The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1871, Page 3

ME TRUNK TRAGEDY. Light Leaping Through Loop- holes. A Previous Murder in the Same Place. Story of the Servant, Jane Johnson. BURIED IN THE DARK. ‘What Was Found in the Cellar—Another Volun- teer—Fishing for a Funeral—the Door of Com- hy munication-- Working Under Ground— Face to Face with the Fiend. TALKS WITH THE DOCTORS. EXCITEMENT IN THE CITY. MISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN, Another Case Comes to Light in Brooklyz. The news of the arrest of Rosenzwelg, the abor- donist, in yesterday's journals, created the wildest excitement throughout the city, From an early nour in the morning crowds assembled in front of the two houses reported to be used by Ascher for me carrying on of his villanous business, and gangs of men, women and boys assembled in front of them and manifested tmeir disgusbof the man and his proiession by GROANS, YELLS, HISSES AND CAT CALLS, On Second avenue, as the cars drove up and down, the passengers crowded on the platforms or hung out of the windows anxious to get a glimpse of the Louse in which it was supposed a marder had been commttied, About nine o’elock In the morning a doctor friend of Rosenzweig went to the house in Amity place ‘and took down the sign of Dr. Ascher, amid a per- fect howling of hisses and groans. This place, as well as the one in Second avenue, continued twrdhghout the day to ve the centre of attraction and curiosity. Nothing was talked of the entire @ay but the mystery of the trunk, On the Streets, 4n the hotels, in public places and in private dwell- ings "THE ONLY SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION Seemed to be the murder of the young women and the attempt to get rid of her body. In the course of the morning Mr, James F, Boyle, an undertaker, who does busitess at 658 Second avenue, went to the Fighteenth precinct station house and made the Tollowing aflidavit:— My name is James F. Boyle. I reside at No, 653 Second avenue. On the morning of Saturday, the 26th inst, a man, whom I recognize as Doctor Rosenzweig, came to my store where | do business as an undertaker aud asked ine HOW MUCH Iv WOULD COST TO BURY A WOMAN, snd then added that a servant girl of bis had died; that she was very poor, and had only $10, and that At did not mutter to him how or where she was buried. Lasked him what sort of a funeral he wanted, nd he said that ne only required a hearse. He then asked if [ could take the body to the store, say- ing tt was not far of. I replied that I couid only go this if he would furnish me with a certificace from the doctor who had attended her, and then I could get a permit from tne Board of Health. In the course of further conversation he said that the aoctor who attended the deceased lived down town. ‘He then went away. Boyle was conironted with the ‘prisoner by Car- tain Cameron, and ho FULLY IDENTIFIED HIM as the Man who had come to the store and asked for the funeral for his servant. Rosenzweig ‘admitted that he had gone to Boyle’s place, but ne sald he had only done it for fun, and had no neces- Bity for afuneral, as no servant of his was dead, Captain Cameron, upon revetying this information, went with a number of bis men to the residence of Rosenzweig, on Second avenue. It is A SMALL BRICK HOUSP, With a high stoop and the basement Mush with the street, The front door on the top of the stoop leads directly imto the front parior, which 13 hand- Bomely furnished and divided from the family sitting room by folding doors. The basement was used asa kitchen and dining room, and underneath this room ts a dark cellar and coat hole. When the police had thoroughly examined the enure upper part of the house they procured Ughts and WENT DOWN INTO THE CELLAR, They found it Miled with rubbish and broken up lumber, This was removed, and egress to the front part of the cellar was effected; but nothing was found but coal. Prosecuting the inquiry still further tney bored their way to the back part of the cellar, and, after removing a quantity of atrt trom one corner near a back closet, they found a heap of undergarments folded up in an old newspaper, ‘These things being bronght out into the light proved to be a portion of a woman's chemise literally SATURATED WITH BLOOD AND FILTH, @ part of a petticoat in a similar condition and a number of long strips of linen covered with matter and mouldy with wet and dirt. Besides these there Was a small plece of an old colored cotton wrapper and some odd rags. The only one of the cloths that had at ail the appearance of having been recently in use was the portion of the chemise, and some of the corners that did not happen to be wet anu bloody showed unmistakable signs of having been worn recently. If the ciothing now wrapped arouna the rotting body in the deadhouse at Believue Hospital should in any way suit a part of that found in the cellar a valuable clue will be obtained by the police, and there ts no knowing but this very evidence will be the means of bringing the entire management of the murder and disposition of the body home to the man now in prison, When the police had unearthed this un- Jooked for prize they telegraphed news of it to Inspector Walling, who sent back word to them to go back again into the cellar and sound the walls, These instructions were followed,-and a door of communication with the cellar of the adjoining house, which is exactly similar to the one occupied by Rosenzweig, and the residence of a fellow coun- tryman of his named Cetlinski, was discovered, ‘This was still more starting evidence of a much MORE EXTENDED AND COMPLICATED CRIME than bad at first been supposed, and information of the event wasat once sent to headquarters, and I spector Walling went up to the scene of the search. He then directed that a thorough exainination of the house be made, and the result of this was a number of papers belonging to the prisoner, which were found In ono of the drawers of his desk, The follows Ing ts 8 correct copy of all , THE VOCUMENTS DISCOVERED. Certificate from the Bureau o/ Vital Statistics for Dir coo cohiid, in which the medical attendant is ir. Rosenzweig. The cause of the mishap alleged yy him 1s convuistons of the mother. In this paper the Doctor's residence is given as No. 15 Orchard street, A copy of the advertisement he usually inserted §n the journals a3 Dr. Ascher. Two receipts for taxes paid by Jacob Rosenzweig. The envelope ot a letter returned from the Dead Letier Oice, addressed to Dr. Z. Rosenzweig, No. 188 East broadway. Receipt of the New York Gaslight Company, mado Out to Jacob Rosenzweig, No. 15 Orchard street. A recoips for