The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-25
TRUNK MYSTERY
 FINALLY SOLVED. Dead Body Found In Woods Is Identified AWFUL CONFESSION MADE Wife and Daughter of the Dead Man confesses That His Son Killed
 Him and Concealed the
 Body Last Fall.
AWFUL CONFESSION MADE

Baltimore. August 24.-According to the detective auth critics of this city. Mrs. Bonnie Rosenbloom and her daughter, Eva. confessed today that the body found in the trunk at Belle Mawr, near Camden, N. J., on August 16, was that of Samuel ]. Rosenbloom of Winder, Pa, husband of the elder woman, and he was killed by his son, Alexander Rosenbloom, at their home at Winder, Pa., on or about Novem- Der 12 last. The woman said the cause of the murder was that her husband had beaten them.
 The detectives tried to secure an ad- mission from the women that they helped conceal the body, but their questions along that line met with pos- itive denials from both mother and daughter. They declared that they had no part in placing the corpse in the trunk, and that they did not know where the receptacal and It's gruesome contents were hidden prior to removal to Belle Mawr. Eva Rosenbloom told practically the same story as that re- lated by her mother, but went more into details regarding her fathers al- loged quarrelsome disposition and h fs habit of beating hee mother, her brother and herself.
 Mrs. Rosenbloom, who is 57 years old, and her daughter, who is 16 were arrested this morning at their home 152 East Baltimore street. Mrs. Rosen- bloom and her daughter had lived in flat at the East Baltimore street house since July IA. last, having come to this city from Winder, tn e scene of the mur- der, because one of the sons of the family, Barry Rosenbloom, had em- ployment here. They had been living here very quietly afnt ses,s no idea that their presence was known to the nolice until yesterday when they were told that the house was being watched. Two young men and young woman, Sarah Abramovitz, who were in the Rosen- bloom apartments at the time of the arrest, were also taken to headquar- ters, but were released after being questioned. Sarah Abramovitz is relative of the Rosenblooms and was visiting them.
 For nearly an hour Mrs. Rosenbloom and her daughter ware "sweated" by De-
 
 Rosenbloom said that she knew nothing of her husband beyond the fact that he had disappeared from their home and store in Winder, Pa., on Nvember 12, last, after having a quarrel with herself and two children, Eva and Alexander. Then Evan Rosenbloom was closely questioned and becoming nervous broke down and told the detective enough to make them still more closely question the mother. Ivf na11 M,-c a1o Ietr and made a statement the substance of which was disclosed by detectives. Mrs. Rosenbloom said on the night of tho murder her husband quarrelled with her and with her son and daughter She and her daughter she said went up stairs to their room. They heard loud words in the room beneath. In the morn- Ing when they came down stairs her hus- band was not there.
 They asked her son Alexander where his father was. He replied that he had "gone away Later, Mrs. Rosenbloom said her son said to her: "I have killed father because he quarrelled with all of use and beat you and Eva"
 Mrs. Rosenbloom says that she did not know of her son concealing the body of his father in the trunk and that neither she nor her daughter Eva asked him any questions They sold trunks in the store, she said, and she supposed that her son placed the body in one of the trunks and carried the trunk and body into the stable in the rear of the store, where he kept 1t until he was ready to take it away. Mrs. Rosenbloom said that she did not know of her sons whereabouts and that he went away a few days after November 21.
 The mother and daughters will be held for the Pennsylviana authorities. As yet no formal charges have been laid against them.