Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-05-19
HORRIBLE MURDER.

oil paTIs Vi tue county. hep0rS from the
scene of the tragedy give the following &C.
count of the affair:
Louis Rosenstein, the proprietor of small
store at Sldell, this county, hamlet about
two and half miles north of Boyd's, and
his wife, Dora Rosenstein, were brutality as.
saulted at their home early last Saturday
morning by Buck Taylor, alias Buck Brown,
a negro. Both were horribly beaten, and
were rendered unconscious. Robbery was
the motive of the terrible crime, and in this
the would.be murderer succeeded. The
amount which Taylor succeeded in secur-
ing is said to be about six hundred dollars,
stems.
The village of Sidell consists Of but few
scattered houses. For three or four years
past the injured man and his wife have &C.
the lower floor and living in the rooms on
the second floor. They are Hebrews and
have been thrifty and industrious, and sue
ceeded in saving considerable sum Of
money. They came to town very seldom,
and on this account kept all their funds 10
the house with them.
On Friday night Taylor stayed at the
house of John A. Brown and Nellie Turner,
negroes, who live together about a quarter
of mile from the Rosenstein store. They
had known him for number of years, and
he came to their house ostensibly to pay
them visit. On Friday Taylor asked
Brown to loan him his gun, saying that he
desired to go hunting in the woods near by.
| Taylor was not seen again until II o'clock
at night. He had no game, and complained
of having had i'll luck. 1t is now supposed
that he procured the weapon for the pur.
pose of killing the Rosensteins that night,
but failed to secure favorable opportunity,
and returned to Browns house to outline
another plan.
| When he came in that night he told
Brown that he wanted to be called by sun
rise at the latest, as he was gong to visit
his grandfather, Fred Ambush, who lives at
Greenfield, near the Sugar Loaf Mountain
When Brown awoke, shortly before o'clock
he found that Taylor had already arisen and
was about to leave He appeared angry be-
cause Brown had not called him earlier, and
declared that he must get away quickly
Both Brown and the Turner woman declare
that they did not see Taylor afterwards.
They were arrested, however, and brought
to Rockville, where they were lodged in
Jail.
According TO the theory of the people in
the vicinity, it must have been about
o'clock when Taylor reached the Rosen.
stein store, for it was near that hour when
Carrot Lnthcum, a farmer, passed by and
saw the negro standing before the place.
Taylor yelled at him to go on. Linthicum
thought that the negro was drunk. 1t is
supposed that Taylor was then waiting for
Rosensten to come down stairs.
1t was nearly o'clock, however, before
the crime was discovered About that hour
Mrs. Walter Carlin sent her little son to the
| place to make purchase. The little fellow
returned some time later and reported that
after waiting about for some time and call
ing for Resenstein he had failed TO find any
one at the store. 1t was some time later be-
fore another purchaser went in, and upon
search for the storekeeper found him lying
unconscious behind the counter. He was
fully dressed, and beside him laya large
iron bar, used as poker. Surrounding the
man was a pool of blood, which had flowed
from three ugly wounds in his head. Up
stairs Mrs Rosenstein was found lying on
bed, half clad. Some distance away was
large pool of blood and another beside the
bed Blood was also despatched over the
walls of the room, and the bed clothing was
saturated with it,
The woman had evidently given the brute
a desperate struggle, as she was quite large
and powerful. Her head had been crushed
with the same weapon which had been used
upon her husband. 1t is believed that she
heard the tussle down stairs and started to
90 TO her husbands assistance, when she was
met at the head of the stairs by the negro
and attacked. The robber then pillaged the
house, ransacking it from top to bottom.
Four empty purses were found. He left,
however, two watches, one Of them gold,
checks amounting TO $75, and some jewelry,
taking little except cash and pair of shoes.
The neighborhood was soon aroused, and
while some of the citizens went TO Boyd's
for physicians, others started out in pursuit
of Taylor. A short distance from the store
is small patch of woods, and 10 the edge
of these the scouting party found that Tay-
lor had stopped and changed his shoes, eav
ing his old ones. Beside them were also
found a pocket torn from Rosensten's trous
ers, a bunch of keys and a silver watch
The negro was next traced 10 Boyd's, where
1t was found that he had stopped at Lewis
store and purchased pair Of shoes. He had
pair of new ones on, but claimed that they
were too small. He had cut them. The
new ones he took with him in box and
hastily departed The storekeeper noticed
that his trousers were wet, as il he had been
wading in water. He took the 800 train
for Washington, and while aboard IL he
changed his stolen shoes for the ones be had
purchased, and threw the former out of the
car window. They were found near Ger
mantown. The conductor of the train OBJ
served the mans peculiar action, and saw
him leave the train at Forest Glen.
Saturday evening Rosenstein's brother
and his wife's brother arrived from Balti-
more and took their injured relatives 10 that
city. They were still unconscious, and the
physicians do not believe that either can
live. Both of their skulls are fractured, and
they are suffering from conclusion. Mrs
Rosenstein would have become mother In
less than a month.
Louis Rosenstein, one Of the victims of
the assault, died at $50 o'clock Sunday
evening at the Maryland University Hos