one month's rent for the premises No, 8 Essex street, made out to Mr. F. Mordeman, bts io erie $39, SID of dirty, greasy paper, on which was written Alfred B. Philip, No. 9 or 6 Chambers street, aud at the bottom Jefferson Market police. A sollea and crumpled letter written In Hebrew, ‘With the words Kock and Lrostra at the top of the Page, and the initials L. 8. G. at the bottom, A greasy sitp of paper, evidently the firat draught eee very partner eo to New York with ; . Answer, J, vig.” oa acon er. J. Rosenzweig. receipt for one month's rent f Wooster street, for the sum of Hd \ aang ta AJeuer writen 1a Hebrew and dated in English, Louts, 6, At the bottom was the name, H. Birmsoert: 3,114 Franklin, and at the corner of the . “over,” but there Was nothing on the other 1e. Another letter in Hebrew, but in a totally different handwritin, Acard ‘of iacob Rosenzweig, 105 First avenue. Another receipt for apartments at 33 Wooster street for one month 1 advance, $25, ‘Two filthy prescriptions, Four greasy sips of paper, upon which were written the following addresses, which were sup- d to be the places used by Ascher as temporary jospita's for patients Mrs. Johuson, corner Second avenue and Eighth street. Mrs. Rapper, corner South Second street and Eighth street—Art. Mat, irs, Guingert, 47 Essex street, Mrs. Harris, 1833¢ Division street. Mrs. Johnson, 324 Third street and avenue D, B, M, sibberskeln, Mrs. Murray, 2334 Division street, ZUTLINERU’S HOUSE was then examined, but nothing of any importance was found init. At the time of the entry of the police there were but two ladies in the place, and one of them was a visitor, who was just about to start mto the country on a visit, The police went down into the cellar and found the door leading front the Rosenzweig house into the one adjoining closed and barred on the opposite and looking, to all appearances, as if it had not been opened for some time. Besides this door of communi- cation between the two houses the police found Qnother at thé rear of the houses, in the rr¥yy ing of division, which was simply on the latch, and undoubtedly was constantly in use. Every edort was made to connect Zutiinskt with the man now in custody, but up toa late hour last night nothing conclusive bad been arrived at on thts point. It was suggested early in the day that per- haps Zutlinski was the man who had gone down to Amity place ana removed tne sign from Ascher's door, but nothing has as yet turned up to confirm the rumor. Une of the strongest links wedged in the chatn of evidence to-day against the nead and centre of abortionist scoundrels in, New York was the bringing into his presence the undertaker Boyle. When that gentleman was put atthe gate of ‘the cell tne prisoner stood up and came forward, Boyle said to the Captain, ‘That’s the man, I remember hum distinctly.” The fellow behind the bars swaggered aud smiled, and, without being asked a question, blurted out, Oh, I ONLY WENT INTO UTS PLACE FOR FON. There is thing in that.” ‘The wife of Rosenzweig is still in the house. She 1s a low-sized Jewess, thin and vulgar looking, with @ young baby and a girl fourteen years of age, | _ ones stony of the det every of the family of the murdered woman has falien to preces through wait of evidence to bear out the first information, The lady who called at the Morgue on the day betore yesterday and said that she recognized the body of the young lady in the cotlin as that of one of her boarders, Who had suddenly disappeared from her house, was mistaken, as the irk in question is now alive and with her family. The police, supposing at first there was some foundation for her belief, sent a detective over to Brooklyn to the sister's house, bat use she then happened to be out 4 coloring was the story, a3 It was supposed she had fed equence Of the discovery of the murder. But the young lady has since returned and ts now living with her family. ‘The family is a highly respectable one, and the prominence ‘that has been given to a mere suspicion, belore any results had been ar- rived at, 18 reprehensible to the last degree. About five o’clock last evening, when the examina- tion of the two houses in Second avenue had been compieted, word was received from Captain Ken- nedy, of the Sixth precinct, that A SUSPICIOUS LOOKING WOMAN had Just come into his ward, who answered to the deseripuion of the womau said to have accom- panied the body to the depot. The truckman, Pic and the boy, Parks, were imme- diately” sent down to thé Sixth — precinct for the purpose of identifying tits woman, but a good deat of delay was cause by the movements of the suspected party, She evidently saw that the po- lice were anxious about her and endeavored to make her ape. She was “nally caught and con- Jrouted with the truckman and Parks, but they said she was not the Woman; so they allowed her to go. Another suspected woman was tatercepted in tne Fourth ward, but she proved to be entirely unlike the person wanted, So far the misstng woman is still at large, and all search in her behail has proved [ruitiess; but frou the peculiar and startling manner that all the evi- dence yet touod has come forth It is impossi- blo Lo say What any Moment may turn up. When at first the case looked like a heavy cloud of mystery the truckman came forward and proved to be a most valuable instrument ta the hauds of justice. The followiag day the undertaker Boyle came upon the scene, and in his resence Rosenzweig for the first time lost his self-control and admitved having gone to his place without having been asked a question, Dur- lng the day yesterday [pspector Walling received hundreds of Communications from all parts of the country, some offerng info: “attoa and others giv- ing OF y ab (“4s se VOUng ladies and ‘45 98 Ceihu chat te wontan wou Waded through that horribie scene or death cannot remain much longer at large. The Story of Jane Johnson on the Murder of Mrs, Hughes, Between the tail elms and beeches which cover the front of the hospital the moon moves slowly amid the gathering battalions of dark gray clouds, Back in the shrubbery a half score of fever patients just recovered, and totvering ana feeble, walk in the bypaths slowly and with uncertainty, and cripples newly made by the cruel saws of the surgeons grope and stumple over each other in their newly discovered freedom. Above, on the porch of the hospital, front- ing the river, a group of patient, just recovering, are gossiping with the female servants of Bellevue and telling yarns to pass away the time, Inside of the hospital the HERALD reporter found Warden Breaonan, who has worked for the last two days, night and day, to discover who the guilty par- ties are in this foul business, Brennan 1s a tall, strapping fellow, with lignt complexion, fair hair and a splendid physique. He might well nave stood by Alaric when the Gothic King forced the gates.of Rome, so huge is he in brawn and sinew, The H&RALD reporter said to the Warden:— “Tell me all you know about this matter, Mr, Brennan, It’s a bad business, and ts an evidence of the decay of modern civilization.”