The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-21

HIS OHcHCC Ludy Ut pulIISlCu VII passing the. end of the cemetery when he heard an outcry. He and men walking in the opposite direction ran into a path skirting the south end of the cemetery and running through a thicket growing out of an extensive swamp. About 30 feet from the road way, partly screened by the under brush. they found Rockman leaning over the girl. She was hysterical. For the moment not realizing the enornity of their discovery the men walked in and asked Rockman what had hap pened.
 "'The girl must have fallen" he said She's hurt" The child's clothes were torn and bloodstained and her face and throat showed marks of the mans brutality.
 Little Florence suddenly sat bolt upright, from where she had been lying between two saplings and cried out at sight of Rockman.
 "He tried to kill me.''
 Rockman then retreated to his bi- cycle, leaped on it, as Jacobson cried out to the others to capture him, and started to flee. Jacobson had intend ed to care for the child, whom he at once recognized, while the others pursued the culprit. But he saw the man gettine away and rushed out af- ter him. Overtaking him because the heavy road impeded the wheelman's S wheel and unseated the rider. Aban- doning his bicycle and axe, Rockman then sealed a fence and ran towards Crockett's yarnish factory. In pur- suit were John NJ. Tierney, 1125 Han cock avenue, and Albert Lundberg, 412 Dewey street, who kept after the man until he made gesture as if to pull a pistol. Then he skirted the Varnish factory retraced his steps to the now deserted scene of the crime and fled through the path south of the ceme- .tery.
 Young Jacobson meanwhile had called out Florence's parents. They live a little to the south of the scene of the attack, with but one house be- tween the two places. The neighbor- hood is not heavily travelled. Father and mother ran out and carried the hysterical little girl home. Young Ja- cobson rode the abandoned bicycle of Rockman to the Third Precinct police station while the girls father hur- ried for Dr. C. c. Hoyt.
 When the automobile patrol reach ed the scene about 4:30 the men who were in pursuit of Rockman had gone. Policeman Ladd, Fisher, Charles Gorgas secured the woods and streets in search of the man but to no avail.
 At 2 o'clock Lundberg and Tierney came into police headquarters with the informat.on that they had led in the pursuit, and they knew the fugitive by sight. He was once trolleyTnan, they said, and his broth er-in-law, named Mcclellan, was em- ployed at the D. M. Read Co. Through this information the police soon had his name. Edward Thompson the clerk in the Hawley Hardware Co. who sold the axe, also recalled the sale when the police located him, and man.
 By o'clock Captain Arnold and Detectives Cronan, Hackett and Fox were at Rockman's house, 2550 Fair field avenue, the northwest corner Of Ellsworth street. and Fairfield avenue, panied the police. They called for him but his wife said he wouldn't be home until g. When he came back he had another axe. The police had been in hiding covering the various means of leaving the house, and when Rock submitted to arrest quietly, but his wife. when she learned the nature of the charge became hysterical and chung to him 50 that the police had to forcibly separate her from the pr1- soner.
 ROCkIndn kneW the two Iu0n w ilO had pursued him, and made no at- tempt whatever to deny his guilt. He was soon locked in cell. He was questioned for a short time as to the assault upon Clara M. Rowell but he denied the accusation.
 . Rocknan had returned to Bridge port, bought another axe and come home with it. But directly after the crime he had returned home and changed his dark gray suit for a black one.
 Rockman was born in Clinton, a Swedish doctor who practiced ex- tensive1y in his native land. Rock man knows nothing of his father. He can't recall having seen him, and his mother never told him much of him. His mother and he lived in East Bridgeport when he was a small boy. He attended the Barnum school, and his mother kept boarding house
 He learned the trade of machinist in the A. H. Nilsson Machine Co. and worked at various times in the Loco mobile Co.,, the Yost Typewriting Co. chance to use his knowledge of me chanics. Invariably his associates say he was quiet, orderly sort cf He took a keen interest in his business, and read almost in- cessantly. His home, is we'll stocked
  azines and books on mechanics.
 About three years ago he wed the daughter of Charles E. Mcclellan, steamfitter. A few months ago Rock man moved with his wife to the old brown house at Ellsworth street and Fairfield avenue part of which is oc- supied by his wife's people. His wife is a pretty brunette, intensely devo:- ed to her husband. They have son two years old.
 The attack upon Clara Powell. which the police are now satisfied may be charged to the prisoner, though they have not sufficient direct proof to charge him with the offence, was made on the night Of Thursday. Oct 20. She was returning from moving picture theatre in State street, and walked up Colorado avenue towards her home in Maplewood avenue. AS she passed Fairfield avenue she noticed young man waiting as if for a car. and when she recalled after the assault the circumstances preceding it. she said she felt as if he was the man who fnIlavUod har