The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-04
THE TRUNK TRAGEDY.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE VICTIM-4
TERRIBLE SEQUEL.

TERRIBLE SEQUEL.
Father, Mother and Child Dead-Rosen-
zweig's Servants Partial Confession
Miss Bowlsby's Seducer's suicide-Dis-
coveries In the Murderer's Den.
The following particulars of the identifca-
tlou of the body OF Miss Alice Bowlsby: of Pat
terson New Jersey, as the corpse in the trunk,
and the suicide of her seducer, are from the
New York papers:
THE STORY OF THE IDENTIFICATION
of the murdered girl is q singular one. and
eXemp6es the very small chances OF the dis
covery of q great crime. Among the many
who visited the Morgue to see tue body, vas
Dr. Theodore G. Kinne, of Paterson, New Jer-
sey. The doctor looked at the body, and turn
ing to Warden Brennan, who accompanied him
| to the Morgue, s9d ~ am sure know whose
body that IS. 1t Is the body of Alice Bowsby,
| girl have known. and who resides In Pat
erson." He recognized 1t from vaccination
| scar on the left arm below the elbow, u most
| unusual circumstance, and which scar he
knew was on Miss Bowlsbys arm in precisely
the same place as it appeared on the body IN
| the Morgue.
On Wednesday evening DR.. Joseph NJ. Par.
ker, dentist, OF Paterson, with DR.. Kinne
and Captain Cameron, proceeded to the
| Morgue. The body of the girl had been boxed
| up in the rude coffin for shipment TO Potter's
Field, where 1t would have been inferred In q
separate pauper's grave. Warden Brennan
took the body out OF the coffin and invited
DR.. Parker to examine it. DR.. Parker no
sooner looked Into the mouth and examined
the teeth than he exclaimed, my God, this Is
Alice !" When he grew sufficiently calm TO
explain, he said that from his own work as
dentist ne could swear it was her body. He
said it was he who extracted the molar teeth
that were gone, and directed the attention OF
Warden Brennan to scar on the right jaw,
caused by an liberated tooth, and also to the
filing of Two upper teeth In the lett Jaw. This
filing, which the doctor took out, he stated he
had put in, and could swear to.
ANOTHER LINK IN THE CHAIN.
Inspector walling at once became convinc.
ed that the Identification was real one.
These facts are known in regard to Alice
Bowlsby: That she was the daughter OF re-
spectacle persons residing at No. AZ Water
street, Paterson, New Jersey; that she had
been on visit to an aunt In Newark, and left
her aunts residence a week ago Wednesday
morning, taking the quarter-past o'clock
train, and stating that she was going home;
and last, that she never went home, but that
coming to New York City all truce Of her was
lost, until on Saturday her bLdy was found In
the fatal trunk. Drs. Parker and Kinne were
questioned as to the dress usually worn by
Miss Bowlsby, and among other articles they
described blue silk scarf, which she frequent
ly wore. The inspector, calling to his assist.
ance Captain Cameron and Sergeant Randall,
commenced third and thorough search Of
every hole and corner In the place, and at
length found In stove blue silk scarf. which
Drs. Parker and Kinne identified to the best of
their belief as the one worn by Miss Bowlsby.
Then they came to the rear basement and In
the tub at which the servant girl Jane john
son was washing on Monday, was lot of wet
separately and examined 1t carefully. At last
he came to plain hemmed white lawn hand
kerchief; his keen eye noticed some indlstinct
marks in the right hand corner; he brought 1t
to the window, held 1t up and gave shout OF
eXultation, for there, plain and tangible,
though slightly blurred, were the tell-tale let
ters, the convlctlng link In the chain of evil
BREAKING THE NEWS.
About A. NJ. Thursday the news of the
Identification of Miss Bowsby's remains was
broken TO her widowed mother at Paterson by
Drs. Parker and Kinne, who, on the evening
preceding, had identified the body at the
Morgue. The grief OF the mother and younger
sisters was too terrible for words to express.
Eight days previously Alice had left the home
OF her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Williams, In
Newark, to return TO her mothers house In
Paterson. She did not arrive home on the
day which letter written to her mother by
her had fixed, and inquiries were sent to New
ed that che had left Mrs. Wllllams's house,
where she had been staying about three weeks,
and ought to have arrived home the same day.
Then the search for the missing girl com.
menced. Her uncle, Mr.. Charles E. Sandford,
of Paterson; her cousins, Henry Sandford
and John Williams, of Newark, and DR..
Kinne, the family physician, gave nearly
race beT as % e
iting the Morgue, thought he secognized the
body of the then unknown murdered girl, and
it was subsequently Identified positively by
Drs. Parker and Kinne. Until Thursday morn
ing, however, neither Mr.. Sanford nor the
doctors had limited their suspicious regarding
the body at the Morgue to the bereaved moth
er. Mrs. Bowlsby, with her three daughters,
worked at dressmaking, Alice having been
employed recently in an establishment at No.
l63 Main street, over the Office OF Drs. Parker
and Kinne. Alice and her sisters were highly
esteemed. and not only Alice's mother, but all
her acqualntances, believed her to be strictly
vrtuous.
WHO WAS THE BETRAYER?
In answer to inquiries made Thursday morn
ing, the friends OF the family state that they
could not say who was the seducer of Alice;
they suspected young man whose name
would not be given until the Inquest should be
held. DR.. Parker was reluctant to give any
except that the murdered girl was
we'll known to him as pure, high-minded girl
whom he would never have suspected under
any circumstances. He thought he could iden-
tity the man who was responsible for her con-
dltlon when she went TO Dr. ROsenZweigs; but
he believed that she had gone there alone, and
that the man whom he suspected had nothing
to do with the murder The doctor exhibited
a photograph Of the deceased, q TALL well-form-
ed and intelligent looking blonde, with bright,
laughing eyes, full lips and smiling face. 1t
was learned by the statements of Mrs. Williams,
of Newark, that Walter F. Conklin had been
very much attached to the young woman, and
had visited her at Mrs. Williams's house In
Newark three days before Alice left for New
York. Mrs. Williams did not hesitate to say
that he was responsible for Alice's misfortune.
SUICIDE OF CoNKLIN.
at l o'clock an event occurred In which all
the city were convinced that Mrs. Wilams's
was correct. At that hour Conk-
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