Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-27

Rullotf on the platform OF the last car.
He agreed 10 so back, and both went on 10
Buffalo together. There they stayed
over night AZ the Mansion House, Sehutt
keeping Rnlloff locked in room The
next morning they bought tickets for
Fairport. While going through the
crowd to the boat RULED again disappear
od. Schultz got ON the boat as il was
just starting. Looking all over he did
not hnd Rullqff, and 10 concluded 90 ges
OF at Erie, He did 81, and from there
he went ON to Madison. No person by
that name OF Rullotf or n, Depuy had
ever lived there. Leaving Instructions
for the police 10 try and find the lost
woman and child. Sohutt. almost dis
coumgcd. left for Cleveland, and there
he procured warrant and an officer 60
arrest Rullof While staying around tho
depot and landing, two large boats came
in frnm the East, and searching among
the passengers he finally found Ralloif ON
deck among a lot OF emigrants Schutt
Immediately arrested him, and from that
time. for eleven years, this mystery of a
man was never out of the clutches Of the
law. Rnnoff was tried, not for he mIr-
der OF his wife. but for ahducting her
lie was found guilty and sentenced 60
ten years imprisonment at hard labor IN
the Auburn state prison. Before that
term had expired, an indictment was
found charging him with the murder of
his wife and child. No sooner had the
keeper of the State prison got through
with Rullofr's services than the old sheriff
Of Tompkins county stood ready 10 grasp
him again. He was taken back, tried on
an indictment for the murder of his
daughter, and found guilty. A bill of
exceptions was made by the prisoner,
and, with his usual astuteness, he con-
tended tina. having been found guilty OF
the abduction of his wife, he could not
be tried for numbering her The cause
was argued ON appeal before Justices
Balloon, Mason and Gray, Of the Supreme
Court. Each delivered an able opinion,
but Justice Balloon differed with the
other two, in holding that no person
could be adiudged guilty of murder with
out the oorpas ao!ie!i being fully proven.
I lie said that according % all the eyi-
dence that had been found, the child
might still be living. In 1860 the case
came up again before Justice Knox, who
decided that no person could be either
/ convicted or acquitted ON trial which
was an application for discharge ON
{ habeas corpus, as was the case in the old
trial. The prisoner here appeared coun-
sci for himself, as he had done before.
He was sent back 10 jail. from which he
4 finally freed himself, and started anew on
his mysterious and guilty career.
1 As TO what disposition Rullon actually
made with his wife and child there are
still several theories. One Of his old
lawyers, who has since died at Utica,
chained 10 have confession Of Ruloh,
which has since been published The
confession was not in Rnlloff's own words
I and even if il was, no credence could be
given it, He regards the matter of a
murder so lightly, that even If he made
confession il would be joke, or some
thing 10 make the world look with still
greater horror and astonishment on this
I devilish wretch. The confession, which
is said 10 have come from RulloR, says
that the woman and child were gwen
chloroform, then, while they were asleep
( they were bled to death, the bodies held
over an opening in the door They were
then put into the chest, taken ont 10 the
middle of the lake at night, and sunk.