Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-09

Mrs. ROsenburs and Her Very strange
Story.

MlS' hosehhurg ana Her Very Strange
Story.
Memphis. Tcun., Aug S.-A photograph Of
Minnie Williams. one OF the supposed vie.
thus OF HOLMES, tho nineteenth century
sensation In criminal way. was received
yesterday by the Commercial Appeal. The
picture is that Of a fairly good looking girl,
seemingly about % OF "a years Of axe, Of
reasonable plumpneSs. with nudy hair and
dark eyes.
Armed with the picture. reporter yes
terday morning made a trip 10 the county
poorhouse, for the purpose Of comparing
tho likeness With the face nf Mira. Elise
Rosenberg, as she styles herself. the woman
OF no Identity. Mrs. Rosenberg was found
hard at work In the sewing room She
oyinccd perfect willingness to talk Of
her past saying however, before ahe start.
cd with her tale that she mad about come
10 the conclusion that she was not who she
thought she was, as the names Of her past
friends and the numbers OF the houses In
we!ch she thought they lived were seem
.nEly born Of her Imagination. Al least, she
can md no traces Of them and the houses
In which she thought they lived were either
occupied by other people, or no such houses
had ever been built.
A careful comparison OF Mira Rosenberg
with the picture revealed no startling points
Of resemblance, and 1t would take brill
liant imagination to induce one to believe
that the woman who was picked up wan
derer, with u baby few months old In her
arms at one time looked as does the picture
OF the girl whose disappearance has been at
tributed to Holmes,
There is scarcely a passing resemblance
| between Minnie Williams and Mrs, Hosen-
berg. Mrs. RosenbergH right "yg Is nf-
icoted In some way. and her hair Ia black
while Minnie Williams is described as hav-
Ing light hair, sun, thorc Ia some similarity
| In the general contour u the face.
But the one thing that dlaposes Of the
| theory that Mrs, Rosenberg u Minnln VIII
liams Is the disparity OF ages. II Minnie
| Williams 10 alive now she Is about % years
| OF age, Mrs Rosenberg says that she will
| BE- 10 on August u. and she Looks AT least
| nye years older. still. Mrs, Rosenberg hng
| been through more IN the past year than
| most people usually experience In life
time. and she may look older than she really
| Ia.
Mrs. Rosenbergn ease has attracted Il great
| deaf OF Interest all over the country. She
| claims abe belongs 10 the order OF the
| "Daughters OF Hebooca" and there Ia no
| question that she 10 well educated. mum
Der OF Memphis people have made every
| effort to locate her, and have slgnally failed,
| The Jews Mrs, Rosenberg says she Is a
! lewossl have taken great deal OF inter
| est In her. and hundreds OF letters have
I been written with the idea Of establishing
| her Identity. 30 far without results
| brief history VI Mrs Roscnbtrg's life,
as she thinks she has lived 1t. Is as fol-
| lows;
She was born In Cincinnati, about thirty
years ago. the daughter OF Mosea Klein,
| who kept notion store She lived there
| two yeara, and then her family moved to
| Brooklyn. when she was IL years OF age her
people moved back to Cincinnati, and several
yeau later she was sent on TO Lebanon TO
| school While ut school she married u
| noNeubprn They moved
TO Brooklyn. After living there for mum
Der Of years. her husband moved out West
somewhere and she after apendng some time
with her father Joined lin. II IL at THIS
period OF her career that her memory falls
her, and she remembers nothing until she
came to at the county workhunse
| She does not know where she Joined her
| husband and she does moi know from what
| city she came to Memphis. She has learned,
aimee she was carried to the wofkhouAe,
that q conductor on the Kansas city uilroad
thinka that she came over on his train from
Kansas City. This conductor says that she
VAS sick all the way over.
Another thing that makes her think she
rame from Kansas city IL that when she re-.
covered she remembered that Or. Jim lo-
Gan had attended her at the birth Of her
child She was under the Impression that
this child was born In Helena. Ark, when
abe was frat found, but no one In Helena
knows anything Of her. and there " no
sroh Doctor as DR.. Jim Logan In the city.
There Is doctor by this name In Kansas
city. but he does not remember treating
her.
Mrs Rosenberg remembers nothing OF kan
eas city, II she was ever there She has
no recollection OF knowing any one by ih'
name Of Williams, and she has never had
aoy sister. OF this she IL positive she 70
members something OF Chicago. but ahe
s.ys she never lived there.
a any rate, be she Minnie Williams which
1. beyond the widest night OF Imagination
~ he she whom she may. there IN mosl
,utersstinK story behind Mrs. Rosenberg
pysterlous appearance In Memphis ana some
-, M credence In her tale In regard tt
not knowing who she H. She Is certainly
rsr,ertly sane woman. and they mink ina
q. mas reasons for concelling her Identify