The New York herald., 1875-12-16
THE CORN FIELD MURDER.
} A Mystery Rapidly Dispelled by
the Brooklyn Police.
A USIN ESTED.

East New ork eliminated yesterday in the idcntea-
ton OF the body OF the murdered and the prob
able arrest Of the murderer Early yesterday evening
Detectives Butts and Corwn Captain Crafts asccr.
tanned that the had been by four passcn-
gers and the driver OF Broadway and East New York
car on Sunday evening last These parties were
taken into custody by the police without unncc-
essary delay and held as witnesses. Their
names are William Asher. Edward Buckholtz. August
Goodman, Henry Wslfort, Adolph Hcndrich, Peter
Lang tthc drivcrl and young namcd Augustus
Taylor This latter Is the principal witness He states
that the car left the South Seventh ferry Brook
lyn, f. d., about five o'clock; lie, In company with
= companion, rode on the platform, and
looking in he noticed that there was voung
woman seated in The barchcadcd This hc rc-
garded as strange circumstance, and he remarked
10 his companion who also commented upon the nov
city OF tho abscncc OF tounci. lie says he took
good look at her She quiet and spoke 10 no one
during the trip. He is positive that the body OF tho
murdered woman is the person he last Sunday
evening. When the 10 Hoagland's corner
East New York, this woman got or and a man who had
been seated opposite her aIghted from the car
at the same moment. The couple moved Off together.
and that was the last he Of them That was six
O'Clock, when il was already dark. The man he dc
scrbcd as being OF Jewish cast of countenance with
dark musiachc and chm whskcr He was positive of
his ability to identify him IL confronted with HIM.
From the point where they alighcd TO The field
and shock OF stalks where the bloody deed was
committed the distance is about half a mile That was
the first clew placed in the hands OF the police.
RELATIVES OF THE
About ten O'Clock yesterday morning a party OF
Russian Poles called at the Office of Coroner Simms and
said that they search of Sarah Alexander who
had been missing from her home No 80 Essex street,
NA~t. -t,.a
OF the woman found murdered the fields correspondcd
with their knowledge of the person for whom they had
been searching ever since last Monday morning They
stated that they had notified the police OF the
fact of her disappearance Monday, and had made
every effort in their power TO ferret out the Of her
continued absence. The parties who called Pcslsh
Alexander and Zctta Alexander tho brother and sister
OF sara, Israel Rubcnscin her cousin Meyer Knoeker
and several other male and female friends The sub,
stance of the story told in broken English by the elder
Rubcnstcn, was that the girl, when she fist came
New York from the old country, took up her abode
with his family at No S3 Bayard street, whore
she lived for long time, and where he keeps dry
goods store. She finally made up her mind earn her
livelihood, and went to work taoress for the
house OF fFrankensten 4 Co., No 1913 Division street
She was very quiet IN her dcmeanor and Of retiring
disposition Rubcnstcin has three sons all of whom
are married and live with him. 7. Nathan Rubenstcin
the eldest son,
THOUGHT A GREAT DEAL or SARA
as she had been very kind to him, rising him when
sick cw months ago. He had dream about her on
MONDAY which he told his iaiher and they had all been
working 10 ma her since then. About hall. past
O'Clock Sunday afternoon she left the house of her
brother No 80 Essex street. for the avowcd purpose
calling on former boss tailor, to get sewing 10
do, us she had been unemployed for couple weeks
previous On her way to the alor' in Mott street. shc
called in to the Rubcnstcns and rassed the
time pleasantly until four O'Clock There was
young girl there who was telling her about IA wedding
that To take place in few days and deceased said
she would like TO see an American wedding ceremony.
She was in good spirits and left there iour O'Clock
There nobody with her when she took her de-
parturo but Mrs Rubcnstcin saw her to the door A
girl subsequently, according to their stores which are
as will be observed, not entirely corroboravc her
on the Bowery.
