New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-02
A CHASTITY HORROR.
Ferrerting Out the Details of an Abortion
and Murder Case i'm New York.

A CHASTITY HORROR.
Ferrerting Out the Details of an abortion
and Murder Case in New York.
NEW YORK, August 29.-That the mys-
terry enveloping the case of the victim OF
abortion, whose remains were conveyed in
a trunk to the Hudson River depot on Satur-
day, is clearing up there is no reason to
doubt. The principal criminal is now IN
the hands of the police, and there is every
probability that every one concerned In
the crime will be under arrest before morn
ing. All day long boy who saw the truRk
brought to the city, aided by the best de-
tectives on the force, are securing the city.
At haif-past two o'clock detective tele-
graphed Inspector Walling: Il have the
trunk; come TO the eighteenth precinct
At three o'clock the eighteenth precinct
telegraphed, 1--WE have the truckman." 1t
appears that Just before three o'clock in the
afternoon the owner, who was also the
driver, went to Wander and Bremen,
at Bellevue Hospital, and told them he
had taken the trunk mentioned in
the papers as having been found with
dead body in it, and asked If the police
would lock him up if he delivered himself,
and on Wander's assurance that ne would
not. the truckman, who turns out 10 be Viii
liam Pickett, of Twenty-seventh street and
First avenue, instead of Trip, went with
Bremen to the eighteenth precinct station,
and told Captain Cameron that on Satur-
day, about two O'Clock in the afternoon, a
woman came up where his truck was stand
ing, on the corner of Third avenue and
Twenty-ninth street, and said she was going
to Chicago and wanted him TO take the
trunk for her from 628 Second avenue to
Hudson depot, west of Thirty-frst street: he
asked her if she was going to ride with him,
and she answered no, will get a carriage,
and get over there before you do. He drove
60 the house given above, which was Occu-
pied by Jacob Rosenzweig, a physician,
received the trunk and took it TO the
depot where he met the woman;. after
he got the trunk on the truck and be-
fore he started with it, the woman handed
him fve-dollar bill; he didn't have the
change and took it to liquor store, changed
il and gave her all but his fare that was
the reason why she did not pay him at the
depot; she asked to have rope put around
the trunk, and boy who stood there asked
the clerk twice for strap before the clerk
paid attention to him; the truekInan said
the boy carried the trunk from the truck to
the counter. So far, the statements of the
boy and the truckman agree together.
Cameron, with some detectives went to the
house indicated on Second avenue; they in
quired for DR.. Rosenzweig; he was. not in;
Captain Cameron posted his detectives I'M
der command of Sergeant Rooney, who
knew the doctor; Cameron took possession
Of the house. and searched it from the roof
TO the sub-cellar; in ii were RosenZweig's
wife, her child, four weeks old, a grown up
daughter, servant and Mrs. Pickett.
They were taken at once to the house,
but could not identify her at present as the
woman who accompanied the trunk to the
depot. Meantime RosenZweig entered. He
entered liquor store near his residence,
followed by Rooney. Rosenzweig. seeing
Rooney, endeavored to escape by side
door by the latter, who grappled him, and
struggle took place. The officers posted
in the neighborhood rushed into the store,
and RosenZweig was secured. The people
then made rush for the store, crowding
around the doorway, shouting, Hang him
70 a lamp-post." The policemen ran with
their prisoner into the avenue, and bearing
back the excited crowd, pat him into the
car and took him to the stationhouse Ro-
senzweig is a German Jew. stout, with
light, curly hair, square face and low fore
head, and has been carrying On the female
doctor business about six years. He de-
MES that the trunk was taken from his
house, or that he knows anything about it,
Later in the evening information was re-
ceived that Rosenweig has place of SINH
lar character at No. IL Fifth avenue and adj
yertises CDR Ascherald No 8. Amitv Place.
relieves ladies in trouble at once: no fees
until cured" Detectives immediately went
TO seize the house and arrest all in it. Last
year Rosenzweig kept the Thompson Six
years ago he kept over corner Houston and
Broadway; before that he sold lager in
Chatham street. Three different families
suspected his disappearance, and three diff
ferent women agree as to the published
description of the corpse and one photo
graph handed to the inspector last night,
but did not answer to identify the body,
Two more photographs will be presented
this morning to thgse who saw the body
before it was decomposed.
The body of the woman found in the Hud-
son River depot has been recognized as the
girl who boarded in house on the corner
of Wooster and Blocker streets. A little re-
search developed the fact that sister of
the deceased lived in Brooklyn and had
visited the dead girl. From the description
given by the carman it was established that
she was the woman vino hired the truck
and took the fatal trunk to the depot. The
officers Immediately telegraphed 10 Brook
iyn for the address of the woman in ques
ton, which was easily found, hut she had
left twenty-four hours previously. She was
well known where she lived, and a
thorough description of her was obtained,
which was Immediately telegraphed to Chi
cage, where she is supposed 10 have gone.
another dispatch, and an urgent one, was
sent from police headquarters to Chicago
this morning.
notice came TO Inspector Walling to-day.
from the eighteenth precinct that an under
taker had called at the stationhouse and
testified that a man had called on him few
days ago and wished him 10 bury body
which, he stated, was his servant also that
he did not care how it was buried. bnt
wished itdOne quick; he only wanted peace.
The undertaken gives the name as +. Doyle:
and place of business 62S Second avenue
was then shown the doctor, and identified
him as the man who had called on him and
wished to have the body of his servant
buried Doyle says he asked the doctor for
a certificate, and the doctor wanted to know
if she could not be buried without. Doyle