* “Well, [think the best thing we can do is to go down to the Eignteenth ward station house, and see Jane Johnson, the servant girl who lived with Dr. Ro: cig. H8 13 A BAD FELLOW surely, that Doctor,” sald Brennan, Just at that moment came up a decent-looking young man with a smooth face, who proved to be a son of Pickett, the truck driver. He spoke of bis father with considerable emotion, and Warden Bren- nan assured him that as the pabiic believed that he ‘was an honest man from the fact that he had come forward and told of his own accord the story of the fatal trunk, no harm could come to bim, and tt ‘was not possible even that he would be locked up for the night. The son went away up the dark avenue much relieved at the tldings, bidding the reporter and the Warden a thankful good night. Then down we went to the tighteenth ward sta- tion honse, which ts in Twenty-second street, near Second avenue, having @ green lantern hanging over the door and a crowd of noisy boys and girls hanging around the door. On the stoop were a couple of speciai detectives and a stray patrolman, with his club swinging in his hand. We spoke to the sergeant behind the desk, at which he was examining his slate, and he responded with great civility. “Can we see Dr. Rosenzweig f” we asked, “You had better ask Captain Cameron first,” an- swered the Sergeant; “ne 18 inside in that pack room examining the servant gir!, Jane Johnson. Knocking at the door of the room we found Cap- tain Cameron, @ good and faithtul poice omcer, whose hair has grown white in the service of the people. He readily assented to the request, and Warden Brennan and the re- porter descended to the lower floor of the building, where tte smell of whitewash was overwnelming and the rush of water fell on the ears like music. Vhe sergeant waiked ahead of us in the narrow corridor and passed the cell door in which Rosen- aweig was confined, Just as we passed the door the HERALD reporter, not having seen the Doctor before, noticed a BIG, BURLY ROUND HEAD, such as Oliver Cromwell must have worn on his shoulders st Long Marston Moor, protruding through the aperture in the Iron gate. The face was decidedly Jewish, very strong in its type, and. the poll was covered with lignt curly hair. Something in the man’s cold, blue eyes, with their steely look, there was to mako a looker-on shudder. If ever there was acruel, cunning face, and, withal, a strong face, It was this face which looked out on the stone corridor, There was a poor, wretched bummer in the second cell trom Rosenzweig, who had been picked from under some cart or had been dragged in @happy state from some lone dock on the quiet Fiver the night pefore, He had who water run in his cell and was rolling over his soft plank m @ very confused way, when the sergeant entered the cell and informed him that if he did not shut the water off “he would put a head on bum.” ‘The prisoner subsided and dozed off. “Doctor,” said the HERALD reporter to Rosen- aaa “what do you know about this bad busi- ness “Vat bahd bishness? I don’t know what you talk aboud. I see someding on the baper, dat’s all I know,” and bis eyes gieamed like a torch in @ dark t, “About this poor girl who died in your house in Second avenue, don’t you know what I mean ?’* “I Know noding about d You makes what sdhory you like, A rebordher he aiwize makes his own sdhory.”” re you a German, Rosenzweig ?? ‘Mine grandfader he come from Berltn, I am from Plock.’’ “Is tha Preussen Poland ?” “Nein, dat is Reussen Poland—from near Cracow and Varsovie.” “Did a woman of twenty-eight or nine years of age die in your house on the 7th of June 2, The un- dertaker, Thomas Cary, of 401 Third avenue, states that he buried a woman of twenty-nine years of age from your house, under the name of Mary Carroll, on the 7th of June, 1571, who was attended by you and Dr. Rosenth: ¢ “Yes, yes. 1 knows, sald Rosenzweig, excitedly and thrown off his guard for a moment, ‘there was a bahby, dot gal. Dr. Rosenthal, he attend that bahby. [ don’t Know noding but what I see in the bapers,” “Well, you can bet that Thomas Casey, the under- taker, 18 an honest man, and he’s gov you down fine,” said Warden Brennan. “Now,” sad Warden Brennan, “suppose we go up stairs and see Jane Johnson.” We waiked up stairs and entered the small room in which at the moment Captain Cameron was con- versing With the servant of Rosenzweig. Tails girl has been described as a buxom, plethoric-lookin, woman; on the contrary she is rather spare 0) figure and has not at all the look of a bad woman. She tas dark, mourniul-looking eyes and @ prepossessing face. She was attired in a common light-colored cali€o dress, and sat with her back against a small table in a large armehatr, clutening nervously at the folds of ner dress with her fingers. The woman seemed to be thoroughly frightened and intimidated; she had no counsel, no friend, and was virtually alone in the world, For twenty-four hours this wretched woman has been interviewed by newspaper reporters, policemen and curiosity. seekers, Conseqyycntly she was afraid to say a Word, and it was only when informed that no harm could come to ner if she told ‘the trath that she ventured to speak. “Now, Jane,” said Warden Brennan, “be a good ie andtell the HERALD reporter what you know, jon’t look upon yourself as an accomplice; 100K unee ir xouracte as a witness, and what you will tell will TNE MEANS OF PUNISHING a bad man,” “If Twas on my oath,’ said Jane, “before my God, 1 don’t know anything about this poor gill that's dead,” “You mean to say,’ asked the H&RALD reporter, “that you did not know that there were wonien coming to Rosenzwelg’s house to be relieved of the results of their folly “Now, tell the truth,” said Warden Brennan; ‘be w good girl, Jane’? “I don’t Know,” she answered; “they never let me know anything in that honse.’