Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-20
BLOODHOUNDS TRACE PATH
Man Was Held Up and Attacked
by Two Men Immediately
Preceding the As
saSsination.

NEW YORK, June 2O.-Pelhams police
force which was busy yesterday trying to
solve the mysterious murder Of Julius T.
of his wife while walking in the grounds of
his beautiful estate, The Roses, has reach
ed the conclusion that robbery was the sole
motive and that the desperadoes who COM
mitted the crime made their escape on a
train bound for New York within fifteen
minutes after Mr.. Rosenheimer was
stricken down.
Examination of the victims body revealed
the fact that his gold watch had been
hastily torn from it's chain before the muir
derers fed. A broken section of the chain
with a locket attached was found yester-
day morning when the ground was care
fully searched at the spot where the owner
of The Roses was attacked. near his garage.
The watch bears the engraved initials j. T.
R., and In the hope of locating it and thus
ira cling the authors Of the crime CHER or
Police Marks of Pelham, with three of his
men, came to New York yesterday after
noon.
Evidence Of hasty fight was also found
in the fact that while Mr.. Rosenheimer's
pockets had been turned inside out in
hurried search for cash only one trousers
pocket had been completely rifed. In the
left-side pocket a rumpled So bill and 81 bill
had been overlooked, and a wallet the VIC
tim carried in his hip pocket, and which
contained SGT and his Communication ticket
and other personal effects, had not been
found.
Vain search was made. of nearly every
foot of the five acres composing the estate
for the weapon with which the deadly
blows were struck. Even the little Hutch
inson river, which is the boundary line
separating the village of Pelham from the
city of Mount Vernon, and also one of the
boundary lines Of The Roses, was dragged.
The police were forced to the conclusion
that the murderers carried their weapon
away with them.
There Crushing Blows.
Three distinct blows were struck each
with crushing force. The incised character
Of the wounds indicates that they were
probably inflicted with some heavy but
sharp-edged weapon, such as a cleaver or
an AK though 1t Is conceded that spade
might have been the implement used.
One wound is across the forehead over the
right eye. second is under the left ear.
Both of these are incised wounds of the
scalp and both crushed the skull. third
confused wound on the center Of the era
mum, Chief Marks thinks, was probably the
result of severe kick inflicted after Mr..
Rosenheimer fell His right arm, though
not wounded was badly confused at the
shoulder and wrist as if by the grasp of a
powerful man.
Close by the detached part Of the broken
watch chain were found the manufacture
ers artificial teeth, the plate having been
forced from his mouth by the violence Of
the assault, and also his golf cap, which
he carrying in his hand when he left
his wife during their evening stroll and
advanced toward the trespassers whom they
had seen climbing over the wall.
One of the mos extraordinary features
of this remarka BILE crime is the fact that
the rear of Mr.. Rosenhetmer's estate with
in 200 yards of the spot where he was
done to death on his own premises was
fairly swarming with local policemen at
the very moment when the murderers were
probably making their way through the
darkness from the scene of their crime
toward the Pelham station of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
SCOTS Story.
Benjamin Scott, a driver for the Pelham
Hygeia Ice Company, having finished his
rounds, had left his wagon in the ice COM
pany's stable and was returning home
afoot. His route led him along Beech
wood avenue, a lonely street, rarely lighted
which extends from the ice house along the
Hutchinson river to East I'd street on the
Mount Vernon side of that little stream
At one point Beechwood avenue runs only
about $50 feet in the rear of the Rosen-
hemer property. In completing his recent
improvements of The Roses the owner
had carried along the rear of his grounds
on the Pelham side of the stream stone
wall similar to that with which he had in
closed the front and sides of his five acres
Of private park land.
According to SCOTS story, he had reached
that point in his homeward journey at
about $50 clock Tuesday evening, when
two men, springing out from behind some
bushes, accosted him gruff1y with the de-
mand, GIVE us some money, quick" Scott,
who Is somewhat understood and not a
militant person, admits he was frightened.
He told the men he had money, but
then said; Wait" While they were look
ing him over and confirming his assertion
that he was a working man, Scott pulled
out OF his pocket a package of chewing
tobacco wrapped in tin foil and handed 1t
toward them. Scott says he thinks they
mistook the CLINT of the tin foil in the I'M
certain light for revolver However