The Van Buren press., 1879-01-07
THE RoTHSCHILD CASE.
Convicted of Murder In First De-
gree for Death of Bessie Moore.
[Cincinnati Commercial, Dec. 25 ]

The intelligence was telegraphed to
Cincinnati yesterday afternoon that at
Marshall Texas, where his trial had been
going on for several days, Abe Rothchild
of this eth had been convicted of mur.
der in the first degree for the killing of
Bessie Moore near that place ON the 2lst
of January, 1877. Rothschild has had
scrctr sss' II e 'wasHIS wish alseJs.x, apa Sgl;
talent, it was hardly supposed in Clncin.
natl that jury could be found to convict
him. The facts against him seen TO have
been so strong, however, that the jury
could not escape rendering verdict Of
guilty, aud that, too, murder in the first
degree.
Rothschild was commercial traveller,
and, after protractcd tour of the cx-
treme South, returned to Cincinnati In
February, 1877, and on the night OF the
l7th of that month shot himself In the
head, In front OF Jake Aug's clubhouse.
He at first tried to represent that he had
been shot by some black whiskered man,
who, he said, had been following him all
day, but it was evident from all the sur.
rounding circumstances that he had shot
himself He managed to shoot out an
eye, and to horribly DISTURB his by no
means prepossessing features, and was
at one time thought to be fatally injured.
No cause for the attempted suicide could
be discovered at the time, and the young
man was becoming to be considered by
his friends as deranged, when the
startling news reached the city that be
was the murderer of woman in Texas.
Slowly but surely the information travel
ed to Cincinnati, and not only was the
accused identified by photographs, not
withstandng his Disagreement, but the
dead woman's trunk containing nearly
all her personal effects was discovered to
have been checked" by him, with the
baggage master of the G., IL d d. II. II.
On tue goth of February, while at the
Cincinnati hospital he was placed under
police surveillance, as on that day he was
fully identified by officers from Texas as
the murderer of Bessie Moore. Ex-
Sheriff John NJ, Wives and Prosecuting
Attorney Gutherie of Marion county,
Texas, accompanied by the proprietor of
the hotel where Rothschild and Bessie
Moore had stayed in Jefferson. Texas,
identified him, and procured an order for
his delivery to them on requisition)
from Gov. Hayes. On this order Sheriff
Wallace nominally arrested Rothschild,
although he was still allowed to remain
at the hospital. Five weeks later, having
sufficiently recovered from his selfin6ic-
ted wound, he was brought before Judge
Avery, and after hearing that occu
pied two days, was remanded to the Gus
tody of the sheriff. the decision Of the
Judge sustaining the order, but allowing
the defence twenty days in which to ob
tain reversal of the decision from the
supreme court. The supreme court atilr-
med the decision of Judge Avery by re
fusing writ of error in the case, and on
the expiration Of the twenty days the
prisoner was delivered to the Texas au
thorities, who to avoid threatened habeas
corpus proceedings, hurried him off from
the Jail to Lawrenceburg, Ind, in a hack,
and thence conducted him safely TO jeff
erson, Texas, Tor trial.
RorusCuiLp WAS PUT UroS HIS rafAL,
Being represented by great phalanx Of
able lawyers. but a continuance was ask
ed and granted, but the case did not come
up on its MERIT until August, when .
trial lasting twenty three days took place
at Jefferson on haheas corpus proceed
ings aud motion to admit the prisoner
to bail The habeas corpus proceedings
failed, and bail was refused. and from
that time until the 8 of the preseat
month the case rested, when at Marshall.
Texas. the accused was put upon his final
tral. The result, az stated above. was
his conviction yesterday Of murder in the
FIRST degree.