Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-20
Mrs. ottiIIie Eberhard, a Vlennese
Widow, Induced by Nephew
To Come to America.
WAS TO WED THE DAUGHTER
: Police Believe He Committed the
Crime to Secure the Moth
er's Little Fortune.
After Being Killed Her Body Was
Placed on Railroad Track TO
Destroy Evidence of Guilt.

New York, July 20.--The tale of a
crime so revolving and replete WIN
cruel oraftiness as to be almost an
believable is told in the case of Mrs
ottillie Eberhard we'll to do Viennese
widom whose body was found on the
railroad track In lonely section oil
Hackensack, N. j., early yesterday.
At first ii was believed the woman had
been struck by train and killed sub
sequent investigation. however reveal
ed that she had been murdered and
her body placed upon the track in al
effort to destroy traces of the crime
Ii was with this discovery that there
came the first intimation OF the deeply
laid and cunnngly executed plot which
places the case almost in a class by it.
self in the history of crime.
WHERE is EBERHARD.
As a result of that investigation, the
police are now searching for August
lhcrhard, the dead woman's nephew,
who had importdned Mrs. Eberhard to
come to this country ana TO bring with
Ter 20-year-old daughter, whom Au
gust had promised to marry. 1t was
largely due to the story told by the
daughter after the finding the Older
womans body that the search for Au-
gust was begun, and the police in every
city OF the eastern country have been
asked to take him into custody il
found. He is wanted to tell what he
Knows of the circumstances related by
the girl who was to have been his wife.
The young woman herself, however,
refuses to believe that August had any
part in the tragic death of her moth
err but despite her protestations de
tecliVes have gone to the home of the
mans parents, VINO IiVe on farm
county, New York. and the search for
nm ~ ne'he prosecutor IN many other
LONG PLOTTED CRIME
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va a,e a.eat .n Coz DeutSchiand, the
her dress. Eberhard, who had been
Sichoias avenro e. asl,aS h sto'e IN 81.
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PRETEXT FOR TRIP.
,,
~ Nas lle lntense neat OF saturday
allcInuoh Whieh FURNISHED the prttoNt
.VI t"e UP 10 inc country WIN us
III NJ l's, e'oI"'''S 70 tle storE
lolu ny the daughter Eberhafd sus-
Srsted trolley ride in New Jersey.
MT Eocrlard consented TO the trip
Alo 'ne three crossed the Hudson W
Ierly ON thelr way TO the country AZ
I,osielle fafk Two miles west OF
!iackehsack, the nephew suggested
that they take walk, and the three
Iett the car to stroll through the fields
Menihs found them al a lonely spot
o s, RACKS OF me New YORK SCa-
i.i,"tl',s q western railroad. Ebcl-
, n"Iu 'oiU me women he had lost his
"A storm broke and the trlo
pu A. aneau down the track until IN
, usai 'h'ns crash OF thunedr. the elder
woman stumbled
THE DEED CoNtNiIrtT
-,
neNe heen struck by lightning
~ screamed as she fell In a heap by
t,hor t,aoM' ~ me same instant Miss
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