? “Well, how did you come to know the Doctor's family?” “Iknew Mrs, Rosenzweig four years ago; I went there to get some work; | was to do generat house- work, and [ got $10 2 month; it was the duty of the daughter, Rose, to auswer the door bell; I am twenty-nine ye of age; my husband dled of the cholera, and I had turee cuildren by him; his name was Lee; my maiaen name was McCloud; L Was bora in Prince Edward’s Island; I have but one child ,aitve, five years of age; his name is Willie J. —;I can’t tell his other name, because I don’t want my child to be disgraced; I won't tell his name until this thing is over; he 1s adopted, so that [ can’t bring him back.’ here the poor woman broke down and shed tears plentifully, “What tue did yuu enter the service of this doc. Po ‘On the 29th of last May.” “You say you Know nothing about the death of this woman Whose body is now at the Morgae. Do you know of the death of any other person in that house’ The undertaker, Carey, says there was a Woman buried from that house on the 7th of June ast, “I don’t exactly know what the date was, but when | came there THERE WAS A WOMAN IN THE HOUSE, onthe second floor, back room, sick; Mrs. Rosen- zweig had peen coniined, and slept on the same Noor; she was sick Im bed and spitting blood; the sick woman had the dropsy; she seemed to be a woman in lair circumstances; her hair was not very light and not very dark; she was of medium height, and pretty and good natured. “Did aay man come to see her?” “Yes; aman about her own age—she was about twenty-eight years of age. He was well dressed, and a good looking man aud had jewelry. he seemed to be very fond of her. Sne always called him “husband,” but she never gave his name in my hearing. He had light hair and mustache, and whiskers round his chin, I would know oim again.’? “What was tis woman’s name (”? Here Jane paused to recollect for @ moment or two, and finally burst out and said:—'Mrs, Hughes; Myr Hughes; that was her nae; he always cailed adi sits, Tugtes. ~-< “But this wo was burled under the name of Mary Carroll, was she not?’? “I can’t tell anything about that, 1 only know that he always called her ‘Mrs, Huhes,’ “When was Mrs. Hughes confined +” few days velore she aied,’’ ‘hat Was the 7th of June, was it not?” I suppose 80; I generally went to bed at ten o'clock, and she was confined before I got up in the morning.’? “Did you ever bring Mra, Hughes any food 9"? “No; Une Doctor never allowed me to go near any of his patients, but I BROUGHT HER A DRINK OF WATER the morning before she died, I.heard from some- body in the house that she was coniined during the migit, 1 Went to the door in the mornin, and heard the baby crying. Tt had @ little light wool, and on its head and was @ preity little girl 1 afterwards took the child myself to the Sisters of Chart In the after- hoon she got very sick and cried. ‘The doctor Went ou’ to wke @ drink, and I went into her room. She said, “1 wish it was morning; will the morning never come? is ita dark day? Lsaw her eyes blazing and she moved round tn the bed uneasily. She perspired wit a cold sweat and her limbs be e cramped; her Knees doubled up in the bed. She clutcied my band and I could not get away tro her. She says, “Oh, where Is my husband?” 1 was awfully afraid to see her dying alone, and the doctor had not come back from the liquor store, I wiped her foreead and she said, ‘send for the priest.’ I saw it was wo late. I knew = she would die in a few minutes. Rosey came to the door and I said, ‘Mrs. Hughes is aying.’ She ran and ‘told her mother, who replied, ‘O nonsense!’ and fastened down her eyes and took my pocket handkerchief and tied up her head. In an hour after her husband came and went almost zy around the room, halooing and screaming. He gota hearse from the uaderiaker and took her away. 1 don’t know where she was buried. When the reporter asked Jane about the clothing / which was found in the cellar at Rosenzweig’s house, she stated that she knew nothing avout who put them there, but intimated that they might have longed to Miss Ruse, the daughter of Dr. Rosen- Zweig. The Abortionists Alarmed—What the Doctors Say of Each Other—Flight of the Female Physicta Yesterday afternoon & HERALD reporter called on a doctor, who, as the reporter had learned, was on verms of business confidence with Ascher, and who keeps an office on Bleecker street, near Sullivan street, He possesses an intimate and thorough knowledge .of the history and practices of the abortionists of New York, and is generally supposed to be “one of them.” “Though I cannot claim the honor,’’ satd this respectable medical man, “of a personal acquaint- ance with this ‘Doctor’ Ascher, or Rosenzweig, I have known him for a long time past.’? REPORTER—Does he have anything to do gene- rally with this infamous abortion business, Doctor? Docror—Does he? He never does anything else, He not only practises that himself, put he has several tools in all parts of the city who ao nis DANGEROUS WORK for him. He is @ most unscrupulous scoundrel too, He knows little or nothing of anatomy, surgery or physiology of any kind, but he undertakes these cases @lithe same. A medical friend of mine once cautioned him against the continuance of his vile trade, and threatened to expose him unless he de- sisted and gave tt up; and what do you think his reply was? Why, he said he never could bear to let a ten dollar bil slip away from him if i cost him his life to get at it; and, furthermore, he boasted that the whole Stace of New York, and tne United States, for that matter, could not touch @ hair of his head, no mat ter what happened. He bragged that he was at the top of the heap in Masdnry and that whenever he should get into any trouble he would only have to tp judges or jurors the sign in order to get himseif clear, RePoRTER—Had he not SOME OTHER DEVIL'S WORKSHOP besides that one in Second avenue? Docror—Several. Most of those houses you see advertised in the papers as the abodes of female physicians are only so many abortion dens in which this Ascher or Rosenzweig used to practice. He Went his rounds among them regularly every day, and the number of his victims oan hardly be esti- mated. [think I could safely swear that that man has killed nino out of ten of ali the many unfortunate creatures on whom he has operated, He hag even frequently boasted that if he Aaljed ai she Women ia New York be coulg urocueg NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. burial certificates for them all from the leading medical practitioners of the city, whom his Masonic Influeuce would compel to do him that favor. I will bet nat the serape he has got into now will not make him one bit uneasy, except in so far as he may be appretiensive that his business will be tn- terrupted for a while, ReErortER—I have heard it remarked, Doctor, shat that poor girl must have been packed into the trunk while she was alive; what is your opinion? Docrok—Well, one can hardly tell anything for certain anout that, 1 hardly think, however, that the parties waited