Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22
Body Identified as S. J. Rosen.
bloom of Windber, Pa.
MISSING SON is SOUGHT
Disappeared Mysteriously From
Home at Same Time.
CLUE IS GIVEN BY BROTHER
Clothes of Dead Man Recognized by
Relatives-Police Keen on
Trail Of Suspect.

NEW YORK. August IA great
stride toward the solution OF Camden's
trunk mystery was made yesterday when
the victim was identified beyond reason
able doubt as Solomon Jacob Rosen-
bloom Of Windber. Pa. and the facts
brought out by the investigations OF
County Detectives Smith and Carol
pointed TO the dead mans son Alexander
and other members OF his family
1t was said by relatives and by Henry
Friedman, clerk in Rosenbloom's general
store, that there had been frequent
squabbles and threats in the Rosenbloom
family and that the father had been
antagonized by all. because.of the strict
watch he kept on his exchequer He in
turn accused his wife and son Alexander
Of taking goods from the store and SELL
ing them without returning the money TO
him.
Alexander a Rover.
The relatives also said that Alexander
was OF rowing nature and always de-
manding large sums OF money from his
father Refusals led to frequent bitter
orawls, especially when the father was
under the influence OF liquor.
The facts brought out by the detectives
showed that the day the father disap-
peared the son. for whom the police Of
two states are now searching started out
on long trip which included New York.
Philadelphia and Baltimore. at which
place he ordered goods in the fathers
name to the amount of $4,000. At the
same time he advertised a closing out sale
or all the merchandise in the store, which
was to include the new shipments
The detectives have traced his move
ments till the day he mysteriousIy dis
appeared after being told by a relative
tnat the police were about to make him
explain the absence of his father. They
have found the liveryman who hauled a
neaVy trunk from the general store to
the Windber railroad station, and then
traced the trunk from Chestnut street
FERRY to Mount Ephraim. near where the
body was found. The only fact they are
puzzled over is the presence of a rhila-
delphia newspaper of the date of Noyem-
Der II, while the trunk was shipped on
November 10 and did not arrive till
November 20.
Tracing Missing Son.
The detectives and Assistant District
Attorney Wolverton were reluctan; to
tell just how they learned OF the Wind
Der clue, saying they wished to protec.
another person who first limited the pos
sibility to them. II was learned later
that the man from whom the first in
formation came was the eldest son OF
the dead man. William Rosenbloom, who
lives at Piedmont. w. Va.
1t Is said he wrote to the prosecutor
suggesting the man might be his father.
who was missing Eager to grasp at
anything that would help them solve
one of the greatest mysteries mysteri-
GUS New Jersey has ever seen, they
worked the clue.
John Smith then went up to Windber.
while Carol worked the local end.
Smith returned with Friedman, who VOL
unteered to come. and also brought the
addresses OF Philadelphia relatives OF
Kosenbloom. whose identity he refuses
to reveal. These, with the clerk, iden-
titled the body.