The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-01
A MONSTERS DOOM.
SEQUEL TO THE TRUNK HORROR.
Rosenzwcig Found Guilty and Sem
fenced to Seven Years lmprisonment-
Closing Scenes of the Trial.

Bowlsby, in the celebrated trunk mystery,
was concluded Saturday, by the conviction
and sentence OF Rosenz weig to seven years at
hard labor in the penitentiary. Towards the
close of this case the defence attempted to
prove that the body found in the trunk was
not that Of Alice Bowlsby, that the handker.
chief found in Rosenzweigs house was not
hers, and that the woman did not die from
malpractice. A certain Mrs. DR.. Bowlsby,'
of Brooklyn, no relation to the Patterson
Bowlsby family, attempted to show that the
handkerchief found in Rosenzweigs house be-
longed to her daughter, A. N. Bowsby, who
dropped it there, but the girl herself did not
put In an appearance. Rosenzweig then
came upon tue stand, and swore most vigo.
rously in his own behalf. He said that he did
not know Alice Bnwlsby, and had never seen
that trunk in his ouse, aud had never per-
| formed any operation there. On his cross-eX-
animation he denied that he had admitted
performing abortons. This closed the case
Tor the prisoner.
ADDRESS FOR THE DEFENCE.
Mr.. Howe, for the defence, called the atten-
tlon OF the court 10 the point that no proof was
given of any woman with child.
The recorder thought that 1t was aoundantly,
| proved by DR.. Cushman and the otner medical
witnesses that the abortion had been Commit
| ted.
MIR. Howe. Then your Honor holds that the
f9tus was child
Recorder Yes, an unborn child.
Mr.. Howe. Then call on the district attor-
ney to prove at this stage that Alice A. Bowls
by We. alive in this city on the 23d of August.
| Recorder That is the great question tor the
| Jury to pass upoE.
MIR. Howe. Inow ask that your Honor direct
an acquittal, on the ground that they have not
proved that the operation was unnecessary Tor
preserving the life OF the woman.
Recorder. That is affirmative proof, to be
shown by you, if the jury are satisfied the ope-
ration was performed by your client.
Mr.. Howe then proceeded with his address,
contendlng that the identification of the body
| by the vaccine mark, the scar and filed tooth
! was insufficient. The handkerchief was shown
| to belong to another Miss Bowlsby; the
pads were found, with bloody garments, ac-
kuowledged to belong to Mrs. Rosenzwelg.
How, then, was Rosenzweig implicated? By
never saw Rosenzweig before. had no reason
for taking particular notice of him, and only
identified him ITO the best of his belief" On
the other hand were the Samusls brothers and
others, who swear to the prisoner having been
attending to case Of cholera at the very time
Pickett says the prisoner placed the trunk on
| his car. 1t might have been that the corpse
ling Counsel concluded by calling on the
jury to give the prisoner his right, the benefit
| of the doubt which exists.
TIE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
delivered the reply for the prosecution. The
audience were deeply moved by the touching
picture he drew of the miserable condition of
| the seduced girl. Driven to desperation, she
| sees the advertisement that Dr.. Ascher does
business Of this description in Amity Place.
She finds the man who, for gold, takes the
lives OF unborn babes, and sometimes OF their
mothers; the blood vessels are torn and LAGER.
ated, aud she leaves the place corpse,
doubled I'D, naked, In q trunk, and her
wretched sedLcer, without waiting for accusa-
| ton, puts pistol to his head and takes that
awful leap in the dark which lands him in
eternity.
| THREE DEATHS LAID TO RosENzwEIG.
At this point Judge Garvn turned aroHnd,
and with flashing eyes and upraised arm, and
q voice that struck terror into the covering
prisoner, continued: And there, gentlemen.
| siLs the man for judgment before you twelve
men, who is the author of these three deaths
the mother, the child, the seducer-and all
| the punishment this monster can get when
you find him guilty Is seven years IN States
prison. Would that the legislators who make
| these laws could sit at this trial and see tears
that we have seen here; and then we would
ask them If statutes of this description are not
to be reformed so that 1t would be held to be
murder, not manslaughter, to perpetrate Of
| fences or this description"
The address closed at halfpast l o'clock,
| and recess was taken for fifteen minutes.
THE RECORDERS CHARGE.
Recorder Hackett reclted the statute under
which the prisoner was indicted, and directed
tile Jury that to Justify conviction the evidence
| should establish, free from reasonable doubt,
that on or about the 23d August, In the City,
| County and State of New York, the prisoner
used some instrument, or other means, on the
person of Alice Augusta Bowlsby, being a
woman with child, with felonious intent to
produce miscarriage; that Is, that 1t was not
necessary TO preseve her life, and that 1t
directly caused her death. The recorder then
remarked that it was singular how DR.. Bowls.
by's daughter should have one handkerchief
Only marked, and that though living In this
city, she was not produced to Identity that
handkerchief, and prove how it was marked.
He also directed the jury to take into account
how the breastpads, so clearly identified as
made and worn by the deceased, were found
In the cellar OF the prisoners house.
DAMAGING QUESTIONS.
His Honor then directed the jury to ask
themselves why was not the prisoners daugh-
ter Rosy produced, to give him the benefit of
any explanations. Why did the prisoner not
speak to the carman. but, without word, left
the trunk on the car, which, however, the
prisoner denies Why was the body doubled
up, when, as we know, life could scarcely
have departed, and the stiffness OF death had
not set in {? Who was 1t that packed her up,
naked and seemingly with no more considera-
ton than would have been given to dog? If
crime had not been committed, why was the
trunk checked for Chicago, and why did Meta.
who hired the car, mysterously disappear
His honor cautioned the jury against being
swayed by sympathy for the mother and sister
OF the deceased, and concluded as
one, as far as this community is con-
cerned, but with that you have nothing
to do. The crime OF which he is accused has
been practced from the formation of the
world, and will continue to be practiced as
long as human nature remains as 1t Is. 1t can
only be restrained by potent legislative penal
ties and the Vindication of The law. The poor
girls story is shortly told. Trusting, betrayed,
she and her seducer sleep the sleep that knows
no waking. Your duty Is 10 calmly weigh the
testimony. and render verdict according to
your oaths." The jury then retired.
THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE.
After an hour and O half the jury returned
into the court, which was at this time crowded
to excess.
Clerk. How say you, gentlemen, is Jacob
Rosenzweig guilty or not guilty OF man.
slaughter in the second degree?
Amidst breathess silence the foreman
answered. sIWp find him ruiltC