until forty-eight hours after ner death before they packed her up. If they did, the tunk would have given forth an offensive odor in the baggage room tong before it was noticed, If they aid not wait so long then they must either have packed up the body within ten minutes from the moment of her death, or put her mto that trank BEFORE LIFE WAS YET EXTINCT. No body would remain suMiciently limber for that purpose Jonger than ten minutes after death. At the expiration of that time the body becomes too stiff to be so used, and It remains so, even in hot weather like this, for at least forty-eignt hours; that 1s, until decomposition has fairly set in, My own belief is—but, of course, { cannot speak with any great certamty on the matter— that the body was packed up tn that trunk while the woman Was still alive, Reporrer—Do you know anything about a per- son calling himseif “Dr.” Lewis, who resides or keeps an office at No, 7 Beach street? Docror—Yes, I know them all. That fellow is another Polish Jew; in fact, most of those people, strange to say, are Polish, German or Hungarian Jews, fis name ts not Lewis, of course; indeed, L heard his real name once or twice, but I forget it. He goes into that business extensively; but, though he is intimately acquainted with Ascher, in so far as they hold “consultations”? together, Lewis runs an abortion machine of hisown, He keeps a nouse which he uses as a hospital tor his patients, and which is attended to by his wife, or rather his wlie’s sister, to be more correct, REPORTER—Do you know any others? Docror—Others? Yes; any number of them; but the queerest case I know In that way lives and does “business’’ further down on this street. I wish you would go to see him, He lives in a small, two story, very red brick house, and “hangs out a shingle,” as they call it, bearing the legend, “Dr. Franklin.’? tis real Dame 1s Jacobi, and HF, TOO, IS A POLISH JEW. I had occasion, at one time, to be engaged with another medical man In trying to save the life of an unfortunate whom that fellow had brought to the verge of the gravo, and that is how and why I made it my business to know all about bim. He began life in this clty asa barber, Having fatled in that respectable line of business he became extremely destitute, and would have starved baa he not acci- dentally got employment trom a medical friend of mine, who made a specialty of venereal diseases, and who employed Jacobl as a sort of confidential porter, Jacobi turned out to be what you might cail “smart.” He picked up, while in my friend's employ, smattering of the healing art, and became very useful in the way of running to the druggists with prescripuons, &c. It afterwards became known that when the Doctor was absent from his ofice Jacobi used to prescribe for the patients himself. After a while the Doctor caugit him in some extensive tbett and dismissed What was the consequencer our friend Jacobi himself, Why, in a iew tL up dm te medical bust- and since practised under the br. nklin’ abortiontst aud curer Of course he lias had MEDICAL EDUCATION; but he is very shrewd and smart, and if you push him on questions of medical science he fails back on hus ignorance of the Enghisi language and pretends not to understand you. Having bowed himself away from the tall pres- ence of Doctor . the reporter passed furtner es the strect, until he came to the establishment of Dr. Frankin, alias Jacobi, The bell was answered by a litte girl about twelve years of age, who showed her visitor into a back parlor, saying, “ihe Doctor has just gone out, but he wil be back in @ moment; please take a seat.” The room Was @ small one, piatoly furnished as an ofice and lighted by a miserabie looking Kerosene lamp, Which stood on a table besiae a copy of the Bible and several calf-bound medical works. Two sickly young men sat in a corner awaiting the entrance of the ‘Doctor, and a single glance was suilicient to satisfy anybody that both had SUP, \)% LONG AND DESERVEDLY under the Let! wi6 of “Dr. Franklin® ina few him. ness for name of of private dise NO. moments that gentieman entered*the house by means of alatchkey and tumbled into the office. The * Doctor” 18 a short, stout man, with @ full beard aud most villainons expression of counte- nance. He appeared to feel mightliy pleased at finding three supposed patients awaiting him and asked “Which came first?” One of the sickly young men stood up painfully and accom- pamed the Doctor into an inner room. When e emerged the other sickly young man en- tered the sanctum, where he remained about five minutes, alter which he gave place to the re- porter, As soon as the door closed bemind the lat- ter ne sata, “Doctor, Um cold you are a friend of Dr. As . Is that’sov’? The “Doctor? bounced from his chair as Ifa thundering torpedo had ex- ploded beneath him and shouted, “Friend | friend | 1 don’t know nothing about him; I wouldn't kuow him; 1 wouldu’t speak to such a ‘ellow, WHO IN HELL ARE You, ANYLOW ?? And the good Doetor glared furiously at his visitor, “Doctol ued the reporter, ‘1 live tn thts city; Tam very much interested indeed in the identifica- tion of ‘the poor girl who has fatien a victim to Ascher’s, or Rosenzweig's, malpractice. I cannot speak to him just pow, and as | learned you were an intimate friend of his | thought L would take the iiberty of calling upon you.’ “Well, J ain’t no friend of his nor of yours nor of any one else’s, I never have nothing to do with no Women foiks; ouly If one of ’em comes to me tem; that’s all.’? aid the reporter, “I know that a great many persons believe that in certain cases—say When child-bearing would surely cause the death of a Woman—it would not be enurely crimimal to rid @ pregnant woman of her troubles. Is0’t It possible you may do that service now and then for those ‘womenfolks,’ as you call them?” “No, sir; {don’t meddle with nothing thav’s dun- gerous. Wheuever we nave dangerous ca: that we send them to Ascher. I never sent him none, but if you want to seen somebody what sent hun plenty, you go to MADAME VAN BUSKIRK, She does nothing but get cases of that kind for Rosenzweig. She lives at No, 42 St. Mark's piace, Kighth street.’