Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-18

In the store he asked for pair of No 10
shoes, the pair he had on being new, but
evidently too small for him, as they were
split up the front. AT Boyd's he boarded q
Washington train. -Four miles down the
road he changed his shoes, throwing the
pair taken from Rosenstein from the car
window. These shoes were afterward found
and identified. He left the train at Forest
Glen. and successfully eluded pursuit for
several days
The attention of the police of Washing
ton was attracted to a strange negro about
town account of his lavish display Of
and a supply of cartridges. This negro
afterward turned out. to be Taylor, who
had rented house on Fowler's Hill near
Georgetown. Taylor was seen to enter
this house by the police on the Wednesday
subsequent to the commission of the crime.
Sergeant Passauy Killed.
The house was surrounded Sergeant
Fritz Passau, Detective Burroughs and Po-
lceman Cow entering the house by forcing
the front door, after having knocked sew
eral times without receiving a reply. They
assembled to the second floor Just over
head was a small trap door leading to a
loft and in that dark hole the negro had
taken refuge. Sergeant Passau, in his
eagerness to make a thorough search for
the man. turned to look behind the door
on the second floor. 1t was a fatal move
for the gallant officer. With his back to
the trap door there came a volley of shots,
some of them taking effect in the sergeant s
body, and he fell to the floor, expiring soon
afterward. Policeman Cow was also
wounded in the hand.
The negro held the police at bay for more
than an hour, and it was only after prepa-
rationS had been made to burn the house
that he came out of his hiding place and
gave himself up.
At first it was determined by the Wash
ington authorities to have Taylor tried in
hof l1rric inr thn It'll
Passau, but as it was considered to be
difficult under the circumstances to con-
Wet the criminal of murder in the first de-
gree, he was turned over to the Maryland
authorities. While in Jail in Washington
he confessed to the commission of the
Rosenstein murder and also implicated John
Alfred Brown.
In the meantime Brown and his common
law wife, Nellie Turner. had been taken
into custody by Sheriff Thompson Of Mont
gomery county. The woman gave the first
damaging testimony in addition to TaylOrs
confession duplicating Brown in the affair.
She stated that Brown and Taylor, the
night before the tragedy. We're discussing
the Rosensteins. She in an adjacent
room and paid attention to what was
being said, but when the men were about to
retire she heard Taylor ask Brown to call
him in the morning. Early in the morning
Taylor awoke Brown and went out of The
front door. little while afterward Brown
got up and went out of the same door The
from the house at between daybreak and
sun-up. In giving an account of his move
ments on that morning Brown said he had
oversight himself and did not arrive at his
place of employment until between and
1:30 o'clock. He was utterly unable to ac-
count for his movements in the several
hours Intervening between the time Nellie
Turner says he left home and the time he
actually arrived on the farm where he was
employed. There We're many other small
circumstances going to cOrroborate Taylor's
testimony duplicating Brown.
ArraiGned for Trial.
These men were arraigned in Rockville
the 18th of May. having been indicted on
the preceding day. For the first time in
the history of the unity special term of
court was called fol he trial of these cases
oners filed affidavits to the effect that they
could not obtain fair trials in Montgomery
county and the court sent the cases to
Frederick. where they We're called for a
hearing July D. The men had been indicted
jointly. uf
The state asked for severance which
was granted by the court. The cases occu-
pied a week in the trial. the jurors bringing
in verdict in each case cf murder in the
first degree, after only few minutes de-
liberation. Immediately upon their convic-
ton both men were sentenced TO be hanged
In the past few days a Mr.. Belt of Chi
caSo, to whom Brown belonged in slave
days. had been making strenuous efforts to
obtain a repreve for Brown. The matter
was carried before the governor, who re-
fused to interfere, the Judges jury and of
hcials concerned in the case protesting