The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-19
ARRIVAL AT HOME.


AT Buffalo the captain and his men guard
warrant from the police authorities. The
court being In session, he was constituted
an officer, and formally took Rulloff into
custody, though he had held him so far
without authority. An officer was also as
signed to assist. Rullof was put on the
train, and the officer took from his pocket
pair OF handouts which had been given to
MIR. schutt to put upon Rulloff's hands.
Rulloff objected F.; he made an abject and
piteous appeal to Mr.. Schutt, but received
reply that deceptions enough had been
practised that he must go to Ithaca with
out further chance of escape. The irons
were put upon him. The passen-
gers who came + on the boat were in
this car, and assisted in guarding the
prisoner. The train arrived at Cayuga
bridge in the morning before daylight, and
upon Rulloff's complaint that the irons
request to remove them. Rulloff then pro-
posed to walk to Ithaca with MIR. Schutt to
the prison but this was not accorded. AS
the omnibus in which Mr.. Schutt and Rul-
loft were seated approached the Clinton
House, in Ithaca, the streets were instantly
crowded with people. oa. 1: :
TIE EXCITEMENT. @'
The excitement in Ithaca was intense.
What might have occurred if it had been
permitted to grow, or word Of encourage
ment had been given, Is a matter Of specu-
lation. Rulloff was taken in charge by the
officers and removed to the Jail.
WHAT FOLLOWED. ,... W
We cannot extend this narrative minute
"; it would be record of public anxiety
and evaporation quite equal to that
through which our people have passed, but
without the assuring result reached here,
since the first trial was for abduction, and
brought only penalty of ten years. impri-
sonment; and the second trial wholly failed
of it's object. Nor need we follow the Sue
cessive steps Of Rulloff's career. What has
been written had the purpose of setting be-
fore the public, in proper light, the truth
concerning Rullotf's connection with the
family of his murdered wife, as they have
the truth. The record may be completed
in few words, upon the authority of the
Schutts and that of other persons.
ADDITIONAL UNPUBLISHED FACTS.
Though it was impossible to prove what
had been the disposition Of the bodies of
the murdered woman and child, the family
of the Schutts ascertained positively, as for
themselves, that Mrs. Rulloff was not alive.
The chest which went to the "inlet" con-
tained the body of Mrs. Rullof. It was
wrapped with untempered wire, which, as
1t was coiled, was passed through ring Of
a heavy iron mortar, weighing twenty-five
pounds, which Rulloff possessed. The
wrapping was such that the bones were
covered by the wire in such manner, we
understand. that none of the large ones
would be likely to become unloosed in
years, if ever. The con>ummate tact Of the
murderer was thus proved. Had his man.
agement otherwise and since then been as
effective he must never have reached the
threshold of the galiows. The child was,
in like manner, attached to flatirons. To-
gether they were sunk in Cayuga lake,
whence subsequent dredging was wholly
unavailing to bring them.
We have information upon this point from
still another source, partly corrobOratiye of
the statement we have copied from the Iri-
bune. but it is more full. Itcomes through
Mr.. E. G. Leonard, Of this city Mr.. Eras-
tus Evans, Of Oswego, and from MIR. Beers,
of Ithaca, none OF whom now object, we
believe, to the Use Of their names. Mr..
Beers was associate counsel Of Mr.. Cush-
ing. who undertook the defence of Rnllofl'
on his first trial for abduction. Beers re-
fused to engage in the case with Mr.. Cush-
ing in consequence of the facts that had
come to his knowledge. The killing OF Mrs.
Rullotf was not, it is stated, by sLrangula-
tion, as has been reported; but Rulloff
knocked her senseless and then, it appears,
raised board in the floor, opened vein or
veins, and bled her to death. In opposition
to this statement we may say that the cellar
Of the house extends under by far the
greatest part of it, and close measurement
would be necessary to prevent letting the
blood into the cellar. But Rulloff may be
supposed equal to the work. The ac-
count we last quote goes on to say that
the cries Of the child caused Rullotf to re-
pent," and that g he shed tears" This, of
course, is Rulloff's story, or one Of them,
and should be so accepted. 1t is added
that be saw no way Of concealment of the
murder, except by killing the babe, and
that he did this by strangulation and bleed
ing also. The account ends by the state
ment that he rowed out upon Cayuga lake
and sunk the bodies, as already described.
Those who choose TO do so may believe
that Rulloff was surprised in his bloody
work by the cries OF his child.
1t was well known that Rulloff was in the
habit of inquiring about the depth of Ca
yuga lake, and in sailing on it in a small
boat.
A SCRAP.
We close this painful history with the
single explanation that our designation of
Rulloff's first great crime is to be taken lite
rally, and not as excluding the probability
Of previous misdeeds. 1t is known. and
mas been stated-often with incorrect de-
;ail-that Rullotf was punished in St. John
by two years Imprisonment for stealing
rom his employer before coming to New
fork. This was ascertained by clergy
man who went to st. John. Hence Rulloff
entered upon his career of crime. so tar as
s now known, probably before he was
;wenty years OF age. He is now, according
20 his own account, fitty-one.
A QUESTION SETTLED IN OREGoE.-A
1uestion often raised in legal, political, and