The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-25
The Pine Street Case.


TCopyright 1901. By j. w MuMer.l
Inspector jackson had charge Of the
Pine street case. At tx Pine street on
the third floor, was the ONCE OF sam
uel Goldstein. the money lender. One
afternoon at 8 O'clock d customer called
at the otIices to find the money lender
dead in his chair. He had been shot
through the head. The Office boy had
been given half holiday, and the Jew
was alone in his Office Tie case was
given to Inspector Jackson. and Ii be.
gan ID unfold from the very first. II
was not 4 case of suicide. No pistol
was found III the room. fellow ten
ant had seen young man leave the
office ten minutes before the murder
was discovered and was able to give
q good description Of him
He went among the clubs with the
description be had secured, and within
three days be had his man. John Haf-
burger, son Of wealthy widow. but
who had become estranged from his
mother on account OF his extrava.
gances, was the party arrested He
was known to be hard up ana to have
borrowed money OF the Jew.
When arrested he admitted that he
had visited No. n. while the murder
had been committed in the heart Of
London, Hamburger was found and ar.
rested ia a town d hundred miles away.
The first steps were easy for the
Inspector. The second bothered him
some. Hamburger admitted that be had
called. He admitted that be was
armed. He had paid a portion Of bis
Indebtedness, and the money lender
had taken bis note without indorse-
ment for the balance He had the old
note with him as proof After leav-
ing Pine street he had received 4 letter
from a man IN business ia the town
where be was arrested and had &c.
cepted the offer Of q place. He had
had 10 sell his revolver to raise the
money to pay his fare down. lie had
not seen a London paper for three OF
four days, and knew nothing of the
murder. He had left the Office In the
best Of spirits, and the shylock had
even wished him well.
The new note was not found among
Goldsteln's papers. but, as an Offset
10 that many other notes were missing
The man to whom the revolver was
sold was found All the chambers Of
the weapon were loaded It was
claimed that the prisoner had cleaned
the one he discharged before selling
the weapon. The letter was produced,
aud the writer swore that he wrote It,
but the inspector got over this by call
ing II a coincidence" he had what be
called a solid case against Hamburger
when the day OF trial came on. aud
only one thing saved the prisoner from
the gallows. 1t was proved that he
had had epileptic ats and that there
were occasions when he was not re-
gponsible for his actions Taking this
into consideration the Judge merclfully
sentenced him TO prison for life. The
statement was made by Goldstein's
son that score OF notes were missing
from his fathers strong box. As liar-
burgers new note was among them, It
was believed that he had grabbed the
package after shooting the money
lender. It was asked why be should
kill and rob the man after things bad
been Fixed to his satisfaction, but the
answer was that he lied. No new note
had been given. No pity had been
shown.
when two years had passed inspect
or Jackson resigned from the Yard and
set up "A private agency at IS Pine
street, directly opposite the scene Of
the murder He could look right across
tho street and see the very spot where
Goldstein was sitting when shot. lie
had occupied his rooms six weeks be-
fore be saw a bullet hole IN one Of the
front windows when he had inspect
ed Il and wondered over 1t he looked
across the street with a glass, and saw
a corresponding hole IN a window in
Goldstein's former offices. It was exact