The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-18


sympathy on the part of family named Schutt,
and also of Others 1t was suggested by a
neighbor of Mr. Schutt that Rullof should teach
select school a few months afterwards. The
impression of the young man was that he was
worthy in all respects. He seemed to have good
habits and few faults OF his pupils were some
members of the Schutt family, two or three of
the younger children, among them Harriet
Schutt who was then not more than sixteen.
Rulloff, according to his statement, was twenty
three, Almost from the beginning of the school
he began paying attentions to Miss Schutt.
When the purpose of marriage became manifest,
the Schutts, who as we hear from all sources,
were people of much intelligence and high
character. used their influence to prevent It.
Rulloff had given no satisfactory account of
himself; he had no reference such as was fair to
expect But the result was that the marriage
took place, the family at last reluctantly
consenting. Immediately after his mar
rage Rulloff began the course of ill
treatment of his wife which afterward de-
prived him of the confidence and respect of all
except her who was most Immediately con-
cerned. She clung to him, making no COM
plants. One cause of ill-feeling on the part of
Ruloff grew out of the fact that he was a botani-
cal doctor, having gained his knowledge of
and that DR.. William H. Bull, a relative and in
innate of the Schutts, was a regular physi-
clan, a graduate of medical college in New
York. These men held discussions as to the
relative merits of the systems, and Rullof quar-
relied with Bull and asked that the family should
close their doors against him. The antipathy
existed before Rulloff's marriage. The Doctor
being cousin of the Schutt children, was not
debarred their friendship at Rulloff's bidding.
They did not see that Rulloff's personal dislike
should disturb family relations. The result was
that Rulloff assumed jealousy of him, and when
ever opportunity presented, by familiar greetings
between the young people, there was an out
burst of anger on the part of Rulloff that rem
dered the life of the wife extremely unpleasant.
THE TREATMENT OF HIS WIFE.
His cruelty towards his wife continued to in
crease and 1t is said that on one occasion she
was pounding pepper in a mortar, and her hus-
band told her she was not making it fine enough.
She made q slight remonstrance, whereupon
Rulloff seized the iron pestle and struck her on
her forehead, knocking her back several feet.
He finally threatened to desert her, but by the
intercession of friends the two resolved to live
along together. 1t was not long after when the
Schutt family, with whom they were living at
the time, heard a womans shrek up stairs, and
fastening up they found the ingenious wretch
Rulloff with bottle of poison in his hand and
his wife shrinking into one corner, holding q
pillow before her mouth. She begged them not
to blame her husband, and even went and en-
braced him, saying, my dear Edward, you are
mine forever, whether we live together or not"
Rulloff threw the phial out of the window, and
thus the affair ended. 1t was not very long
after when, one afternoon, the same thrilling
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young husband and wife slept. All that were
in the house ran up stairs, and then they came
upon about the same scene again, except that
this time the wretch had dose for himself as
we'll as his wife. But neither were admins
tered.
Matters finally came to such pass that the
literary doctor, clerk schoolmaster, student
farmer, and canaller was turned out from under
his father-in-law's roof. But he had been gone
| only o short time when his suffering wife, with
that incomprehensible love and devotion, left all
! her friends and relations, and went to seek the
companionship of her cruel husband. She found
| him at lansing place about as far up the lake
! from Ithaca as Dryden is distant from the same
place. 1t was now the spring of 1S45, yeal
and a half after the marriage. Rulloff and hii
wife had lived together, boarding, for some time
and it seems had now hired a small house aut
| farm to work for themselves. Rullof had alsC
been gratifying his old love for poring owe
musty books and searching out strange theories
and had formed a system of phrenology. HI,
had even written lecture on this subject, ant
was engaged to deliver it at different place
during the coming season. A child was bori
to him one night in the month of April.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE WIFE.
The last time that the wife and child of Rul
loft were seen was on dark, sultry night tn
Esd of June, 1S45. The woman was deVotinj
her attention to the little babe, getting it read.
to be put to bed. Rulloff had gone over to So
his neighbor, Thomas Robertson, farmer VIII
lived directly opposite. There was a road
crossing at this place, and Robertson lived OF
one corner and Rulloff on another. He aske
Mr. Robertson's daughter, Olive, to run owe
and keep his wife company until he came home
as she might be afraid. The girl went over ant
found the woman with her babe, apparently fear
ing no harm. Olive stayed until 8 o'clock, and a
that time RulloR came in. He began mixing
something in a cup. Olive asked him what h
was making. 'Tea-composition tea" h
said The girl soon after went home
The doors of both houses were 500
closed and the lights went out. That da
Rulloff's wife had 1een over the way, and Dor
rOwed some articles to assist her in doing he
washing. The two women had a short neigh
borly chat, and Rulloff's wife returned, go
everything in readiness for doing the washing
when, for some reason, she concluded that sh
could not wash until the next morning. Th
tea which Rulloff prepared he proposed to Civ
TO the child. Mrs Rulloff objected, saying tina
the babe was not ill., and needed no medicine