Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-09-05

was found to contain large amount of fui,
and there were evidences of acute peritoniti
The examination of the womb showed mari
OF laceratlon. and there were found evidepef
OF intense Inflammation also of the placenta
small portion Of the placenta still adhered
the posterlor surface All the other organs
! the liver, kidney. heart, stomach &C., were i
perfectly healthy condition. Dr. Cushma
thinks that death was caused by metro-p per
tonitis-the result of malpractice or Grimm;
violation OF natures laws in the delivery of tn
unfortunate girl in childbirth. Who is respon
WHAT HIDEOUS MYSTERY
there is that should require such desperat
means as were here employed to conceal, cal
De solved only by those whose duty it is to sif
1t to the bottom. Who the poor creature is nj
one knows. The police are indefatigable il
their efforts to fathom the mystery. The bo,
said that he did not notice the number of tbs
truck, but was positive that the name of Tripr
was painted on it. An old German carmar
who gave his name as Meuert Trapp was ar
rested and marched in triumph to the centra
office. and confronted with Inspector Walling
He admitted that he had been applied to by 3
stranger to take trunk for him from a house
10 Bond street, to the depot, but said that he
did not take the job.
Young Potts, without hesitation, declared
that Trapp was not the man. Trapp was there
upon allowed to depart. Detectives McCon-
nell and Brlce learned that Mr.. Lee Brady.
OF Third avenue, owned a truck which cores
ponded with the description of that which car
ried the trunk to the depot, and that he had
taken some baggage in it to the depot. but the
boy failed to identify either Brady or his truck,
and so the mystery remained unsoved.
Ihe body was kept in the morgue until to-
day, and then, if still unidentified, it is to be
photographed and Inferred Warden Bren-
nan will keep the trunk and clothing, in the
hope that some one may appear who will re-
cognize them.
THE MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
A press telegram from New York last night
says: The mystery of the corpse found in
trunk at the Hudson river depot is clearing up.
The truckman who brought it surrendered him
self, and the police, acting ON information
given by him, have arrested an alleged noto-
rIous abortionst, DR.. Jos. Rosenswig, alias
Asher, from whose house, it is stated, the
trunk was taken. The people attempted to
lynch the Doctor as he was being conveyed to
the tombs, and he was saved with difficulty by
the police. He denies all knowledge of the
affair."
LATER.
A search of two houses of Rosenzweig failed
to had the woman who sent away the trunk
The house is still under police surveillance -
KosenzWelg has diploma from the so-called
Medical College of Philadelphia. The priso-
ner is very retlcent, and denies all knowledge
OF the affair, though the police possess posi-
tive evidence of his completely. Inspectors
Jameson and Waling believe they have cer-
tain clue to the woman who accompanied the
trunk to the depot.
A notice came to Inspector Waling to-day
that an undertaken had called at the station
house and testified that man called on him a
few days ago and wished him to bury body,
which, he stated, was that of his servant also
that he did not care how it was buried but
wished it done quiet, and that he only wanted
the hearse
The undertaken, who gives his name as Jas.
+. Boyle, and place of business 65S Second
avenue, was then shown the Doctor, and iden-
titled him as the man who called on him and
wished to have the body Of his servant buried.
Boyle says he asked the Doctor for a certif-
cate, and the Doctor wanted to know if she
could not be buried without certificate. Bo-
gle also says the Doctors manner was calcu-
lated to excite suspicion, as be seemed fearful
OF every sound Boyle signed the above state
ment, and declared he was willing to testify in
court at any tlme
1t is said the girl whose remains were found
in trunk at the Hudson River depot came
from Boston, and gave the name of Ruth Bill
lings
The New York Journal of Commerce of yes
terday gives the following account of the pro-
ceedings in the above case on Monday. It
says:
Yesterday afternoon William Pickett, the
owner and driver of the truck which on Satur-
day conveyed to the Hudson River depot a
trunk which was afterwards found to contain a
corpse came to the Eighteenth Precinct Sta
tiOn House, and told his story He denied
knowing anything of the contents of the trunk,
which he said he was engaged to take from No.
6S7 Second avenue, occupied by Jacob Ro-
seLzweig, physician" He was paid before
starting with the trunk. Rosenzweig, alias
Asher, was arrested yesterday afternoon in a
liquor shop near his house. He made an inef-
fectual attempt to escape, and the commotion
caused by this attracted crowd who endeav-
ored to lynch him, but were beaten off by the
police. The house was thoroughly searched,
but the woman who engaged the truckman and
procured the check could not be found 1t
was learned that Rosenzweig occupies, under
the name of Ascher, another house at II
South Fifth avenue; all the inmates in it were
arrested. He has been in the habit of pub
fishing advertisements of the character which
is usually understood to promise the procure
ment of abortions
Railroad Disasters.
One of the most terrible railroad accidents
on record occurred at Revere, few miles from
Boston, on Saturday night August 26. The
Bangor express train ran into the rear end of
another passenger train while running at high
speed, aud fearful scene of death ensued.-
The rear Car OF the forward train was crowded
with passengers, very few Of whom escaped
death or injury, those who were unhsrmed by
the collision suffering from the escaping steam
from the engine of the express train. Twenty
four persons were killed and thirty or forty
wounded, some of whom will die. The de-
tails, as reported by telegraph, make the disas
ter no less horrible than the New Hamburg
slaughter On the Hudson River Railroad The
responsibility Of the affair is thrown upon the
conductor and engineer of the express train.
Some OF the passengers In the rear portion
of the accommodation train heard the omlnous
whistle, but too late to escape. Ga came the
express train at great velocity, and then the
engine struck the rearmost Car full In the CEN
tire and forced its way, in telescope manner
two-thirds of the length of the car. The
smoke-stack was instantly knocked off, and the
boiler penetrated all of the distance named in
to the rear car the rear part of the latter being
smashed into thousand splinters, throwing
the debris out on either side of the engine
tender. of the rear half of the car not frag