The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-01-13
THE ABE B0THscBLB CASE


4 History Of the Cqse-A LONG and Vsxaiiogs
Trial Ends in the Discharge Of the Pris-
0bsr
On Sunday, January q, 1877, near Jefferson
Texas, a woman named Bessie Moore. better
known as Diamond Bessie" an inmate for
merly Of house Of i'll reputs in Cincinnati,
vas most brutally murdered By, as It appears
from the verdict Of Texas jury, sOmeunknOwu
party. The story, as related on the 18Th Of
February, nearly month after the murder,
was to this effect: January 10 a commercial
traveller, accompanied by an evidently aban-
doned woman, arrived in Jefferson, fr0m 3Lar-
shall, Texas, and registered as A. Monroe and
wife, st. Louis, No., at the Brooks House. Je.-
fsTson- That night thsseTants il tle Eaazs
heard then quarrsiing continually. On sunday
the 21st, they went into a restaurant ana drank
considerable. About noon, taking bottle OF
beer with them, they crossed the bayou mean
town, and the same evening the man returned
alone wearing couple Of fine diamond rinrl
which had previously been noticed on the du-
gers Of the woman. In explanation Of the al
sehcs Of the woman, he said she was with re,a-
tvss across the bayou. He was observed 10
be very restless and paced his room most Of the
night, and in the morning said lie had not slept
very well. There being no n0rthb0und train
the next day, Monroe, OF whatever his name
was, remained until Tuesday morning. the 23d.
when he left alone, checking his trunk to Little
Rock, Ark, aud from there to Memphis Tenn.
On February 6, a NEGRO woman found the bo57
Of the woman little back from the
road across the bayou, near Jefferson.
When examined a bullet hole vas found
u the left temple the ball hanging
downward and the hair singed By the powder
Of the pistol No clue whatever could at the
time be found as to the Thereabuuts Of Mon
rQe, but after some detective work had been
brought into the case it was ascertained that q
party had registered at Marshall, Texas. on
January IL, as A. Rothschild and wife. Cincin-
matt, Ohio. An examination of this register
and the one at Jefferson satisfied the officers
that they were written By the same person.
Then Chief Of Police Ira W8od. Of Cincinnati
was written to for the purpose Of ascertaining
If there was an A. Rothschild there. Before
Superintendent Wood had completed bis IN
qJirios young Israelite well known about tine
city, Abe ROth5child, q son Of NJ R0thsclLd
a Fifth street isTeler, early in the m0uing Of
Saturday, February II, at the entrance
commit suicide by shooting himself
in the head, but only succedins
IN destroying his right eye While E1tLsclul
was laid up at his home from the effects OF his
sslf-inhicted injuries, Sheriff Vine, Of 5Iuila
County, Texas arrived with re1ui dtill for
Rothschild, claiming to identify Eothschild as
Monroe ROthschild's father, being ct llat
time wealthy, retained Maj0r Bae5Iurn of
Cincinnati, and fought the requisitiou. but on
March 8, Of the same year, Judge Avery. of
the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court,
turned him over to Vine, granting. however, a
stay Of proceedings until Major Bladkburn
co1ld appeal to the Supreme Court. Within
the time allowed for the appeal. Major Black
burn applied % Judge 1Iatson for a writ Of h1-
beds corpus, which was not allowed. and ROths-
child was rsmanded TO the custody Of Shesif
Wallace, Who ii was claimed at the time, sur
raptitiOuEly turned him over to the TsEaa
Sheriff, Vine. Once back In Texas all the
legal bubbles known to the attorney.
were put N use to acquit R0thschild,
and several trials were given him, the first be-
ginning Nay "A, 1877, and resulting in a dis
agreement. Two or three other trials resulted
tn a similar manner, and on the 18th Of Decem-
Der another trial began which ended on the
eOth il E verdict Of honorable acquittaI, as is
shoRp b the following dispatch received by his
ftthdr at Cincinnati:
JEFFERsoN, TExAs, Dec. so.
II. R0thscbild, Cincinnati. o.
MOsseltOf-Abs honOrably acquitted amidst
the excitement Of friends. Tel uncle and
friends. E. EBERsrADr.
Thus ends q case Whiol, for almost four years
pest, has excited not only the attention Of Gin
0inna6 where the prisoner belonged and tho
STATE Of Texas, but nearly all the Southern
fnd Western portion Of the country, B0thschid
being RAll known throughout these parts Of the
United States as q travelling salesman.