The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-17
ROHL GUILTY OF MURDER.
TIE MAN WHO BJTCHERED OLD CAPT
PAULSEN CONVICTED.

N,ra.r IN the first Degree the .Jury's Yer
.s,ct and Judge MARITIME ssSs u Clearer
.S..se Of Guilt Was Never Made Out.
!. Tho Jury in the case OF Frank W. Rohl. on
trial in the General Sessions for the killing OF
Capt. Frank raulssn. brought in verdict Of
murder In the first degree mt IT'D O'Clock last
night They had spent two hours In reaching
a decision. and in discharging the jurymen
Judge MARITIME said:
..In nv judgment there mover was a more
righteous verdict rendered. The only things
that can SEQ in this defence arc impudence
md fnlsehood. II ever guilt OF murder was
nado out fully clearly. md substantially. Il
was in this case No other verdict could have
been properly rendered.
Roll glared savagely at the foreman while
his iato was being announced. and after dis.
missing tho jury Judge MARITIME remanded
him until Friday. when he will receive his
sentence. The murder Of which Roll Is con-
victed was committed on tho night OF Sept
20 In Capt. Faulsen's room in 1870 Hester
street, The victim was war veteran.
Tho concluding day OF Rohl's trial was
marked b. several dramatic scenes. Though
the prisoner Inns forbiddinG face. with black.
overhanG ing brows. and gimet-lke black
eyes Il" has soft. pleasant voice. and ordi-
:, nut when 10 ,oll Of the killing Of Cant.
Ianlsen as he claimed in g. sslidsfehn,s s ne
dashed, and III he maie dramat &c Gestures s
story was that. nj about 8 O'Clock In the
:tsrn1on having ns"n d 5s n e sna,s a.
inc house a, ~ Jefferson street. -HoboKen.
e get an .ehnrrynch at the artificial mar.
HE works. at Eleventh avenue md Forty-e eighth
as for sSnS lie knew that ihe works "ossd
ser Street fSrr re- nasss t
Street Ferry. which would have landed him
MIA He went 10 saloon in the !,owery and drank
beer. Then lie concluded that II was too late
that hs Would &C. around 10 his old friend Paul.
sens room. and leave it there until the follow
Tnuisun welcomed him, He was intoxicated.
but Insisted uron Kohl's goin. out Tor more
beer, While they w"r" drinIin. faulsen
asked about iohi's witt" who ha, Disappeared.
and Roll SAID that he would h' III" hapriest
man on rnrtn II hc had her with him again.
"Aii women arS alike: my wife. who don't
live with mr. aud your wife are the same as
furious and tod Pau sen that no must not
SPEAK dsrespcctfu!lv ~ his wife.
left aSh aa nw nm Upon Upon hs
floor. striking hin with ms list. Then Paul
zen mt his # riEh, nan to his mir noeke'. say
While he VAS eng CHECKED Roll nut out his
baud ;iinI'S and .:rnsn"d the axe; WITH WITH it ne
hold relaxed. and h. sank hack into his chair.
Then Roll concealed the axe under his vest
md ran out into the dark street. IL. went
from saloon to saloon. drinkin.: until he he
Came intoxicated. aud he said that he reinom-
bored nothing MOI" until he found himself in
a cell on the fo,lowin. morning.
He explained the possession OF PaulEen's
two watches and gold chain at the time OF his
arrest. and his efforts to sell them In Bowery
saloons. by saying that when he first entered
Pnusen's room the latter gave him the
jew"lry and asked him to sell 1t as soon as he
could.
In cross examining Roll Assistant District
Attorney Mcintyre stood close to the witness
stand and piled his questions with a rapdity
that soon destroyed the prisoners assumed
ease OF manner.
Mr.. Mcintyre asked him the maiden name
OF the wife. whose good nnme he had sought
to defend ut the cost CT Paulsen's life He re-
Piled that it was Carolina Ioller. and that he
mot her when he WAS keeping II grocery mt
First avenue and First street: about = yenr ago.
Now. Roll" said MIR. acIntyre; you know
that you were never married TO mis- woman.
she was my wife! ! tell you. she was my
wife" cried Kohl. sprnging to his feet. With
blazing eyes and flushed face.
-" Don't lose your temper. Rohl." said Mr..
was never your wife,"
= Rohl stretched GU. Ms long left hand. ap.
pnrently to clutch MIR. McIn.yre's throat. and
ccnche,i his frs. as he shouted:
'tou know she ms wife. II was never
married t. her. but she was my wife. nll the
same. and loved her"
commanded Eohl 20 quiet himself
in his summinc-up for the people the effect
OF MIR. Mclntyre's address upon the Jury was
plain to Rohl. for as the Assistant District At
torney sat down Rohl said: It's all over.
They will convict me-