? Whereupon the reporter hied him to St, Mark's place with all possible speed. No. 42 is a four story, high stoop, brick house, very narrow aud very deep. ‘The parlor has a slagte window in front, with an iron ratied balcony beneath it. Hanging from the bars of tais balcony is a simail shield-shaped “shingie” bearing the legend—“Mme. Van Buskirk, physician,” and the same words are inscribed on the doorplate. When tie reporter reached the Madame’s residence it was hali-past seven o'clock. A jatint light giimmered through the jaiousie blinds of an upper story win- dow, but otherwtse the house was shrouded in joom and silence, The reporter pulled the beil handle at the hall door and waited for fally three minutes; no answer. He pulled again and waited three minutes more; no answer. And so he kept puliing and waiting for half an hour witn similar success. He then descended to the basement door and pulled the bell handie beside that entrance with THE SAME RESULTS. On the stoops and leaning against the area railings of the houses on either side were the memwers of the families who resided in them, Among them was a young lady who seemed to be watcning the reporter’s movements very closely. The reporter approached her and asked if she knew who lived in the house into which he had been secking an entrance. “Yes,” answered the lady; “I believe a lady physl- clan lives there.” joes she keep boarders?” “On, ves. We lotice carriages coming to the door very often and people passing to and fro fre- quently.” “What is the character of the house and its owner in the neighborhood}? “Well, Fdon’t like to say’? (hesitating), “out you know what { mean, The residents here have been trying very often to have this woman removed from the neighborhood, but it seems she has got a lease that can't be broken.’ “Have you ever, a8 you live so close, heard any screams or other noises to indicate that any person was belng tortured or wounded tn there?’ . “Oh, no; they have always been very quiet. and the only way you could judge of the character of the place was by observing how frequent were the visits of ladies, Who sometimes were accompanied by male (riends, WhO soon went away, leaving the lady visitors beiimd them in the house’? “Have you ever seen gentlemen visit the house without Iduies accompanying them?” “Yes; one or two: they called there frequently; but they were the only ones we nouced who came alon ve yon ever seen a gentleman come there ‘— and the reporter accurately DESCRIBED DR. ASCHER. “oh!” exctaimed the young lady, “it was only this moraing we were all reading the description of that dreadful doctor in the HekaLp, and every one of us said at once that that must be the man we had seen so often come to that house, stay for a short {ime and then go away, sometimes with Madame Van Buskirk and someifines alone.’? “Does the house present that dark and gloomy ap- pearance every evening after twilight?” “Oh dear no, Dot at all. Every room in the house ‘used to be lighted up, and the lady and her boarders Used to sit on the stoop and on the balcony until ten or eleven O'clock. — I never saw it look as it does now, and we were all expressing our surprise at its sppearanco when you came along.’ iter thanking the ‘young lady of No. 4034 St. Mark’s Diace (or fay iniosmation she had so willingly lu- wit {the reporter proceeded to the dwellings of OTHER NOTED “FEMALE PHYSICIANS,”” find that all the birds nad flown the city. only to Why it was that Madame Van Buskirk had so pi pitately vacated her domicile may bejinferred from the report given below. Dr. Getlinski’s Statement A HERALD reporter met Dr. Getiinski last evening and asked him about the door of communication in the cellar. The old man seemea very much affected by the storles that had been set afloat about him and sali:—“fassure you, sir, 1 did not know that atall, He was an abortionist and [am ahomeopa- thio doctor. I have my office hours set down regularly upon my card, That man had no office hours whatever. We are of different religions, come from different countries, and are as entirely aifer- ent in beliet and way of livelinood as two men can be. With regard to THE CELLAR DOOR, Tcan prove tt has never been opened but once since Icame into the nouse in May last, and on that occasion it was opened by the landlord for the plumber, The houses pad been originally built by @ father and — his son, who lived in them with thelr families, Tals accounts for the door down stairs and the one in the rear ‘n the wicket, ‘Well, Di the public will soon see that.’ “Yes, sit, Yuta great deal of injury has been done me by the press in mentioning my name In connec- won with thi; scoundre).” “You may rest assured, si, that the press will Speeuily correct any error 1t inay have COMMITTED ON THE SUBJECT as Soon a8 10 18 found you have been wrongly ac- cused.’ “That may in some measure settle my reputation; but 1 doubt it they can ever repay me for the agony of mind Lhave suffered, besides, you must think What my wile and family suffer by those siurs cast upon me, as wellas tue patients who come to me for treatment,”? ANOTHER ABORTION ATROCITY. A Jersoy Girl Dying at the Brooklyn City Hos- pital—The Victim of a Bleecker Street Abortionist—Her Ante-Mor- tem Deposition, A rather remarkable case of wrongs and outrage upon an unfortunate young lady from New Jersey Was made known last night at the Brooklyn City The young lady in question was said by eon in charge to beimadying condition, 1 to take her Hosp ital, the su and Coroner Jones was notiti Mortem deposiuion, She 8 at two o'clock yesterday morning by the police of the First precinct station, taving been left in the charge of Sergeant son by Mrs. Vanbuskirk and Doctor Perry, who keep # house in Bteecker street, just out of Broadway, and who brought her to Brookiyn ma coach. Sergeant Eason suspected that the girl had been the victim of malpractice, for she appeared then to be IN A ORITICAL CONDITION. Me, therefore, detained Mrs. Vanbuskirk and Dr. Perry at the station house while he sent Oflcer ante- Chambers to the City Hospital with the woman, with directions to inquire as to Whether sne had not had an abortion pro- cured on her, The officer brought back word that she had not, and he thereupon allowed the Doctor and woman to leave, On entering the nos- pital the girl gave her name as Mary Jones, and then appeared very reticent in regard to making any further statements. In the meantime she gradu- aily grew worse, and yesterday noon a consultation was held by the physicians in regard to performing an operation on hei ‘They concluded thatthey had better take the child away by instruments, #8 that might save her hfe. THE OPERATION WAS PERFORMED, and the child, agirl wnich had gone 1s full time, was found to have been dead and had already begun to decompose. From the appearance of the infant it had been dead from twelve to twenty-four hours, Instead of improving after the delivery she grew so much worse that the surgeon sent to Coroner Jones, ‘The Coroner repaired to the hospital last evening ana had great difficulty 10 eliciting the few facts concerning her condition and who she was ia con. sequence