Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-12-20
LIGHT AT LAST.
The BOwlsby Mystery Solved The Mys.
teriouS Young Woman ut the Hudson
River Railroad Depot.


The Bowlsby Mystery Solved The Mys-
terious Young Woman ut the Hudson
River Railroad Depot. z 49,
The Horld has this story:
The sad fate of Miss Alice Augusta
Bowlsby, of Patterson N j., will hardly
be forgotten for years to come. 1t will
be remembered that on Saturday. Aug
ust Goth, an illiterate Irish carman nam
ed Pickett was asked by woman to
take trunk from house to the Hud-
son River railroad depot for her. She
told the carman her name was Julia
Snyder. and that he should go to the
house, 6S7 Second avenue, and ring the
basement bell, get the trunk and take it
to the depot. where she would meet him.
The man did. He went there, and from
man whom he subsequently identified as
Jacob Rosenzweig, alias Ascher, received
common, small sized trunk This he
took to the railway depot, met the wo
man there; she seemed afraid of the
trunk breaking. had strap put on it,
bought ticket for Chicago, and left -
The carman did the same The Trunk
was placed on the baggage platform of
the depot, where, from repulsive odor
exuding from it, it attracted the atten.
ton of the railroad officials, and was
burst open. In it was found the body of
Miss Bowlsby, nude and dead, crushed
in space so small that the accomplish
ment Of the fiendish act would seem an
impossibility, were it not for the fact of
its having been done.
WHO WAS THE WOMAN?
When the police searched Rosenzweig's
house on Wednesday, the 3Olh of Aug
ust, they found quantity of letters,
prescriptions and other documents
! Among then was the draft of an aflida-
Wit to be made by Rosenzweis, to the
effect that one James Miller, suffering
from lung disease, by his advice had left
the city for the South to recruit his
health On the back of this, in a scrawl
ing, feeble hand, was written:
"Agnetta Dumoyn
East Henrietta Monroe county
State of New York
this is my birth place where was born
where once I was happy and free, but
now | am doomed to roam in sorrow and
Anger
The writer of this, Agnetta Dumoyn,
is the woman, or rather the girl, who
had the trunk containing Miss Bowlsby's
body brought to the Hudson River depot
by the carman Pickett.
Agnetta Dumoyn is nearly 20 years
of age. but looks younger.
She is an orphan, both her parents,
farming people, being dead. In the
country her LIE was a quiet one and her
reputation that of good girl. But, like
Alice Bowlsby, she fell, and her seducer
sent her to this city, where she went, as
as did Alice Bowlsby for the same pur
pose, to Jacob Rosenzweig. lie was
then living at los First avenue. The
operation he there reformed on her was
successful, and she did not die from its
effects. Thus began her acquaintance
with Rosenweig, which continued up to
his arrest.
ALICE BowLsBY's DEATH.
At 11:l5 o'clock on Wednesday, the
23d of August, Alice A. Bowlsby walk
ed into 3, Amity place, where. under the
name of Ascher, Rosenzweig advertised
his terrible calling. There she barganed
with him for her death, and paid him so
with the promise of S25 additional for
numbering her. Rosenzweig brought her
up town with him, and they entering the
house, were seen by the girl Jane john
son. She died on Friday night. The
girl Agnetta Dumoyn slept in Rosenz-
weig's house that night.
SHE SUGGESTS THE TRUNK
The next morning Rosenzweig went
out early, and calling on an undertaken,
named Boyle, asked if he could not bury
the body of his servant girl, who was
poor, in the cheapest cemetery, without
burial permit. Boyle said he could
not. Rosenzweig came home and told
Meta Dumoyn his situation. She said
in a moment, Have you an old trunk in
the place Rosenzweig replied, "Yes,
but what of that? She said, "Why
can't you put it into it and send it
away p 1t was done. But who should
carry it to the railroad ? Rosenzweig dare
not. She offered to do it for SlOO. She
got the money.
Jane johnson, the servant girl. was
sent out to walk with the children, and
told che could stay out until evening
The carman Pickett came, the trunk was
taken away, and all thought they were
secure. SO mnch SO that when Meta
Dumoyn left the depot she returned to
Rosenzweig's house, supped with him
and his wife, and slept there that night.
The next day the newspapers blared the
dreadful discovery abroad, and with the
early morning she fed from justice.
WHERE CAN SHE BE!