The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-23
ROBBERY HAS
 MADE GAINS
 > Finds New Support in
 Murder. GIvER OF CHECK COMES HERE Tells of TribuIations and Character
 of GoIdstein. Isaae Fruckman Kaew oae of Murdered saen in Rsuma.is s.s Gave Pslice Aatherits>s Some
 AnteccSeats. -..4
GIvER OF CHECK COMES HERE

Believing now almost beyond doubt ehat Abraham Goldstein and Leo Spiegel were murdered by desperadoes. the pc lice are bending every energy on seek ing a trail left by the felons as they departed from the city. Taking the house where the murder occurred. and the spot on Hall Street where the check was found as line points, mounted men are daily securing the suburbs beyond the city in which direction the assas- sins are supposed to have taken, in an effort, if possible, to find other signs" that may have been dropped by the fu- gitives,
 The statement made by the negroes. Jim Afford and Frank Dawson, that they saw a pistol in Goidstein's hand while he was dying. is now more or less discredited. And believing in the story Mrs SpieSei told, that neither of the white men was armed, the presence of . pistol In the murdered mems posses- sion is passed up as not accurate. If Goidstein did have pistol, the police say, certainly Mrs. Spiegei would not have removed 1t. and 1t is beyond belief that the assassins would have returned for it after 1t had seen by other nee groes.
 To further substantiate Mrs. Spiegefs statement that her husband and lodger were unarmed. Isaac Fruckman. with
 
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 Fruckman came to the city Friday to take charge of his dead friends af- fairs and settled with Undertaken Tice for the funeral expenses. He said, as EoIdstein's friends here have stated. that Goldstein was comparatively well educated and certainly was well read. Books were found In Goldstein's trunk that proved him something of student of the best literature. Shakespeare, Omar and other classics were found in his trunk, all bearing traces of hay. ing been well perused.
 check to Goldstein some days ago. It is dated January II, and said 1t was in response to request from Gpldstein for funds the stranger having found peddiing dull in the vicinity of Mont gomery. He says the dead man came to New York from Roumania ten years ago, and worked for five years in Brooklyn in a clothing store, later com ing to Brunswick and securing employ ment for two years as a tailor with Fruckmah. Shortly before Christmas, Goldstein came to Montgomery to seek work, but finding none that suited, tried to make living as 8 peddler.
 Added to the searchers from the po- lice force are now deputies of the sher- if, but although the rivalry between the two depArtfnents Is keen, and adds Fest to the already dfiigent search. the mystery Is stfiI unsolved, although sev- eraI theories have been, to all intents and purposes, eliminated.
 Fruckma1l says that both the dead HounaniafAs have many relatives Tn the old country--qo1dstein. especially, who is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters.
 It Is the custom of the local police men to try to. remember the faces Of as many local negroes As possible. and even the meager Identification given by the wife of one of the dead men. is a valuable clue The policemen are dig Rine into this work of identify by ehm- inatton, but as yet have not missed a familiar face. At the same time. the thought that. strange negroes com nitted the deed is not given entire cre- dence, for those who killed them keem to have known much about them.
 Another phase of the question is the possibility of old experienced hands in crime having been the perpetrators. Every night the police force lock up from two to half dozen tramps who are migrating South to escape the hard ships of the winter, and 1t Is possible that we'll trained felons may have biackened their faces and gone dis Ruised as negroes. It is believed that whoever committed the deed, had ac- complices to watch in the dark through the window which Mrs. Spiegel says she jumped. and as the bed in which the S20o was hid is in the same room. the putting away, of the money may have been seen from the outside. This theory of espionage from the street is substantiated to some extent by the newly broken back fence and severed