Year: 1873

Iho AtOschAWoAS OSsos
The judges, lawyers and Grand Jury seem
strangely confused about the merits of the


Rosenzweig case The Granl Inquest having


had the matter before them failed to find o


bill for murder. and this against the charge
Of the Recorder. Yot, if Rosenzweig, this
Wholesale butcher. did not commit murder,
we strangely mistake tho facts and the law
applicable to the horrible transaction, as they
were manifested upon former trial
What were these? One Alice Augusta
Bowlsby parted in eNewark, on o certain
Wednesday, from her mother and sister,
stating that she intended to visit Now York


She then had upon her person clothing and
jewelry, and in her hand q fillsd portmant teau,
all of considerable value. Upon the afternoon
of the ensuing Saturday her nude body,
oramped into trunk and enveloped in o
coverlid, was discovered at the Hudson River
Railroad depot Tae unimpeached carman
who conveyed it there swore that the trunk
and contents were assisted upon his truck by
house. on this day of discovery An under
taker testified that ON the morning of the same
day the prisoner had been asking of him ques-
tons about the manner and expense of in
terring deceased servant girl.


The prisoners domestic gave evidence that
the enveloping coverlid in the trunk belonged
to the prisoner. In his house, hidden in the
cellar, the police found breast pad of peculiar
construction that was Enthusiastically identified
as Miss Bowlsbys property. They also dis
covered a handkerchief marked with her ini-
tials and the marking stamp, when produced
by her mother in Court, exactly fitted the form
of the letters. Her travelling bag jewelry and
clothes were converted to some ones use.
Against this testimony the prisoner inter-
posed his naked denial that he had ever seen
the girl or that she was ever in his house.
Under this denial and these facts certainly the
extreme presumptions of law as to malice and
consequent murder ought to attach to Rosen-
zweig. 1t would have then been pertinent for
him to prove that she died natural death, or,
by showing her the victim of his medical arts
to reduce his crime to manslaughter. Yet
having denied any connection with or knowl-
edge of the afflir, he was left liable to the
worst presumptions


If the Boston prosecutors of Professor
Webster were keen enough to procure his con-
viction upon the mere discovery of the
disjecta mensbrd of DR.. Parkman in the chemi-
cal laboratory of the former, without any par
ticular signs of violence, and with the slight
evidence of promissory note andsome anony-
nous letters to connect the unfortunate savant
with the possession of the body, surely our
new District Attorney possesses the acumen to
furnish Rosenzweig with popular gallows
upon the trunk, coverlid, handkerchief and
larceny proofs.


Time was when the unexplained possession
of o body, either suffocated in trunk, or
packed, as was Adams body in the Colt case,
for concealment, would have stamped such
possessor, in all civilized Courts, as MUIR
derer. Then, when and where has this law
ever been changed? All the constituents of
the District Attorney feel that he now has
chance to win golden spurs in waging shrewd
and ingenious battle against criminal with
whom no one dare sympathize in any jury
recommendation to mercy, or pressure upon
judges, or pious appeals for Executive Glenn
enc