Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-23
DETAILS STORY OF
DAUGHTERS RUIN
Mrs. Rosenstiel in Freeport
Trial Accuses DIR. B. A.
Arnold of Crime.
ATTACKED IN SlCKBED?
More Obscene Letters Alleged to
Have Been Written by Ply
tican Are Introduced.

Freeport, Ill. Oct. Pa dramatic
scene was entered before the jury in
Judge Lands court in the trial of DR..
Benjamin A. Arnold, charged with
mailing obscene letters 10 Miss Alta
Rosenstiel, a farmers daughter living
near Scioto Mills. Mrs. Sofia Rosen-
stiel, the girls mother, took the wit
ness stand for the government and
told of the alleged assault on her
daughter by DR.. Arnold.
Mrs. RCsens-iel wept during her re-
citai of the sory. At its conclusion
she was on the verge CT physical and
mental collapse.
The witness told how DR.. Arnold,
thu trusted family physician for years,
had taken advantage Of the mothers
absence in the summer kitchen TO
commit the alleged crime while the
girl lay in bed convalescen, from an
operation for appendicitis. After re-
lating this charge in detail, Mrs. Ros-
enstiel continued:
MY daughter and were alone in
! the house at the time the doctor called.
/ There were four men at work building
a barn at some distance from the
house. Upon my husbands return
from town about IL ocock | informed
| him what had transpired.
HUSBAND ACCUSED DOCTOR.
The following day my husband and
I drove to Freeport TO see DIR. Arnold
n reference TO the crime which he had
committed upon our daughter. The
doctor invited US to sit down. and l
vas so weak and overcome with grief
and shame that | did 81, down, but my
husband sad: We didn't come to sit
down He pointed his finger al DR..
Arnold and said: You ruined our
daughter
DR.. Arnold denied IT, He said: 1T
is not So ] told him he was a liar
He then hung his head for a minute
and said: Well, it was not my fault
l again told him he was a liar. We
then left and returned home
"A day or two following the doctor
called me up on the telephone and said
he would like TO have us come down
10 his Office. He said, Come in and fix
the matter up. He did not care to say
much over the phone. ! made no re-
ply and hung up the receiver. l have
never spoken to him since"
On cross examination Attorney r,
R. Tiffany brought out that the girl
had made no cutlery at the time of the
alleged attack and that Dr. Arnold re
NAMED in the neighborhood several
hours calling on patients on the day OF
the alleged crime.
MORD OBSCENE LETTERS.
The government succeeded in pre-
senting in evidence two additional OBJ
scene letters received by the Rosen
stiels. This makes six letters now
before the jury. Four OF them consti
tute the four counts in the indictment
A seventh letter involved in the case
has not been presented.
Much OF the session was taken w
with the demonstration OF DR.. Robert
NJ. Walker. Marshall d. Elweu and
Master in Chancery James /. Ennis
handwriting experts from Chicago
Each OF the experts gave it as hi.
opinion that the handwriting in ths
letters complained of are in the hand
Triting OF DR.. Arnold.
Attorney Tiffsny's line OF question
ing in the cross examination OF the ex
perts indicated that the defense viii
contend that persons unknown to tn,
defendant purposely obtained sample
OF his handwriting and initiated 1t.