Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-21

at $50 o'clock. There was no westerly
train due for more than two hours
How Eberhard got away from the
scene is something that the prosecu-
tor and his detectives could not dis
cover yesterday. Although he had told
the women that he was walking to-
ward trolley when he led them west
along the tracks, Eberhard knew, no
doubt, that the nearest electric line
in that direction lay four miles ahead.
BEHIND him, near the Rochelle Park
station on the Susquehanna line. lay
the trolley line that passes through
Hackc nsack and back to New York by
the Fort Lee ferry. Yesterday some OF
the detectives were questioning the
motcrmen and conductors who ran
late cars east from Hackensack and
Rochelle Park, but they could find no
one who remembered seeing a passen-
ger answering Eberhard's description.
Prosecutor Rooster said late last
night that he believed it very probable
that an arrest in the case would be
made before morning. The prosecutor
said that despite Ottilie's stout defence
of her cousin, he and the detectives are
convinced that the murder was done
by one man alone and that man was
the one who was walking between OF
tile Eberhard and her mother while
they passed the coal bins
Frederick Wehmann, who runs a
grocery store at 80 ST. Nicholas place,
Manhattan, where Gus Eberhard
worked and with whom he lived at 81.
almost opposite. was almost distract
ed yesterday when he was told OF
Eberhards crime.
HE was the last boy in the world I
would have suspected of committing
such an act, and if the evidence did
not seem to make it sure I would re-
fuse TO believe it, said he. "He was
not fond of money in an undue sense.
though he was careful of his earnings.
He often went on little outings and
to the theater, so he could not be call
ed a miser. And he had no girl
friends. We often asked him why he
did not so with girls, and all that he
would say was that he did not like
them.
"GuS never told me that he was to
get married More than week ago
he told me that his fathers cousin, an
elderly woman, and her mother were
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and on Wednesday he said that he
was going to meet them in Hohoken.
Friday morning he came back to
his room and packed q suit case. He
came over to the store and told me
that he would like to go on vacation.
He didn't tell me where he was going,
but ] got the idea that he was going
up in the country near Duchess june
ton. whore his father and mother and
brother live on q farm that they
bought about six months ago. / told
him that he might stay as long as he
liked, as business was pretty dull just
now, and said to him that if he did
not come back until the first Of Sen
temher it would be all right. He
seemed in good humor and there
was nothing on his mind that l could
see.
But there is one thing certain, and
that is that they will never get Gus
alive. 1 know him well. and l believe
that when he sees in the papers that
the girl did not die he will kill himself.
THE boy was almost like d brother
to me. / worked with him for George
Buchanan on Broadway and when |
went in business for myself up here |
found that / needed the services of
another. He was z hard worker, was
ambitious and while | was about the
only one for whom he seemed to care
to do anything | could get anything
out of him.
"Hc was with me in the store for
over a year and for the last four
months had room in my fiat. Five
nights ont of the seven he was in bed
by 10 o'clock, as the rest of the house,
hold are, and he did not drink. I never
heard him express any desire to go in
to business for himself. ana if he killed
his cousin for her money the idea must
have come on him suddenly. He had
an almost ungovcrnable temper at
times, and then I was about the only
person who could get him quiet. He
would fly into a rage at the smallest
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