The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-09
A Bundle OF Observation-Disclosures Death-Al.
legged Suicide, Murder, SC.

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As we have before stated, Mr. Holden was found in
August 1857 nearly dead morass near his residence
at Ann Arbor, Michigan lie was man in moderate cir
oumsances and had procured insurance of $50
his life Before he died he said he waylaid and shot
but his account Of the affair led TO the suspicion that he
had killed himself for the benefit of his family and the
company refused to the policy this ground
Some time ago, however, the matter compromised
by paying the widow two-thrds OF the insurance Not
withstandDg the alleged suicide two young named
Robert Fuller and Frank Walker charged with his
murder and indicted. When the indictments first
found it supposed by many that it with
the view of influencing the suit brought by Mrs Holden
against the companies in which her husbands life
insured than for any ether purpose and after the settle
ment between Mrs. H. and the companies, IT vas expected
that the charge of murder would be dropped The trial.
however, came on week before last and was concluded
Friday, the Sd instant when the jury returned
dict Of guilty aud the accused were sentenced to solitary
confinement at hard labor in the State prison for
lae-the death penalty having been abolished 10 Mchi-
gan As this case has many singular features about
IL, quote from Ann Arbor letter to the Detroit
Free Press
The evidence on which the prisoners convicted
purely circumstanal II consisted of the agreement
Of the with the general description given by Ho
den OF his murdeers-one being rather tall, the other
shorter person After their arrest for the arcencs bal
pondipg with the taken from Ho,dens body and Of
the weight precisely These bullets peculiar,
being corrugated Walker admitted that he had prepared
the found upon him. and also that he had prepared
other like it, which he said he had shot at duck. These
bullets precisely the bore of the pistol alleged
been found near the scene of the murder some time after
and this pistol is identified which Fuller had
stocked nj shop in this city some time before The
readiness with which the accused pretended to
for their whereabouts on the night Of the murder, when
questioned the subject after long time elapsed,
their attempt prove abb, and their failure do
successfully with discrepancies between their testimony
this point and their prior statements strong
~ against them Other minor circumstances and some
declarations and doegerci poetry which traced 10
the prisoncrs-tooIish and SIMPLE they werehep
strengthen the chain OF circumstances with which they
were surrounded
YOUTH OF THE cfuMISAIs-rHE REWARD.
DOys-tuler no
probably about twenty one, and Walker some years
younger, and improbable that they should have
planned and executed so successfully bold murder
that for which they have been convicted The evidence
too hardly sufficient and probably had their
tiers stood fair in other respects jury would have
viced them on H. But they stood confcsscdy guilty Of
crimes sufficient 10 debase the human mind the
level Of murder and the conclusion 70 guilt from the
cumsances was more easy and natural The Jury
manned together IN charge OF an officer during the whole
trial.
BY this conviction Mr.. Martin Marshal OF this city and
through whose instrumentaty and that Of bis deputies
the parties arrested will claim the reward Of 81 900
which offered for the and conviction of the
murderers OF by the county and $500 by the
city.
INIEREr IN TIE rMAI-RnAuvEs FULLER AND WALKER
The tendency a the trial has been the absorbing topic
here since lis commencement. The has been
thtonged by citizens, and many from the country have
taken advantage OF the leisure which the afforded
10 be present The throng this afternoon awaiting the
coming Of the Court and the OF the prisoners
quite large, and the excitement borders the
Mrs. Fuller mother Of Robert, and James Fuller, a
younger son and brother among those convicted at
lac present term Of court several indictments
gary and larceny Those 10 be sentenced this afternoon
therefore Mrs. Fuller and her sons and the boy
Walker. The father Of Walker is also iai under in.
dcmeni for the burglarcs aud arconcs and Anna
young woman, daughter OF Mrs Fuller The scene In
he jail among these unfortunate wrctche. connected hy
the ties OF blood and by their participation Ia the same
crimes against society, can better be imagined than de
scribcd.