---Drawn back to
the scene Of his crime by a force he
could not resist August Eberhard
self confessed murderer of his aunt,
Mrs Ottilie Ebehard, Viennese
widow. whom he had lured to lone
ly spot in New Jersey few days ago,
and shot TO death, was captured near
Paterson, n. j., today and is now
prisoner in the Hackensack Jail.
The reason Eberhardt gave for
committing the crime, was that he
was in love with a New York girl, and
that he needed money to marry her,
so knowing that his aunt had $500
he plotted to kill her and steal the
money. Eberhardt says he also in
tended 10 kill his pretty cousin Ottilie
Eberhard, to whom he was engaged.
so that nothing could be in the way to
prevent his marriage to the New York
girl. The police have the name of
the girl mentioned by Eberhard, and
she will be brought TO Hackensack to
tell what she knows of the murder. |
Halow eyed. with cheeks drawn. |
and with the look of hunted animal !
on his face, Eberhard was found lay
ing on the lawn of a residence Just 1
outside of Paterson There was an
ugly looking wound in his right leg, .
which ne afterwqrd confessed was in
f1cted by himself so as to make the |
police believe he had been wounded /
on the night his aunt was killed. Nor
bid brooding over his inhuman crime
had apparently unbalanced the mind
of Eberhard, but he showed some of
the cunning that he displayed in the
murder plot when the police ques
toned him about the murder Eber-
hard did not Immediately confess to
the police. When he was placed under
arrest he expressed surprise that he
should be suspected of the foul deed,
and told an ingenious story to account
for his disappearance after the shoot
ing of his aunt TO the effect that on
the night of the murder he had tried
to defend his aunt from the attack of
party of Italians He said he made
his cousin run ahead, and then re-
turned to help his aunt but the mur
derers oVerpoWered him after shoot
ing him in the leg. Then, he said,
he lost unconsclousness and remem
bered nothing until he came to his
senses i'm the Prekness mountains.
The inquisitors did not believe this
story and they kept Eberhard on the
grin, until he weakened, and ma le a
confession. The murderer seemed to
feel relieved when he had finished his
remarkable narrative of the murder.
He asked the prosecutor. to whom he
had confessed. for a cigar and when
II was given TO him. he smoked it as
though he had no other care in the
world
An important point i'm the confess
sion was the statement by Eberhard
that he had an accomplice in the
murder plot. He said. however, that |
his accomplice had no hand in the
killing Of Mrs. Eberhard. This man, 4
who was one Of Eberhard's friends, L
has fed west and the police are look q
ing for him. They have his name. t
Eberhard told the police that he C
had planned the murder two months I
ago. He wrote many letters to his I
aunt in his efforts to induce her to sell v
her home In Germany and come TO 4
this country To live ),
He even promised that he would !,
marry her daughter. Ottilie, and make !
comfortable home for her
Then Eberhad recounted the arrival
of his aunt and his cousin. Ottilie. and =
OF his finding rooms for them in "
hotel in West Twenty third street. of %
the trip to New Jersey. and the final
walk up the railroad tracks. \ bind =
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