Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — MURDER END OF VACATION JAUNT [ARTICLE]

MURDER END OF VACATION JAUNT

Race Hatred Figures In Homicide at a Resort SLAYER COMMITS SUICIDE Victim Enticed From Dance Hall and Taken to Lonely Swamp—As Police Close In on Man Wanted For the Crime He Cheats the Law by Ending His Life With Drugs—Stolen Money and Revolver Found In Hotel. Port Huron, Mich., July 16. —Louis Rosenberg, a cigarmaker of Cleveland, 0., was murdered on a lonely island in the St. Clair flats just above the Joe Bedore summer resort •A few hours later Frank Elbera, also of Cleveland, who was charged with the murder, also was dead from a dose of poison he swallowed when he found that arrest was imminent. A third Cleveland man, Sam Frisbie, is held at the county jail here as an accomplice to the murder of Rosenberg. The three men-met at Bedore’s hotel where they had 7 gone for a vacation. They attended a dance at the hotel and Rosenberg exhibited a large sum of money. Rosenberg’s body was found lying face downward in the rushes on the shores of a lonely little islet about 500 feet from the dance hall. There was a deep gash in the babk of his head. As policemen arrived at the hotel they heard a man inside scream: “I’ve taken dope, help.” With a physician, they rushed to Elbera, but he died in a tew moments. Elbera’s room was searcned and in a suitcase was found a revolver and nearly S2OO in money. Frisbie declares Elbera knocked Rosenberg in the head with the butt of his revolver and then held the cigarmaker under water until he was drowned. Frisbie said that race hatred as well as greed seemed to enter into Elbera’s attack on Rosenberg. “I’ll get that Jew yet,” he says Elbera had frequently remarked during the several days the men had been together at Bedore’s.