of her being so extremely low. THE GIRL'S STATEMENT. She said that her name was Emuy A. Post; she was thirty years of age, and that she came trom Somerville, N. J.; that she had been. seduced by a man who resided in Plainticid, She became pre nant, and was then taken to a house in Bicecker street, jus: out of Broadway. This house was kept by Mrs. Vanbuskirk, and a Dr. Perry was in attend- ance. She was there about a week, during which tume she took medicine prescribed by the Docior and the woman. She feit labor pains during the entire | week, Mrs. Vanbuskirk then told her that she was allright, = On the folowing day they both made sn examination, and ald sometning, sue did not know What, At might they told her she must get up and clear out of Liat. She replied that she was uuable to do it, whereupon they procured a carriage and actually DRAGGED HER FROM THE HOUSE and put her into it ‘they then drove her around to several places and finally brought her to brooklyn, Where they drove her avout the streets for several hours. They then Jeft her at the First’ precinct s'a- tion house, and from there she was taken to the hospital, Where she now Hes. She subsequentiv earned that the man who seduced her was marricd. SEDUCTION AND MURDER IN MEMPHIS, MeEnruis, Tenn., August 29, 1871. Captain J. Theodore Adams, a well known dry goous clerk, employed at Messrs. Seessel & Sons’, on Main street, was killed to-day by G. W. S. Browne, & pressman, Whose daughter Adams had seduced, Browne called on Adams yesterday and demanded (hat he should marry the girl, which was. refused. To-day Browne returned with @ shoigua aad tir at Adams, Who was crouching under the count the charge taking efect in his rignt leg, the only on he had, having lost the other in Pittsburg, Va. Adams lived about three hours, Browne surren- dered uimseif into the custody of the police, BUCKHOUT, THE MURDERER, RESPITED. ALBANY, August 29, 1871. ‘The Governor has sent the following despatch by telegraph:— To Rover? F, BrunpaGE, Sherif, White Plains, N. Y.t— Believing further Investigation on my part to be due to the proper administration of justice, { have respited Buckhout Wil Sepcember 16. JOHN T. HOFFMAN, N CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Itnaca, N. Y., August 29, 1871, ‘The Board of Trustees of the Cornell University yesterday elected the following new professors:— Tracey Peck, of Yale, Professor of Latin; Isaac L- Flagg, of Larvard, Professor of Greek; Thomas J" Tilney, of Yale, Professor of Rhetoric; Francis & Loomis, of Yale, Professor of Physics. All of these gentlemen have taken degrees in European univer- sities, The Professorship of Architecture is to be filled next week, TELEGRAPHIO NEWS ITEMS, John Irwin, who murdered bis son-tniaw, Samuel Van Orden, in St. Louis, Mo., was arrested on Monday. by Dr. A. @. Thomas, late of Georgia, has been elacted Pro- tessor of Greek ia the Northwestera Christian University at Indianapolis, Spencer bh = Wiener sada & preliminary ex. amination tn Boston yesterday, aod was held to: Gefuult of $8,000 bail, vane Vice President Colfax has arrived at Minneapolis, Min., from bis trip to Red River. He wil 6 St, Paul tor South Bend, Ind., on Thursday next, Tho mill corner of Chestnut and Thirty-tirst streets, Piiia- detphia, delonging to the Parrish estate, waa burned yeater- day morning. “The loss 8 $40,000. : sorts hora The Virginia Conserva ate Convention will meet Richmond to-day. A large number of delegates have rived, and among them are many leading politicians, ‘The jury in the case of Elbridge W. Reed, of Medway, Me., who was iried for the murder of Jobn Ray, in Sepiemier last, have returned a verdict of “Murder in the Brat decree,” A band of 30 men entered the Morganfield (Ky.) jail last Saturday night, took out a white man and negro, charged with ontraging © woman near Caseyville on Tuesday nigut, and bung them on a tree one mile from the town, After the conclusion of the performance at the Howard Athenwum, fa Boston, on Monday night, the clothing of ballet girl,’ named Emily Smith, eaught fire, and she w: badly burned. Her injuries, thougn painful, are not serion Cramp &Son, of Philadelphia, have laid the keel of th first {ron steatnehip for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany’s line to Liverpool, on Petty's island. The keel for the second steamahip will be laid tinmedtately at the same place, Ata meeting of the Board of Trustees an Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., yester nt deriain accepted the ofice of Prei The commencement of the fall term has been by ap 1 Tuly. cial vote deferred until September The Republican State Convention will meet in Madiaor Wis. Many of the delegates and candiaates for nomination 1. Both candidates for the . William K. Smith and Genei are contideat of success, and each THE NATIONAL GAME, Tho Haymokers Defeated by a Hoosier Club. Fort Waynyg, Ind., August 29, 1871. ‘The second game for the championship, between the Kekiongas and Haymakers was played to-aay. ‘The score Was as follows:— Cle. INNINGS. icv. “ nomination for Gov- IC. C, Washburn, Dd. Bd, 4th. Sth. Cth. THA, Bh, HY. H 1 a x 3 o 4 a a oe 8 WASHINGTON. A Bold Swindle Attempted op Two Banks. Ingenious Alteration of Gen- uine Checks. Secretary Belknap’s Visit to the President. WASHINGTON, August 29, 1871. A Bold Attempt to Swindle—A Well-Kuowm Citizen implicated, Yesterday afternoon a party named Thomas § Cassidy presented at the National Metropolitan Bank for deposit a certificate of deposit on the bank- ing house of John J. Cisco & Son, New York, im favor of J. B, Cornell, to the value of $40,000, This was endorsed as follows:—“Pay to the order of Toomas S, Cassidy.” Signed J. B. Corneil, The usual form of taking the signature of the depositor Was gone through and the amount placed to the credit of Cassidy, He next visited the banking house of Lewis Johuson & Co., and, being intro. duced by a responsible citizen and = friend of one of the firm, he deposited here a certificate of depostt similar to the one left atthe National Metropolitan Bank, excepting that the amount was $17,500, which was received, but a check against that amount for $9,000, which was immediately presented, was considered as a little suspicious by the paying teller, he (the depositor) being a stranger, and payment was refused, one of the firm remarking that tt would probably be hon. ored if he (Cassidy) would call this morning at tem o'clock; but the certificate would be held for col- lection and be subject to his check there- after, We now find Casstdy again at the Na tional Metropolitan Bank, where he desires to be accommovated with the sum of $14,000, thas amount having been pledged by him, anc which he desired to pay before three o'clock. The teller re+ ferred the matter to the casnier, who desired Mr. Cassidy to remain for a while, as he had telegraphed to New York to ascertain the validity of the certl+ ficate in question, Cassidy, betng pressed with numerous engagements, could not wait for the re- sult of the inquiry by wire, bat would return, At last accounts several well known gentlemen were secking him, and are anxious to communicate to him the result, which {3 as foulows:— The certiticate of deposit presented to the National Metropolitan Bank is genuime as far as signatures and endorsement are concerned; but the amount, ine stead of being $42,000, 1s readily reduced to $700, and The presumption is that the said certificate has beem most ingeniously altered, The certificate lett at Lewis Johuson & Co.'s was likewise an altered one, being originally drawn for $104, and the alteration was accomplished in a most dexterous manner. Cassidy was no doubt sent here as the agent of & large and well organized band of counterfeiters. He bemg well known here rendered his identification unnecessary, but through the vigilance of the bank Oflicers the bold and adroit scheme utterly failed, Murcer or Suicide? Last night a man nained Jobn Clary was found by a detective near the corner of Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, with a wound in his throat over four inches in length, He was very weak from loss of blood, and d ned to give information as to the cause of his injuries. His wound was dressed by a physician and he was conveyed to his home, she Polaris and Congress. Captain Davenport, of the United States steamer Congress, reports tils morning to the Navy Depart- mentirom St. Join, N. B., his return from Greene land, The Congress arrived at Disco August 10, seven days from St. John and fifteen from New York. The Arctic steamer Polaris, Which sailed from New London, Conn., August 3, arrived at Disco only six days Inadvance of the Congress. The cargo of coal, provisions, 4c,, was transferred sately from the Congress to the Polaris, and the latter sailed Pole- ward on the afternoon of August 17, with bright prospects of an open season. The Congress left Disco August 19. The object of her voyage has been accomplished and the instructions filly exe- cuted. The Congress may be expected at Boston on ‘Tiesday. Tinmigration Statistics. The annual special report on immigration, witn fall information for immigrants relative to the prices and rentals of jand, staple products, facilities of access to market, cost of farm stock, the kind of labor in demand in the Western and Southern States, and containing tables showing the average weekly waves paid in the several States for factory, mechanical and farm labor, the cost of provistons, groceries, dry goods and house rent in the various manufacturing districts in the country, prepared by the bureau of Statistics, is being issued In a neat und conventent form from the government printing omtce. The volume contains about 220 pages, and includes thirty-two States and two ‘Territories in the scope of its inquiry and information. The tables are very full and explicit, and contain a mine of interesting and valuabie facts for the statustician, Norwegian Immigration, A letter has been received at the Treasury Depart- ment from Gerh, Gade, the United States Consul at Christiania, Norway, acknowledging the receipt of Mr. Edward Young's special report on immigration, lately published by him, in which he urges thata Norwegian translation be prepared for circulation among the rural population, as it would still further induce immigration to America, and the expenses would not be large tn proportion vo tue useruiness of such a work. Oponing OM Postal Routes. ‘The Post Ofice Department has issued a pamphlet mviting proposals for carrying the mails on eighty- one routed in Alabama, forty-six in Texas, iifty in Arkansas, twelve in Lonisiana and several in Vir- ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Fiorida and Mississippi, from January 1, 1872, to June 30, 1875, being, with a few excentions, routes advertised September 30, 1870, and awarded March 30, 1871, but on which the accepted bidders hava failed to execute contracts or to perform service, and which are now to be relet at the expense of said fauimg bidders ur contractors in accordance with acts of March 3, 1825, and July 2, 1836, Accompany- ing the usual schedules are detailed instructions for bidders and postmasters, among which are the fol- lowing:—"‘The attention of bidders ts called to the fourth section of Post OMce Appropriation act of March 3, 1871, which requires that all bids of five thousand dollars and upwards shall be accompanied by a certifled check or draft of not less than five per cent of such bid as security that good and suilictent bonds shall be entered into for the performance of the contract, The certificate on proposals for thirty-nine specified routes, the most important ones in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Arkausas, must be signed by the vostmaster at one Ol a list Of twenty-three of the principal Post OMices in the said States; or, if for any reason the certif- cate cannot be obtained of Postmasters at the oMces mentioned, the certificate of Postmasters in other States of the first, second and third class will be re- ceived, All Postmasters signing certidcates of guar- antees and sureties will be neld to a strict account ability for the correctness of their ceruficates. A. disregard of the instructions of the department in this matter Will subject the offending Postmasters to Immediate removal. Appoiatments by the Presid ‘The President has appointed Frank Welch, of Ne« braska, to be Register of the Land Uficeeat West Point, Nev. The President authorizes Stephen J, W. Taber, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, to perform the duties of the Fifth Auditor during the temporary absence of J. B. Maun, actlag Fifth Auditor, Personal. The Secretary of War, who has been absent for a week past, returned here to-day, He went to Long Branch to see the President on business connected with his department, and it 18 understood that tm- portant orders relating to the movements of troop# on the frontier will shortly be promulgated. Attorney General Akerman will leave here on Saturday for his home in Georgia, and remain there until the latter part of September. The New Loan. The first two hundred militons of the new Eve pes cent bonds have ail been taken and the subscription ‘DOOKS Were Ciosed to-day. Itis understood that the plications for the bonds were lu excem of ie