Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-08-31

ION ndu not Dceu SuDJccleu 10 lIdluinE anu
discipline, most unfortunate omission
for one who then so much needed the
best moral advantages. His strong intel
lect, however, yearned for exercise, and
applied itself closely to study, but the
lack of moral balance is conspiciously
evident in his whole career He was
capricious, spaSmodic, cratic unable with
all his apparent accomplishments to earn |
comfortable subsistence. Hence We see
him shifting about finding permanency |
nowhere, and now and then fclling into |
crime. According as circumstances |
seemed to him to require their exercise, he |
manifested, with that rare skill bern of |
naturally strong and cultivated intellect, |
contrivance, cunning, energy. the smooth |
urbanity Of the polished gentleman. the
protesting, open-mouthed amazement of
injured innocence. He Was. in fact, u |
consummate quack and impostor His
large, strong body and large, coarse brain
made him in his way "a power" He
possessed such a triu that he could mes
merize and overwhelm weaker natures,
and subject them to himself All who
had any entercourse with him agree in re-
gard to his having a singular influence
over them.
Very soon after the execution of this
singular man, his head was taken by GER
tain authorized physicians of Binghamton
and dissected. The brain was found to
weigh fifty-nine ounces, being nine and
a half or ten ounces heavier than the
average weight. The heaviest brain on
record is that of Cuvier, the celebrated
French naturalist, which is given by some
authorities at sixtY-five ounces. The
brain of Daniel Webster, partly estimated
on account of a portion being destroyed
by disease, weighed sixty -four ounces.
The report of the investigation proceeds
to state that the lower or animal portion
of Rulloff's brain, including that devoted
to the physical and mechanical powers,
was unusually large, while the upper por
ton of the brain was very deficient. Ac
cording to the binghamton Republican,
IA elAD vi Alo 4tullUn
was ferocious animal, and so far as dis
position could relieve him from response
bility, he was not strictly responsible for
e his acts. There is no doubt that he
thought himself not a very bad man on
1 the morning he was led out of his prison,
cursing from the cell to the gallows"
The circumference of the head, the tape
c measure being carried around over the
), eyebrows, was twenty-four and halt
; inches,-the average size is about twenty
u two inches. The skull was found TO be
$ exceedingly thick, in no part of the line
u travelled by the saw being found less than
J three-eights of an inch in thickness, al
e extraordinary fact when we remember
II that the usual thickness of mans skull
: is less than quarter of an inch. TIL,
J. head was opened in the usual way, b,
n parting the scalp over the top of the heat
from one ear TO the other, and saving of
i the top.
- Ills physical organization was one 0
= extraordinary strength and endurance, an,
~ excited the wonder of the surgeons whC
. performed the operation above mentioned
~ In height he was five feet eight inches
y very compactly built, with a large chest
y a thick, short neck, and a large head, a
d above stated From the Binghamtol
y artist, Nr Hamlin, who painted the onl
" correct portrait of Rullotf which exists
- we have received these particulars of hi
q personal appearance. He says further
le His hair, light brown, had been clippe
lu just before his trial, and stuck out at til
~ angular developments of the Uranium, tn
OF scalp showing slightly through. (Thi
re carnial angularity indicated strong pre-
cu dominance of the motive Temperament
y with a relatively coarse organization, a
though be had derived, from his mothe
- ;. probably, an element of nervous susceI
tibility which made itsclfapparent in hi
intellectual precocity.) His brow was il
telectual, his nose nearly straight, exceI
= the rather sharp.turn up at the end Hi
eye was small, of dark gray, but som'
times appearing of a hazel tint, and di
~ tance even dark in its peculiar effect. HI
ou lips We're not properly thin lips, but wei
drawn and compressed inwardly. E
pecially was this the case during the tria
'ie when they were alternately compresse
~ and relaxed very often, and it seemed
"ii times that he was making an effort to a.
70 pear composed. His chin was tolerab
= well formed, rotund and full, with SOM
y, thing of the double about it. The ey,
ed ,.,,. -, o;,a. fn.l,- oarvaa No. e.,
ice and the ear small and decidedly pcculi
~ in shape"
ch
We can trace in his career, few as Il
or details are, the workings of his lower n
uf ture Secretiveness, Destructivenes
80 Constructiveness are found working
,,;, gether in close harmony, while in his qui
4, or studious intervals Self Esteem, Apr
-, bativeness, and the intellectual faculti
"a come in for their share of predominant a
al tivity. Ambition for scholarly reputatit
1, stimulates his robust intellect TO eXertiO
"a but that single aim is not sufficient to ]
press the large and active organs of u
,,,J StrucuFenesS, COmDalNencSS, anu Acqt
sitiveness which clamor for indulgen'
~. or to give them direction which In
49, prove futility. Conscientiousness sma
e : and weak from long disuse, Venerati
No., apparently wanting, and Bene volen
what there is of it, a mere tool of the
tellect, what is there to give an elevat
49, tendency to the physical nature OF I
- man? His selfish qualities govern
,ar everything else. The back-head was W
- developed, but even that was entirely 81
e., ordinated Witness the treatment of
-, wife, child, and friends. His powers
=, fascination were exercised only to p
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