The New York herald., 1872-10-28
A SENSUAL MONSTER.

A Startling Chapter of Crime-How .
German Girl Was Entrapped and
Ruined I'm Newark by . Married Man,
with HIS Wife's Connivancc.
The Newark Court OF Quarter Sessions was 0ccu-
pied during ak days OF the week Just closed in
trying man named Gustaye wasmuth for series
6f crimes, the en0rmity OF which, judged from .
moral point only, sink into the shade even
murder, the highest crime known TO law.
There had been found against him six
indictments-one for having brutally assaulted
and beaten with a club young man in his employ,
and Ave for forcibly running poor German girl
named Rosa Moosedorf and on all six he was finally
found guilty. The details Of the latter case, stripped
of the disgusting revelations made in Court are
follows:-Rosa. who is now about twenty one years
OF age, plain and fresh OF face and round and
plump Of form, came from Teutonia about year
ago. She has cousin in New York. policeman.
with whom she went to reside Immediately on her
arrival 1t seems this cousin wanted her to
marry brother policeman but this she
to seek home elsewhere To Brattleboro, VT,
she went, and took service with family there; but
the family breaking up she found her way back to
the metropolis and placed herself on the list OF
'.help'' in Bowery intelligence ONCE. From here
she was consigned to the care Of Wasmuth, who
Of saoSa as Bdss s srsss "
sore sore ' to the % good df moral mora Christians ',o Of
police have literally made "desccnts'' on II. but
somehow 1t was never broken up piano was
kept going every night, and few unfortunate
cyprians retained in their disgusting gewgaws to
entice Newark youths to destruction. Into this
den the unsuspecting Rosa-far and pure as the
Vermont hills, whence she had just come went
as general servant. This was early in Sep
tember. Five days and nights she remained there,
and what occurred resulted in the indictments Of
Wasmuth on nve charges, all connected with rape
The incidents Of these five nights form chapter
OF shame, 1nlamy and monstr0uS tniquity wnlcn, II
1t were possible, would
MAKE THE TYPES BLUSH
to print. The most appalling phase OF the unwrtt-
ten story may be imagined from the fact that the
monsters own wife, Mrs. Wasmutli, was an aid and
too, was indicted, and as soon as her infant babe 8
condition permits, will be tried Also 1t
CAME OUT IN EVIDENCE
that pending the trial Wasmuth had made the most
desperate efforts to get witnesses and the COM
plalnant beyond the reach OF the Court. Henry +.
Bowers swOre that Wasmuth offered him $500 II he
had improper relations with poor Rosa,
the OBJECT being to reduce the crime to
lower grade, punishable only 10y a fine OF $14.
Augustus Boyer was likewise offered handsome
$50 and herself West One Guire barber, who Is
a tenant or Wasmuth. revealed the fact that the
latter had offered him years rent free II he would
try and get the girl and the witnesses out o. the
way. On Friday the case was given to tho jury,
and after a brief deberatIon. they returned Il ver
dict on all the indictments found II the full PEN
fenced to sixty-dve years in the state Prison
and to pay fines amounting to $4,000 He
Is q man about thirty years OF age, OF most repu-
stve form and features, sensuaity and brutality
or The Court considered the statement of Rosa
the most straightforward and natural they had
ever heard. The attempt to blackcn her character
has won warm sympathy for her from all quar-