Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-12
CHARGED WITH ABORTION.
Police Arrest New York Woman at
Hcre of Aaron PecI<-She Claims to
Be Midwife.


Mrs. Clara Goldstein Of New York,
charged with being fugitive from
Justice was arrested Thursday noon
by Captain Richmond. Mrs. Goldstein
was stopping at the home of Aaron
Peck, on Natchaug street, when arrest
ed.
The captain received a telegram on
Thursday forenoon to be on the look
out for the woman, as it was thought
she was in this vicinity officer Nc
Arthur CHANGED to see Aaron Peck on
the street just before Mr.. Peck was
about to board a train for New York,
and he asked him if he knew Of such
a woman, and Mr.. Peck made reply
that he did. and when asked if he knew
where she was said that she was at
his house. Officer Macarthur watched
Mr. Peck get aboard the train, and
then told Captain Richmond that the
woman was at the Peck home The
captain went to the house and on the
way saw Aaron footing it across the
lots to beat him to the house. Mr..
Peck had evidently left the train and
thought that he could warn Mrs. Cold
stein ere the hand of the law was laid
upon her, but he reckoned without the
captains ability.
In an interview with Samuel Drib-
ben from the detective bureau of New
York, who came to this city Thursday
evening to take the prisoner back to
the metropolis on the o'clock train
via the Air Line, it was learied that
Mrs. Goldstein, who was handsomely
gowned and fairly ablaze with dia-
monds, is 2S years old, had been mar
ried and had two children. She IS
charged with abortion which is a
common thing isSSher case, stated the
detective. Mrs. Goldstein processes to
be midwife, and she simply came to
Willimantic for a rest from her labors.
being advised to do so last Friday by
a DR.. Isaacs. Mrs. Goldstein said that
she was in the habit OF coming here
every fortnight, and that she did so to
see one OF her children who stopped at
Mr.. Peck's home. She claims that she
had no reason for getting away from
the city and that she would go back
and fight the case.
Detective Dribben said that she was
charged with the crime February AMI
that she jumped the city at the first
opportunity. Detective Dribben said
that he had also had Joseph Peck ar
rested as an accessory to the crime in
aiding and abetting Mrs. GOldstein.
Peck was landed Wednesday evening
and is held without bail.
The fugitive was apparently IN
ruffled over the fact that she was ap-
pretended and that she was to be
whirled away to New York on such a
serious charge. When asked if she de-
sired to eat anything, she made answer
that her stomach was so unsettled by
being sick recently that she could not
eat thing, and that she was all ready
to return TO New York
A number who have seen the woman
in the case, state that she is the same
well gowned woman that was quite
frequently seen in Joseph Peck's COM
pany in this city and Norwich last
summer on various occasions. Mr.. Peck
when he left Willimantic the last time
said that he was to start a vaudeville
theater in New York. When asked re-
garding Mr.. Peck's employment previ-
Gus to his arrest Wednesday evening,
Detective Dribben said that he had
not been doing anything in the line of
work. Peck is the man who was in
the lunch business in this city and lat
er assisted in running the Peck lunch
room in Norwich.