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Show MYSTERY IN MURDER Of FRAU MOLITER; COILS TIGHIENIp ABOUT HAU BADEN BADEN, Germany. Nov. 9. Karl Han, alias Stau, the lawyer of Washington, D. C., who was arrested in London yesterday and held for examination, ex-amination, is wanted by the local police po-lice on the charge of, murdering his wife's mother, Fran Molitor. Tbe motive of the alleged crime ap-1 ap-1 pears to have been insane greed of money. Frau Molitor, who was very wealthy, refused mauv time to comply with Hau's requests for money, having given her daughter a considerable dowry and arranged that she should inherit in-herit part of her lortune. When Han married Lena Molitor six years ago she was 25 vears old, and Han. a student, was IP. Tbeir engagement, engage-ment, seemingly, was against Frau Molitor 's wishes. Immediately after their marriage the couple went, to America and Han attained at-tained a good position in Washington as a lawyer. Hau. his wife, and their daughter. 3 years old. came to Germany last summer to visit Frau Molitor. Mrs. Hau and the child staved several months at the villa Molitor. Hau arrived ar-rived there later via Constantinople. Visitors to the villa observed that the best relationship existed between the husband and Frau Molitor. A fort night ago Hau left Baden-Baden to return re-turn to America, and his relatives thought he was either on board ship or had already arrived in the I'nited States. Hau, it is now claimed, immediately imme-diately he left Baden Baden, sent his mother-in-law a false telegram, dated Paris, asking her to go and see her married daughter there. The falsifi cation was discovered, and the inquiries of the postal authorities with the view of discovering the identity of the sender were still going ou when the murder was committed. During the evening of November .1 Frau Molitor received a telephone message at her home in Baden-Baden asking her to go to the postoffice and get a parcel which had reached there for her. Frau Molitor, accompanied by her young daughter, started at once for the postoffice, and while passing through a quiet street, she was shot from behind and fell dead with a bullet bul-let through her heart. The telephone message which induced in-duced Frau Molitor to go to her death was received by a servant of the household, who says she thought she recognized Han's voice, and so informed in-formed her mistress, but the latter insisted in-sisted on going to the postoffice. The day of the murder Hau left Frankfort at II o'clock in the morning on the Baden-Baden train. and returned re-turned to Frankfort at 10 o'clock the same evening. After his arrival there he sent the following telegram to his wife at the hotel: "Arrive tomorrow night. Don't be-trar be-trar address. This telegram gave the police a clue to the identity of the murderer, and they promptly notified the London police. po-lice. Hau s arrest followed. |