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

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another went through the crown Of her
straw hat, and another cut the gold
chain around her neck. She told Prose-
cutor Rooster today that what she saw
who she believed to be two male ac-
completes of Eberhard in the shade
cast by the coal pockets.
The police now declare Eberhnrd had
no accomplIces and that he deliberately
took his aunt and cousin for the pur-
pose of murder and robbery.
County Detective w. b. a. Blauvelt
and j. a. Dawson went to Eberhard's
home. in Duchess county. twelve miles
above Poughkeepsie. and obtained in
formation which Prosecutor Rooster
deems of great value but will not di-
vulge at present.
Hysterical from fright, her face
covered with blood and her clothing
tumbled and torn, the girl beat upon
the door of an Italian laborer a mile
away. shortly a~fterward. She reeled
as she stepped into the room and be-
gan to pour out her story in German.
The Italians did not understand. bu
took her TO the home of August Wun-
der, a German.
Wunder took the girl in, and as his
wife dressed the wound Miss Eper-
hard told her story. At its conclusion
the girl was put to bed and Wunder
waited until morning to notify the au-
thorities.
Cousins Promise Of Riches.
Bit by bit, as she grew calmer, she
told how she had known her cousin,
August E~berhard. in the old country
five years before. He had come to
zxx;4n EIo lauad har he said and
often wrote to her mother 20 conn to
America with her daughter. He would
marry the daughter n her mother
could make a fortune by investing her
SAVINGS. With the money he would open
a grocery store. and they would all be
rich.
Finally the mother yielded. She sold
her millinery business in Vienna and set
sail for America. bringing her daughter
and her savings with her. During the
trip the daughter met a dashing young
musician. Ernest Held, who played
wonderful airs on the steamer Deutsch-
land and made pretty speeches about
her hair and eyes She liked hlm'
When she reached New York and LEFT
him at the pier she found she loVed
him. although August was there TO
meet her. Somehow, she did not care
so much to marry August then, ana
the latter seemed cold and unlike her
dream of q Prince Charming. That was
last Thursday.
When August called again Saturday
afternoon she requested him to take
her to Central Park, about which she
had read in Austria. He demurred'
saying tina the park was too crowded.
hui volunteered to take them for a
long trolley ride in New Jersey. lie
advised Mrs. Eherhard to take her
money with her. saying that 1t might
not be safe in the hotel. 1t might be
stolen from her in the park, he eX-
planned. but never on a trolley ride,
The three Gro ssed the ferry and
boarded a car. They got off at a place
August told them was Rochelle ave
me. near Rochelle Park There August
said he would take them for a walk.
This must have been about 8 o'clock,
Ottilie said. When their road led to
the railroad tracks. August led them
down the tracks. saying that 1t was a
short cut to another trolley line. and
that Mrs. Nberhard. who was growing
tired, would soon come to another line,
where she could get or the cars again.
Daughter Hears Fatal shots.
Just as they We're In front of the
great black building where the long
arm of the coal .scoop was swinging up
against the darkened sky, Otillie heard
two shots in quick succession. She
heard them very ~indistinctly; over the
roar of the falling coal. in fact, she was
not certain at the time they were shots.
IT turned around and saw my moth
err half sitting on nv ground near the
track" Uttilie said as she described
the details of those hurried moments
in the shadow of the coal scoops. II
did not know whether she had been
struck by lightning or shot, for l was
not sure that I heard the first shots.
Then Gus ran to me and said:
Don't stay here; don"t stay here.
Run as fast as you cam
~ began to run up the track and Gus
followed me for a short distance. AS l
ran I heard other shots and l felt pains
first under my eye, then across my
neck where my locket hung. l felt the
locket drop as If the chain had been
cut oy a bullet. hen last | felt a
pain under my arm in the side.
"Once, ! remember. l turned and
looked over my shoulder. l think I
saw Gus bending over my mother. l
know that / believed that he was stay
ing behind with her and so | ran on
down the tracks. fearing every min
ute that some more shots would come
out of the darkness n kill me.
"I do not think that Gus was firing
those shots; they did not sound close
enough. and / do not believe he would
plan to murder m mother and me.
He knew we had the money. but surely
he would not kill us to get 1t.
~ kept on running down the track
in the darkness. l did not know where
l was going, and when L struck a cross
road i turned off and beat on the door
of the first house 1 came to. That was
where the Italians found me and they
took me TO Mr.. Wunder's house. l felt
then tina l was safe n that my
mother was safe, because l knew that
Gus was with her. l thought | would
see her again In the morning"
POUGHKEEPSLE, N. Y, July CO.
Two Hackensack detectives have ar
rived here and, with Chief of Police
McCabe, left in an automobile for
Moore's Mills, fourteen miles east of
this city, the home of the parents Of
August Eberhard. The officers think
Eberhard Intended visiting his parents