Show retribution george rosenbaum rosen Bosen baum the butcher who was killed last week at wat sonville california by frank callahan was a well known char ebar character aeter acter in montana and a meaner thief than he be never escaped from our territory in 1862 this samo bamo rosenbaum rosen Bosen baum in portland oregon was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for entering I 1 a neighbors house and briock ing his wipe wife down and robben robbing g her hei whether he was pardoned out or broke out of the oregon penitentiary we are not informed but his next operations were in salt lake city where lie he kept a butcher shop in tho winter of 1864 1804 65 and furnished his customers with beef at his llis shop from cattle stolen from the farmers and stock dealer declerg in jho aho vicinity of salt lake city he made his escape to montana early in the sprine spring of GS after being found 0 out ut in his lis cattle stealing business in utah upon arriving in virginia city upon cheek and impudence he be fitted up a magnificent meat market and then commenced furril furnishing shing liis his stalls by stealing his first operation was the pur purchase eliase of two head bead of fat cattle fromA trader whom he induce to drive them to his slaughterhouse slaughter house and upon arriving there gave the ownen owner an order on a store for the price hirthe of the cattle the cattle dealer returned to the slaughter house and informed rosenbaum rosen Bosen baum that there was no money in the designated st store oreto to his credit and demanded the cattle but they were butchered and the man was F fut put 1 ut without oT ofT a dollar hisa his next exploit was to drive several of his neighbors hoks hogs into hll his slaughter pen and butcher them the attention of the vigilance committee then in full blast in virginia city was called to this wholesale thieving business whereupon rosenbaum rosen Bosen baum was arrested by the regulators and tried by them and on account of having a wife and children his sentence was commuted from hanging to banishment and fifty lashes on the bare back which was carried out to the letter mr schwab oatlie of the cosmopolitan hotali hotel was then doing business in I 1 n virginia city and to him rosenbaum came with with his sore back and woeful tale of banishment and related his account of the flogging received rosenbaum grinned and said the regulators cheated themselves lor tor i 11 said sald he they sentenced eaten euten ced me to nifty fifty fl lashes but they only laid on forty nine cineas 1 as I 1 counted them myself after his banishment we never heard anything of his career until the stork story of his murder came to us through throng I 1 the san francisco chronicle and the account would seem to sho show that rosenbaum was an innocent and unoffending citizen who was ruthlessly murdered by callahan wo we venture to say that there are two sides to the question and that rosenbaum when the truth is known deserved to be shot and has met retributive justice in this bloody manner melena helena gazette jyom i |