New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01

front door "partly Open" If this was the case,
the murderer must have waited in the house
at least three hours after committing the crime,
and then gone out into the busy street by
broad daylight. OF course no murderer would
run such risk, and indeed the appearance of the
room indicated that he had gone away in
haste. The probability is that Mr.. Washing
ton Nathan found the door unlocked and un-
bOlted but not Unmatched. In the horror of
the moment it is natural that his memory and
his perceptions should have been confused.
II the door was latched the policeman of
course could not tell that it was unlocked /;
and the criminal, if he retained his self-pos-
session, would have been careful to latch it,
so that the police might not take alarm at Its
standing open, and discover the crime before
he got safely away. This explanation Is based
upon the supposition that Officer Mangum did
try the door at the hours he says he did; but
it is within the bounds of possibility that IN
his anxiety to relieve himself of suspicion
of negligence he has exaggerated the story OF
his own vigilance.
Some surprise is expressed that the muir
derer should have left so few marks of blood
on the stairway and in the hall. 1t is assumed
by many people that he must have been
actually drenched in gore and dripping from
every limb; but this is a great mistake.
When a man is struck down as Mr.. Nathan
was struck, the blood does not gush forth
like water from a hydrant, and it is possible
that the murderer may have stood in such
position as to receive comparatively little of
tho crimson stain, and to get none at all on
his feet When the body was found wide
pool of blood was all about the head; but
this pool it must be remembered had formed
gradually as the veins and arteries drained
away. The murderer may have left the room
with comparatively few traces of the deed
upon his person, except such as might be
wiped off with handkerchief.
1t has been proved that the house was so
built with deadened" walls and ceilings that
the noise of the struggle could hardly have
been heard by the sons or the servants, even
had they all been awake. 1t has been shown
that the mysterious carriage seen waiting OPP
posite Mr.. Nathans stable was there on an
erTand sufficiently disreputable indeed, but
not felonious. So the difficulties and "sus-
"picious circumstances one by one resolve
themselves into thin air; only the one absorb
ing problem remains-who was the assassinf
We have little hope that he will ever be
found unless the rewards tempt an accomplish
to betray him, and it is very doubtful
whether he has any accomplice. If he be-
longed to gang Of burglars, his companions
would be apt to know that he meant to
attempt Mr.. Nathan's house that night. But
the police are confident that he was
not professional house-breaker, be-
cause one of that class would not
have used the unnecessary violence employed
in this case, and because professional house,
breakers generally operate in couples. lie
was probably wretched sneak-thief, working
alone and perhaps without a opal" to whom
his movements would have been known. Yet
at his home if he had home, there may
have been some creature who saw him return
from his nights work, or saw him put out OF
the way the evidences of his crime. The main
dependence of justice must be on the hope
that immense rewards will tempt some such
person to reveal the truth.