New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-03
HELD AS SLAYER
IN GOOTMfN CASE.
Police Say Prisoner CoHfCsses
Of Part IN Crime.

The Burglar who killed AIoses Goodman
in The latters home, at No. il East ioath
street, early on The morning Of January
-. and wounded Gootman's son. Isaac. was
arrested in Yonksrs on Saturday. charged
with shoplifting- according 70 A statement
made ~ Police Headquarters yesterday by
Inspector McCafferty.
The prisoner gave the name OF George
Schwartz. but IS known. the police say,
hr several other names. his alleged Grim
iual record being a long one. On Sunday,
according 10 McCafIerty. ir tre presence
- Captain Lent and Lieutenant MCGOWAN,
OF yonkers. and Inspector McCaffertY. the
nan confessed that he shot Goodman. At
the same time he implicated. it is said.
one OF two accomplces. and on the
strength of his statement the police have
arrested Joseph Rosenwald. known to the
department also as Jimmy the Crab.
According to the inspector. the confess
sion Of Schwartz was voluntary, and was
substantially as follows:
With Jimmy the Crab and another
man went TO the Goodman home at
r. m ON January 30 TO rob the place. We
gained an entrance through the hall door.
which had been left open, and went down
into the cellar. thence up one flight to the
basement in the rear. where we opened a
window into the yarG. strung a rope 10 the
fire escape and lifted ourselves up to a fiat
above Cootman-s occupied by family
named Goldsmith.
we found window open and climbed
IN and got a lot of 5ewelry- Then we
3immied open q window OF Goodman
apartments and ! climbed in. leaving my
two confederates OF the fire escape. Sud-
denly a man on a couch grabbed me and
~ 7 -o1,yln
and fired twice A second man then at
t. cked me, and shot him. too
Then I slid down the fire escape, pre-
ceded by the others. We three pulled the
fcoe after Us 20 hide all clews. We then
vert 90 a Turkish bath at Madison avenue
and l25th street. and the next day we took
me jewelry to a jeweller in Eighth ave
nue. near 1cSth street, and sold it
Detectives got a warrant TO search the
tewelry shop, but none of the Goldsmith
tewelry was found, and the proprietor de-
MED having bought any from Schwartz
When he looked the prisoner over, how
ever. he remembered that he had bought
a razor from him.
Rosenwald was arrested on Monday night
and held yesterday by Magistrate House, IN
the Harlem court, for examination to-Inor-
row. The police are trying TO obtain the
custody OF Schwartz from the 1onkers po-
lice. and have him confront Rosenwald and
repeat his confession. The alleged accom-
Mice denies all knowledge Of the crime,
and saws that he does not even know
Schwartz.
The inspector asserts that the greater
part of the prisoners confession can be
corroborated Schwartz's description OF
The jewelry stolen from the Goldsmith nat
does not agree, however, with that given
by the family.
According TO the police, the pictures OF
both men are in the Rogues' Gallery, al
though Rosenwald has never been convict
cd. He was arrested, il is said, on Janu-
arv % on a charge of burglary, but was
discharged bv Magistrate Cornell. Schwartz
was arrested it is stated, in this city
about ten days ago for carrying a re-
volver but was let off under a suspended
sentence IN the Court of Special Sessions
INSPECTOR McCaferty says that Schwartz
mas an inmate Of the House Of Refuge in
J1,I,- 7aG2. and that in October of the same
Year he was sent to the penitentiacy for
four months for grand larceny. On Janu-
sry Il 1905 il is stated, he was sent TO
Sing Sing for burglary. and was discharged
only a few months ago
The prisoner said his real name was
Penefe1lre but that he had taken the name
Of his mothers second husband. He was
norm in Mexico. he said, twenty-four years
RSo.