k a large, common-looking
travelling trunk. The driver, with the assistance of a boy hanging about
the depot, carried the trunk into the baggage-room, and at this instant a
woman of middle age, and poorly attired, entered the room, presented a
ticket to Chicago, which she had just purchased, and asked to have the
trunk checked to that place. The check was given her, and she took her
departure. The baggage-master, half an hour later, in attempting to
remove the trunk to the platform from which it was to be transferred to
the baggage-car, discovered a very offensive odor arising from it. His
suspicions were at once aroused, and he communicated them to the
superintendent of the baggage-room, who caused the trunk to be removed to
an old shed close by and opened. As the lid was raised a terrible sight
was revealed. The trunk contained the dead body of a young woman, fully
grown, and the limbs were compressed into its narrow space in the most
appalling manner. The discovery was at once communicated to the police,
and the body was soon after removed to the Morgue, where an inquest was
held upon it.

The woman had been young and beautiful, and evidently a person of
refinement, and the post mortem examination, which was made as speedily
as possible, revealed the fact that she had been murdered in the effort
to produce an abortion upon her. The case was at once placed in the
hands of the detectives, and full details of the horrible affair were
laid before the public in the daily press. The efforts to discover the
murderer were unusually successful. Little by little the truth came out.
The cartman who had taken the trunk to the depot came forward, after
reading the account of the affair in the newspapers, and conducted the
police to the house where he had received it. This was none other than
the residence of Dr. Jacob Rosenzweig (No. 687 Second avenue), a
notorious abortionist, who carried on his infamous business at No. 3
Amity Place, as Dr. Ascher. Suspecting his danger, Rosenzweig endeavored
to avoid the police, but they soon succeeded in securing him. His
residence was taken possession of and searched, and papers were found
which completely established the fact that Rosenzweig and Ascher were one
and the same person. Rosenzweig was arrested on suspicion, and committed
to the Tombs to await the result of the inquest. The body was
subsequently identified by an acquaintance of the dead woman, as that of
Miss Alice