The reporter subsequently met the entire party Of
Poles at the city Morgue, where they had gone
the arrival of tho body, which was way from
East New York He entered into a conversation with
Dir. Rubcnstcin, which was, in substance foows:-
ISRAEL RUBESsrEISs STORY.
'llow old is your son; the one who was sick9''
''Oh, the boy is twenty eight years old"
'What did you say was his lameY'
'His name IS r. Nathan Rubensten."
when was he sick and received such kind nursing at
the hands OF Sara Alexander"
THAT was IN April last, SIR
''We is Nathan married man 90
YES he has wife and one child.n
How 1t that Sara nursed HIM, then when he
had his own wife 10 attend TO him?n
''She assisted Mrs. Rubenstein in minding him.
"What business is Nathan in ~
''He is maker of gilt jcwclry; he makes chains
earrings and such things, and sells them peders"
'Now about that dream OF Nathan, please tell mo
OF itS"
'My son got up OF his bed on last Monday night
and came to me and said Oh iathcr,
HAVE SEEN SARA.
She came to me and said Paca Pacal Sec me sec
me- have been killed. Ihave been taken ten miles
away from New York and killed Come to me come
TO met That was all he SAID OF his drcam.n
"Did you pot think that that was very strange
dream ~
ooh, yes we did"
"Did II ever occur to you that your loved Sara ?n
NO, no, said hr. Rubenscin. flushing TO the roots
OF his hair ie did not love her. That could not be-
He is too good man. He Us very religious man and
has a VIII, and one child lie could never do that y
THE ABSENT
II transpired on subsequent inquiry that T. Nathan
Rubenstein TO this country about five wears avo
leaving his wife and child III Fatherand These latter
have taken passage for America and Will arrive in New
York TO join the husband and father, who is now IN
THE BROTHER OF THE GIRL
said that he was a pcdcr, and that his sister was a
good and proper woman IN every sense She was only
nineteen years OF age, and he dld know that she
ever kept company With any man lie heard her
complain, however, that she had been repeatedly in
suited and annoyed while on her way home IRON her
work in the evening aud about weeks ago the man
who had been prosecuting her by his solicitations
assaulted her that she had to seek refuge he house
or lady IN Division street She did not know the man
nor did she describe him. lie said ''My sister lived
with my cousins, the Rubenstcus for ten months after
she landed here, She had been IN the country one
year and half When she lett them she lived ~ my
house. She was very religious ami regular attendant
NJ the synagogue in Ludlow street When she did not
return on sunday night went round to ubenscin's
aud found ont that they had no: seen her suce tho
afternoon OF sunday She not the habit Of
stopping out late At night She didn't speak much
English" His belief was that shc had been carried
shc WAS found, and that she Ind been the victim Of an
outrage. lie satisfied that she had never been in
Brooklyn and that she did not know any one in that
city. As TO her having no bonnet her Journey To
Brooklyn he said that TO bc accounted ior readily
ns she
TOO rooR TO BUY BONNET.
Shortly after O'Clock the ambulance arrived with
the body from East New York. was taken in charge
by The Keeper OF the Morguc, Patrick McGuirc The 1
body was brought in shell collin into the Morguc and
the relatives and friends admitted view IT, A
cry ut horror aud grcl arose from the
brother and sister o: the OF the butchcry when
they bchcld ihc gaping wounds. The others changed
color aud turned away
THE POLICE on THE SCENE,
Al this juncture Inspector Waddy and Detectives
frost, Corwn, Zund Williams and other officers ar.
rived at inc Morguc and kept close watch on tho I
Polish party. The Inspector had secured a description
OF The son OF Israel Eubcnstcn who had had The r..
dream, and, armed with that document ho
was enabled to verify It's correctness by question
Ing the old gentleman. Satisfying himself I
that point hc sent Detectives Corwiu and Zundt 4
to No. So Bayard street to arrest T. Nathan Ruben \
stem, the dreamer the suspected criminal
IN the tragedy on entering the dry sools storo they
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