The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-08
REMORSE AND SUICIDE.

The Mysterious Murder at jefferson, Tex,
xplained-Attempted Self-Destruction of
the Alleged Murderer in Cincinnati.
A letter from Cincinnati says: tThe
attempted suicide of the young man
named Abe Rothschild, which occurred
in this city yesterday, has developed one
OF the most curious cases on record of
unexplained crime, and the effects of re-
morse and guilty conscience following
a man and driving him to self-destruc-
ton.
Rothschild, whose business is that Of
a Wholesale dealer in mems furnishing
goods, and who spends good part of his
time intraveling for the purpose of So
Letting orders, was found on the steps of
clubhouse adjoining the Enquirer
Office with a pistol ball in his head.
When the discharge of the frearm was
first heard some persons hurried to the
spot, but found no one except the
wounded man lying there, and the street
nearly deserted. At that hour, In the
morning, the street echoed no flying
footsteps of an assassin. More than this,
a revolver, with one empty chamber,
lying by his side, suggested the fact that
he had attempted to take his own life.
He was taken to the Burnett House, where
he boards when in the city, and after
ward to his fathers home on West Fifth
street, where he now remains III critical
condition, with a policeman watching him
to prevent his removal.
''Some time last summer Rothschild
came from New Orleans, bringing with
him a handsome, black-eyed young
woman, glittering with diamonds, whom
he called Narcisse Moore, and who, he
said, was his mistress. After remaining
several months they started back to the
South together, and nothing more was
thought OF heard Of her until his return
a few days since, when he said he had
left her at New Orleans. About the Goth
of January story was telegraphed from
Jefferson, Tex, giving an account of the
finding Of the body of young woman
near that town, who had been killed and
her body hidden away in brushwood.
Further particulars Of that story, copied
from a Texas paper, were published here
two or three days ago, coupled with a
hint that it was supposed she had at one
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Chief of Police in this city received from
Jefferson, Tex, a photograph of the de-
ceased woman, together with a printed
description Of her clothing and the ap-
pearance of the man who had come with
her, which corresponds closely with
Rothschild's. Besides this was letter
signed by j. NJ. Thomas, Chief of Police
of Jefferson, Tex, saying that the couple
had visited Marshall Tex, a few weeks
before, where he registered as A. Roths-
child and wife, Cincinnati, though his
signature on the hotel register at Jeffer-
son was A. Monroe and wife, st. Louis
A comparison Of the writing of the two
names, both being photographed, shows
them to be in the same hand. ROths-
child was known in Marshall, where he
had been frequently before, and the the
DRY is that he registered under his true
name there, though he changed it when
he went to Jefferson.
Rothschild, though still unconscious,
was arrested yesterday, charged with
the murder of the woman, and the evil
dence, although all circumstantial, points
very strongly to his guilt. He has lived
here all his life, and, although he led a
fast life, has never before been charged
with crime. The theory given for his
attempt at suicide is that he was driven
to it by pangs of remorse.'