Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-08-31
BENDER & MlLLlKAN, Editors and Publishers.

marked IepFOdCu. RullOu, O'i thC Nou-
trary, seemed to lack moral sensibility;
| down to the momeut of his execution was
doggedly impenitent and Indifferent, and
even in that last hour gave utterance to
shocking profanity. His career was tar
nished with numerous of1enses against
law human and divine, and he moved
about under cloak of suspicion which in
itself would have overwhelmed most of
those who are deemed hardened in vice
and crime In the following sketch are
presented the main points in his history
so far as they have been elected, although
of his early life but little is known be-
sides what he himself has related.
He was born In 1919, at Hammond Riv-.
er, New Brunswick, B. n. A. According
to his own story, his father died when he
was about five years old, and left him to
the care of an uncle He went to school
until he was fourteen, mastering IN that
time the English branches, as far as they
were taught in the high schools. He was
constant reader, and the books which
he deeoured and 'digestcd included every
branch of human learning, SO tina. he early
acquired general kpowle15e of science
and literature. Not choosing 10 enter
upon profession, he was not permitted
to study the classics, although he desired
to do 50, i'll order that, as he expressed 1t
himself, he might 'be a gentleman" At
that early age he became impressed with
the idea that he had high destiny to full
nil in the development of lingual theory
which would greatly simplify the study
of language; and lie sought in the Greek
to find basis for this theory. He also
gave much attention TO works of materi
alistic character When eighteen he left
home and commenced his career as sclerk
in drv-goods store in st. John. He af-
terward studied pharmacy, but finding it
uncongenial changed it for the law, the
principles Of which he mastered, qualify
ing himself for the highest practice at the
) Cansdian bar Up to the time Of leaving
home there is no evidence that his moral
character was specially deficient. He had
no strong religious convictions, bat he
I had the impressions given him by years
of careful training by most exemplary
mother But in ST. John he became as
sociated With proflgate and unp.incipled
men. through whose influence his mind
! became Indifferent to all mora! rentraint
= and, notwithstanding his alspicious pros
poets, he turned from his studies and pro
fcssion and committed theft for which
" lc was sent 10 the st. John PeniicntiarS
- for two wears When his time had eX
pired, he disappeared from St. JOHN, ant
r became utterly lost 10 his relatives and t;
| ali who had known him UP &c the time o
his coaric.ion lie ncyt appeared il
Tompkins County, New York. in 1892
where he was employed for short tiin
as canal driver; after which he became
clerk in drug store in Ithaca wher
At he rapidly acquired a knowledge OF drugs
Of But hi. restlessness soon induced him Z
make another change, and he vent t
DRYDEN in th1 same county, ani cnssge
- in school teaching.
- Among his pupils was girl OF Sl1teeI
or named Harriet Schutt. Almost from til
- beginning Of the school his attentions t
Miss Schutt were those OF lover, an
were accepted by her IS such. In ag
the parties were unequally matched, an
IS in mental requirements as well as worldl
,k prospects he seemed much her sup..io
., He had a slnatterinS Of AL the science
tIe was q botanical physician, druggist
an excellent penrnan, classical bchola
- a mechanist of rare original power, law
yer, and !, forcible, fluent speaker; an
oeing, moreover, possessed OF god az
th dress ami polished manners, he seemed
cd marvel Yet the Schdtt family inatinc
he lively shuddered rs they saw this par
gon" in,iiiously creeping into their d.
mestic circle and Harriet was remonstr
r'' ted with, but to no purpose He had ma
led netiz-d her Her brother Eplcam d
If mandei of Rulloff references as to cha
acter from his former home, bat his d
Ma I'D was contemporary refused. At la'
the sc eing that Harriet was determined III b
,h, choice, opposition TO the marriage W
Withdrawn, and it was accordingly sc
: emnized on the 31st of December, 1S4
when the bride was seventeen, aud t
liz bridegroom twenty-five. Very soon, ho'
he ever, it was apparent to the famlly tn
;al their distrust of Rulloff had been We
or founded, for all but his wife saw that
aIf ar,I
of was man OF excessive seihShhesS anu
re- exorable malignity. Soon after the Ii;
re riage, without the slightest cause, Rule
il, chose to become incensed by what
-. charged to be the too intimate relatlo
cb ofhis wife with a DR.. Bull, cousin
of the Schutts, who had for years been
-. intimate terms with them, and his sple
"a soon eliminated in actual outrage.
~ one occasion he felled her to the flC
~ with an iron mortar-pestle The reme
"a STRANGE which this treatment evoked FRI
rbe his wife's relatives made him more ranc
=, Gus toward them, although in a large
Of gree dependent on them for support;
NV. with all his accomp plishnents he seen
,bo incapable OF making practical use
ire them by earning subsistence.
At last all parties became tired of Il
in. pickering life, and there was general
rr joicing when he removed with his wife
90 Lansing, five miles from Ithaca, and a n
dol and half from Cayuga Lake. 70
M, time after this removal he did better, v
and more considerate toward his wife
ned entered upon the practice ofmedicine, 8
ogi- gained the confidence of large portion
orr the community as Il skilled botanical p
nal sician and man of temperate and ind
Eu- tfiocs naoi'S' Ahions S"ose
,oro garded him was Mr.. w. III. Schutts,
or Ithaca, whose child being taken sick
nod simple aiiment OF infancy, Rulioff
i;