New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-12
SIZE WAS JACOBS WIFE.
THE MYSTERY OF THE MURDERED WOMAN
CLEARED AWAY.
HER HUSBAND KILLED HER JUST BEFORE HI
SLEW ROGOMNSKI AND HrMsELF-THE
BODY POSITIVELY IDENT1 FLED.

SLEW RoGoM NsKI AND HrMsELF-THE
BODY POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED.
The mystery surrounding the murder OF the
woman whose frozen corpse was found In the
cellar OF the house No. 3 Edridgest on Nom
day was cleared away yesterday. when the BODY
was identified that of Fanny Greenberg, one OF
Isaac Jacobs wives complete chain OF evil
dence satisfied the police that Jacob killed the
woman and hid her body in the cellar before he
killed Herman Rogoznski and himself in Ridge.
ST. the morning of February 16. One Of the
lads attending the Hebrew free school in the
upper part of the Eldridge-st. house helped the
police TO fasten the crime on the dead Jacob.
The boy is Isaac Shapiro, twelve years old, and
his home at present is at No 72 Hester-st. but
for some months he a roommate of Isaac
Jacob in the Eldridgc-st. house When the de-
tcctives took him down into the cellar and showed
to him a bloody sheet which had been found
there. he said: That used to be in Jacobs
room | used to sleep on it, Then the officers
took him TO the police station and asked him II
he could recognize the old overcoat which had
been tied about the head of the corpse.
why, yes" said the boy. That is Jacobs
coat From the police station the detectives
took young Shapiro to the Morgue to look at the
body of the murdered woman. He said he could
not recognize it. However, he promptly dentihed
an old quilt which had been found wrapped about
the body in the cellar quilt from JACOBS
bed
\ few nights previous to the double tragedy
in Ridge-st the boy said, Jacob complained that
he could not sleep and said he going to Brook
lyn. He dressed himself and left the room. After
lying awake some hours the boy got out OF the
room too, and walked up and down the streeo
until a. AS he was standing in doorway
opposite the house at that hour. he saw Jacob re-
turn with woman, who entered the house with
| him. The boy said he did not dare to follow
| them in, and he remained where he was until
after daylight When he went back to Jacobs
room no in sight, and Jacob said
nothing about her. Shapiro said he was afraid
| to say anything about the woman TO Jacob or
anybody else, and after a time he forgot about
her until the body was found in the cellar
The detectives thought young Shapiro was tell
| ing the truth, but if the woman was killed in
| Jacobs room early the morning OF February
| a. according to the lads best recollection, it
was odd that she could have had in her pocket the
| fragment Of letter dated February l6, 1890.
| Possibly the sly murderer had placed the scrap
Of paper there to mislead the police before he
went to murder Rogozinski in Rdge-st. lie
| killed himself only when he was about to be caught
red dhanded in that crime. If he had escaped then
the date in the murdered woman's pocket might
| have removed suspicion from him her murderer.
Moses Levy. the store keeper at No. Eldrid2e-
ST., said yesterday that Jacob made frequent
threats to kill some body while he anitor of the
building Once he choISed old Mr.. Levy. After
Jacob was put out of the house he asked for
some things in his room, and Levy got them for
him. They Were axe, spear, knife ana
| two bottles marked poison About Two weeks
ago there bad smell about the store. and
the Health Board ordered the yard 10 be cleaned
When the weather got colder the smell NOT
noticed Last week plumber went into the eel
lar to Tx broken waterpipe, but he did not
| notice the body III the coal-boN.
Nathan ). Levy a lawyer, of No. 20 Lud-
| ow-st.. furnished the last link III the chain OF
evidence against the dead murdere-: lie had
| cen conse for the woman mentioned as Fanny.
Jacobs wife, iii the letter which Jacob wrote
before he committed the crime in Ridge-st. She
was Fanny Greenberg before she married
Ia Jacob. several years ago. lie already had two
wives living. and he soon tired Of her, and tried
to marry Huda Cohn, RogozinsIis niece. Two
Jacob. she engaged Mr.. Levy her counsel TO
bring action for legal separation and Tor all
mony The case was argued before Refer'e Henry
r. Steers at No. 80 Liberty-st.. and decree
of separation was granted on the ground OF nom
support cruelty and abandonment. Jacob was
ordered To pay 81 week 10 his wife and an
additional sum for counsel fees but she did not
receive cent from him atterward. and when he
committed murder and suicide warrant for
Fanny had been employed rs servant at No.
Il3 Columbia-st. after her separation from Jacob:
She saw Mr.. Levy early in February, and she SAID
she was getting pretty well. She was dressed
comfortably, and appeared TO he in good health.
About the same time She told her employers
that She was going back 10 live with her husband.
who had visited her a few times. and they were
not surprised when she disappeared. Mr. Levy
said that Fanny was Polish Hebrew woman,
thirty years old. Her appearance IN ire ialIei
with the published descriptions OF the body found
in the cellar To satisfy himself and the police.
MIR. Levy went TO the Morgue and looked at the
corpse lie identified the body as that of Fanny
Grecnberc Jacob.
Coroner Levy and the police were satisfied
that they had reached the end OF the investiga-
tion. and that the womans murderer was alcady
beyond their jurisdiction. Hebrew society VIII
give the woman's body decent burial
Detectives Won Gerichtcn and Crowley found
satchel belonging to the dead woman in the
home Of Mrs Kate Gesslcr. on thu top floor OF
No. 236 Second St yesterday afternoon ana
also a trunk in the rooms of Annie Newsdorf. No:
| Il3 Commba.st Mrs. Gesslcr was well acquainted
with Fanny Grccnherg before she married Jacob.
fhe Sioranc as Tie wife of Jacob The satchel
and trunk were filled with fine clothing. In a
box WAS the birth certificate of the woman which
showed that her maiden name was Frodla Pincha
Sowa Groenhcrg. and that She was born July :,
1884. Her marriage certificate was also found.
She was married TO Isaac Jacob by Alderman John
Dunn. November p. $50
She came here from Russia five years ago. where
her father is a prominent rabbi. Mrs Jacob
live with him because of his cruelty. He had
terrible fits of passion during which he often
threatened 10 kill his wife
Mrs Jacob supported herself after leaving her
husband by making cloalis For long time he
did not know where she was. hut he kept up
| constant watch for her. lie found her living
with Mrs. Ge>sler and called there on February
lS He said that il she would come back and
live with him again he would never do anything
| 10 hurt her feelings lie agreed to give her $500
and a gold watch. Mrs. Jacob finally consented
Ia marry him again. On February > Jacob called
again at Mrs Gesscrs and took Mrs Jacob away.
When they left Jacob told Mrs. Gcsser that they
were going 10 Rabbi kohler'> 10 be married. Mrs.
, Gesser did not Mrs. Jacob again until She
looked upon her body yesterday at the morgue.
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