The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
YRGCNEN SLEW ROSENHEIMER
TRIED TO MOLD UP A DRIVER
JUST BEFORE THE CRIME.

Railroad. Where They We're Seen by n
woman Took Murdered Mans watch
$751; 800 Reward offered for Arrest,
A reward Of $500 has been offered for
the arrest and conviction OF the two men
who murdered julius T. ~Rosenheimer, the
needle manufacturer. In the garden OF his
country place, The Roses. at Pelham. on
Tuesday night. Edward R~osenheimer. a
son. has offered S.. 900 and the town OF Pei
ham $500. This amount will be Increased
to-day by 50 600 from Westchester county.
The Pelham police are practically certain
that the murder was committed by two
-eggmen. While the yeggmen were beat
ing the aged manufacturer to death before
the ewes OF his wife the police we're seeking
them FOR another crime not more than 300 or
go feet from the Rosenheimer garden.
Henri Scott. a driver for the Pelham
Hygeia Ice Company, was held up by two
nen shortly before . O'Clock on Beechwood
avenue. a dark lane running back of the
Rosenheimer property The two men. who
so far as Scott could Judge were Americans,
ordered him 10 hand over his money,
BE quick about II too. and don't try
TO make any trouble il you know what's
good for you. one Of them said.
OCOIS TtdCIltb lDlO lllb mp l'pShCA "iA'
pulled out a long packag e of fine cut tobacco
which was wrapped in tinfoil. Evidently
the two gym took it for a revolver,
for they jumped into the bushes al the
side Of the road. A few feet from the
road. behind the bushes, is the stone fence
on the northern side Of the RoEenheimer
garden.
Scott ran until I've came to Robert s.
t-..., lz,,zs about n llnoI ayvav vlInra
he told what had occurred. MIR. Levy
called up the police in Mount Vernon, but
he learned from them that they had already
got a report of the holdup from a women
whom Scott had warned az he ran. The
Mount Vernon chief had already started
two men for the scene and had instructed
Patrolman Morrissey. who was on the beat,
TO make a search for the men.
Mr.. Levy and the patrolman had just
entered the bushes when they heard the
three shots which MIR. Rosenheimer's SON
in-law fred TO arouse the M ighbOrs. Mr.
Levy, Patrolman Morrissey, the two police
men who had been sent ont from the Mount
Vernon police station and one or two blue
GOATS from the Pelham force were all in the
Rosenbeimer garden within ten minutes
utter the owner had been struck down,
lne ponce DtitNt luhl w wv NSbhHhVH
who held up Scott had climbed the stone
lence al the foot of the Rosenheimer gar
den and had started across the property
toward the New Haven railroad tracks
when they were noticed by Mr.. Rosen-
ieimsr. After having beaten him over
the head they fed over the north wall of
the garden. This was established early
Yesterday morning, when a bloodhound
owned by George HiRginhotbam OF North
Pelham was put on the tran.
The dog after he had crossed the fence
struck straight away across some meadows
in the direction Of the railroad tracks, The
scent was strong, for he bayed loudly and
garden is about the length of four city
blocks from the railroad tracks. When the
dog got near the railroad he turned to the
right and ran up near the street. The trail
led directly behind Mrs. 4. Hegeman's
house and ended at a Toulouse, only a
short distance from the station.
The police believe that the men stopped
AT thist Toulouse to look their clothes over
and waited there until the 9:03 train came
along for New York. The bloodhound
circled the tracks over time and time again,
but he couldn't get the scent.
Further evidence that the men went to
the railroad tracks was furnished by Mrs.
Hegeman, who said that she stepped out OF
the back door OF her house about Q O'Clock
on Tuesday night and saw two men standing
in the shadow Of some bushes. She thought
then that they we're trying to hide, She
heard them talking and took then for ltai-
ians. In the morning when she heard OF the
murder she went out to the spot where the
two men had bee nstanding and found a piece
81 white window cord about two feet long.
with a moose in the end OF il. There was a
stain on the cord, and the police think that
the murderers may have had a railroad
spike or some other piece of iron fastened
10 the enc of this cor for a Weapon. A
careful search was made Of the Hegeman
property and all along the trail which the
dog took, but nothing was found.
There are three wounds on the murdered
mans head. Two Of them, one just over
the right eye and the other under the eft
ear. look as il they had been made by some
sharp instrument. The cuts are clean
Of the head, the skull being crushed. The
police believe that the first two wounds
we're made probably by a railroad spike
and that the murderers then finished their
lob by kicking the PROSTATE man on the
crown of the head.
The two men made a hurried attempt TO
90 through Mr.. Rosenheimer's pockets;
One Of the trousers pockets was turned
inside out and its contents gone. A waist
coat pocket also was turned out, but the
murderers had overlooked some money
stuffed away in one corner, They took,
his watch. Several inks Of the chain and
a locket which Mr.. Rosenheimer wore
on it were found on the ground yesterday
morning
Mrs. Rosenheimer was still in A critical
con iition yesterday. but she was able to
tell her son what had occurred in the garden
go far as she knows. Mr.. Rosenheimer
had asked her 20 70 out and look at the
new rose garden which he had laid out
especially for her They had walked down
the pony road 10 the creek and were on their
way back 10 the house when she noticed
two men standing about Is feet away,
Mr.. RoseIheimer said he would go over
10 them and see what they wanted on his
grounds. Mrs. Rosenheimer walked on a
few feet and stopped under a tree, II
vas then that she heard her husband cry;
"Oh. Mamma. Mamma, they are killing
me-"
She turned. hut could sec only dimlyiwhat
was happening. Then ehe shrieked and
fell in a faint Mrs. Rosenheimer was un-
Conscious the greater part of the night,
Sic was under the care Of nurses and a
physician all # yesterday.
Practically the only clue that the police
have to guide them in their search for the
murderers is the descriptions which Scott
gives Of them He says that one Of the
rcen was about 8 feet 10 inches tall and
velched about lis pounds He wore a
eoft light hat and a DARK suit and had a