New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-07
THE HIRSCHKOPF TRIAL.
MAX GLUDCKMAN TESTIFrES AS TO THE
EFFORTS TO INDUCE HIM TO START
TUE, SrrE,FOI,K-ST FIRE

THE SUFFOLK-ST. FIRE.
Tn. trial Of Adolph Hirschkopf. charged With hav'
inc 60. Are to store at No l2s Sufokst. and caus.
ing the death OF young girl. four years DID, named
Lizzie Jaeger. continued yesterday pefore 'us-
tice Fursman, in the Criminal Branch OF 'ne ~
preme Court. When court adjourned last Fnnsy
onv one witness for the prosecution had been called
1J,s r,ne vas Peter Rutz and he gave testimony
regarding the FIRE Yesterday this same witness Wa
recalled TO identify Meyer Detschek. who Is IN tne
Tombs. accused Of applying the matcn wnicn s'ar's"
the fire The witness testified that ne did NOT 70
member ever having Detschek before Incu
Mrs Elizabeth Rutz was called and corroborated her
husta nds testimony about the fire She also idenu.
Aad Dde,schek as a man she had seen hanging ABOUT
Kleinrocks saloon where the fire had starteo' Nv
yious TO the fire. and also said that sne hao -
him on the day before the fre
A quantity OF testimony was given oy ba'tai'o~
Chief Ahearn and several other remen In regard 70
the scenes and incidents Of the fire and the taking
Ct the girl from the burning building. The testi'
mony OF the doctors who attended the 'nJure' s'rI
was aso heard Michael sapro. an Italian boy. ana
several insurance men also gave testimony II '"s
morning session.
ness was Max Gueckman the mechanic" Among
other things he testified that he had met Hirschkops
In 1894 He said that he was in Kleinrocks saloon
on the morning when the fire was TO have heen starr.
ed. which the day before the fire actually dso
OCCUR He had often seen kleinrock at Hrscnkop8e
house Witness testified that two weeks before the
fire he elheard the defendant In the presence o.
one Seltzer talking about different hres IN wntco
K.einrock and Seltzer were alleged 20 have peen
Hirschkopfs agents. He heard kleinrock say. You
know that must have the fire this MONTH. 10 whicn
Hrsohkopf replied. "All right" The witness aa1o
that Hirschkopf had also mentioned the necessity Of
precaution. and of obtaining supply OF sewing ma.
chimes and other articles In order 10 make gooo
showing after the fire.
few days before the fire Shire Rosenba UNI was
playing pinoche with Hirschkopf In the larer's
house, when Meyer Bremen came In and said ne
could not agree With his wife about having fre In
Bremen said his wife would not consent 10 tho
deed Hirschkopf witness declared said to Brennss.
Lots Of people make money through me because
they not fools. >You and tell your wife thts"
Bremen then went out saying he would do 80. Wit.
ness said that after Kleinrock had left the room
Hirschkopf told him that ne would start the fire at
No l9 Sufolk-st. that day and have the witness
build for him. To this the witness consented. pro-
videi the fire started In the day tme
The witness then went on to tell how he had ~.
ceived a demjohn containing innammable mud
from Hirschkopf, and had taken the same to Klein
rocks saloon: how he had been urged TO set the Are
night and his steady refusal to Do how Hirsch.
kopf had come to his home In Brooklyn and In
duced him TO go with him TO New-York where they
had gone 70 Klenrock's saloon and he had been
again entreatted to build the fire: how ne had found
Dietschek In the saloon and heard him (w-hen he
himself had positively refused 10 build the fire. offer
to do the work, and finally how he himself had been
let out and gone home 10 his bed.
AZ this POINT the court adtourned fos the day.