Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-13
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| sentenced execution, whose il of the most
| remarkable on the records OF jurisprudence He hns
already been in the Stale prison for ten years On ac
count Of the same transaction, in respect 10 which he
mas nov been convicted of murder. His name Is Ed
ward H. RnloG 1t "a said his right narnei Is Rulloh-
| con that heis OF German descent but born ia
Nova Scotia that having difficulty with his ia
ther and uncle, lac left home when some - or years
Of age lie is now about - years of age. He il a
Of education, speaking seven different languages
There Is much OF mystery attending him aud his
history. lie appears 10 be supplied with money and
the 9nm of 500 wa. lett at the Tompkins county jail
for him since his release from the Auburn prison By
on unknown person, who Immediately departed with
out my one knowing whence he came or whittier he
went
Knion appeared in Tompkns county in May. s42
lie was then engaged on the canal. lie spent part
Vi the summer there, md the next winter taught
school In the town OF Dryden, in that county. Miss
Harriet Sehutt of that town, young lady twenty
years Of aye, was one of his pupils. The following
summer be studied medicine In December ls43, he
married this young woman. After his marriage ia
lsii. he went TO Ithaca, aud served clerk for
few months, living with his wife at boarding housc
His wife returned her fathers. In the fail Of
1874 he ngdn taught school and about that time
meuccd keeping house with his wife IN the town Of
Lansing, in rompkns county.
Within month two after his marriage he seems
to have become very jealous of his wife, accusing her
without any cause lar appears of improper in
tmacy with DR. Bull, and becoming much excl
ted on one two occasions rs to exercise violence
upon her. He continued TO live in Lansing with his
siie having daughter born early in April until
he 9TH day of June 1915. His wife aud child have
lever been heard Of since the evening of that
day.
During the next forenoon he went 10 his nearest
1cghbor, on the opposite side Of the highway, and
procured n horse and wagon for the purpose rs he
LEGGED, of conveying chest to Mottvillc some eight
lei miles distant, which he stated uncle ofhis
Md left at his house the evening before, TO make
Dom for bis (Rulloh j wife to ride with his uncle to
, Mr. Snyder's, some three miles of where he said
.hc had gone. His neighbor helped him load the
rhest. into The wagon; il heavy. The theory of
he prosecution against liullof is that he had mur
Tered his wife and child during the previous night
md tint he carried off their bodies in this chest and
nnde way with them while lie was gone, by sinking
IA the lake near by, or ia some other manner. He
ctured with the horse and wagon about noon the
tcx dny bringing hacl, the chest, which tho witness
Who saw him take it from the wagon thinks MAS Ihen
ight. lie left Lansing, the same afternoon, and in
he house, when afterwards searched, were found
more or less OF the clothing OF his wife apparently
n,t as she dropped IL upon The oor from her prr-'u
nuoates ing Un the evening otlhe 18th Of June he
IRE hofs" and lumber wagon nj lthnca, which he
rinruel At 3ocloci tie next morning. On the morn
NJ oi the 10Th, under the assumed name olJohn Doc
,r took passage in the stage for Geneva.
In some i've or six weeks he returned among his
acquaintance IN rompkins county BY this time
lls wiic's friends had become anxious about her alb
natter, told one she had bern up between the lakes
istng, another that she was in Pcnusy lysna, and
'lhers that she at Madison in OHIO. Being press
i in the matter he wrote letter TO her, directed to
he latter place, which he showed, requesting her TO
write 10 + friends aud another whcn he had direc
ed to "A Mr. pcluy, requesting him 10 send the letter
20 his wife Bat during the {, cniug lac cuaed ohscr
Yntion and suddenly lett. His wiic's brother pursn
i him, aud overlook him nt Rochester. when Hulloh
proposed TO 20 with him to Madison, OHIO, and see
is hut A hen tlpK NIL n juilalp and had
based tickets for the strpmhoot he escaped from his
ompanon. The latter went on 10 Madison, but
oud hear nothing OF hi sister. lie then hastened
oClcvelaud, suspertng Raloh would 20 West by
he urNt bout and there found and arrested him, and
DOL, him back to rempAins county.
There he indicted fer the abduction fhis wife
As there was positive evidence OF her death, and
ms the presumption 10 thai effect WAS not then us
strong rs it has since become by the lapse OF time it
docs not TO have been deemed discrectto attempt
a prosecution against him for mnrder. Ike was tried
On this indictment in February, 1876, nt Iompkus
County p,erund Termner, Hon, S. b. Gushing, the
present Attorney General oil The State, acting ms his
counsel and convicted and sentenced 10 the State
prison for ten Years lie served ou his time mt Au-
burn In the meantime no trace of the missing wife
| nud child had boon obtained, except some additional
circumstances tending To Rsten guilt more clearly up
on him. aud upon his exit from the prison nj Auburn
hr asain arrested uponan indictment Tor the muf
der of hi child.
There WIS an attempt To Try this md terrible
charge NJ the Tompkirs County Oyer aaa fermincr,
in June last but great had been the cXei tement in
| TINT county and so decided the sentiment against
RuIluH that it was found impossible to procure an
impartial jury and the plnce OF trial afterwards
! changed 10 Tiogn county
The ease was tried in the last named county at a
Circuit Court held by Justice Mason in october last,
mad WAS enc of absorbing interest, well from its
extraordinary character, the distinguished coun-
sci engaged in it, The prosecution was conducted
| by \. Williams, District Attorney OF Tompklns,
| aud Hon. Daniel 5. Dickinson; and the offence by
! Boardman Finch attorneys for the prisoner, and
by lion. J. \ Spencer, tnow deccased,) his counsel
\ few facts in addition to those We have detailed,
! were elected 1t was shown that in August, 1915,
| he applied to man NJ Chicago to borrow money ON
pledge of his chest, and obtained S25 sac. lie
represented that his wife and child had recently died
| south ofChicago, on the Illinois river He did not
redeem the chest, and part ofthe contents were l.
Identified as the clothing Of his wife and child.