Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-24
KILLED AUNT
 FOR HER MONEY
Eberhard, Haunted by the
 Crime, Confesses.
RETURNED TO THE SCENE

Could Not Keep Away From It, De-
 clares Young Man, Who Admits Plan
 to Shoot Cousin as We'll as Older
 Woman - Says He Wanted ReIa-
 lives Cash to Enable Him to Mar
 ", Although He Was Engaged to
 His Intended Victim-Shoots Him.
 self In the Leg In Order to Deceive
 Police.
 New York, July 24. -"I couldn't sleep. When I lay down my aunt's face jumped before me all the time. Wherever 1 turned I saw her and could not get away. I couldn't stand it.
 With this explanation of why he re- turned to the scene of his crime Au- gust Eberhard between puffs on big black cigar brought to an end con- fession in which he told of murdering and robbing his aunt, Mrs. Ottillie Eberhard, and of his attempt to kill her daughter, Ottillie, at Coalburg, N. J..
 Eberhard was captured near Pater- son, N. J.. with bullet wound in his leg, inflicted by himself to deceive the police. He said at first that he had been shot by Italians.
 What interested the authorities most Sv tho ooofaociao Eharbord r,,,5o to them was the reason he gave for con- hitting the crime. Eberhard said that he was in love with a New York girl and that he needed money to marry her, so, knowing that his aunt had $2,500, he plotted to kill her and steal the money. Eberhard says he also in- tended to kill his pretty cousin, Ottil- lie Eberhard, to whom he was engaged, so that nothing would stand in the way of his marriage to the New York girl
 Hollow eyed. cheeks drawn and with the look of hunted animal on his face, Eberhard was found lying on the lawn of residence just outside of Paterson. There was an ugly looking wound in his right leg, which the mur- derer first clid had been inflicted by Italians who attacked him, but which he afrerward confessed was inflicted by himself so as. to make the police believe he had been wounded on the night his aunt was killed.
 May Be Deransed.
 Morbid breeding over his crime has apparently unbalanced the mind of Eberhard, but he showed some of the cunning that he displayed in the mur- der plot when the police questioned him about the murder. Eberhard 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 a most ingenious story to account for his disappearance after the shooting of his aunt.
 Eberhard said that on the night of the murder he had tried to defend his aunt from the attack of q party of Italians who fired upon them from ambush while they were walking along the tracks of the Susquehanna railroad near Coalburg. Y. J. He said he made his Cousin Ottillie run on ahead and then returned to help his aunt. but the murdererS overpoweTed him after shooting him in the leg Then he said he lost consciousness and remembered nothing until he came to his senses in the Preakness noun tains. far from any habitation. He gave a graphic description of his. al legged wanderings through the noun tains.
 The inquisItors did not believe thi: story. and they kept Eberhard on tht confession. The murderer seemed tC feel greatly relieved when he had fin ished his remarkable narrative of thu murder. He asked the prosecutor. tt whom he had confessed. for a cigar and when t was given to him h. , smoked it as though he had no othel care in the world.
 When Eberhard was searched not penny was found in his pockets. Eber hard said he had buried the money h. stole from his aunt. He led detective to a tree near Little Falls and ther dug up a bundle of bills. There wa ! $2,400 fin the bundle. which is thI amount that was stolen. as the mur derer left a small amount of none! in the bosom of his aunt's waist so a to give the impression that she hat not been robbed. Eberhard had als, buried his own pocketbook. containin; $26. so as to bear out his story tha he had been attacked by Italians ana robbed.
 Eberhard says that be ana his ac complice escaped from the scene O the crime on a westbound train. H. declares that he passed through Al baRy. Troy and Buffalo into Canad: and on to Detroit and Chicago with out being recognized by the police When he reached Chicago he says tha an irresistible power compelled him tC return to the scene of the crime. ana then he planned 10 wound himself ana surrender to the police in the belie that he could convince them he has not murdered his aunt