The sun., 1908-07-24
EBBRHARD DETAILS Hts CRIME
TELLS HOW HE KILLED COUSIN.
AND FEED 1900 MILES.

returns, Bmiea Stolen Money and Wounds
Hlmself toFortify Lie Which He .Aban-
dons-Says5He Did Murder to Aid Actress
Who Says She Doesn' Know Him.
August Eberhsrd. for whom the police
, have been searching since last Sun day.
dsHberately threw himself in the path Of
the authorities at Little Falls. N. j.. early
Yesterday morning with a clumsily fsbri-
ceted story designed to clear himself Of
the Ruiit Of having murdered his cousin.
3 Mr. Otthe Hb@hard, land robbed her body
: mar Rochelle Park last Saturday night
before he had been questioned an hour
Bbaharyfs hption had crumbled away
and tho man had made full confession
of his crime andttold the officers where
they would recoeaer most OF the $500 he
had taken from the woman he shot.
Robert d. Iprue. who nves on the out
= tsiros Of LittletFalls, woke yesterday morn
ing to find man lying across a log In his
front yard. Larue went down to the fel-
low 10 fnd out the reason for his intrusion.
Hsfound o young man. hatless and coatless.
his clothes torn and shoes spattered with
mud. Bound about his left leg below
he knee there.was O red bandanna hand
kerch,ef which+was stained with blood.
tarue asked the man what allied him.
The only answer he received was q moan
and a sign6fioant shifting Of the injured
lea. Then Larue went into the house and
talephoned to acting Captain Perry Of
Paterson police headquarters that there
was o wounded man on his front lawn who
evidently needed medical attention. Larue
was advised by the police captain that
since his place lay outside OF the jurisdio-
ton OF the Paterson police the only way
to bring the wounded man into the city
wss for Larue to get o conveyance and
bring him himself.
Larue did as he was instructed. Al
Baum's Park on the city line Of Paterson
hs was met by Policeman Cook. Cook
walked up and looked at the injured man
IN Iarue's buggy.
whats your namef' queried Cook.
August Eberhard.' answered the man
in the rig. SIM the man you're looking
for
The Paterson policeman lost no time in
Fh,sed to answer the questions the police
man put to him except to say that he had
been attacked by some Italians earlier In
h5 LloIllAhk ahu bilot III LILO iOHs nv thlc
GENERAL Hospital in Paterson 1t was dis
eniy superficial one. A bullet from q
revolver. evidently fired from above the
leg and almost in straight line down. had
pierced the muscles above the knee but
had not damaged either the bone or any
sf the large blood vessels
After his wound had been dressed the
young man. who had borne probing without
hinohing. was taken to police headquarters.
There upon being questioned he told nu-
entity and almost eagerly q story.
He said that on Saturday afternoon
he took Mrs. Eberhard and her daughter
ottilie out over the Fort Lee ferry and
as far as Hacksnsack on the trolley. They
were bound for Wood Ridge, where John
Eberhard, q brother Of his, lives. They
got OF the car somewhere beyond Hacken-
sack, the young man continued, and then
he became confused as to his direction.
Eberhard continued to tell how they
walked down the railroad track past the
station at Rochelle Park, all the time keep
ing an eye open for a crossroad that would
lead to trolley A storm came up and
the lightning began to fash. just as
they were walking past some coal cars
near the Susquehanna railroad coal dumps
beyond the Rochelle Park station binding
fash Of lightning came and the report Of
q revolver.
Then he turned around. he said, and saw
Mrs. Eberhard fall. More shots came.
all seeming to jump out with the tongues
Of fire from behind the coal cars. Ottilie
began to run and Eberhard said that he
began to run too, all the time hearing those
shots from behind the coal cars.
The romance of the young fellow sitting
In the Paterson headquarters partook
Of wilder tinge at this point. He said
that he had not run far when he was hit
on the head and fell. Then he lost con-
sciousness That lapse of consciousness
must have continued until some time early
that morning Eberhard asserted. The
dsze left him with the coming Of day
light and he found that he was in some
sort of cave or den among the rocks among
q lot OF Italians up in what he discovered
to be the Preakness Mountains back Of
Paterson. He had no money and he was
very weak
One OF the Italians came up to him and
started to abuse him-so ran Eberhard's
story-and when he protested the Italian
drew revolver and shot him in the leg
Even wounded as he was he made his way
through the woods from the mountains
and fell fainting on the lawn Of the house
in Little Falls where he had been found.
Don't you know that you shot Mrs.
Eberhard dead with a revolver and etole
$500 from a bag about her neok?' was the
question the police put to the young man
with the bandaged leg.
What. dead? My cousin dead?" Dried
the man with an affected voice.
What did you do with the gun you carried
when you went on that walk last Saturday"
was the next question. Eberhard swore
that he had no gun. and a minute later when
describing again the incident Of his imagined
struggle with the Italian by the side Of the
coal cars he said that he had tried to draw
q revolver. but his assailapt had been too
quick for him.
While the Paterson officers were waiting
the arrival Of Prosecutor Koester and Chief
Dunn from Hackensack In answer to
summons they had sent by phone. they
arraigned the man they had questioned
before Reoorder Carol as q fugitive from
justice. When Koester and the Haoken-