Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-15
ONE VICTIM DEAD.
Excitement In Montgomery County
Over Rosenstein Murders

excitement In Montgomery County
Over Rosenstein Murders.
Correspondence OF The Evening Star
BOYD'S. Nd. May Ia 1895,
The suspected murderer of the Rosensteius
who boarded an east-bound train here at
$50 Saturday morning with a pair of new
number 10 shoes under his arm. made an
exchange of shoes on board the train be-
low Germantown station and threw the
shoes from the train that he had stolen
from the victims store, and they were
found yesterday afternoon and turned over
to Sheriff Horton q. Thompson. who
brought them to the scene Of the murder
last night. They were Identified as the
shoes from this store. 1t is agreed that the
crime was a well-planned affair as the
murderer called RosensJein from his bed
under the pretense of buying pair Of
shoes, and when he came down TO wait on
him and turned his back on the murderer
he dealt him one crushing blow on the side
of the head and followed II with other
blows.
His wife. hearing the struggle. made an at
tempt to come down from her room. when
she was met by the negro who struck her
and felled her to the floor. There is a strong
suspicion that this man had acComplices,
and suspicion points TO John Alfred Brown
and his common-law wife Nellie Turner.
who were Saturday night arrested by Sher-
if Thompson and committed to Rockville
Jail through the information furnished by
The Star correspondent.
1t appears that the murderer Brown. alias
Taylor is a relative of John Brown and
has been stopping with him since Wednes-
day last And it is claimed there that he
made threats against the people attacked
and asked John to awaken him early in the
morning. Browns wife states that her hlls-
hand oversight himself, and that Humphrey
called him to account for not calling him
promised. Humphrey left the house
about 4:30 am, and 1t is only a distance
of 800 yards to the scene of the tragedy
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time to reach there.
Citizens Excited.
Great excitement prevails in the neigh
borhood today and groups Of people from
all parts Of the county are coming in, dis
cussing the crime, expressing hope OF catch
ing the murderer and swearing swift ven-
geance The crowd seems to be quiet on
the outer surface, but there is no doubt
strong undercurrent working. and II would
be easy task to throw il iHtO state of
frenzy. Women, well men, are loud
in denunciation Of the crime and the per-
petrators A sad gloom prevails over The
entire community. The Rosenstetn family
moved TO Slidell about six seven years
ago and have been known as thrifty He
brews. Boyd's is their regular station from
which they ship and get shipments Of goods
from Washington, Frederick and Baltimore.
and they are well known throughout this
section of the county.
ENtdence
Last night a searching party found the
watch and keys that were taken in the
woods back of the store. and also the boots
Of the negro that he wore during his work
of murder. Today the undershrt was
found in the woods about half mile from
the scene of the murder.
In his hurry TO discard this garment the
wearer tore It in half and also tore of the :
wristbands that are supposed TO have been >
lir~.al IA II.
ination OF the shirt where IL was unbut-
toned stains of blood from the hands were
visible The rod with which the murderer
committed the deed was found by Jno. w.
Williams at Boyd's, and is in his possess
sion 1t presents a CHASTITY sight stained
with blood. II has the appearance Of once
having been used drill, and where it
had been struck with hammer the end
had been mashed down and fiattened out,
making sharp, jagged edges around the rod
which inflicted the rough and ragged cuts
in the victims heads.
Money I'm the House.
1t said today by Abe Goldstein, a
close friend Of the Rosensteins, who visited
the store every Saturday for family devo-
ton, that Louis made a confidant of him,
and that he told him that he had the sum
of five hundred or more dollars saved up,s
and that he never used the banks he
supposed he kept ii in the house. As he no
doubt had accumulated some money since
then, the murderer probably secured 5000.
Among the money missing are several gold
pieces. There are also some pieces OF
clothing missing from the store. The
checks that were in the pocketbooks, to the
amount of nearly fifty dollars were care
lessly thrown aside by the murderer. and
also the Jewel box was left untouched he
evidently wanting nothing of such AN in
eliminating character on his person.
Taken TO baltimore.
Medical aid to the victims was rendered
by Drs. ]. II. Stonestreet OF BarnesvilIe and
j. L. Deets of Clarksburg, but they were
convinced that there was no hope for re-
covery Relatives from Baltimore came 10
take charge of the Victims and they de-
cided to remove them to the Maryland
University Hospital in Baltimore, which
was done by a late train Saturday night
This afternoon a message was received
from Moses, brother of Louis Rosenstein
that there was no hope for either of them,
and when the contents Of the telegram be-
came known In the neighborhood the sup
posed peaceful-looking crowds of men were
loud in their denunciation of the murderer.
Benjamin Vermillion, engineer on
train 90, B. and o., westbound that left
Washington at 7:05 o'clock Saturday night.
says that he saw a negro answering the
description of the murderer sitting under
an overhead bridge along the B. and o.
tracks near Stott's station. who made an
effort while the train passed to cover his
face by throwing his head between his
time, but Nermilion's description does not
compare with that of the man who COM
mitted the deed.
Suspected AccompIice.
Today in an interview with a young man
by the name of Thomas Knott. near Sill
dell, the scene of the tragedy, Knott says
he was working In the woods with john
Alfred Brown one of the suspected accom-
plices, and that Brown had arrived at work
later than usual and gave the light ratD
that had fallen about 4:30 or o'clock as
his reason. While working there at the
hour of 10 o'clock the day of the crime Vir-
gle Knott his sister. appeared and
called to her brother that Louis Rosenstein
and wife were murdered, and John was all
attention and told the young girl that 1T
wasn't and couldn't be So" The girl
piled that 1t was. He then piled her With