New-York tribune., 1908-03-14
ABE ROTHSCHILD AGAIN
BETRAYED BY GLASS EYE.
"Diamond Bessie's" Slayer Caught
at Get-Rich-Quick Game Here.

Wien con1pIalne0 tnree days dSo W
Walter S. Mayer. postoffice inspector in charge
of the New York district that the man with the
glass eye who seemed to be in charge of the
office of The Successful Business Man, at NO.
3oa Broadway. was handing con" game to the
readers of the spiritedIy written circulars ad-
vertising that publication to be- Mr.. Mayer lis
tened attentivey.
When he was reminded that person named
NJ. G. Rothschild making the alluring oter
to hand out fine cash register to anybody VINO
would pay s4 for years subscription to Amer
ica's great weekly trade journal" Mr.. Mayer
sat up and recalled the time. about thirty years
back in Cincinnati. when one Abe Rothschiid
had shot himself in the right eye while trying
prevent his being taken back alive to Jefferson
Tex. where he had killed Diamond Bessie
Moore. In 1877.
The association of the name with the man
with the counterfeit eye set Mr.. Mayer busy,
with the result that Inspectors Reddy and Kin
caid and Detectives Nelson and McConville,
after two days watch. got Rothschild yes
terday.
This morning will be arraigned before
Commissioner Shields with his alleged partner
Arnold G. Calm, the charge of using the
mails with intent defraud-
Inspector Mayer had not noticed the glass
eye when the promoter of The Successful Busi-
ness Man" called on him at the end Of February
in regard to renting box in the General Post
office When word reached him few days later
that a tremendous amount of mail coming
In from all points of the compass for 1.-THE Sue
cessful Business Man." he thought it was merely
in reply to some advertising scheme to boom the
publication. AS complaint had been
formally entered against the promoters Of the
new enterprise. Rothschild and his partner
would probably have gathered in much more
than the $1,000 they have obtained during their
fortnigflts pushing of the publication, ex-
cept for the mention Of that eye.
THE GAME WORKED WELL.
Efforts to find RothschiId proved futile until
yesterday noon, when he was nabbed in Broad
way. At the Office, at No. 3O2 Broadway. the
inspectors and detectives also found Calm and
q woman who said she Mrs Rothschild-
The coufscated contents of the desk revealed
the promoters of 1.-THE Successful Business Man"
as shrewd workers in hard times
The bait that brought in 5000 was the offer
of q cash register, recording sales from 1 cent
10 $1,000, TO everybody who would pay 81 for
the weekly publication designed to show
merchants how the smartest business men
act The offer made in circular letters bear
ing date OF February % good only until
March II, when the first issue was to make its
appearance. 1t never appeared, and the offer
was extended as good until March 81, and the
money continued to pour in.
When Inspector Mayer looked over Rothschild
yesterday he recognized him as the Abe"
Rothschild to whom as long ago as 1896 the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General in his
annual report, gave the credit of having one
of the greatest criminal careers Of anybody in
the United States
To the inspector Rothschild finally admitted
his identity with the of a wealthy Cincin-
natl banker and jewelIer who had killed 'Dia-
mond Bessie" Moore. On reaching Texas at
that time he narrowly escaped lynching but
tried and sentenced TO be hanged. His
family came to his defence and after four and
q half years he acquitted. He admitted
that his freedom had cost $4,000. and that
he could cause sensation by telling how he
got his liberty.
ROTHSCHILD's LATER RECORD.
Then he came TO New York and was arrested
for fraud in connection with the failure with
liabilities of $4,000 of a business enterprise
IN which he was interested. He escaped con-
viction, took up gambling as a vocation and
was d well known figure for years at the race
tracks OF New York, London and Paris.
In 1889, according to his admission. he
became a professional swinder developing a
penchant for securing diamonds and other easily
Of the mails and express railroad companies
Arrested at San Lorenzo, Cal. on September
80, 1894, for crooked work accomplished at
Moberly, Me, in July of the same year. he
escaped from deputy marshal at Little Rock
Ark, on November L. In March of the follow
ing year he turned up at Swainsboro, Ga but
got away with S4,4Oo worth of diamonds, fraud
ulently obtained, and was in St. Mary's Ontario
before he was nabbed.
Brought back to Missouri, he was sentenced
on March i, 1886, to serve four years To the
postal authorities he bOasted at the time of his
conviction that there were al least POO criminal
charges against him In the United States every
state and territory being represented and that
he had also committed crimes up to that time
in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, England and France
His whereabouts from the time of his release
from the Missouri penitentiary TO his arrest
yesterday are unknown TO Inspector Mayer
At least 10000 circulars day are said 70
have been sent out by Rothschild since he tool.
desk room at No. 302 Broadway No register
Of the kind which this successful business man.
offered in his circulars, the inspectors saw couId
be made for anything near the price of 81