The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-18
F.om the Utica Herald

Now that the third jury. has pronounced
Edwsrd Il. RuloL guilty, aud for the second
time guilty OF murder IL Ihe frat degree, and
he mas been sentenced 10 be hanged by the
meek TIL lie Is dead, II seems proper enough
10 record the g!st OF the confession TO which
Se alluded tire oiter day. AT his trial IL
Ithaca, twenty i've years ago, for the aoduc.
ton OF his wife he gave the full particulars
o. his crime 10 his counsel, Mr.. Cushing
NJ. Cushing dying left it with legal broth
er OF Ithaca. Ii was to this effect: Mrs.
Ruloff and their child were at the bottom of
Csyuga LIKE. Rulof first rendered his wife
insensIble By chloroiorm. He then took up
plank IL the floor, and opening vein bled
her 70 death, the blood flowing through the
opening. The Child he disposed Of in sim
liar manner.
He thea PIT The dead bodies in box pre-
pared for the purpose. He got g neighbor
TO help him load the box upon u wagon, al
ieging that it was filled with books. He
drove to the lake, put the box in skif,
then filled it with stones, aud rowed out TO
the middle OF the lake, where he pushed the
box with the eorpses Of his wife and child
overheard, No one saw the dreadful deed,
and untl! very recently none but the conf
Gant Of his early counsel knew the facts.
We have the name of him to whom Mr.
Gushing told the above, sbut refrain from
giving il. The facts as we have stated them
we have reason to believe are correct, and as
such are here first made public.
Ii will be seen by reference to our tele-
graphic columns tina. Judge Hogeboom has
denied arrest of Judgement, and sentenced
Rnlof to be hanged Friday, the Sd Of
March next. We can we'll believe that he
heard his sentence in :" sullen silence" He
has listened 10 like sentence once be
fore. Three times he has heard the word
guilty" fall from the lips of the jury fore
man. He has seemed possessed OF q charm
ed life. For q quarter of century he has
carried with him the knowledge of revolt
ing crime. He has gone on in crime. Bier
Tlc6 was his third known victim. Jarvis end
Dexter, educated in crime by him, lay their
deaths and disgrace at his door.
His mother.in.aw was his sixth victim
She bowed down with grief over the loss o.
her daughter, had dragged along in life till
confronted at Binghsmton in August lsss
with the man whom she believed, but Oil
not know, to be guilty of that daughters
death. The shock was too great, she died in
less than three days. And we say again, tt at
If his sentence be carried out on the I'd of
March, Ruloff's death will be the seventh
death known to be chnrgeabIe to Ruloff's
agency.
Through all the windings OF his tortuous
life the tolls of detection have been gather
ing around him. The little incident of freez.
ing the toes of one foot while hiding from
the consequences of crimes committed, left
the mark by which his last crime was festen-
ed upon him. By this has justice found him
ont and claimed at last its dues. The vic
tim is q man richly endowed with the quail
ties which 60 far toward making men great
and useful. But his truly great talents and
varied attachments have been prostituted to
the following of crime and the attainments
of infamy, and few will regret to zee the
grave close over him. He has tarried too
long from his final rost.