The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-06
THE ABE R0TRScHMD CASE.
A History of the case-A Long and Yexatfous
Trial Ends in the Discharge of the Prs-

A History of the Case Long and Nexatious
Trial Ends in the Discharge of the Pris-
oner.
On Sunday, January 81, 1877, near Jefferson
Texas, a woman named Bessie Moore, better
known as Diamond Bessie" an inmate for
merly of a house of ill repute in Cincinnati,
was most brutally murdered by, as it appears
from the verdict of Texas jury, some unknown
party. The story, as related on the 10Th of
February, nearly a month after the murder,
was to this effect: January 10 a commercial
traveller, accompanied by an evidently ADAM
doned woman, arrived in Jefferson, from Mar
shall, Texas, and registered as A. Monroe and
wife, st. Louis, Mo-, at the Brooks House, JEFF
ferson. That night the servants in the house
heard them quarreling continually. On Sunday
the Dist, they went into a restaurant and drank
considerable. About noon, taking a bottle of
beer with them, they crossed the bayou near
town, and the same evening the man returned
alone wearing a couple of fine diamond rings
which had previously been noticed on the fin
gers of the woman. In explanation of the alb
sence of the woman, he said she was with rela-
tives across the bayou. He WAS observed to
be very restless and paced his room most of the
night, and in the morning said he had not slept
very well. There being no northbound train
the next day, Monroe, or whatever his lame
was, remained until Tuesday morning, the Esd,
when he left alone, checking his trunk to Little
Rock, Ark, and from there to Memphis, Tenn.
On February 6, anegro woman found the body
of the so, Woman a. a h. little back back from hsgar. the
When examined a bullet hole was found
in the left temple, the ball ranging
downward and the hair singed by the powder
of the pistol. No clue whatever could at the
time be found as to the whereabouts of Mon
roe, but after some detective work had been
brought into the case it was ascertained that q
party had registered at Marshall, Texas, on
January II, as A.. Rothschild and wife, Cincin-
natl, Ohio. An examination of his register
and the one at Jefferson satisfied the officers
that they were written by the same person
Then Chief of Police Ira Wood, of Cincinnati
was written to for the purpose Of ascertaining
if there was an A. Rothschild there. Before
Superintendent Wood had completed his in
city, Abe Rothschild, q son Of NJ. Rothschild,
a Fifth street ieweler, early in the moning of
Saturday, February II, at the entrance
of Aug's Club House, attempted to
in the head, but only succeeding
in destroying his right eye. While Rothschild
was laid up at his home from tho effects of his
self-inficted injuries, Sheriff Vine, of Marion
County, Texas, arrived with a requisition for
Rothschild, claiming to identify Rothschild as
Monroe. Rothschild's father, being at that
time wealthy, retained Major Blackburn, Of
Cincinnati, and fought the requisition, 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 Blackburn
could appeal to the Supreme Court. Within
the time allowed for the appeal, Major Black
burn applied to Judge Matson for a writ of hd-
beds corpus, which was not allowed, and Roths-
child was remanded to the custody of Sheriff
Wallace, who, it was claimed at the time, sur
reptitiously turned him over to the Texas
Sheriff, Vine. Once back in Texas, all the
legal bubbles known to the attorney.
were put in use to acquit Rothschild,
and several trials were given him, the first be-
ginning May "a, 1877, and resulting in a dis
agreement. Two or three other trials resulted
in a similar manner, and on the 18th of Deem
Der another trial began which ended on the
3Oth in a verdict of honorable acquittal, as il
shown by the following dispatch received by his
father at CINCINNATI:
JEFFERSON, TEXAS, Dec. 80.
NJ. RothschiLd, Cincinnati, o.:
Mosseltof-Abe honorably acquitted amidst
the excitement of friends. Tell uncle an6
friends. E. EBERsrADT.
Thus ends a case which, for almost four Year,
past, has excited not only the attention of Gin.
cinnati where the prisoner belonged and tn,
State of Texas, but nearly all the Southern
and Western portion Of the country, RothschilG
being well known throughout these parts of tn,
United States as a travelling salesman.