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en- law are said to have been remark
able, and IT was believed a career of
distinction lay before him. And, di-
rectly to the point he was now him
self a professor and thus of suitable
rank to be the husband of a medi-
zinalrat's daughter.
AS SO often in this ungrateful
world. the dark forebodings of Frau
Molitor, and her friends appeared to
have been absurdly confuted. The
despised son-in-law was on the road
to success and station.
RESIGNED POSITION, AT G. w. U.
Then Prof. Karl Hau suddenly re-
signed his place at George Washing
ton University, bundled up his wife
Of the sublime porte and oil concession
Europe. His wife was sent to the
maternal home in Baden-Baden. The
professor proceeded to Constanti-
nople, where he intended to bespeak
bukli, and DR.. Hau, out of pocket and
OF Tshibukli. He spent some time in
the Ottoman lands, and later devel-
opments proved that time was not
his sole spending. But, in the end,
the Turks decided not to turn over
the prospective oil claim at Tshi-
bukli. and DR.. Hau. out of picket and
discounted, had to make his way back
to Germany. b..
The Haus visited for some time
with the Molitors in Baden Baden
before they set out again, ostensibly
at least. for America. 1t developed
later that Hau had on this visit
vainly beDught his r-in-law
for more money. 1t seems this ex-
cellent and forehanded lady not only
refused more cash but demanded in
formation as to her daughters
dowry. The professor said 1t was
intact with a Washington trust COM
pany. The mother-i law appears TO
have doubted. She sent a cabled in
quiry to Washington and was in
formed that DR.. Hau had withdrawn
all of the money. Apparently \
family schism resulted.
RETURNED TO BAD FOOTING.
Thus. late in 1906, the relations
between DR.. Hau and his wife's fam
lily had returned to as bad a foot
ing as, that whereon they stood in
1900, at the time of the elopement.
The professor and his wife left the
maternal roof, and the wife pro-
ceeded to London, where she put up
at the Cecil and awaited her hus-
hand. Some days afterward, about
November g. 1906, the doctor ar
rived, not many hours ahead of the
news that Frau Molitor had been
shot through the heart in Baden
Baden. She had been summoned to
the local postofhce by telephone to
receive in person an important
package. Walking along resi-
Dental street in the dusk with an
unmarried daughter. Olga Molitor.
she had been shot from behind by 4
bearded man. who disappeared in
the shadows and escaped.
ARRESTED IN LONDON.
The next day Dr. Karl Hau was ar
rested on information from Germany
and held in London to await extradi-
ton. After .some delays he was re-
turned to Baden, incarcerated in the
jail at Karlsruhe, the capital of the
duchy, and prepared for, trial
Some months later the trial of DR..
Hau developed into one OF the most.
remarkable homicide actions in dec
AIDES. The progress Of the case was
watched from America, from England,
from France and Turkey, since each
of these countries had a connection
with the mans history. Has had, in
fact, become an American citizen, a
fact of whose protective benefits he
declined to avail himself. In Ger
many the trial was a sensation of
genuine magnitude, leading to sharp
local division OF sentiment and even
to riots. ...r..' ..r ..r
CIRCUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
The case Of the prosecution was a
clear-cut structure of circumstances.
The motive was established through
Frau Molitor's wealth, her penurious'
treatment OF the son-in-law, his
waste OF his wife's dover, his ex-
travagant tastes and his loose hand
ling OF money. 1t was shown that
the death of the WIDOW wssNcalculated
to cause a division OF the estate
among half a dozen children, thus
bringing about S10O,o00 TO Mrs. Lena
Hau. Hsu's appeals to the widow for
funds in the course of his recent visit
to Baden-Baden were proved.
IL was shown that the large watch